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  1. Aeration and filtration are both working and as far as I can tell, no swim bladder issues, everyone is straight and true....no wonky swimmers! The airstone is tiny though, and the air pump is a small one. The tank is 120 gal 450lt... Should I get a bigger pump too? And a powerhead?
  2. I'm concerned about my mbunas, they're all hanging around at the top and corners and not swimming about as much as normal. I've had the tank set up and running for a month. When I moved it I reused all the substrate and both the canister and internal filters. I added a small airstone. There's lots of surface agitation even before the airstone. They're not gasping or gulping at the surface at all and are eating perfectly well (mix of hikari cichlid excel, staple and repashy) They're all acting the same, I suppose the smaller ones, the two yellow labs and two ice white zebras are a bit more active. I'm just at a bit of a loss as to what's up with them. Temp is holding steady at 26°c and the water parameters are good. No ammonia or nitrites. Nitrates are about 40. Any idea what I can do to make them happier? Oh, and there's no sign of any diseases, they all look perfect
  3. I chop it up into tiny pieces and either rub it all over wet wood or stick it with gorilla glue. i've treated all my mosses the same and they're all monstrously overgrown (but full of shriplets so i don't dare trim it, lest i snip a little guy in half!)
  4. I'm sorry to hear you've been having a rough time... Someone wanted to come and say hello to Pooka (and you, of course!) His name is Big Bad Tyrone and he's absolutely gorgeous 😍 I wouldn't have him if it wasn't for your posts, so thank you. He's a lot of fun already. I'm trying to get him to come to me for food, but he won't yet. Its only been a week though. He is without doubt the boss of the tank. The first pic it their first meeting, they all grouped up to check him out. He just took over the best cave and the previous tank boss, the dark blue and black mbuna just had to suck it up. Sometimes he gets a bit mad, but never at Tyrone. And there he is giving you his best smile!
  5. Aww, bless his heart. i really hope he can recover. you've definitely busted your butt trying to help him and i've learned a lot from your efforts and everyones advice.
  6. I have a 200w and a 150w in there and it's holding the temperature perfectly. Just waiting for my Inkbird controller. I don't think I'll need to add any more but I have a bunch of smaller ones if I need them in the winter Thanks for all your input 👍
  7. @Fish Folk I'm doing a mixed of male and female and see what happens! I'd love to see them have babies. They have been breeding already as there's 3 tiddlers and a couple of smaller fish in there. I'm going to add to the group and refresh the gene pool a bit and let them go at it as they see fit.
  8. I just wanted to share with you my newest fish. After waiting for a hear and a half for a big tank I finally got a 450 lt/120g mbuna setup. It took a huge clean up effort but I think it's looking nice. The fish are way happier in here than in the big hospital tub and coloured up and started posing and interacting with me right away. How could I forget this gorgeous pink fella!?
  9. I'm not sure how @AndEEss! can you give me a shopping list and recipe?! ☺️
  10. Thanks ever so much. Which inkbird controller are you using @Mmiller2001? I've never seen these before but it definitely makes sense. Heaters have always worried me a bit.
  11. how do you guys with big tanks heat them? I bought a complete but old setup with mbuna's... it had all manner of stuff in it but only one 200w heater. I have the canister filter and I'm going to add a powerhead (or 2) for more water movement. Would I be better off with 2 (or more) smaller heaters spread out or one bigger one?
  12. Here's my filterless, heat-resistant tanks. The middle one has red cherry shrimp breeding in it, the outside two are recovering from being over run with cyanobacteria, but will have other shrimp in when I get more plants in there. They've been going for a couple of years now could use some attention, but I like to see it do its thing and just remove the big dead leaves if they make a mess.
  13. I think the sludge in the canister filter of the setup I bought at the weekend is the oldest 'fish thing' i had!
  14. Here's my 2 cents.... all my tanks are planted with tropica plant substrate/aquasoil capped with and it cost a fortune (but in my opinion totally worth it) i did it as recommend on the pack. however, I've been watching a youtuber called MD Fish Tanks and he does a really cool thing which i will definitely do in future. He uses these all plastic mesh laundry bags and half fills them with the aqua soil, zips them up and then just places the pillows wherever he will be planting heaviest. The roots penetrate the bags no problem and end up super stable but no aquasoil makes its way to the surface. It also makes nice stable pads to place large rocks and driftwood on whilst spreading the load. When he breaks down a tank he can just remove the sand/ gravel cap and reuse the bags of soil which are already loaded with bacteria and it makes it super clean and efficient. It looks like he uses about 1/4 of what you'd use if you did it the normal way. And he pops root tabs in the bags too. You can get the bags on amazon. I think its a win win situation. Good luck!
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