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Forum: Photography Topic: Cichlid Video Thread... |
| GeeForce11 |
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:29 am
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| My Current 200G system (some minor changes in the lineup since when the movie was shot): [video width=425 height=350:k3kdxlw3]http://www.youtube.com/v/uMaC5JY9hiE My Old (EX) 100G Wave Tank: [video width=425 height=350:k3kdxlw3]http://www.youtube.com/v/pY1JbWA1vc4&hl My Old (EX) 50G Demasoni Tan... |
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Forum: Photography Topic: Cichlid Video Thread... |
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:23 am
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| Some Documentaries to start out with: I cut out the "important" parts about the cichlids from Lake Tanganyika, from National Geographic's Jewel of the Rift and uploaded them in 4 video clips: Lake Tanganyika Part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wonYRF4e4sI [video width=425 height=350:34a2... |
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Forum: Beginners Corner Topic: Setting Up a Mbuna Tank |
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:57 pm
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| You vacuum the sand substrate in the same way as gravel, just go easy on it, don't need to go that deep like in the gravel because most of the junk settles on top and cannot go to the bottom of the sand substrate. The junk finds it's way all the way to bottom of the gravel substrate thru those milli... |
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Forum: Equipment Questions and Queries Topic: Mechanical Filter modification question |
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:48 pm
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| [I had one of these on a 29 gallon. Are they still noisy? Also, I though these were configured for a filter pad.... so you're saying they come with Floss pads as well? What I am trying to avoid is going to the store for that crappy carbon filled filter pad that most of these power filters come with... |
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Forum: Equipment Questions and Queries Topic: Mechanical Filter modification question |
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:47 pm
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| I used some TetraTec Pro 500's, and their floss bags did a great job polishing the water. Emp400 would be my next choice, but I doubt you can optimize the AC500 with floss without the water bypassing the media. |
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Forum: Beginners Corner Topic: Setting Up a Mbuna Tank |
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:40 pm
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| That's not gonna happen if you have plenty of fish of each species, just make sure you have lots of broken territories/hiding places. |
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Forum: Beginners Corner Topic: Setting Up a Mbuna Tank |
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:00 pm
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What about some Demasoni?  They'll kick everyone's arse , specially of their own 
Auratus
Johanni
Demasoni
Y. Labs
R. Zebras
would be a very hyper and entertaining tank.  |
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Forum: M. A. S. H. Topic: Green Tank? |
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:50 pm
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| My first step would also be to reduce the light and food. You could also try to run a diatom filter every few days to clear up your water. You could also use a filter with floss to constantly polish your water. Regarding the fish losses I'd guess you over cleaned your filter/tank and you sent it bac... |
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Forum: Setting Up A New Tank Topic: Plant lighting |
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:35 pm
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| Some recommended bulbs for freshwater planted tanks: Aqua-Glo (T-10) 18,000°K (21160) Life-Glo 2 (T-10) 6,700°K (21164) Power-Glo (T-10) 6,500°K (128244) Flora-Glo (T-10) 2,800°K (21168) Tropic Sun (T-8) 5,500°K (261241) Ultra Sun (T-8) 6,500°K (261397) Flora Sun (T-8) 8,500°K (261293) Aqua Sky (T-1... |
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Forum: Lake Malawi Cichlids Topic: Always lose AER wigglers..... |
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Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:41 pm
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Once the eggs were hatched (had heads and tails) I never tumbled them, just put them in floating breeder box. I only tumbled unhatched eggs and here I could imagine some losses but not with hatched ones. .gif "(snif)") Try not to put them in a tumbler at all if you strip after day 10. |
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Forum: Lake Malawi Cichlids Topic: Always lose AER wigglers..... |
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:02 pm
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| The eggs should have eyes and tails around day 10, so it's pretty safe to strip after that. I've been stripping eggs around day 10-15 without losses for many Malawis. |
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Forum: Lake Malawi Cichlids Topic: Fire fish? - ID please |
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:46 pm
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It is a FireFish, and a morph I didn't see before  It's fins and tail have a nice clear background instead of the usual white.  |
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Forum: Lake Malawi Cichlids Topic: I gave up Salt....but I'm still chasing the color! |
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:41 pm
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| Ok - I'll increase the number. Better safe than sorry. :wink: Looking into what kind :| My haps: D. Comp, S. Fryeri, O. Lithobates, N. Venustus, P. Taeniolatus, P. S. Taiwan Reef, C. B. Kadango. Their large size and temper calms down the tank, specially the dems when they're fighting, they just ste... |
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Forum: Lake Malawi Cichlids Topic: I gave up Salt....but I'm still chasing the color! |
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:27 pm
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| The dems are nasty to each other, they don't care about other fish and other fish don't care about them, but they'll beat the hell out out each other, specially once they get to breed. |
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Forum: Lake Malawi Cichlids Topic: I gave up Salt....but I'm still chasing the color! |
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:58 pm
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| The L.T. get big and aggressive enough to put up with any mbuna, including the dems, and they're not aggressive towards other species. I would consider adding more dems (at least another 6) next to the 6 you have already to minimize the chance of a killing spree (disaster). I'd add some more red to ... |
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