Pet Forum / Aquaria / Cichlids / February 2004

My adult male mozambique is showing signs of sickness, but I have no idea
what's wrong.
His fins are clamped and a little ragged. He's been hanging about the
surface lately and not eating. His balance is affected as he doesn't seem

We have recently (ie last week) populated our new cichlid tank. It is a
220 litre tank and has a custom built background, complete with loads of
"caves". See http://fish.alansilver.co.uk/Mark3/ for more details of the
tank, background, caves, etc.

Ok, two questions for ya'll today:
I found a recpie for rift lake buffer (the usual salt, epsom salt and
baking soda), and calculated out how much I'd need per 5 gallons and
worked it out into a number of doses for my 80gal tank.

May This Flame War Stop Today So That Nothing More Will Be Posted On
February 21st.
Stop abusing these groups and stop heaping abuse on me, if you heap abuse on
me on

Redforeman needs to stop throwing abuse at me, also his friends
are required to stop throwing abuse at me. Here is what one of
Redforeman's friends posted in alt.religion.christian.adventist,
because the problem originates with alt.atv,

Is it ok to keep an Oscar:
a) on it's own, i.e. the only fish in the tank?
b) with other fish, but no other Oscars?
I read that they are a pairing fish, but how important is this to their

I have 5 juvenile oscars (in a 300 litre tank) that I bought at the same
time, all of a similar size, the idea being that a pair might form. They
have grown at different rates and now the two largest (4"?) which are almost
identical are dominating the tank hanging in mid-water at ...

Has anyone ever kept a Neolamprologus <sp?> in a CO2 injected
high light 29C tank? The pH is around 6.6 and gH is between 6-10
(coral chips in the filter).
I just have to separate them from a smaller tank. Two of the Neolamp group

I cannot believe I did this but I think I managed to kill an entire tank of
cichlids tonight. I am really bombed out about it.
I have a 45 gallon tank with some juveniles thriving for the past 3 months.
Typically I changed the water once a month when I had some community fish in

I put three juvinille electric blues into my girl friends overcrowded
community tank.
She has been working the late shift letely and hs not been feeding her fish
regularly.

I bought a bunch of cichlids at the Chicago show yesterday. I have a 120
gallon, fully cycled tank. I bought about 10 fish (to a tank that had about
6 already). Worrying about the ammonia spike, I added some Amquel. Is this
what most of you do when you buy fish at shows? I saw a lot ...

In regards the "exploding" thread "On Sunday" which is being
crossposted:
D.S.Kabawhatever is clearly a troll, probably a 12 year old who
doesn't have his Daddy's permission to use the ol' computer. His

"Popeye" <ridercycle@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I really hate to do this, but they leave me no choice ...
  *<*> PLONK <*>*
Blocked both of them ...
Keith J.

I'm curious to know what size a pleco should be, relative to the size of
the oscar, before being added to the tank or if it matters.  I would
like to put a pleco in with my 6" Oscar, but I don't know if the pleco
should be of a considerable size before being introduced.  I ...