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Thank you, I realized that. Iv known this site was dead for some time now but I thought it may still have a core group that may have some input and conversation. To be honest I don't really need the internet to quantity my life. However I had hoped that this site might pop back up. I filled my tank with a pure endler colony. No cross breeding. Pure natural endler live bearers. The only thing stranger than people who have the time to stalk my posts. Tell the girl chained up in your garage that I'm sorry for agrivating you. Stat calm.

It's 30 gallons

I have this tank that I was breeding Apistos in. I sold of my stock months ago and all that's been in it is 4 otocinclus cats. I'd like to stock very lightly. I thought of putting ten salt and pepper Cory's in it It also occurred to me I could scrap the plants, move the otocinclus and do a small tangynikan set up. I'd like some suggestions. Water is 7 ph. Thanks

I'm older and not super tech savvy. However I belong to a lot of forums involving cycling, Diving, paddeling. This is the hardest one to post pictures on. For a hobby that is almost purely visual.

I have around 50 fry in a 30 gallon. Been feeding tons of live baby brine. Ended up with hydra all over the place. My fry have slowly been dieing off 12 ours after dosing. Iv lost 5 in the last two ours. They are all flashing off the substrate. A few of them are not interested in food and have empty stomachs. They are just over a month old and Iv never seen on with out a full tummy before. Interesting enough my Baby mystery snails 3mm wide seem unaffected. I think if dosing no planeria it's probably important to consider that the hard scape, substrate plants ect, take up space. My only theory is I dosed for 30 gallons of water and don't actually have 30 gallons in my tank. I did a 5 gallon water change and loaded my filter with carbon. I guess it's survival of the fittest now. This is the first time I lost fry from this batch. Ammonia 0 nitrate .2 .3 ish

Hello all. Hopefully some one will give me an opinion on this. I set up a 30 gallon breeding tank for a single pair of Apistogramma cacatuoides. My first batch of fry got pulled into my filter straight away. With in the first week of the free swimming stage I had 3 left. So I put the in a Lee's net breeder box inside the tank. Currently at half a cm. I also have a new Brood of 50 or so. (Fixed the filter problem. The troop of 50 is free swimming and I believe to large for the three first generation to eat. They are out growing the net breeder. Will the parents accept them back into the fold? My female can be ruthless when she decides she doesn't like somthing. I was hoping I could sneak them into the second generation once they get closer to size buy there is some aggression going on in the breeder box?

I thought about trying to sneak one back in. I don't want it to become a target though

Hello all. Hopefully some one will give me an opinion on this. I set up a 30 gallon breeding tank for a single pair of Apistogramma cacatuoides. My first batch of fry got pulled into my filter straight away. With in the first week of the free swimming stage I had 3 left. So I put the in a Lee's net breeder box inside the tank. Currently at half a cm. I also have a new Brood of 50 or so. (Fixed the filter problem. The troop of 50 is free swimming and I believe to large for the three first generation to eat. They are out growing the net breeder. Will the parents accept them back into the fold? My female can be ruthless when she decides she doesn't like somthing. I was hoping I could sneak them into the second generation once they get closer to size buy there is some aggression going on in the breeder box?

This set up is nice. I followed the build. Pictures look great. Iv tried to post pictures of my Apistogrammas but I can't get the file size small enough. Would you care to tell me how you do it with such great quality?

My male Apistogramma cacatuoides became a Dad. Now he's fat on account of all the live BBS he cleans up after his 50 kids... lol. You can really see it. His sides are thick. He doesn't do much though. Mom does all the work. He tries but she shoes him away. The odd time he will steel six or seven young from the main Brood and spit them out some where else and guard them. Once mom figures out she goes and gets them back. Lol

I'm looking into getting a c02 system. I don't need a lot of C02. My tank is set up low tech right now with low co2 easy plants. Tiawan moss. Spiky moss anubius and Java fern. I just have a trio of Apistos int the tank. It's 30 gallons. I just want to give my tank a minor boost of co2 to keep my plants in top shape. Iv looked at the fluvsl disposable systems. They seem to get mixed reviews. Does any one have a good suggestion. I don't have a lot of space so I need somthing smaller than the large 5lb bottles

I can't see why not. Any one done it?

I have a 30 gallon with excellent filtration. I have three bolivian rams ( one breeding pair) One bonded pair of Apistogramma cacatuoides 4 black cory cats 9 rummy nose tetras Two honey gouramis Could I add an electric blue acara to this tank?

I have set up a 30 gallon tank with 5 juvenile apistogramma cacatuoides. 3 males and two females. I hopefully I can get a breeding pair. I was thinking of adding a school of ember tetras. Any opinions on this? Are the embers to small to be kept with the Appostos. If breeding will the Apistos get too aggressive for them?

Keep in mind if purchasing a flex your also going to have to buy a heater and you may end up spending some money on an air pump and other accessories to get it dialed in.

