Recent content by Jamie1985

With regards to the cycle i purchased 2 AQUA FILTER GEL sachets from LFS the tank was cycled in a week perfect water conditions all you do is put the gel on the filter sponges and leave the tank running testing after 24 hours then again a few days later once its stabilized do a water change then...

Hey Locust 267 the plastic egg crate is what i had on my base then constructed the rockwork on this, i then placed the sand around the rockwork pushing it into the gaps where the crate was visable i purchased it from my LFS i have a 4x2x2 tank and a sheet cost me £12 it covered the whole base...

Ok thank you appreciate it i was told by a bloke in my LFS there is somebody in leatherhead who is a cichlid breeder which is about 40 mins away from me just waiting to hear from him for contact numbers etc once i do il speak to them and see if i can post there details on here

Im in Guildford surrey why you ask for?

I have seen hes website and must admit i fell in love with the fish he was selling but the fish i purchased from my LFS are only small so dont want to order from him until their roughly the same size try to keep aggession to a minimum he has a wider variety of cichlids than my LFS

I fully cycled it with the AQUA FILTER GEL its a live bacteria which you put on the filter sponges then test the water after 24 hours then everyday after, I had a huge bloom i completed a 25 litre water change on the third day and a 50 litre change on the 5th tested water and was all stable took...

Hi all just a quick thread on my tank, as the title says ive added the first of many fish to my tank. After a week of cycling my tank and making sure the water was acceptable i added the fish 4 x Labidochromis caeruleus am unable to identify sex at the moment and 3 x kenyi 2 females (blue) 1...

Really an FX5 i had one of those until about 3 weeks ago i sold it because i never used it :grr: !! I want to try stock mbunas but really like the Aulonocara especially the malauna :wub: would i be able to stock a few say 4 with the mbunas? Many Thanks Jamie

Thanks for the reply ive been told by my LFS that im better off "over-stocking" or put in as many fish as my filter will allow! I have a 240 litre tank which i know isnt an ideal size for a malawi set-up so id like to have as many fish as possible, do you know how many i could stock? I will...

Hi all, this is my first post on this forum so please be gentle with me! Ive kept tropicals for years and learnt by mistakes along the way but have now ventured into the cichlid community namely malawis! Ive cycled my tank and tested the water parameters which are all fine so im now looking at...