Josh

Hello everyone, I just wanted to give the people who commented on my post an update. The fry are doing wonderful. They have stripes and their own little personalities already. At the beginning I did have 22 babies. To date I have 15 and they are all eating, growing. And just doing really well. I did grab a few pictures. They aren’t very good. But soon I will be moving all of them to a much much bigger tank, (75 gallons) to be exact. And I will set my tripod up and try to catch some really good pictures. Thanks again everyone.

There has never been any other tank mates in the last year. I had her with a few lavender gouramis at one point but she killed all three of them. I counted the fry before I left and I have around 10-15 of them. And it would be amazing if they are clones of her. She is the most beautiful convict I’ve ever seen. These picture do her no justice. The light had just come on so the color wasnt very abundant.

She has been in this tank by herself for roughly a year. There has never been another fish in this tank, EVER. I have never even added a snail to this tank. Think back to Jurassic park when the philosopher made comments to the scientists who made claims that there could be no breeding between the dinosaurs, due to the fact of them being all female. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh… well, there it is Life finds a way. I’ve read that female convicts have been known to inseminate other female eggs. But none of the articles I’ve read have mentioned anything about them doing it to their own.

So I wanted to show the world this. My convict cichlid had babies. They are free swimming. Here’s the kicker! There is no father! There is no male in this tank just a single female convict. I tried to attach a video but I couldn’t. I know evolution is beautiful. But this is mind blowing.

I wanted to say that I have not forgotten about this thread and I still want to keep y’all informed what I have going on. I can tell you this. I’ve changed my lighting schedule completely. And I’ve already had success! Some of the plants have grown almost an inch and a half already! The hair algae did kinda boom a little too, but I’m assuming that’s because of the c02 increase. I know that some of my plants need to be removed from the wool still. And planted correctly. I just haven’t been able to get my hands on any gorilla glue. I’m getting my brother in laws 55 gallon now front tomorrow. I’m going do a complete new scape with that tank. And I’m really going to put heart into it. I wanted to say that with this 30 bow front I intend on changing it into a heavily planted snail shrimp and micro fish tank.. I plan on giving my angelfish to a buddy of mine. He has a couple beautiful planted 125s that these fish would be able to enjoy much more than even the 55 I’m getting tomorrow. Anyways I wanted to say thank you guys and save this thread if your interested in seeing how I do. I will say my lights are on for 5 hours at only 40 percent twice a day.

It’s actually mostly larger sand in the areas I don’t have plants growing. The back left corner all the way over to the right corner has about an inch of aqua soil capped with an inch and a half of sand. The khuli loaches just mixed it all up. the light comes on at 8 am. I start it off at 10 percent. Then by 10 am it hits 30 percent. At 12 pm it hits 60 percent. At 3pm it hits 80 percent and from there it decreases down until it’s completely off by 7. And the light brand is amzbd. I believe it’s an Amazon product. The light was gifted to me. Also I do wash my hands and arms with dawn dish soap before every water change

Hello everyone, I’m sorry for the late response I’ve just been really busy the last couple of days. Yesterday was mine and my wife’s anniversary so we went out for the night. She’s prego so we had steaks and ice cold sprites. Lol. I did read through everyone’s comments. And I went about testing my source of water. And also my fish tank. I’m not going to lie. I’m kinda shocked at the results. The tap I’m not sure about but I will give you guys those numbers here: Water source: Ph- 7.8 Ammonia- 0ppm Nitrite- 0ppm Nitrate- 20ppm Fish Tank: Ph- 8.2 Ammonia- 0ppm Nitrite- 0ppm Nitrate- 80ppm 😳 To give more perspective I also wanted to add that my stock includes: 2 Adult Angel fish 2 khuli loaches 1 yo-yo loach (about 1 inche long now) 7 pigmy corys 1 dwarf sunset gourami 4 king koopa nerite snails and also a boat load of pond snails. Also, I’ve been dosing 3ml of easy green once a week. And I do a water change in the middle of every month using prime as a conditioner. My filter is a Fluval 107 canister filter. I have a heater in the tank that keeps it about 78 degrees. Also there is no carbon in the filter. The carbon is going in my filter for my wife’s goldfish. And then the phosphate pads were just up in there air. And I wanted to ask your guys opinion on it. Also my moss under the wood has hair algae growing in it. I did increase the light brightness almost a month and a half ago. It hits 80 percent around 2 pm and then slowly dims out to completely shut off at 7 pm. It comes on again about 8 am. I’ve thought about raising the light up, I just haven’t had the tools to do so.

Well, here I am. At a cross roads, stuck between giving up or keeping on. Over the last 2 years, I have spent exactly $1,485.67 on aquarium plants, a few different aquascaping tools, and of course ferts and aqua soil. All of which has been nearly for nothing. Most of the plants I have purchased are long gone. A lot of them melted and just never came back. My ph is 7.6 0 ammonia nitrates at a crisp 5ppm. Everything is where it needs to be. I’ve purchased multiple different kinds of ferts, from tabs to liquid. Easy green, seachem products. The only thing I haven’t purchased is c02 due to cost. And I’ve gotten no results from any of it. Nothing. I had hornwort do really well for a month and then in a couple weeks span it was gone. I’ve kept every single said to be easy plant to grow in the aquarium. And I have nothing to show for it. So for a while I had cuddle bone in the tank for my nerite snails. I have 5 full sized King Koopa Nerite snails. I figured with that many they’d need more calcium. With knowing all that I went down the rabbit and discovered that lots of calcium in the water can effect the growth of plants such as Anubias, Vallisneria, pennywort, etc. So with that knowledge I there forth removed the bone. It’s been 2 months… I still have no results. Also my light is full spectrum and has a built in timer that’s never failed to my knowledge…. I don’t know what to do… I’m about to just sell all of my stuff and be done.

Hello everyone. So over the weekend I decided to purchase some new plants. As most of you know, I really don’t know what I’m doing when it comes to aquatic plants. All I know is I don’t like the look of fake plants, and that I want nothing but naturalistic things in my tanks. So I purchased penny wort, ovalis, and bacopa. I’ve read a lot of recommendations on how to plant each one of these in the aquarium. But a lot of them are mixed and not really that straight forward. Any recommendation is appreciated as always guys. Thanks

Which sucks because I get off at 10:30pm and at that time it’s dark. But with a little bit of self control I don’t turn them back on when I get home

Yes for sure. The highest my lights go now is 60 percent but it only actually stays at that brightness for 2 hours. Lights come on at 7:30. They fade off at 7:30pm

I just wanted to give everyone who offered me advice on my fish tanks a shout out. I beat the green algae. Months of water change after water change led me to a point where I was able to figure out what I was doing wrong. And that was thanks to you guys. I simply wrapped the tank with a black towel. Stopped doing water changes. And after about a week the green water is completely gone.

Recently I accidentally broke my lid. I glued some cheap plastic panels I had together and added wood panels in the bottom side, also with the gorilla glue noticed. I noticed some of it expanded out. After allowing it to fully harden will I be safe to temporarily use this? If so how long should I wait to let it harden?

And it’s a 30 gallon bow front

My light starts to come on about 7 am, it slowly gets brighter and brighter through out the day. So like at 7 am, it starts off at 20 percent. At noon it gets to right about 60 percent. And at 3 pm it gets to 80 percent and that the brightest setting I have set on it. Around 7 pm the lights totally cut off.