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I always had plants with my African Cichlids, I always have plants in all my tanks.

This gets really complicated. All I ever do is plant my tank, when the plants start growing add a few fish at a time. You need to have your aquarium with 30-50% of the tanks volume in plants. This takes around ten days. As a side note a tank is never cycled, it is always moving. So, the term...

How old is this fish? It looks like old age to me.

Thank you for that explanation, I was just wondering

Why do you add ammonia to a tank when ammonia is lethal to fish?

How do you lower this ammonia level then? I always like to learn new things.

I thought it may have been an age thing. She looks older than that.

Thank you for that. You obviously have the knowledge to solve your problem.

Plants will always allow fish to be added to a tank. Live plants are the most important thing in an aquarium.

Live plants will be the answer to your problem

Have you live plants in your tank?

You can build a good stand out of pallets and they are usually free. My stand for the 150g is built out of pallets

To young to tell really, the one on the left is male, the other one ?

They do this to test their strength against each other to make sure that they are suited to mate. This can get wild at times, just let them do their thing and sort it out.

How old is this fish?

The only reason I use filtration is for gas exchange it is most important to move the water from the bottom of the tank to the top.

What I would do. Is have a DIY under-gravel filter One or two Internal filters (They are cheap and do the job). Plant with stemmed plants first and then the others secondary. This is the under gravel I put into my 150g, made from irrigation hose. 13mm driven by an air pump. I can supply more...

If you want a Tetra that will spawn then, Lemon Tetras, Black Phantom Tetras, Serpae Tetras, even Flame Tetras. If you don't care if they spawn, then Rummy Nose etc. etc.

Black Phantom Tetras are cool, they produce young that they don't eat, and they flirt with each other all the time which is great to watch.