Last November I purchased three fluval flex aquariums. There are definitely some things I don't like about the tanks however there is a lot I like. I'm going to mostly focus on the positive. If any one is considering a flex and has questions you can message me. So I purchased the fresh water 32 gallon and two 15 gallon set ups. They do not come with Heaters. They come with a sponge that allows room for a modest amount of media. The don't pull water off the surface very well so I cut the middle and top portions of the sponge out so I could stack them full of media. This solved the problem on the 15 gallon tanks and my surface water is crystal clear. If I where to by just one tank I might get somthing different but having multiples that all use the same filter sponge allows me to tear done and restart a tank instantly just by swapping filter sponges. The back compartment is like a sump so you can put lots of stuff back there. The lighting on the 15 is decent for a kit package. The 32 is a bit different, I stocked decently and found that water wasn't being drawn through the sponges strong enough. I don't cut the sponges on that one. I added a small canister filter in the back filter compartment. It pulls water through the filter sponges at a faster rate but does not increase the out flow in the tank. I had to slow the out flow in all three tanks. I purchased a pack of filter intake sponges from Amazon and placed them over the out take nozzle. This is recommended by fluval. The 32 aquasky light I'm really happy with. It's been growing fire moss really nicely. It can be controlled from your smart phone as well it is programmable. All in all I'm happy with these tanks. They have a sump pump style filter that I put on a switch and I can just turn them on and off with no fuss or priming. The surface water gets scummy in the filter compartment on the 32 so I added a couple air stone from one pump on a splitter and the problem was solved. Out of the box the system needs a little tweeking. Once you play with it a bit they do a really decent job. Fluval does not make a anything as far as upgrades go for these tanks. Of you want an upgraded feature you can't just go into your lfs and get it. However there are tines of upgrades available on etsy. All in all some day I'd like a waterbox set up but the flex have done a really nice job for me for now. I currently have Bolivian rams breeding in my 32. The lids suck. I wish they would have built in a larger hinged feeding door across the front of the tank. It's really easy just to lift the lid up though. You can purchase lid props for them. Iv been meaning to get some. Right now when I work on the tank I use a 12 inch gravel vacuum to prop the lid up so I can work with out removing the lid and I can keep the lights on They are not perfect but they do a fairly decent job and look super clean with no equipment In the tank area itself.

I have a pair of bolivian rams. In my community tank the pair has spawned 4 times. They get to the stage of wigglers then my cory cats eat them over night. I can tell 5 days out usually by their color and behavior that they are getting ready to spawn. I'm going to turn a 15 gallon tank into a breeding tank. My experience is that with out dither fish in the tank bolivians are reclusive. So I'm thinking of adding a small group of dither fish ( tetras) juvenile rummy nose or embers maybe. I don't want the tetras getting at the fry though. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

My niece has a 15 gallon fluval flex running. It's well balanced as far as stock goes with a peaceful healthy community. She feeds them. She says she doesn't over feed them but, she's 10. (Kids will be kids.) I do all the tank maintenance with her. I have three large broad leaf anubius in there. Nitrates never make it past ten because I always run a good volume of purigen in there. The tank sits in her bed room and and gets a fair amount a direct and indirect sunlight through the day. Today I got tired of the distom battle and I put in a fair sized sack of fluvals activated carbon. I not worried about the anubius, I might lose a few leaves. No big deal. I don't have to change the water as frequently because of the large amount of purigen I run and the moderate stock in the tank. Will that lead to a build up of phosphates? Is there a better way to deal with this? Silicate remover maybe? Or an additional clean up crew. I tried a nerlite snail. He didn't touch the diatoms and he died. Maybe ottocynclus? Or it I plant some fire moss in there would it out compete the diatoms for food? Any advice is always appreciated Current stock. 4 salt and pepper cory cats. Three honey gouramis. One small killi fish and a large mystery snail.

I already have 3 ranks. Although I'm looking to upgrade a 15 gallon to a 30.ol

I do most of the water changes on my dad's tank it's 30 gallons and I change it by bucket. I also do my nieces tank 15 gallons and my own 15 gallon tank. I do it buy bucket. I know for a fact that some of you guys out there are not changing your 100 to 250 Gallon tanks with home depot buckets. So what's the easiest way, with the least amount of lifting to do a water change. Farhers day is comming up. I'm thinking about buying my Dad a pump so he doesn't have to actually lift and pour the water. But there has to be an easier way than that.

I set up a fluval flex for my niece at Christmas and filled with expensive all male fancy guppies. I could go on with a long story but I won't. Guppies would die and as she comanded we barried them in the forest. Then I would buy more guppies and they would die again and again. So I just stopped buying fish. When we got down to the last guppie I purchased 3 honey gouramies. ( water parameters where never an issue) They are baby's like maybe a 1 centimeter at the most. So the stock in this thank now with 13 gallons of swimable space and 2 gallons of filter space is 4 salt and pepper cory cats. I mystery snail, one nerite snails and 3 tiny but very ambitious honey gouramis. As the gouramis grow will I be able to keep them together. Is 13 gallons enough space? Or will I have to remove one or two? I have three tanks going right now so moving fish isn't a problem.

Obviously when the rams are breeding they are agressive to every one but only in the area they have chosen to breed in

I don't know how to spell it obviously. I was at my local fish store today and they had thus tiny baby apisto. I have a 30 gallon tank with a breeding pair of bolovian rams, 4 cory cats, 3 male killi fish and 9 rummy nose tetras. 3 nerite snails, Could I add this little apisto? Would he cause problems with my rams?

Ok thanks

So I have always had gross looking Brown Diatoms in my tanks. I pull the tanks apart and clean it and sponge it off the glass and into bucket. It really displeased me. I have a few nerites and the might help a little. I wouldn't mind some nice green healthy looking algea growing on my hands cape at all. I like that natural look and it's good for my mystery snails. I tried opening a window and giving one tank direct sunlight for days and the diatoms just blew up and up and up. How do you get the green stuff?