Recent content by Gogiants85

Your tank looks great! And the fish seem to be happily following the boss swimming laps

Sounds like a good looking tank!! Do you have a complete stock list? Also, now you have to pay the photo tax, I want to see it!!!

So I'm fine with nixing the idea of Peacocks, but with some of your other points? I'm seeing a ton of information that says otherwise. I do understand that there's a risk of hybridization, but I do not plan on distributing fry. The yellow labs are from F2 parents, so the genes shouldn't be too...

If your filter media didn't change, and you've dechlorinated (and temp matched to the previous temp before the water change) your water, I don't see any issue adding them back right now! I would personally grab some bottled bacteria to throw in there and let it cycle for am hour first before...

Hello, Now that my tank is finally cycled, processing 4 ppm Ammonia to 0 ppm Nitrites in 24 hrs, I have placed an order of fish and just wanted to ask if this stocking seems OK? 6 Labeotropheus Caeruleus (unsexed) 5 Red Top Hongi (1M 4F) 7 White Top Hara (unsexed) 4 Cynotilapia Afra Cobue (1M...

Update: Cycle completed on day 11! (For a colony able to process 2 ppm Ammonia to 0 Nitrites within 24 hours, but I pushed further) I've been super busy and slacking on updates. So when I dosed 3ppm Ammonium chloride after the water change and bumped the temp up to 84 degrees, the Ammonia went...

5 day update: It seemed no matter how much Ammonia I was dosing (4 ppm, 3 ppm, 2 ppm), my Ammonia and Nitrites wouldn't get lower than 0.25-0.5 within a 24hr period. Also, my Nitrates were somewhere between 80 and 160 ppm. I decided to do a large water change (75% or better) to lower the...

Well that definitely alleviates some concern! I was planning on getting food from Ron's cichlids (Mbuna mix) and using algae wafers and vegetables (romaine lettuce, cucumber, zucchini...) as a supplemental treat. If you're having success I may still be open to the idea of adding a Peacock or...

Oh I'm sorry if I appeared worried. No need to apologize, I'm not worried, I just tend to be as thorough as possible!!! So here's the odd thing about the pH and why I was thinking I was possibly just looking at the color wrong (or maybe their printer was running out of ink when the chart was...

I don't have a ton of experience, but I can say the amount of fish you will be able to stock will also depend on your filtration. You're cycled, so the pain is over, congrats!! I'm sure someone with more experience will chime in soon, but mentioning your filtration capacity will help them assist...

I bet that's quite the show when they go at it haha! As much as I'd like to, I think I'm going to have to reign back on the idea of mixing a Peacock or Hap. I don't want the Mbuna to get too much protein and end up with bloat, and I'm not sure how well a Peacock or Hap will do on a Herbivore...

From what I can tell, the Fritz TurboStart is fine after it's been opened. It just needs to be refrigerated from the time it's manufactured until it's either expired or you're done with it. I'll hold off on the Stability. Thanks! Wow, I really appreciate the plethora of information!! I was...

Excellent! I will keep an eye on that. If it does happen to get close, can I safely do a 50% water change (obviously dosing Prime so the bacteria don't get destroyed) to raise it back up? If the pH drops that low it will most likely stall the cycle and bind up the Ammonia as Ammonium which...

Thank you for responding! No worries about it being late, I work overnights so I wouldn't anticipate anyone to reply during those hours haha. I did dose it again, I'm gonna check in a few to make sure it's around 4 ppm before I lay down. I was thinking of adding another dose of Stability...

48 Hr update: Tested just now and I've got: Ammonia 0.25-0.5 ppm Nitrite 0.25 ppm Nitrate 20 ppm Not sure how the Nitrate went down, but I tested it twice (banging the out of bottle #2 both times) and it was consistent. I'm thinking I'm going to dose it back up to 4 ppm this morning...