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Hi I changed my tank from a fluval to a bigger fluval. It has a centre bar at the top for the lid but no lighting in the middle. I need a 94 cm led light to go across the inner lip. And suggestions on where to find one?
 
A few updates. Financial tightening in work, so cutting back on professional cleans and doing some small interim changes myself. Should be interesting! I was going to repurpose the planted tank, but that’ll have to wait. Meanwhile the guppies are reproducing like crazy, must be about 60 babies in there and the turtles seem to leave them alone. The shrimp population has exploded too, at some point the turtles are going to realise how tasty they are.

 



What are these? Never had tropical fish before. What temperature should the tank be set to? I rescued them from a neglectful owner.
 
katy81 said:



What are these? Never had tropical fish before. What temperature should the tank be set to? I rescued them from a neglectful owner.
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Looks like a couple of cichlids.
The orange one looks like an emaciated Parrot Cichlid, and the other is hard to say for me as the colours are so washed out
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
Looks like a couple of cichlids.
The orange one looks like an emaciated Parrot Cichlid, and the other is hard to say for me as the colours are so washed out
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Sounds about right. The orange one seems to be bullying the others. The tank was in a terrible state, never been cleaned, filter clogged, no food in sight.
 
Cichlids are very territorial, what else is in the tank with them?
They do best in large groups of similar fish with lots of hiding places. It helps spread the aggression more equally and stops any one fish getting picked on too much.
They are best kept in a pure Cichlid community usually.
Anything smaller/more timid is likely to get beaten up or eaten
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
Cichlids are very territorial, what else is in the tank with them?
They do best in large groups of similar fish with lots of hiding places. It helps spread the aggression more equally and stops any one fish getting picked on too much.
They are best kept in a pure Cichlid community usually.
Anything smaller/more timid is likely to get beaten up or eaten
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Therea only 3 fish in it, 2 little black and blue ones and the orange one. There is plenty of rocks and tunnels to hide in and they do go through it.

The orange one just chases them around I don't think he is biting them though
 
katy81 said:
Therea only 3 fish in it, 2 little black and blue ones and the orange one. There is plenty of rocks and tunnels to hide in and they do go through it.

The orange one just chases them around I don't think he is biting them though
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Stress kills fish, it's not a rescue till they are in an appropriate environment.
All that chasing will also not be helping the orange one.
Is the tank cycled, as in, is it mature, with a good (not brand new!) filter?
What temperature is it set to?
 
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My Daughter bought a few Guppies and Endlers to restock our main tank. One of the female guppies is very, very horny. 48 babies and counting in 3 months. :cry:
Had them in a breeding net, but decided at the weekend to re-cycle an old small tank. Seeded with the filter from my main tank. They seem to be loving it.
Will give excess fish to other family and friends or swap for new fish once big enough. Fish prices in general seem to have gone through the roof.

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@katy81 Regardless of all the other stuff, set the temp to between 24 and 26 degrees, and you will need to get a water test kit.
Cichlids need a higher PH (in most cases) given we don't know what 2 of them are, somewhere between 7.5-8 should work for most species of Malawi cichlids.
If the tank is new or recently set up, fairly regular water changes will likely be needed to keep paramers safe, at least initially.
 
Countcussy said:
My Daughter bought a few Guppies and Endlers to restock our main tank. One of the female guppies is very, very horny. 48 babies and counting in 3 months. :cry:
Had them in a breeding net, but decided at the weekend to re-cycle an old small tank. Seeded with the filter from my main tank. They seem to be loving it.
Will give excess fish to other family and friends or swap for new fish once big enough. Fish prices in general seem to have gone through the roof.

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I’ve learnt that guppies breed very, very quickly. Far quicker than our terrapins eat them.



Pretty happy with our planted tank. Have now added some plants growing out of the top and readded some floating lettuce and frogbit to keep nutrients down.
 
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b0rn2sk8 said:
@Malt_Vinegar isn’t that only true for most African cichlids?

South American cichlids have almost the opposite requirements (e.g. soft/neutral water, not as territorial etc).
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I am not a cichlid identification expert, but the parrots are fairly condition tolerant, and the other two fish I guessed were likely to be malawi, as they seem to be the most commonly available in the hobby

Happy to be corrected by someone more knowledgeable :D
 
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Malt_Vinegar said:
I am not a cichlid identification expert, but the parrots are fairly condition tolerant, and the other two fish I guessed were likely to be malawi, as they seem to be the most commonly available in the hobby

Happy to be corrected by someone more knowledgeable :D
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To be fair, I didn’t look too closely at the picture, just picking up the conversation about cichlids as a generic term.

I was just flagging there are wildly different requirements depending on where in the world they are native to.
 
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