Recent content by lydah

You'll need a stronger filter, but your ph is fine as is. Look into canisters as opposed to a hang on back. Discus need a very high protein diet and to be frank, aqueon filters on face value are terrible and won't be able to keep up with the bioload of a group of discus. Keep in mind that...

That would be assuming that food hits the bottom of the tank in the first place. Healthy pims are pigs that go all out feeding frenzy, it'd be hard for bottom feeders to get food in the first place without a lot of overfeeding. I tried it before, my Raphaels couldn't get anything, theyre just...

He would show when he was stressed :p   I recall my uncle back 10 years or so had a full grown red tail shark in a 15 gallon tank. It would hide inside of its plastic log all day, it got along "fine" with the other fish (I recall an angelfish and red eye tetras in the tank) and had a nice dark...

I always just scrub it down with a clean brush that hasn't been used with any chemicals and some hot water, never bothered going any further.

firemouth cichlid, convict cichlid, bristlenose pleco, and 12 red eye tetras, in a 48"x12"x18" aquarium    used to have a group of synodontis nigriventris catfish in there but had to move them to another tank after the RTBS chased them so much they wouldn't come out of the hides anymore. Keep in...

high stress can hinder a fish's behavior to act normally, including being kept in a too-small overstocked tank

I'm saying no-go, honestly. Risky is an understatement. Red tail sharks have their own personalities, but such small fish will have a hard time defending themselves if you get a mean one. Red tail sharks are highly territorial with other bottom dwellers and there is a 95% chance that he'd chase...

cory cats should be kept in groups of 6 or more, same with the khulis, so i'd choose one or the other rather than both. They'd both also really appreciate sand rather than gravel. Bristlenose plecos can be pretty messy (one is more than enough for my 50 gallon) and if you end up with two males...

I'm setting up a new 50 gallon tank (48"x12"x18) and still kind of trying to figure out what I want to go about putting in it   It's gonna be my last tank til I own a house, so I'm aiming for something different from what I already own, and blockheads fit in that category   I was just wanting to...

Raphael cats are really sluggish and reserved fish and can easily be out competed for food by pictus cats, it's not the best matchup. However, pictus cats love company of their own kind, getting a group of them would be perfect instead of mixing them with other cats

Very possible and somewhat likely, golden wonders will not hesitate to eat smaller fish and have a big mouth on them. Had a person before with a killi that died trying to eat an oto. Itd be safest for everyone to seperate the two. If the killi tries to eat a pygmy, the sharp spines on their fins...

I used to be a member of this forum some time ago, and then after getting a job and having all my fish tanks settle out I just stopped posting, but now I'm setting up another tank so I figured it'd be good to come back and refresh myself on how things are done Forgot my old account name and...

Festivums possibly, in my experience there just aren't a lot of cichlids that hang out on the top levels of the aquarium a lot, mine always like to stick around on the middle and bottom levels unless they think they're getting food

I keep them on their own, since they can be quite nasty to each other, so I can't speak on how much space you'd need for 4. However, my girls are avid diggers and destroyers, they even rip the leaves off of the silk plants I throw in the tank and took chunks off my anubias. They're the last...