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The Hydor heaters are good and I run one myself on a Pygo N. setup. Its a well made product but the only make up to 300watt units which is good for 80 gallon by their spec. You could run 3 inline to eachother maybe? Kyle

Update: Diablo has swallowed some new life spectrum 1mm sinking pellets as of this afternoon! He isnt eating a lot but he has eaten 2 pinches of pellets now. Hope he starts to get more appitite back in the next day or 2. I will just stick with new life from now on so he cant have a choice to be picky again. Thanks for all the concern and advise I have recieved from all of the nice people on the forums I posted on. We care quite a bit about Diablo and the rest of our fish too! Kyle

How big is that sabre tooth parya? Kyle

Do you have the 3 in a 65 gallon now? If it was a large snail it would likely live Kyle

Seems to be a good number of fish hobbists in Blackfalds from what I can tell. One of my good friends has a lot of tanks too but he isnt much for forums. He is over on the north west side. Im over by iron ridge. He has a 230, 155, 120, 110, 35 gallon tanks Kyle and Amy

Thanks. I wouldnt typically do so and havent in a very long time. It was a test for him and only him Thanks for the advise Kyle

We bought them from petsmart in red deer. 2 guppys, minnows and 3 x ghost shrimp. He killed them and didnt eat them. Didnt give him the ghost shrimps yet though. Might try tomorrow Kyle

Well Im going to do as stated in my last post. I just tested the other 3 of my running tanks and the piranha tank reads 6.8 PH(i lower the ph with peat, bogwood and extract), mbuna tank is at 7.2-7.3(bogwood and cactus wood for pleco), 25 gallon tank is 7.3-7.4 and like I said the 55 gallon my Red devil is in reads 7.3-7.4. You seem to know your stuff but like I said, I watch my tests often and my ph is always where is is on these tanks. I hope to see results in Diablos hunger from the second dose tomorrow Thanks Kyle

BTW - your water should have a pH of approx 7.8-8.0, not 7.3, unless you are experiencing a pH drop between water changes. The info below is fairly accurate. Red Deer Water Quality Parameters Once you get your hands on the correct water conditioner, and your meds are finished, I'd up that RD's water changes to 40% weekly & see if that brings it around. HTH I have used the Prime product before and I have a very small amount left here still. Not enough to do a change though. I will get some prime from now on for the cichlids but will have to keep using the Tetra aqua in some way with the piranhas for the blackwater extract part of it. Will likely just add it after conditioning their water with prime. Even right out of my tap my water is 7.5 ph with the API liquid test. There is no way my test is showing 7.8 or anywhere close to 8 ph. When we did the ph test on the 55 gallon yesterday we both looked at it and were split on 7.3-7.4 looking at the card. We do tests quite frequently on all of my tanks. I watch the Mbuna and Piranha tanks especially close for PH. They all stay where they are and I do not get ph fluctuations. Will do a 40% change on my tank when I get some prime conditioner. Its good timing anyways as I only have enough tetra aqua conditioner for one more change anyways. Doing the second dose of parasite clear right now and will do some food in garlic juise tomorrow morning for him Thanks for the advise so far. Im open to more thought. Kyle

As far as the garlic. I have tried feeding him New life with Therra and that didnt do anything for him. I know its not exactly garlic but its as close as I have. Can I use garlic cloves to soak food in any way, or does it have to be a liquid form extract? I live in a small town with no car at the moment. That is why the new test kits and things can be an issue for me at the moment. Kyle

Its not my test I ran out of both recently and asked a friend to bring some over. he just brought the drips, we used my vile and I didnt compare it to a chart. Just eye balled that test from memory as he didnt bring a chart. I will be trying to buy a new N02 and N03 test tonight. That was just to get a test done this morning. Ive always had the habbit of feeding a variety of foods to all of my fish but it seems like you are right in that for my Red devil I will have to train him to eat one type of food. He has gradually gotten more picky over time. Still the issue remains that he wont even touch anything at the moment. As for water conditioner I used only Tetra Aqua brand conditioners. Aqua safe in the cichlid tanks and Blackwater extract for the piranhas Any other thoughts?

