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Any idea why this strain is called “Istanbul”?

I currently have lemon cichlid, marlieri, compressiceps and cyprichromis in a 55. They get along just fine, but they are not at their max size yet (though they are mature). Cyprichromis was pushing it, but I have the entire bottom covered with rocks, pots and holes to get in and out, so the...

A top spawning killifish and a mop is a good use of a 5g. My 5g currently has 3 rabbit snails and some plants in it.

Duckweed does great in the tanks that I don't want them, and somehow keeps getting destroyed in some others that I want them. So, maybe if you really want it to stay, it'll go away. Seriously though, in my experience, it doesn't do well with an HOB filter in a small tank. The filter intake will...

My bad. The options are still the same though. I dont know the footprint of a 47l. If it is like a 15g long, you can move your net around. If you can get the fish out without stirring the nest, do it. You normally do some of this while taking out the female gourami anyway. I have a hard time...

A 47 is a pretty large tank. You may be able to chase the Kribs and get them out. However, I would probably use a container as large as possible and try to scoop out the eggs with as much of the nest as possible and place in a similar tank. Gourami eggs float and don't need as much attention...

Finally got my hands on some hillstream loaches. They are tiny. Got some red rili shrimp and put them together. Got some rabbit snails as well. Now I have to wait for all these guys to grow up.

You never have to reset a healthy tank, if reset means tearing down, cleaning up and start from scratch. I have at least one tank that has been running for about 20 years. I did change the inhabitants several times but never "reset" the tank.

I am not an angelfish expert. I am seeing a pale background marbled with yellow (or gold) and black, and no red. Is this still a koi? I was sold something like this (with much more black) as black koi.

Technically, platies and guppies together are not a problem. But when you keep them in adequate numbers (or let the ones you have breed), they can easily over populate your 20g. If the guppy strain you like is too fancy, they may be fragile and you may get disappointed with the difficulty in...

Sounds like you have to send that YoYo to me. Address pm'ed. Seriously though, yoyo with shrimp is iffy. You can easily find someone or LFS to adopt him. On the other hand, your angels can be equally dangerous for your cherry shrimp. If you must have shrimp, you'll need to design the rest...

Bumblebee goby, but if eating habits of darios is a problem it may not be ok.

Surprising to me, but a friend of mine successfully kept breeding Julie's (I think transcriptus but not sure) in a community tank. It was a 300 liter tank. It was deep and planted but Julie's also had enough cover at the bottom to claim a territory. Other fish were off the mill community...

If you want to do any serious breeding, I would keep the BN out, because it will probably eat the eggs at night time.

I think you need to reduce your current stock to a school of single species dither fish for the cichlid pair. When the cichlids breed, I would remove the dither fish to the smaller tank instead of the babies.

If LF is dominant and he is not carrying the recessive SF gene then wouldn't LF x SF offspring be 100% LF (all carrying the SF gene)?

You have to have at least one Nemo in there :p

Sorry to read this. Can happen to anyone. At least you have your other tanks. Had a similar experience with a 40g. Ended up throwing out a tank, stand and a carpet. If you ever set it up again, make sure the floor is level. I think in my case the tank may have been warped by the uneven floor.

Leaving them alone for that duration is much better than trusting a friend with them. I would worry only if you have very young fry, which is unlikely in your case.

Same here. Have them everywhere. One or two BN in a 40g should not be a concern.