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There were so many to choose from.... Clck on the photo to enlarge it. enjoy!

Can you all point me in the direction of one or two large city aquariums that I can plan to visit that features freshwater fish on display. I would love to see some of my favorit cichlids in large aquariums and thought I might plan a holiday around such a tour. Not so much interested in salt water fish. Any suggestions so I can check out various websites would be appreciated. Thanks.

They grow slower than the regular JD's. I am raising a bunch of fry right now and find they are not as quick to grab food as the Blue Genes, so separating them as soon as I can to eliminate the competion has proven to be a must. Otherwise the blue genes out compete the smaller electric blues for food and the blues would all die.

I read that, sounds like I should be eating the stuff!

Are you willing to share you food recipie? I have tried home made foods befoe and haven't found one that I like yet. The fish like it, but I find it too messy in the tank.

Visiting with fellow fish hobbyists I was recently shown a fish food (can't remember the name of course) that the hobbyist was excited about because it contained Astaxanthin as a color enhancer. Upon researching it, I found out it is simply a carotene derivative. Seems harmless enough. Any one know anything about this additive? Any one use it?

Hi there, found you! Nice meeting you today. Hope you visit again soon. Have fun here on AA. It is my second home. A lot of great people here.

Come guys, help the fellow out. I know there are African cichlid keepers in Red Deer, they are for sale on Kijiji all the time. I have lots, but I am in Three Hills.

correct me if I am wrong, but I was just reading up on this and I concluded I would put 1/2 cup of marine salt per gallon. Temp? Well, my fish room is warm, so I wasn't going to put a heater in the water.

Double gold! Another spawn! The first spawn is doing really well. Should be able to tell the blues from the regs in the next few days. And now we have a second spawn that just started free swimming today.

Congrats on the spawn. I too am very jealous! How are those pretty blue fish of yours doing? Any fry yet? remember, I am first on your list (I think) Ha ha.

The fry are tens days free swimming now. The death rate as been next to zero as I can tell. They have doubled in size and are eating BBS, infusoria, microworms and now I have introduced them to a high protien fry powder. Can't tell the blues from the regulars yet...soon.

I aquired an electric blue and a blue gene female from a friend (don't know if he wants to be named) and I have been waiting and waiting and finally!! Success! The eggs look good, nice a dark, no fungus and the pair are alone in a tank. This pair has raised more than one spawn in the past, so I will let them raise these guys for a while. Then I will pull them in a small tank and feed babies micro worms,high protein fry powder, then grindal worms and once big enough... black worms. I'll keep you posted.

I was at a LFS the other day and saw a sight I thought was beautiful. If was a tank stocked full of gorgious female bettas. Their colors were magnificent and I got to thinking that they could look great in a community tank with guppys and swords and such. I am totally new to bettas, I don't even own one at this time, so just picking the experts brains right now. Can bettas thrive in a community tank with guppys and swords and tetras etc? Can many female bettas live peacefully together? Thanks for any advice.

So we just got 10 3 inch clown loaches only about four days ago. They went into a 180 gallon tank with lots of hiding places. Today my husband did a water change on the tank. Now he has this thing about only adding straight cold water back into the tanks (sometime 25% of the water). This lowers the temp of the entire tank of course and so far, he claims all the fish like this. I disagree with him and won't do this... however... But minutes after his water change I noticed a dead clown loach (that wasn't there before because I helped do the gravel vacuuming). I said the sudden and relatively big temp. drop killed loach? The other loaches didn't look to lively either... We keep that tank at about 80F and I bet it dropped to 70F or so ( I should have measured) So did the cold water kill the loach or are they just new and fresh from the store and probably just a normal die off? Any imput would be great. Because my husband and I are arguing about this and I think I am right and he think he is right. Help settle this if you can.

I can't help you much since you live in Edmonton, I bought mine from a place in Calgary, but it is a light carmal color. I didn't know you could get "white" pool filter sand. That would be nice also. The carmel color is rather attractive however. I find it much easier to vacuum than other sand I have (it is probably play sand) and it is clean and uniform and doesn't compact.

I've only seen "red Terrors" sold in stores twice and both time they were the "false red terror". These fish are often mistaken and sold as red terrors but they NEVER get the stunning color of the TRUE red terror. They are a totally different species.

:welcome: Have you stocked your 90 gallon tank yet? If so, with what...yes must see photos...!!!

Hi, and welcome. I love jewel cichlid too. I breed the red ones and the tourquoise ones. What type of plecos do you have?

Wow, I am liking that fader...you probably know what I am thinking...maybe we need to get your fish and a select group of my fish together for a date hahaha. :hey: If only it was that easy...

I had a reb zebra male mate with one of my electric yellows and I let the fry get big enough to see what they turned out to be...basically they were pale, barred eletric yellows. So they all become feeder fish.

Took some recent photos of my new fish, aka Red Terrors. Have been looking to acquire some of these for over a year. Struck Gold as far as I am concerned. They are still young, female is about 6-7 inches and male is about 8 inches.

A.I.....invetro.....sperm donation....it is all so complicated and there are risks.

Well that is good to know since I would have trouble lowering the Ph. I hope they will get it right one of these days.

Ok, thanks, and yes, I did test the ph right out of the tap.. I will try what you suggest. Thanks for the explaination, that did answer many questions. The only reason I started being concerned with Ph is to capitalize on the theory that cichlids bred in higher Ph will give you a greater % of males. But I also want my angels to breed. They have spawned many times but they never hatch...my thought was that the water ph was too high.