Recent content by fishicide

I've been reading a lot of cichlid-specific sites for stocking suggestions and I keep seeing the same basic idea- 15-25 fish for a 55 gallon tank. Now mine is a 50 gallon so I would cut this back a little bit, but surely with my current level of five cichlids and one plecostamus I'm not...

Here is the latest if you have been wondering. The penguin tetras and the cory cat didn't make it. :( I am determined that their ultimate sacrifice will not be in vain though. With an empty tank, I emptied the thing of any nonsense like plants and airstone and the like. At this point I...

Thank you Fluttermoth! No, that's not harsh. Let me try to get an ammonia test. Also I will change 90% of the water tonight. I understand the 1" of fish per gallon now- thank you!!! I had not heard of microrasboras- interesting. Thank you again and I will post more if I have any updates. :)

Thank you for the replies! I'm not sure how I can determine that my nitrites are zero. I have a test kit that has five levels and the least is <.3mg/l. Do you think that this test kit's "effective zero" is actually too high to make it a good test? What I do is take water from the tank- 5ml-...

OK thanks for all the replies! I guess I should have said that I have a test for nitrite and I do this every day. So I let the tank sit for a couple of days, and changed 50% of the water and used an anti-chlorine conditioner and the nitrite test came out fine of course- less than .3mg/l. So I...

OK first off, I live in Thailand and my LFS is a series of shops clustered together in kind of a back-alley market area. Nobody there speaks English so it's pretty difficult to get my questions answered there. I have managed to kill off three fish so far in my little 5-gallon tank. I am about...