Just thought i'd share a happy breeding story!
so i got a 55 tank i'm using to breed some H. Species 44's in. the adults are pretty small still (about 2 inches) so i'm not stripping the mom's instead I have about 1/8 of the tank cordoned off with a divider where i seperate the mom and also...
hi guys! sorry about not bein around to cichlid club in a while i've been really putting the nose to the grindstone at work. well, the truth is i know if i go to cichlid club i'll end up with more tanks and i've run out of space! Hopefully i get a new apt soon and can get more tanks! anyway i...
salt was my first thouht but i was nervous about hurting the fry, they are really little guys. do you think that it would hurt them to use salt/general cure? i have a 5 gallon that i'm growing out a few baby kribs in i could set it up as a hospital tank if you thought it safer.
about a week ago i noticed a bump on my brevis that looks like a zit. sometimes it looks more angry than others. it is on the side of him where he'd be rubbing against the shell. I thought maybe it was like a blister but since it doesn't seem to go away i'm worried it could be a parasite or...
thats awesome leasure man i'm going to go to lowes this afternoon anyway for some sand ( i was also gonna buy razor blades). also todd, yeah i can seed, i actually put new filters in my 75 so i could switch them over once i get the tank cleaned out!
thanks guys! looks like i'm gonna be scraping on my day off! hoping to have the tank cycled by ACA although still unsure as to how thats goin to work for me! i'll keep you guys posted!
so driving to mcdonalds yesterday i spied a 55 gallon tank and stand sitting on the side of the road with a "FREE NO LEAKS" sign on it. sweet! it even had a bag with an aquaclear filter and some brushes and stuff inside of it. so of course i loaded it into/on top of the car and took it home...
the zebras are probably mbuna's (pronounced umbuna) and are mouthbrooders from lake malawi. the syndontis is known as "the cuckoo catfish" from lake tanganyika. They are called the cuckoo bc they actually will lay their eggs in between a pair of spawning mouthbrooders. The female mouthbrooder...