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100G Cichlid Tank

#41
Yvon said:
I know someone with a salted fish thank who never do any water change, never. And everything as been fine for 7 years now.
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Saltwater tanks are special in that the detritus is consumed by micro-organizms and the entire cycle can be sustained without water changes. The freshwater setups don't have that capability in such a small size as a tank. I do a water change in my 75G once a month to maybe 6 weeks at about 35% but I don't have a heavy load on the tank right now. When my Jaguar, Green Terror and Texas Cichlid grow up all of the way up it will be a little different. I'm also running 2 penguin 330's so I have a pretty good bacteria base between that and the gravel which helps a lot!
 
#42
Ya, I have a friend with a community tank and he never does water changes either. He just tops it off when the level gets low. I don't think I could do that, especially in my cichlid tank. We also have a pleco in it that's notorious for 3 or 4 ft. long strings of poop every couple days. So out of respect for the cichlids I change it.

Having killie fish that breed would definitely turn me off water changes, too. Never been successful at getting egglayers to lay eggs. Maybe that's why. Or maybe it's because I never dedicated a tank to it. That's probably the real reason why.
 
#46
What luck you have to get something like that for FREE! I used to have a 75G terrarium, about 1/3 of the vertical space and 2/3 of the horizontal space was under water. In the water, among other things, I had a single african ciclid (~3 inches long) and a large (~5 inches) african clawed frog for a couple of months. Then, one day I found my frog floating (dead) and the ciclid was in the process of eating its arm. :bawl:
 
#49
JimmyM said:
Good idea...I used to feed them peas every couple days but got lazy. I will take your advice.

BTW, what kind of food do you feed your mullet? :D

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I have a 14" pleco and he does the same thing when I drop algea wafers into the tank. A day later turds cover several plants and it's all connected. I feed my fish a variety of foods... but the pleco eats some of the stuff that I feed the tank as well. I had never seen a pleco eat a cube of beefheart before until this one... weird!
 
#50
Hmmm...I just gave him some algae wafers last night, and today he's pooping like crazy...never noticed it before, but now that you mention it, there's probably a connection. I guess I'll stick to peas for greens now. He likes them. Thanks for the heads up.
 
#52
Wow! Just noticed him today (little guy in center of pic):

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I guess at least ONE of my Demasoni's must be a female. I always thought it was notoriously difficult to get cichlids to breed...? Apparently, my Pseudotropheus Demasoni trio find conditions favorable!

He's the only one I've seen (checked for a while)...I assume their broods must be a least a dozen or so, so maybe he's the only one smart/lucky enough to have made it this far.

Don't want kids, but I like being a new fish dad!

Damn, I'm such a geek....
 
#54
Both of my folks are the kind of people who obsess over things easily. Some years back, say early '80's, one of my Dad's friends recommended getting fish to de-stress. Danny said it worked great for him.

My Dad gets a little 20G tank. He puts some kind of low-end 'I-don't-know-what-they-are-but-they-were-cheap' fish in it, and startes to get comfortable with the concepts.

Time passes.

Six months later we have a 200G tank in the living room, a 125G and a 75G in my parents bedroom, and a wall-full of 10 - 20 G tanks in the garage. The living room tank and the big tank in my parents room were 'Display Tanks' with all the cool 'Oh aren't they beatiful' fish. The smaller tank in their bedroom was for hostile yet cool(Oscars, Cichlisoma Managuensas ((sp?))etc...) fish that would kill off their neighbors in any normal tank. The plethora of smaller tanks ended up being for breeding fish(mostly Managuensas) to sell to the pet stores to support my Dads expensive new habit.

:rollno:
 
#56
Bard2dbone said:
Both of my folks are the kind of people who obsess over things easily. Some years back, say early '80's, one of my Dad's friends recommended getting fish to de-stress. Danny said it worked great for him.

My Dad gets a little 20G tank. He puts some kind of low-end 'I-don't-know-what-they-are-but-they-were-cheap' fish in it, and startes to get comfortable with the concepts.

Time passes.

Six months later we have a 200G tank in the living room, a 125G and a 75G in my parents bedroom, and a wall-full of 10 - 20 G tanks in the garage. The living room tank and the big tank in my parents room were 'Display Tanks' with all the cool 'Oh aren't they beatiful' fish. The smaller tank in their bedroom was for hostile yet cool(Oscars, Cichlisoma Managuensas ((sp?))etc...) fish that would kill off their neighbors in any normal tank. The plethora of smaller tanks ended up being for breeding fish(mostly Managuensas) to sell to the pet stores to support my Dads expensive new habit.

:rollno:
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It's an all too familiar story :)
 

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