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Hi everyone! I'm returning to the hobby after about a 15 year hiatus and I can't wait to learn more from this community. I'm located in northern VA so I'm looking forward to attending some events, too. I am currently working on a 5 gallon planted shrimp tank and I'll probably add some nano...

This guy was sourced from petsmart... Eats well... And seems robust... He/she has had those foamy things on the fins since day one...I don't think it is ich, temp is at 85 F, and did go through 5 treatment of oxytetracycline... What are your thoughts...dealing with Rams for the first time...

I had almost given up and found parents guarding this this morning.

So the EB Rams are at it again. This is their 3rd and largest spawn (2nd in the past 4-6 weeks) and this morning I think we had some wigglers. Of course, I really need a magnifying glass to tell and I don't have one. The male guarded the eggs for 2 days and the female kind of brooded on the...

I brought home two gold rams a little less than a month ago. These are my first cichlids. I'm not sure they've been reading as they should since I never see them swarm the flakes the rest of the tank gets (and my LFS said would be fine for them). So I bought small sinking pellets made for...

Last night I did some water changes, inspired partly by the storms that were moving through the area and also by necessity, because I will be out of town this weekend. Immediately after the changes, I put food in each of the tanks. I then noticed that the electric blue rams I bought at the...

I've got a female Bolivian ram that has been struggling for a couple of months. Until then, she and the father of her children had been spawning every month or two. One day, I noticed she was sitting on the substrate and very inactive. At first I thought maybe her mate had been picking on...