Recent content by FreshwaterAfishianado

Did you rinse the media that came with the fluval? I have a 406 filtering my 55 and the media that came with it had quite a lot of dust in it.

Lol yeah he's colored up a lot since we first got them. To be fair I don't think my camera on my phone does him justice, he has some great red coloration on his face and fins and a lot of reflective scales in his flanks that just don't show in the pics

Well a little update, I guess the question of gender for my rams has been solved as they spawned today. Just thought I'd share a pic

Anyone?

Alright thanks, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the Oscar then. Its really not possible for me to go any bigger than the 55 where I live right now as I'm in a small upstairs apartment in an old building.

I'm no expert when it comes to African cichlids, but from what I could find Cynotilapia afra and Pseudotropheus saulosi though smaller are much more aggressive than Otopharynx lithobates and Labidochromis caeruleus. So much so that they may not tolerate males of their own kind at all. As far as...

So my pair of festivum have spawned again, this time I want to try to rescue the fry from my tetras. I have a 20 gal. Setup and waiting for them but I was wondering what the best way to move them would be? Right now the eggs are on the underside of a piece of driftwood, could I just move the...

So a good friend of mine has to sell her tank, she has a 9" Oscar and a 3.5" JD living in a 55 gallon, they're the only fish in the tank. She asked me if I would be willing to buy it from her as she knows I already have tanks and she would feel more comfortable knowing they were being taken...

Happy birthday!

Thanks :)

Came home after work today to find that one of my diamond tetras has something white stuck to his face. It doesn't seem affected by it, I'm just now sure what it is, it almost looks like a tiny styrofoam ball. My pair of festivums just spawned so I thought it may be an empty egg he got at? Or...

Sorry, its been a little while since I've updated this thread. We lost the last batch of fry to our tetras, but today we came home to this! Its not the best pic, you can only see about 25% of the eggs because of the shadow. Were going to try to save this batch.

I think the confusion with the ammonia dropping 50% when only 25% of the water was changed may be due to the nature of the test. The result increments on the API test kit are 0-0.25-0.5-1-2-4-8. Her first reading could have looked as though it was 2.0 but in reality it could be anything from...

Are you growing this in a tank with fish or in its own container? Placing it near a window would probably cause algae issues. Its always better to control a tanks photoperiod and strength when possible. If you don't want to use pressurized co2 you can try flourish excel, we use this along with...

TwoTankAmin: I apologize for any insult you have taken from anything I have said, I assure you that offending you was not my intent. I was simply trying to help with this problem with the limited knowledge I have gained while keeping my own fish. You are much more experienced and knowledgeable...