When did you guys get your hawks to color up? Got this hawk as a supposed male at 5” it’s about 5.5” now. I can see a shimmer of blue every so often but I’m suspecting it’s a female.
My LFS has lionheads for the first time I can remember but they're this ugly yellowish brown that is not at all appealing.
If I buy them will they darken on their own or do they need a helping hand?(Food, Lighting, substrate colour?)
I’m running one fx4 with full of matrix on the bottom tray, 3/4 matrix on the top and a polishing pad on the top of the matrix.
How should I set up the second fx4???
The same way or should I add more mechanical filtration?
Maybe bottom tray matrix, and second tray mechanical?
TLDR my multis won't grow. Help?
7 or 8 weeks ago I got 7 baby multis from my friend in a trade we did. The remaining fish from this batch back at his place are much larger now while mine are not growing.
Tank: 10 gallon standard. 2 small sponge filters, 1 small hang on back with a pre filter foam, bucket filled with biomedia and crushed coral. Substrate: quartz sand and aragonite mix. Decor: 2 pieces of old dead reef rock that we use in all the african tanks here. Currently there are a few endler guppies living in the upper waters in here. They were put in as dither fish because the multis were initially a bit shy. So far no problems. Once these multis get bigger I had planned to move them into a similar layout20 gallon tank where they could really build a colony. They would have the 20 gallon to themselves.
I know I need more shells but I never see them using the shells they have now and there are 14 shells in here for 7 cichlids.
pH stays at 8-8.2 which is what the water comes out of the tap at, and hardness and kH stay at about 12-16 which should make tanganyikans quite comfortable. The breeder is using the same water parameters and temperature as me, and he has success while I do not.
Temperature is 76F.
The tank has quite a few floating plants and these keep the nitrates at undetectable levels. I do water changes @ 20% every 7 days. Dechlorinated with seachem safe (powdered version of prime).
Now, they do eat. They prefer powdered food so I feed the Aquarium Co-op magic small fish feed as well as powdered cichlid flakes, and I give them shrimp wafers which they also peck at. Every time food is offered which is 2-3x per day, they do eat quite a bit of it. They never refuse food. They show no signs of illness or discomfort as far as I can see, and water quality as far as what I can test is good. I can't really afford the extortion level prices on frozen fish food where I live in Ontario Canada. It used to be in my budget and I had a freezer full all the time but they want like $30 for a small cube 12 pack now and I just can't. I am building up a colony of grindal worms and will soon begin feeding them to all my small fish, and I am planning to get decapsulated artemia (shelled brine shrimp eggs) which I've used before. You just soak and feed fish love it. My source is out of stock but getting some soon.
Anyways something doesn't add up here. I know these fish don't have parasites because their batch siblings are almost full grown already at the breeder's house.
Help??
I’m currently running a Fx4 and 307 on a 75 overstocked (20 fish) tank. Would it be overkill to run two FX4 and get rid of the 407? What would be the pros and cons of running the two FX4?
My water babies are all doing great. It's been about 3 months now.
Sorry for the lighting, it was long ago and I can’t retake the picture
I changed the water, multiple times in a row as I do once a week. I replaced the salts and added additives, as I always do. This morning I woke up to everything except the plecos and a couple of babies dead. Any thoughts?
75 gal aragonite substrate, seriyu stone, fx4 and f407 filters, waiting on wave maker, any suggestions for a strong flow? Gonna be an all peacock tank, thinking of adding at least 15. Lmk any suggestions and tips. New to African cichlids overstock tank, lmk what’s wrong or what I can do better? Mahalo. From Hawaii, I have soft water so I need to bump it up to at least 7.5-8, my temps in my tank stay around 78-79. I’m not planning on using a heater.
Through certain circumstances I have acquired a handful of African Cichlids. At the moment they are all babies. We bought a brand new Fluval 9 gallon with in tank filtration. I've heard that a 55 gallon is the best tank size for when they grow but I'm not sure if that applies to me because of how many fish I have, and how many fish I may want to acquire in the future.
At the moment I have...
11 maingano
4 yellow labs
and 2 of what I believe are Zebra shell dwellers but I'm not positive (good picture below)
In the future I would like to get one or two types of peacock Cichlids. Is it possible to easily keep Mbuna and Peacocks together, and is there any specific Mbuna and Peacocks I should stay away from keeping. Also, do I have to buy pairs/schools for certain fish, and what genders should I not keep together? Thanks for the help in advance!!!
Hey guys just recently had 3 fish in my 200g come down with internal parasites/bloat. Thought I caught it early enough. I took them out and put them in my spare 10g tank with a cycled sponge filter to medicate them (they weren’t eating). Started dosing Seachem metroplex to the water and all 3 died one by one within 48 hours.
I filled it with tank water from my main, even dosed with stress guard before adding them. Is it even worth isolating sick fish if it’s just going to fast-track their death? Maybe I’m doing something wrong. Still learning, so let me know!
This is my first time having my cichlids breed so I’m pretty inexperienced with this. Am I tumbling at a good strength or should I turn it down more? What else should I know to take care of of these babies?
Think is amazing how they form from eggs into fish
Purchased about seven years ago and I honestly can’t remember what species it was. I think it was a Golden Kazumba but I also think I bought some Moliros around that time. But I also vaguely remember him having orange in his name. Surely not Bemba Orange but I’m not entirely sure.
Hi is this a female tiawan reef juvenile I was told by the person i got them from that they are tiawan reef can I get confirmation from people that know more than me thanks
