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Well have two happy and healthy parents protecting 500 plus fry :roll: Anyone care for a few Jack Dempsey from real looker parents? Anyway if anyone keen for some later on then be sure to scream out.. Dead beat dad finally came to the party and just gently nudged my chocolate talking cat out of the way... that fish doesn't have a mean bone in his body, the big wuss... and the part to peeve me off is my digital camera not focusing properly.. think it may be down to the fact it was dropped :-? :lol: I vow to get a new camera by the time they are ready to discover the tank with ma and pa

Yeah some species of rainbows are often used as dithers, rather a few use them as Ryan said and they can quite happily live in the harder conditions.

Me to, my camera is now what I would class as "poked".. It now doesn't focus properly and the pics are all fuzzy... argggh :lol:

Yeah the JBL Cichlid Sticks are only really good for your American Cichlids, definately wouldn't feed to Mbuna Sorry to hear of your loss boi and Bob the Builder

He is a beauty Bry

Very nice fish bli, it's gorgeous And nice set up and fish The Great White Hand 8)

Rather a few months ago the real deals came in and they were retailing at $190 odd each. 5 inch size. Have you got any pics to share cichfanatic of the new lot that came in?

Very nice quality pics smidey 8)

I have seen banded eels around lately and I am pretty sure they have the Half Banded Spiney Eels .

Yep Dan we sure do

:lol: :lol: I was under the impression that all images that have copyright... have the little copyright emblem in the corner of the image?

Oh well do you keep your tank in African buffered conditions? If so I wouldn't suggest Silver Dollars at all. The above fish I mentioned are non rift lake species. (Species that are from the Americas) and of course then you are talking about the Bala Shark that is asian and also needing different water parameters than Rift Lake Cichlids. I personally wouldn't keep either Silver Dollars or Bala Sharks in with Africans JMO Just a thought, how about some suitable Synodontis as something different?

Refresh my memory?? :lol: I thought you only kept Africans?

Yeap Silver Sharks are fine. Once again not highly aggressive cichlids

Oh I thought it was your masterpiece! :lol:

Wicked schematic boi

Welcome to the forums anyalife

Looking good so far supasi, keep us posted with pics as tank matures btw love the Giraffe in the pic, major African animal fan here 8)

Hmm doesn't sound to good.... sorry to say

He does sound a bit worse for wear, but can only hope for the best. Is he going pale?

Yeap my thought was a possible tumour to.. and as Tropheus said, as long as he is happy and eating then that's fine

I wouldn't say they can go with ANY cichlid.. Silver Dollars are often kept with Oscars, Chocolate Cichlids, Acara, Surinamensis, Jurupari... etc Nothing highly aggressive. A semi aggressive cichlid tank is fine

Silly question I know but... you don't have any species that is a nocturnal feeder/predator do you? Just checking, as I notice you said that they are dying overnight...

Dixon is bang on.... Croaking Gourami and Sparkling Gourami are different species... They are closely related however. Croaking Gourami - Trichopsis vittatus Sparkling Gourami - Trichopsis pumila

Overdose in ferts will definately knock plants off.. the leaves majorly melt.. I learnt by that mistake a while back :lol: