Pet Forum / Aquaria / Cichlids / December 2006

I have been selling a few of my "Electric Blues" to a LFS for very
little money.  I tried another today and he looked at my fish and said
they weren't electric blues.  He noticed there were "dots" on the side
of some and said they must be a hybrid with a peacock.  He then showed

The guy from the LFS told me that the first sign that an Electric Blue
will be a male is that there will be four yellow dots appearing on the
Anal fin.  Since my female has four dots on her anal fin, I thought he'd
just made a slip of the tongue and he meant that it would be ...

Hey there,
I am having trouble with nitrates.  They are running around 40ppm.
At what levels do things get toxic for freshwater fish?  Specifically the
big cichlids like Oscars and Red Devils.

I think I hit the 'reply' instead of 'reply to all' button.
It's genetically impossible for the yellow labs to successfully breed with
jack dempseys. Maybe you are observing them displaying (which is a visual
form of aggression).

i added a albino oscar to my tank with 2 jd's and 1 black tiger oscar.  all 3
fish are chasing the albino around is that normal??will the srttle down???

Anybody guess what these guys are? I just picked them up from my
favorite fish store here near Seattle. I'd been waiting for some
similar but these showed up instead. I grabbed 6 nice specimens right
out of the shipping bag.

My old reference site of 5yrs just moved to its own domain. The new site
is: at-home-and-tanked.com (or tanked.info if you prefer).  To refresh
your memory, the home page shows my 250g tank in the garage with my
Harley in foreground... just cause it was too much trouble to move it.

Many pet stores unfortunately just see the money involved and couldn't
care less about the animals they sell. That's why they cram bettas into
those tiny cups. More bettas in more tiny cups means more money for
them.

I have a young Jack Dempsey in a 53 gallon tank.
Here are the dimensions:
39.4 X 15.8 x 19.7 INCHES
I know he is going to grow to 8 - 10", and I think he'll be ok.

Anyone frequent here that is new to collecting cichlids?  Or anyone not
new that just wants to share with us, what they have, etc. Just curious
for conversation, try and pick this NG up to where it once was. What
size tank have you purchased? What types of cichlids are you ...

I know it's been awhile, but I've been around, just not posting as I
used to...
I've got a 29 that's WAY overcrowded, but controlled.... and with a
strange mix of sorts...

It's probably nothing, but I just got 2 baby (1 3/4 in.) red oscars. I  did a
water check and everything seems okay, but they both seem kind of lethargic.
One more than the other. I'm hoping it's just because of a new home, but..
I'm a first-time oscar mom, so I'm not real familiar ...