Pet Forum / Aquaria / Cichlids / May 2005

hello all, i have a bit of a problem here. my cichlid jumped out of the
tank over night and spent anywhere from 1-6 hours on the floor. when i
woke in the morning i noticed it was not in the tank at all, long story
short, it was dried up on the floor. its mouth was still moving so i

   Just on a whim after getting out of the Salt Water hobby, I tried a deep
sand bed of Playsand (About 4-6 inches) in my 80 gallon tank.  I'm one of
those wacko's that likes to put local wildlife from my vacations into my
tank to see how they do. I've REALLY lucked out with ...

I have a 220 litre (24" cube) Malawi cichlid tank (see
http://fish.alansilver.co.uk/Mark3/Gallery/0402FirstFish/Default.asp?img=
tank_040217_01.jpg for an out-of-date picture) that is suffering from a
green algae problem.

One of my Electric Blues has lost part of her tail. There is no sign of
infection but she is keeping pretty much hidden. She also had an assignation
with one of the males in a cave this afternoon, quite fascinating to watch.
Should I just leave her be and monitor her progress or ...

I happen to have a large supply of pesticide free  earwigs (pincer
bugs), do you think it is OK to feed them to my parrot and green terror
cichlids?

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I hava a young (5 inches) oscar alone in a 75 gallon tank. I have in
there a UGF and a power filter, and the oscar somehow managed to jump
through the power filter hole a few minutes before I got home from
classes. I generally feed him three times a day, so I checked, didn't

I ended up stripping my female Front a little bit to early but all of
the eggs were wiggling and it's now been five days post stripping and
the eggs sacs are starting to disappear.  The 'wigglers' are beginning
to swim a bit.  I guess I'll be ok :-)

I bought a Cichlid over the weekend that the LFS guy named a "Deacon". Its
almost got the same shape as discus but not quite! It has vertical bands
over the length of its body. Its still a juvenile and colours have not
started coming through yet so its a dirty brown colour at the ...

I have a Tank heater which has a sticking thermometer cut-out, It does not
connect when the water temperature drops, But if I tap the  thing the
thermostat clicks in. It does disconnect OK.
Has anyone taken one of these units apart, It looks like the Rubber outer

Recently my red tiger oscar has started just sitting around like he is
sulking.  I can usually con him to come out with food when he is
sulking, but lately he just ignores everything.  His poo's are
floating, so I was wondering if it's possible that we've been

I did a 1/4 water change last night.  This morning all my fish 10 in a 29
gallon  auquarium are very sluggish.  4 or 5 keep hanging around at the top
with their mouths very near the surface.  They don't seem interested in
eating.  What should I do.  This tank has been setup and ...