bottomdweller_fan

:welcome: Welcome to Alberta Aquatica!

:welcome: Welcome to Alberta Aquatica! I hope you grow to love this habit (errrr hobby ) as much as I do.

What a beautiful little fish. With that much color right now, he is gonna be a stunner as he gets older!

I found some sparkling gouramies at the PJs in Londonderry Mall. They are quite pretty, stay small, about 1.5", and they are not that shy as long as there are some plants in the tank.

:welcome: Welcome to Alberta Aquatica!!

:welcome: Welcome to Alberta Aquatica! Do you have any particular types of fish you are particularly interested in?

Absolutely gorgeous fish!! Congratulations!!

That is a beautiful looking piece of wood! Can't wait to see picture of it in the tank!!

I belong to a forum in Germany that has a some very knowledgeable shrimp keepers. They are a great source of information their website is http://www.crustaforum.com/board/index.php. Hope this helps.

:welcome: Welcome to the forum! What kind of fish do you have?

:welcome: Welcome to Alberta Aquatica!!

:welcome: Welcome to Alberta Aquatica!!

A quick question. At what size tank do you think a sump would be more effective than external canister filters? Thanks.

:welcome: Welcome to Alberta Aquatica!

:welcome: Welcome to Alberta Aquatica!

:welcome: Welcome to the forum!!

I really like the first picture. What a cute face!

:welcome: Welcome to Alberta Aquatica! You have lovely fish.

:welcome: Welcome to Alberta Aquatica. A gorgeous oscar.

Hi Martin, :welcome: welcome to AA!!

Well, I guess all the posturing in the last few days led to something because today I watched my angels laying eggs on one of the sword plant's leaves. My first spawning of any fish species - yipppeeeee!!!

What about trying to soak other food in the bloodworm "juice" and see if that helps with their interest in the food?

I too have fallen in love with loaches. Here is a great link from the Loaches Online forum that will help you with your clown loach ich problem. Good luck and enjoy those crazy loaches!!

He's cute! So do we now call you wHITE_O?

You have some lovely looking fish. I am a real fan of loaches and I'm a bit concerned. From what I found on the 'net: Pseudotropheus socolofi (Albino) need a pH range of 7.8 - 8.6 with very hard water borleyi need a pH range of 8.0 – 8.5 Electric yellow cichlids need a pH range of 7.5 - 9.0 with very hard water However, if you go to www.loaches.com you will find that Clown loaches need pH of 6.5 - 7.0 with soft water. As well, they prefer to be in groups of 5 or more and get to be 16 inches in size. Here is a picture of one of the members of Loaches Online (Emma Turner) her name is Marge and she is 11.5 inches (so not even full grown) http://www.loaches.com/species-index/clown...ia-macracanthus (just scroll down the page to see her picture). For some reason, people think that clown loaches do well with African cichlids. They actually don't do well and although yours seem fine now, you may run into space and health issues with them later on. Good luck and I wish you all the best with your finned friends!