Recent content by ChasingFish

Wills, I always appreciate your long posts and the time and information you are sharing, so thank you and don't be sorry! I'm at work at the moment, just on break, so I can't reply to all...but yeah my current thought is to have a South American/Central American cichlid theme in the big 220...

I bought 5 ramshorn snails once upon a time, turned into about a 1000 (I might or might not be exaggerating)...not all in one tank - I have many tanks. Anyway, long story short, I bought 2 red-tail red-finned puffer fish, and they eat them so prolifically - that I am now struggling to keep up...

Welcome Tzano :) I love it here, hope you get lots of enjoyment and advice out of the site as well.

I've been keeping freshwater fish for a long time, but never dove into the world of African cichlids before (specifically lake Malawi type). I'd like to do a mix of Mbuna, peacock, and haps. I've seen varying reports of "it can be done" or "don't do it". I've read that there are ways to...

I'm including ine that I think is a male (#1) my favorite, #2 I think is a female, and #3 seems to have some vertical bars...this is not all of them of course. They are so hard to photograph or even count, because they are so fast.

That's helpful, I did read elsewhere that females usually keep the line down the side whereas males usually lose it. But multiple searches online didn't mention it at all and I thought maybe that wasn't a very reliable method of sexing them. I'll be home soon and try to remember to take those...

according to this website, they get to about 4 inches https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/hemichromis-lifalili/

Wills! I will have to post some updated pictures soon, some of them are up to 3-4 inches now and they are starting to get quite pretty...and I've seen some of the color/pattern variations that you mentioned here - but they are all siblings from what I understand from the person we bought them...

Yeah, I am aware of the water parameter needs of the fish, that is why I was so concerned and started this thread. I actually do a lot of research to try to accommodate all the fish and keep them in separate tanks according to their compatibility with each other. We used to (both) be much more...