Pet Forum / Aquaria / Cichlids / February 2006

 I try to give my cichlids a good variety of food, I feed them the allways
popular Tetra cichlid sticks plus Omega one, cichlid attack, flozen brine
shrimp, frozen blood worms, and of course live minnows.  I stay away from
feeder goldfish, they allway seem to have a fungus or ...

Hello all;
Inspired by NetMax's recent post (re: DIY styrofoam sculpture [hat-tip
to NetMAx]), I've conceived a plan for a tank and "sculpture" that I
want to fabricate.

Okay, I am wanting to start a frontosa tank.
I am planning on buying a 50 gal. breeding tank this week.  How long will 8
fronts manage in a 50 gal?  With 8 in a tank, will there be enough in a 50
without there being an aggression/territorial problem?  I had a huge problem

Greetings to all you usenet fish experts,
I used to have a pretty good, if slightly dated library of  books on
Cichlids. Unfortunatley about 95% of my books were destroyed in Hurricane
Katrina.  I have at last set aside a small sum of money to begin to start

Okay, I've had my heart set on getting 6 Mpimbwe this week, but the store I
ordered them from got 7 Stripe instead. What is the difference? What is the
difference in any Front for that matter?
I want the largest, most striking Frontosa out there. Are they all similar?

Hau kolas..
Not finding much info on these guys, does anybody know where I could, or
have any real-world experience?
Also, seems what I can find references h. obliquedens..same basic fish? TIA

    I have a 55 gal planted show tank with some discus, cordy cats and
various neon and a pair of German Blue Rams.  The bottom of the stand looks
inviting for another 55 gal and since I have an extra hood and heater I'd
though I'd put another 55 gal one below the top one.

I bought a couple freshwater flounder a couple weeks back.  Unfortunately I
put them in a tank with "mildly" aggressive cichlids (they managed to kill
two other cichlids, all of my shrimp and the crawdad).  They ate one
flounder and the other is badly scarred on his back with his ...

Can any body advise me if this is okay:
no3   25
no2   0
gh      6-10°d

I am going to setup a Mbuna Cichlids 75gl tak.  I would like to keep the top
open and suspend a 4' shop light over the tank.  Would there be a problem
with the fish jumping out?  I am not sure if they are jumpers or not.  My
tank is in the garage and I will build a simple stand.  ...

alt.aquaria.oscars was created by myself in 1997 as an alternative to what
was then an extremely busy rec.aquaria.freshwater.cichlids. RAFC has gotten
very slow (relatively speaking -- in those days it had over 100 new posts
daily!), and AAO has only one relevant post annually ...

week ago, i bought ps. demasoni. fishes are very small (<~1in). How  can
i be sure, that i bought ps. demasoni but not other one cichlid.
thx and regards,
Merkwurdigliebe, isotope_21<at>kleo <dot> bial <dot> pl

As i get more fish, i'm paying more attention to their interaction with each
other.  However, i have a african cichlids that i have not identified.  I
have a solid orange one.  Also, i have a pale blue fish with a yellow fin.
He looks like an acei, but i'm not sure if it is or a ...

   I have a N. venustus male, about 2yrs old, 5", goes by Changarawe, or
Chang for short.  last night when I went to bed he seemed a little sluggish
at feeding time, but nothing particularly out of the norm. this morning he
was floating upside down at the top with very sluggish ...

guten tag!
Now i am sure, that i do not have ps. demansoni. - So, what do i have?
can it be ps. elongatus ornatus? or simply bastards!
fishes are small (as i wrote before ~1in) and aggr. each fish has its own