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My father has a baby angels at 1 month old, what should he feed them, no hatch brine shrimp please?

Posted on January 4, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

Just over a month ago in our community tank the two angels who were accompanied by only one golden gourami and no plecs(very important) became proud parents. The Angels paired up had a large brood and for the last month they have been growing voraciously by picking away at the green algae that accumulates on rocks n plants. Now that they have been vegetarian for so long we would like to introduce some new food source but do not know of anything other than brine shrimp and they are a no no. If u know of any suitable size prey please let us know, thanks.

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Stocking A 40 Gallon?

Posted on November 6, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

Okay, I’m getting a 40 gallon tank, It will have all the equipment needed for a 40 gallon, including a heater. What fish would you reccomend for this size of a tank. I would like to stay away from cichlids and any large plant eating fish. I want this to be a community tank with peaceful, non-aggressive. Also, I want areas of the tank covered, Top, Middle and bottom. Also, I don’t want any fish that won’t eat anything other than live foods, because I don’t really want to go through the hassle of all the breeding of them. Maybe I will start a brine shrimp hatchery and growout tank for them. But maybe not.
Thanks for your answers
Oh yeah, this is going to be a tropical freshwater tank, forgot to mention this.
Soupnazi – I thought cichlids needed harder tank water than normal? Will other fish be able to handle this?

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Planted tank or artificial?

Posted on June 6, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

I have a 30 gal community tank, well cycled and well filtered. The thing is, my brother and I will start breeding guppies, im going to buy a 15.6 gal for the males and leave all the females (with more fish) in the main tank. We also have two 2gal for raising fry and possibly for raising baby brine shrimp.

How should we decorate the males tank? I was thinking shale structures with anubias on top of them with some taller plants in the middle. For guppies, should I get artificial or real plants?

Also is this a good setup idea for breeding?

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Angelfish laid eggs.?

Posted on May 31, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

My angelfish just laid eggs, for the first time in over a year. I had them for about a year and a half and they spawned in the summer. They spawned 3 times over a period of months… It has been another year and a half since the last spawn. I successfully got 4 angelfish fry to live for a while, moving them to a community tank. They lived for a few months, then one of the angelfish that was bigger I think picked on them. They all ended up dying somehow >< We moved houses actually since there last breed. Finally they bred again! Anyways, I got a bunch of eggs now. The eggs have hatched, I think, there are little bodies hanging from the filter tube now (thats where the eggs were laid). They just hatched a few hours ago, I think, this morning they were still eggs. Anyways, what should I do? Last time I moved them into a 5 gallon tank. Fed them fry food, and a little bit of baby brine shrimp (I could not produce that many quick enough to feed them.) So should I move them now?

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Advice needed for sick drawf (freshwater) puffers.?

Posted on January 28, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

African (Malawi) cichlid tank. 75 gallons, established. PH 7.5-8.0. Chichlid salt used. No plants, only rockscape. Bought 6 puffers ~8 weeks ago. Feed mosquito larvae, brine shrimp, krill. I feed them once a day. Occasionally skip a day. Also pellet, flake, cichlid food. The puffers don’t seem to eat these. No signs of illness. No problems with other fish in the tank. Found three of the puffers dead, two days ago. One is now sick. THe other two lay on the bottom but seem to have revived and are swimming around None of them have looked sick- no ich, fungus, etc. Help. I really like these guys and am not sure what to do. Is the Ph too high for them? Not enough or too muh salt? No cover? Wrong food? looked them up on the net but cannot find the answers to these questions. I have a community tank and a guppy tank I could move them to if the ph is an issue (they are 7.0)- but if so, how do you do it without shocking them by the ph change? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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