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After all the previous fish I had in the tank died off (due to natural causes) I’ve decided to restock the tank with African cichlids. The idea I have currently is 6 rusty cichlids and 6 yellow labs. I heard they’re pretty peaceful for cichlids. Would this combo work? What gender ratio should I...

The dimensions are 48 x 13 x 18 inches. Everything in there right now is about 2 inches. Also nice fish.

Alright, so here’s the predicament I’m currently in: I have a 55 gallon freshwater tank that has 1 bristle nose pleco, 2 Silver Dollars, and 3 Clown Loaches. Already there are several problems with this: the amount of fish, and most importantly the tank size. After doing research, I’ve learned...

Stocking: 4 Electric Blue Rams, 1 Bristlenose Pleco pH: 8.2 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 0 Ammonia: 0 GH: 358 ppm KH: 7 dKH The pH increased a little bit from last week, but since the fish are acting fine I think it'll be fine. I think the rams and the pleco grew a little bit. One of the rams is now an...

Alright I’ll just leave things be. Thanks for the advice!

What about the sterbai corys? Would they be fine if I got them, or should I wait until I lower the GH using essjay's method?

Thanks for the heads up man. I just almost made a really big mistake. I’ll try to see if I can grab some distilled water by the time I do my next water change so I can lower the GH. If I do a 25% water change for this tank, how many gallons of distilled water will I need? I think I'm gonna go...

Current stock: 4 Electric Blue Rams, 1 Bristlenose Pleco pH: 8.0 :eek: Nitrites: 0 :) Nitrates: 0 :) Ammonia: 0 :) GH: 300+ :eek: KH: 7 😐 I know some of these numbers are absolutely horrible for the rams (especially the pH [should be between 6.5 to 7.0] and GH [should be 50-100 ppm]) but I'm...

Thanks for the advice man. I’ll keep all the recommendations in mind. I like this fish, and want to make sure it’s tank mate are just right for it.

Thank you for the suggestion. Reason why I said cherry barbs was because I’ve seen countless sites saying that they’d make great tank mates. Plus I’ve had experience with tiger barbs and thought that having a peaceful version of those would be a no brainer.

When I was growing up my dad always told me stories about him and his friends keeping fish, and I got inspired to look up some fish of my own. I ended up finding videos of Green Spotted Puffers and I fell in love with them ever since. Now for the tank, I asked for one from my dad and he got me a...