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Moving forward with my plans to upgrade to a 75 gallon tank and wanted to pick your minds for any opinions you have on several topics. This is quite a size jump for me. Current stock is in 29g. The goal is to have a stocked 75 gallon african cichlid tank that is aesthetically pleasing and up...

Thanks to everyone's advice, I decided to get a 75g tank instead of a 55g tank. Now need to decide what I am going to put in it and was hoping for some input regarding: 1. Compatibility among the following options 2. Whether the tank is the appropriate size for the species 3. How many of...

This morning I finished setting up my 29 and I was wondering what to stock it with. I'd wan't to breed it and I would like it to be a sa or ca cichlid but I'm willing to try something new.

Stocking suggestions for the following tanks please

So I picked up a pair of Double Red Apistos this weekend from Batfish. Wasn't planning on buying anything else, but you know how that goes ;) in addition to the apistos, I have some pencilfish and Aspidora catfish. all I have right now is NLS Grow, NLS cichlid and some spirulina flakes. the...

Looking for suggestions/inputs on building a sump for a 220(not drilled). I've never used a sump before, I've been a canister guy every since I've been in the hobby. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My tank seems plan and I want to get it finished before Monday when I get my fish. What can I add to this? Stack some rock higher? Add more plants? Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app

Going for a community look, group of dwarf cichlids, or make a pair of apistos the center piece of the tank and gather community fish around them. Any suggestions on stocking this tank? im going to put more plants in this tank i just like doing planted aquariums now lol. Thanks in advance for...

Hello all, I am interested in picking up some plants. I would prefer pants that float and have big root structures that will hang in the water. I would also prefer some thing that is CA based. It would also need to be bullet proof! I have several large Vieja species in this tank it's my 150...

Hello! After being out of the hobby for a couple of years I couldn't stay away, so here I am. My original plan was to have a only discus planted tank. not sure what happened but now I have discus, German blue rams, neons and angels. Currently I have two set ups, a 55g and a 10g. In the 55g...

Those of you with successful DYI plywood aquariums, what type of silicon did you use to install glass? Marine type? Bath & tile? What's safe? I install my glass next week Sunday. Need to figure this out before than. Sent from my LG-P509

Looking for advise for low-light, fore-ground live plants. I'm transitioning(finally) to live plants, at least and at first, in the fore-ground. So slow and low-growing is what I'm after. I tried planting grasses a week ago, but my rainbow cichlids thought them a nice snack! So I'm after...

Need a fast growing plant that can grow without CO2 and preferably can be happy growing emersed (which should help with the lack of CO2). We are considering planting a chamber in one of our sumps to soak up some nitrates and possibly house some fry/shrimp. Yes we will keep changing water, but...

So I have 2 20L tanks that I am about to stage up... but I have no clue what to put in them. Was thinking about at least another Apisto sp. (most likely triple red cacs... though one of the mouthbrooders may be interesting...) but would really like some suggestions for other fish to look at...

So I've not been very active in a while, as my fish keeping has been largely on hold while we deal with some basement renovation issues. But we're approaching a time when I can consolidate all but the kitchen tank into one room in the basement, where I'll have a 75g planted SE Asian community...

After the may meet and listening to bob say its good to have a lot of different foods to feed your cichlids I decided I would order some different food for my cichlids. I usually order from kensfish but I decided to try out yourfishstuff, what I ordered was 1 pound of HBH natural 8 veggie flake...

Im looking to get a peacock at the meet this weekend to really set my tank off, the peacocks i have right now are all around 2-2.5 inchs. they are 2 sunshines, cape kaiser, blue regal, blue dorsal fin, bi-color, and 2 other ones that i got in a mixtures ones blue and orange and the other one is...

i have a few red x gold tigermotaguense and was looking for some good gut loading food source suggestions

When the need arises to temporarily remove a fish from your display tank where do you put the "removed" fish? Let's say you have a fish which is being bullied and is now in need of TEMPORARY refuge to recover. Do you use an extra tank, like a quarantine/hospital tank? Recently I saw a...

Since the second C in CCA stands for cichlid, I'd better get on board. I have a 20 gallon moderately planted tank with 6 brochis splendens and 6 non-descript danios. I'd like to add some color. So, what's a good starter apisto? Should I get a pair or a single male to start? Do I need to...