HAHA yes we did. Thanks you again and they made out really well. Some of them thinned back a little with my pleco trying to push his way through them constantly but I moved him and now they are comming back nicely. Im quite happy with the java moss and 3 shrimp made the journey. I have added more shrimp since and they love it. Kyle

hey guys, we have had this Red devil for close to a year and a half since he was about 1.5" and he is roughly 5" now. These are rough estimates We really need your help. Our Red devil cichlid is not eating, he probably hasnt eaten in about 12 days as of now. He has taken food in his mouth chewed it and spit it out and sometimes just goes towards the food, looks at it and swims away. We have tried New Life Spectrum (which he used to gobble down), Dainichi ultimate Krill/color supreme/veggie delux/xl pro, freeze dried krill, cichlid excel, pleco pellet, and cichlid flake. Before he stopped eating anything he would eat new life and cichlid excel almost strictly. He hasnt ate a piece of krill, pleco pellet, any of the Dainichi pellets or cichlid flake. Those are all foods we have tried to feed him since he completely stopped eating. He has always been a picky eater, as most red devils are. But it is NOT normal for him to not even eat one pellet for this long. He has gone on hunger strikes in the past when I switched him to the 55 gallon tank he is currently in and when we took his pleco away to another tank. Both times it was much shorter of a time frame and would still swallow something here and there but not a full appitite Tank setup He is living in a 55 gallon by himself and this tank has been running for roughly 6 months now. Filter is a Tetra whisper EX70 with very good bio material built up. Natural stone substrate that he digs even as of this morning 10 fake plants and a couple decorations Water conditions I do 10-15% water changes once a week. API ammonia drip test is at 0 ppm API PH drip test is at 7.3. I just got my friend to bring a Nitrate and Nitrite test kit over as I was out of drips. Both NO2 and NO3 come up 0.0 ppm Fish conditions He is still very active, digging often, attacking his reflection on the surface of the water with a lot of energy. He still patrols his tank for 90% of the day time. He goes to his "safe spot" the same amount as normal when people show up but doesnt sulk there. He is swimming normally and his swim bladder seems normal. No weird movements or actions. He has his typical colouring and his gills are not enflamed or red. Anus looks normal and no red or swollen area visable. No visible body marking or spots. He has a couple of scales that were damaged when he made contact with some plastic in the tank while attacking his reflection in the surface of the water. Happened a few weeks ago and melafix has him looking 90% healed scales When holding a mirror to his glass I can see somewhat into his mouth and gills and nothing odd from what I can see. No excess mucas on gills or body visable He just has a sunken stomach from not eating anything so long We have treated the tank once with parasite clear medication. one dose 2 days ago and we will do another dose late today. We tried talking to LFS but they dont know what could be the matter. any info would help us out. Today I have done a 25% water change and have been leaving his lights half off for the last 2 days Up until the last 11-12 days he had been pretty much only eating cichlid excel(his choice) which is a spirulina based food. He has not been swallowing any of that either for this period of time. He would always have some new life spectrum when ever he felt like it. He has always been very very picky eater. He seems to have interest in the food we put in the tank no matter what it is but he never swallows it and sometimes wont even take it into his mouth to try it. He responds with great interest to a bag of food being shaken in front on the tank, especially when it is the cichlid excel bag Picture was taken while mirror was held up to his tank. His gills are flared because of that. Picture taken about 1 month ago. He looks the same as he did then colour wise etc Thanks. We are at the end of our ropes here. Amy and Kyle

Finally I can take part in the fun I was led towards this fine forum by one of the moderators on here. Hope I can contribute The girlfriend and I have a few tanks currently running: 55 gallon with a Red devil cichlid 40 gallon with a Jewel cichlid, Acei, Yellow lab, baby unknown Cichlid, Senegal Bichir and Rhino pleco 25 Gallon planted tank with ~12 baby yellow labs, 6 guppies for breeding, cherry and ghost shrimps, 2 small loaches, rubber nose pleco, a lot of snails and a glass catfish 140 gallon piranha tank project 80 gallon with said piranhas 10 gallon hospital tank project with half complete 3D background Will post up some pictures when I have time Kyle and Amy