Recent content by melknee

So my boyfriend and a few of his friends regularly go boating on a nearby river-lake and came back yesterday with a two liter bottle half full of water with about 10 freshwater jellyfish. I didn't believe him when he called me on his way back and told me what they'd found, but looking at them...

My JD's have been breeding like crazy and every month brings a new brood of wrigglers. I try to get the fry out while they are hatching and I do so with a turkey baster. I know cichilds are supposed to be good parents and the mom is, she charges anything that comes near her babies including the...

They had another round of babies this month, and this month I managed to get the little buggers while they were hatching and and still kind of attached to each other by the egg sacs. I got em all in like three turkey basters! took me only 5 minutes, although the mother was still attacking the...

So I did initially try to syphon them out. That was less than successful, and the mom just attacked me the whole time. So I moved on to the turkey baster method, and she still tried to attack me, so I then moved the mama to a holding tank. That was a mistake, immediately papa JD came over and...

My JD's just had their second round of fry in 1 month! Last month they hatched a large amount of fry, probably around 150-200, but none of them survived. After about a week maybe a week and a half I noticed that the pair were breeding again and had begun to eat their babies. Prior to the...

My dempseys hatched fry 12 days ago and they've thinned out significantly, from about 200 to less than 50 , I'm afraid I waited too long to separate them from their parents and I'm attempting to catch them and put them in their own tank because I suspect they might be getting eaten by the dad. I...

My Jack Dempseys just recently hatched 150-200 fry and they all seem to be thriving quite well. I've been feeding them fry food 3 times a day as well as feeding the parents once a day with cichlid pellets, I was feeding them flake food as well, which is what they seem to prefer,  but I stopped...

Thanks for all the advice.     What should I do about changing the water?  I was told that I need to start changing the water 50% almost daily once the little ones start to develop side fins (approx 5 days from now I was told).  Is this accurate?

taking your advice and placing the melon barb in a new home, im still worried about the papa though, the momma is really chasing him around,  havent seen her take any significant nips yet but still worried, should i look for a place for him too? here is a pic of  all the fish except the pleco...

I took over my sisters tank about 5 months ago because she was moving out of state and didn't want to go through the hassle of moving the entire set up a long distance and risk stressing out the fish. At the time she had two immature cichlids which she was told were Green Terrors. The set up is...