Pet Forum / Aquaria / Cichlids / February 2005

   I have just finished redoing my entire fish page once again and
relocated it to a different domain... It has a very good amount of fish
information and fish pictures please visit it.....
Fish Page URL:  http://www.mikeswebdesigning.com/fish

I have a 26g now with two keyholes, a golden ram, a few serpae tetras,
rasboras and one yellow.  I had two but one died a few weeks ago.
Most are juveniles.  I'd like to get another lab for a "buddy".
First of all do I need another one(not interested in breeding), or

needing a new forum(s) to inhabit. the one i was previously on has hired a
moron for a mod, forcing me to leave that forum. im interested in a forum
where people are friendly and actually know wth theyre talkin about. many
thanks!

I have a friend at work that has a tank.  He claims that his Texas cichlid
(f)and his convict (m) mated, laid eggs and they hatched and he has like
100 fry!  I have been an aquarist for many years, but I am unfamiliar with
this cross breeding.  Also, I looked in my book and I ...

Picked up some sandstone and slate rock pieces from my local bulk
landscape store for my 20 gallon freshwater tank.  Can anyone tell me
if these are good to use in an aquarium?  Any comments at all?  Thanks

I need a suggestion on some Cichlids that are easy to care for, may produce
fry, and who thrive in my soft water.  I taking all 76 3 month old platy fry
to the LFS for a credit.  I have 4 community tanks, so I thought perhaps I
would try some Cichlids.  They will start off in a 10 ...

The water here is off the chart on my test strips for ph and Total
alkalinity (kH, I believe). Is there anything I can do to lower the
Alkalinity, and then the pH, preferably without changing the hardness?
The hardness is just right, it runs right around 120 ppm. I've tried

I live in Minnesota, USA, and for as long as I can remember all the Blue
Rams (Mikrogeophagus ramirezi) have been the 'German Blue Rams' from the
stock of German breeders that had bread a more colorfull (?) strain.
They are torpedo shaped, about 1/2 as high as they are long, with ...

I will be getting a 30 gal tank soon, and am seriously thinking abou
getting a pair or trio of Bue Rams. The only other fish I would have i
there are adult male guppies(10-15), and maybe 3-4 corys (still thinkin
on corys).

I have been raising red zebra's with success for years now, recently started
Yellow Lab 29g tank. I ordered them online so was not able pick sexes. Ended
up with 3 males and 3 females. Very unactive fish. They all seem to sit in
nitches under the rocky boulder-like landscape, ...

I have a 60l community tank with tetras, a pair of M. ramirezi and
trio of B. splendens. Generally this works very well, everyon
interacts within their own species and they leave each other alon
(apart from the intense curiosity of the B. splendens females, who nos

I am hoping some one can tell me what size the fry will start color up from
there orange and the size they will be ready to spawn . I also have some
Labidochromis sp. "mbamba" that I am wondering the same thing about
Thanks

Over the last few months, I've been creating care sheets to distribute
to interested customers at my workplace.  I've now gotten to the
cichlid category... Despite my experience in the pet trade, the
cichlids are a family of fish that I only have a general knowledge of.

In Winnipeg
77 Gal comes with Black Stand, Hood, Rocks, Fake Plants.
$385.
Can send picks.

Sorry if this in the wrong place.
I have 4 medium Frontsa (4-5 inches)
2 electric Blue (4-5 inches)
4 demisonis (3-4 inches)