Recent content by imponfire

Thank you for that! I know fish are WAY more extensive than what they are grouped as, but I wasn't sure if it was a difference of horse and donkey or dog and cat (if that makes sense). Like I know blood parrots, oscars and dempsey's are all "cichlids" but I'll never get a blood oscar...

No, nothing came from the 90 gal tank except the fish. At this point the only thing I can guess is that when we were initially bagging fish that maybe some of the 'floating dirt' that we bagged the fish in had a fry in it. STILL that means SOMETHING bred with SOMETHING in HIS tank, which from...

The striped takes up at least half of that log, it's twice the size of the spotted. If that matters. And when we got it, it was smaller than the spotted is now.

so, long story short: coworker died. his dad asked if anyone would take his fish. got there and the tank was dee-sgust-ing. 80% green and once we fished the cichlids out we started draining the tank that left at least 1-2" of sludge and sand. When we started scooping the sand out (this was a...

So, is there a professional person or organization I could contact about asking questions? I'm really curious because there is 0 possibility someone in my family just added this guy, and he couldn't have hitchhiked into my tank unless he was attached to the other rafael already.... which...

Haha! Right? We hardly ever see the striped because of the nocturnal behaviors. (S)he mostly stays in a log where a pair of my cichlids breed left and right. The spotted emerged for the first time (that we have seen) last night and we were both in shock. After researching, I told my husband...

So today my husband and I noticed a little spotted Raphael in our tank. We have had a STRIPED Raphael for a bit over a year ago that we got from a coworker's tank that passed away. There was no other Raphael in that tank. We have several cichlids, a rope fish and large pleco in with her. I...

My husband and I are members of several other fish groups, mostly salt water. I have had cichlids for at least 20 years now along with other random tropical fish but I joined up because I have peculiar situation that I would like answers to with my Raphael. :)