Pet Forum / Aquaria / Cichlids / April 2005

    I'm fairly new to keeping cichlids and have had some bichardi for a few
month now, and now many babbies.  I know they are substrate breeders and
also colony breeders.  Apart from that not much else i could find.  I
was wondering if a.) anyone has experience with them and b.) ...

  Breeding that is. I have a gold female that was laying eggs like crazy,
but kept swapping out potential mates until I found a male. He's a huge
green male that succeeded in 2 spawnings. I moved the babes to another tank
a few times. She then left a few batches of unfertilized ...

Hi all, [and apologies for cross-postings]
I've just inherited a tropical freshwater tank (with fish) from some people
who're moving away. Its now set up and everything seems stable.
The largest inhabitant is an angel fish (Pterophyllum scalare - not a

I just set up one of my tanks - a 55 gal. - to be a cichlid tank (I have
four other community tanks).  I really had my heart set on a pike cichlid.
I asked a friend of mine who has always had pretty good luck keeping pikes.
He suggested some tank mates for the pike and even went ...

I have a 240gal tank that I am currently running freshwater with bala's and
Angel and miscellaneous tetras.  I was thinking that an oscar would be great
for a tank this size as well as perhaps a Jack Dempsey or other large
cichlid.

I went with my friend to some LFS that we'd never been to the other
day because he wanted to get some stuff for his tank, and I ended up
stumbling across a tank full of VERY colorfull german blue rams that
were about 1.25 inches long. It was written on the tank that they were

Tommi Jensen Wrote:

I have a peaceful Malawi tank with two Aulonocara Baenschi, and the female is
brooding some young ones. Her mouth has become enlarged, and I can see some babies
swimming around inside. This is an 80G tank with 4 other Malawi cichlids and six
big clown loaches.

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tank - 50 gal, well rocked
fish - 20 2 year old 'kenyii' all from a homemade fry batch ( gave parents
away ), about 2-3 inches + a pleco + 1 small hap-something

One of my 5 females has developed black spots, I am wondering if this i
a disease and if so what should be done about it.  Sorry I am unable t
add a picture at this time, because the forum is not working.  Th
spots are numerous, and not in any pattern. Is this a norma

 Hello all.  Just getting back into this hobby after a 15 year vacation.
I'm setting up a 55 gallon tank with a lot of  live plants and a few dawrf
amazon chiclids.  (Not sure which ones yet, perhaps Apistogramma cacatuoides
and some cardinals. )

I've recently purchased a small batch of s. njassae catfish, approx 2-3
cm in size.
Normally, Mbuna tend to leave them be, atleast from what I know, but
upon introduction to the tank, my ps. crabro snatched one, and started

I've had good experience lately with my yellow labs spawning in my 75 gallon
community tank. After the first female spawned, I removed her to a well
planted 10 gallon tank and eventually noticed 5 babies swimming around the
rocks. I returned the female to the community tank, and ...

Hello folks.  I'm planning on setting up a South American Dwarf tanks (55
gal) and would like to have some peaceful cichlids and perhaps some Cardinal
tetras in it.  I'm not really interested in breeding.  Can anyone recommend
some good species?  I've heard Laetacara dorsigera is ...