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Discussion in 'Freshwater Aquariums & Fish Photos' started by buzz4520, Jun 25, 2009.

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    that blue is mesmerizing. Soo gorgeous..almost makes me want to go back to cichlids...but then I recall the bloodbath and have to smile at my community.
     
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    Maybe I can just borrow that one? Hehe!
     
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    thanks. he was one of the first africans that we bought. you ought to see him in person in natural lighting. i don't know about the borrow thing, this is my wife's fav, it might be hard to pull off. lol !
     
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    I'll put up a few of the 90g inhabits, maybe she won't notice if you try being really nice to her while I have it. Haha!
     
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    buzz4520 Thread Starter Well-Known Member

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    haha!!! i also have a 5yr old that can't keep a secert for nothing. lol
     
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    I love cichlids...lol I'm so glad I ended up trying them. Their coloration is absolutely amazing! Such a nice color blue with him. What do you feed your guys?
     
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    darnit, the 5 yr old would rat me out for sure! Lol!

    dumb question, but can you do a tankful of just 1 kind (or will you have issues)?
     
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    Hikari cichlid gold and as treats dried blood worms and fruits & veggies
     
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    Dawn i know of people that have just one specific type but it's mainly for breeding i think. we set ours up so we can get the "colorful" look. and yes my son would rat you out, he dose me all the time. lol
     
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    Have you tried candy (for kid, not fish)...also I head Chuck E. Cheese still goes over very well! Lol!

    I tried to do mine for color...bought them very small and as soon as they began to get of size they were killing each other left and right..and if you checked the links you can see how many "retreats" I had set up for them.

    (shakes head to all the money lost on that endeavor)
     
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    candy dosen't work anymore lol and chuck e cheese is too far like an hour away. this guy is just about full grown he's like 4 1/2 in. and we've lost alot of fish along they way when we started out mainly due to mis info from lfs. we got some peacocks and had them in with this guy and a few of the others and they took out the peacocks.
     
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    sounds kind of like how I felt when my now cichlid tank was a denison barb (roseline shark) and rummy nose tetra tank and the rummy noses had ick...and one of the treatments I used was garbage and killed 3 of them ($25-$30 each) and then when my 90 gallon reef crashed on me little by little....70lbs of live rock at $6 a pound (got completely covered in algae when we had my gf's sister watch it when we went camping...so it became a nice looking dead rock wall in our yard.)..4 coral....a tang that cost $60...it hurts a lot when things like that don't work out...
    I've heard hikari gold is pretty good stuff...I'm just learning about better foods for my cichlids (thanks guys!) and I got some new life spectrum. Smaller pellets for my africans and larger pellets for my jurupari. I was originally feeding them Omega one Veggie super color or something like that, which come to find out with a little researching...would only bring out the greens and blues. NLS is supposed to bring out all the colors.
     
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    after we went thur about $150.00 in fish i started doing alot of research and joined a few forums went back to my lfs and confronted them on a few issues and they made it right with us.
     
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    Lucky you that they did something--mine wouldn't, i don't even wanna say how much I bit the bullet on my cichlids...ended up trading them back in for next to nothing because of the constant slaughtering...and then their was the salt tank (well over $1000 with ease) that I turned out to be severely allergic to and had to download it as soon as I got out of the hosp.
     
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    such an odd allergy, I know a couple people (one works at an LFS) that has that same thing. What exactly is it in saltwater that you are allergic to? Can you swim in the ocean or does the same thing happen?

    buzz: Was it a bad mix of the cichlids?

    PS: to anyone else that ends of reading these posts...don't ever mix africans with South Americans....found that out the hard way... :roll:
     
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    I remember being in the ocean as a kid>>and getting severe strep
    Not sure what it is exactly>>just knew I couldn't breathe and kept having asthma "attacks" and got to the point where my rescue meds weren't cutting it>>finally when I began to gasp I had to goto the e/r where I stayed for almost 2 weeks and as soon as I went into my bedroom where the tank was...it started again. Went to specialists and they said process of elim. being only thing that was new in house...and after I got rid of the tank I was able to come off the oxyg and was SOOooo much better.

    Specialist said he saw someone else who had the same reaction to saltwater so pretty much knew it had to be the tank.
     
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    there are so many strange allergies out there...
     
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    at the same time we were doing the africans we were also doing the south american set up so they worked with us and didn't want us to go elsewhere.
     
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    how true...they wouldn't want to lose more business over the fish...
     
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