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looking good. how you getting on? little while since an update 

so a slight change to the plan, as there was a chance that i would be off of work today, yesterday i took the plunge and ordered my stock from tonys african cichlids knowing that even if i was at work today that my partner would be at home to take delivery and is more than capable of dealing...

cycle finished earlier this week but looks like i will have to maintenance feed for a week or so due to not having a day off to accept a fish delivery. think i shall be getting my fish from tony african chilids as my lfs selection is pretty poor.

hi all.   I am nearing the end of my cycle however once complete i will be maintenance feeding for up to two weeks. my question is do i do a water change at the end of the maintenance feed before adding fish, at the end of the cycle as per the directions or both?

i always use a layer of polystyrene regardless of whether the stand its going on is perfectly flat or not. the only exception to this would be a juwel tank that has a built in frame.

hi,   sorry i didn't realise you was in the uae. have a look for fluvals roma range of tanks, similar to the juwel, also aqua one and eheim make some nice looking tanks.   eheim filters are good but if your on a budget have a look at the tetratec, or even see if all pond solutions or similar can...

hi, in my opinion the standard filters in those tanks aren't good enough on there own. if you decide to go with a juwel i would replace it with an external, no only will you have better filtration but also more tank space and a better looking aquarium.   Have a look at ND aquatics. i have...

thanks ch4rlie, glad you kept a tank, think i would be lost without one now! i have started a little journal on the old world cichlid section, wont be a in depth as this one but thought id better do one.

a couple of the night time blue  

Managed to find some ali u bar this afternoon to construct a simple sliding light rack. The whole thing start to finish took just over an hour to cut to length and build etc.   The two main light consist of an iquatics marine white t5 tube and an arcadia standard tropical bulb both of these have...