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PCS & Stuart M. Grant - Cichlid Preservation Fund - Details here

Alex Hill

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Breeding Bn With Fry In Tank

08 June 2013 - 10:17 AM

I am looking at trying to breed my bristlenose, but the only tank I have spare at the moment has some Electric Yellow fry in it (stripped about a week ago).

Will the BN cause too much hassle for the fry, or just leave them alone while they go about their business?

Dark (black) Algae Taking Over

21 April 2013 - 12:45 PM

So when I set up my first cichlid tank I went for THR because I loved the contract of colour against the bone white of the rock... Clearly that idea didn't last long. I have since come to accept algae growing on my brilliant white rock, and don't really mind it anymore...

But lately the tank seems to be taken over by this thick black (maybe just really dark green) algae. The fish seem ok (except one juvie death) but I am suspicious that its not necessarily a good thing.

Tank size is 6' x 1` x 1.5' and I am running an AquaOne CF-1200 with a 24W UV running 24 hours.

I have tried to get some photos of the algae but it isn't the best camera around.

Can someone let me know what type of algae this looks like so I can google and see what needs to be done about it (if anything).

Fs: Psuedotropheus Acei 'tanzania'

20 February 2013 - 09:28 PM

Psuedotropheus Acei 'Tanzania'
Size: 3-4cm
Number: 10
Sex: unknown
Price or a ballpark figure: $3 each
Photos: on PM request

Super Fry Survives

12 January 2013 - 07:30 PM

About 5 weeks ago I stripped down my birthing tank after my electric yellows had babies, moved the females back into the community tank and the fry into the grow out tank. Because I am lazy I left about 4mm of water in the bottom of the tank and I ended up breeding my brine shrimp in a hatchery over the top of it. I just went to set it back up for my holding females, and there is still one fry swimming around in there. It must have managed to get a feed when i dropped a couple of brine shrimp in there, but I only did that twice in the 5 or so weeks it has been in there. Must be a bit of a super fry to survive with so little water, no heating (although its been warm), filtration or constant food.

Clown Loaches And Mbuna

31 December 2012 - 10:17 AM

I have seen a few people around keeping clowns with other types of cichlids. From what I understood, clowns like a softer water with a lower pH than most cichlids. How do people keep the two together, is it by lowering the pH to a loach level, or keeping it higher at a cichlid level?