Pet Forum / Aquaria / Cichlids / March 2006

I have a had my baby oscar for 2 months.  He's getting bigger - about 1
month ago, one of the tank lids broke, so I've been covering up the top
with some cling wrap.  Just in the last week I've been hearing Buzz
jumping at the cling wrap, and there are now a few small rough edged

I want to build a 125/150 tank stand. Does anyone have any plans floating
about, or know where I can get plans that I might use?
Perhaps a book I could check out at the library?
Thanks,

I have had a 20g aquariam since about thanksgiving... I've followed all
of the instructions, letting it cycle for about 6 weeks with starter
fish, when i started introducing more fish in (about 4 at a time) my
ammonia is still very high... its about 2.0 ( I tested it with the

I am moving and I need to find a new home for my Cichlids.
They are all beautiful and healthy, it's just that I can't setup my aquarium
right away when I move in June.
So, here's your opportunity to get some beautiful full grown Cichlids almost

Man, I just entered the room, when suddenly one of my tank lids broke
and the light fell in!!!  My little oscar is so lucky he was fast
enough to swim away from the guilotine (spelling?) that was the glass
and the electrocution that was looming... Lucky I cut the power to the

One of my parants friends moved to another location and gave a fish tha
they had because he couldnt take it where he was going. He didn
actually remember the name of the fish because its about 7 years old o
so now and 12" long, im geussing its a oscar but im not 100% sure.

I am seriously considering going over to my LFS sometime in the next few
days, and if the same Oscar that I saw there today is still there, I am
going to purchase it, unless you folks can convince me that I shouldn't.
I currently have a 30 gallon aquarium that the Oscar can call ...

Does anyone put apple snails or other snails in a Malawi tank?   Also what
is the opinion of putting an air curtain in the tank with a air pump running
it.  I have a lot of current in my 75 but little surface agitation.
Bob

Okay, I have 5 Yellow Lab Fry, that are now at about 1 1/2".  They are in a
20 Tall.  The smallest has been ostracized.  So, like all of my other
cichlids that I have had, the one to get shoved out or pushed around
summarily dies.  So, I set up my old 10 to serve as a safety tank ...

I have been having problems with a hyper-territorial green terror in my 75
gal tank, he killed a gymnogeophageous meridonalis, a jaguar guapote, two
plecostomus and a synuspillum, chewed up two severums and a red devil so
badly they had to be removed, beaten up with no tails.

I have a 75 gl tank with about 23 Mbuna.  I am always puzzled with the large
assortment of food available.  I have:
Pseudotropheus soco, Labidochromis Caeruleus, Melanochromis Johanni,
Labidochromis Hongi, Bumble Bee, Auratus MS, Elec Yelow and Red Zebra MS.