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Well i just bought an electric blue african cichlid for a 29 gal tank. In the tank i kept a jack dempsey and a shovelnose catfish. I’ve never had a problem eith the jack dempsey because he is surprisingly peacful and friendly to the other fish. But, the electric blue is now nipping at the shovelnoses fins. The other fish are being left alone because they usually stay in their caves. I want to get my shovelnose into a different tank. It just so happens i have a spare fifteen gallon tank with nothing but gravel and a plant. It has no heater or filter but it does have a bubble machine. I’ve read many places that shovelnoses can be put in water temps. of about 72 to 86 degrees. If i put him in that tank in my room which is usually kept at 75 degrees will he be ok for a few days without a filter?
yes they do have 29 and 15 walk into petsmart and look at the box its lima i dont need to hear about how big it will be when the time comes that it gets too big i will move it. Im worries about the matter at hand

I have a 10g tank with a gravel bottom, and the gravel looks pretty cool, but i was wondering if there would be any benefit to getting sand instead. I personally think that sank would look cooler than gravel, but will it do anything differently?
Mainly, will the ammonia/nitrite/nitrate-eating bacteria grow any different?
Will my little snails (theyre actually baby Mystery snails, not the bad ones that take over) still bury themselves in the sand?
I have a dojo loach, will it enjoy the sand anymore than gravel? I’ve read that they like softer substrates because they move along the bottom instead of swimming.
Can a large snail still move in sand? It seems like thatd be relatively hard for them.

I have had a freshwater tropical fish tank for about 6 months now. We have an assortment of guppies, tetras, and catfish. The oast two weekends when I went to change the filter cartridge(carbon refillable cartridges) there have been littl black worms on the top half of the cartridge. They don’t seem to be bothering the fish, but I’m not sure what they are or where they’re coming from. I have tried getting a brand new cartridge out and cleaning the filter out. I also vaccuumed the gravel, but the worms keep coming back. Has anyone else had this problem and how did you fix it?

hi im starting a 55 gallon cichlid tank with a red tiger oscar and a jack dempsey how long will it take for each of them to get to there full size and what color gravel should i get im thinking black and blue
and i dont want to hear anybody telling me to get a bigger tank i cant aford to get a bigger tank and im not asking if they will go good in that tank i already asked a cichlid expert about thaty and he said theyed go perfect together all im asking is how big theyll get and how long it will take

the little buggers.. angelfish are quite young, about 2 inches big and in the last few days the guppies have killed 3 angelfish and attacking the head of a fourth. He now has a big red sore above his eyes which is swollen up pretty big. I have 6 guppies and they have been pretty mellow, but about 5 days ago i cleaned out the gravel and it stirred up a lot of rubbish. The 5 in 1 test all looks good with chemical levels in the water and up until now the anglefish have been fine.. have I been overfeeding the angels? did the crap in the tank upset them? why are the guppies harrassing the angles so much, it should be the other way around everyone tells me.
Ok the tank is 120 litres, I have 12 tetras (?..neon blue/red looking things). Only a coupke of females are really attacking the angles and one of them seems to be lightly pregnant, and she seems to be the most aggressive.

I have bought another tank now 225litres for the angels which I will transfer over to soon.

Still doesn’t answer why the angles are getting attacked, I had some mollies a while back and they were doing trhe same thing, they killed a few angels so I ditched the mollies and bought some more angels. now the guppies seem to think it is their job to harrass the angels.

Are my angels sick or afraid? i have quite a bit of structure and plants so there is space to hide, and the angels that have been killed did seem to hide a lot. I have only 2 angels left now from 6 and these two dont seem to be troubled… yet.