Recent content by berbie38

ok cool gonna have to squash it in between the new media, how long before i can take out the old media might just take it out a bit at a time.

hi all i have just bought a shand rio 400 and am looking to transfer my malawi mbuna from my juwel 180 to the new tank. in terms of cycling the tank i was wondering the best way to do this. I thought i would put the old media from the 180 into the 400 filter box alongside new 400 media and...

hi all i have just bought a shand rio 400 and am looking to transfer my malawi mbuna from my juwel 180 to the new tank. in terms of cycling the tank i was wondering the best way to do this. I thought i would put the old media from the 180 into the 400 filter box alongside new 400 media and...

Ok thanks, plenty of ripples now, cured immediately.

cool its facing slightly up now and creating good movement, i will wait and see how things develop, thanks for your help,

No its been facing downwards, i should point it up slightly to create a ripple in the water?

Hi all I have noticed a lot of my malawi cichlids are at the top of the aquarium with their mouths at the water level. Is this normal behaviour? i thought they were either looking for food or could it be something more dangerous to them. I have a juwel 180 litre aquarium which runs a bioflow 3.0...

No the male is a beautiful colour of Blue and the females are a slightly drab shade of Blue, nice fish though, the male is stunning! How many should there be in the brood? im sure i read somewhere you can have up to 20.

I think i have about 5 or 6, not sure at the moment because there are rocks in the tank for them to hide.

Hi all My female pseudotropheus elongatus ornatus has just released her fry into my nursery tank yesterday, most of the fry are in hiding behind rocks and I have removed her back to the main tank, What should I do now ? what should I feed them on? I have som frozen brine shrimp, is this good for...

Hi, they are described on the pack as a medium sized pellet probably about 3mm across, diameter.

Hi I have recently started using hikari floating pellets to feed my cichlids, do i need one pellet per fish so that they all get fed, or do the pellets break up and allow the others to get fed.I am used to using flake food regards berbie

cool, thanks for your help.

Media wet all time left for about 2-3 hrs before i put the fish in 17 fish in 180 ltre tank, new tank 25 litre rinsed it in aquarium water There must be raesonable flow as the fish get pushed away as they get near to it by the waterflow. I put 2 pieces in which are sponge and about 3 inch by 3...

Hi all I have now set up the new tank and in it i have 1 malawi cichlid fry who is only about a cm long and a female who has a mouthfull of fry. I bough a brand new filter and stuffed it full of mature media from my other tank, the problem is 2 days later I am getting raised ammonia levels, I...