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Well my fish have had their first tast of home cooking and they loved it It looked that good I thought about eating it myself it binded really well with the agar I put in it cooked shrimps lots of peas grated carrot little bit of marrow and cucumber garlic and spirulina yum yum I got a large oven tray full will last for months :happy2: :happy2:

Oh Ryan I am so sorry to hear of your loss :tears: I am reasonably new to the fish world and this is a very valuable lesson for me I will never buy fish from a pet shop now I have 6 kribs 6 rainbow bosemina 7 electric yellows and 1 large pelco I know it is an unusual mix they are all fry except the pelco and am hoping they will all get on together as they are growing up together the Rainbow and the yellows like a ph of 8 I have done a lot of reading and that seems to be ok for them the kribs I have read like a ph of 6 to 7.5 and then some say they can go to a ph of 8 so will see if it works my tank is 8 any how you keep your chin up and before you know it you will be all set up again I will be keeping an eye on your posts Joy

I am making my fish food now is marrow allright and I am using Agar instead of gelatine you get it from the health shop and it is a vegetable matter not like geletine which is animal I am also putting in spirlina

I most certainly am going to give this homemade fish food a go :happy1: I read somewhere not to use corn it is not good for them :sick: cheers Joy

Hi I have a 450ltr tank 1.50 long 55 high 50 wide I have in there 8 Kribs 6 rainbow Boesemani 6 Electric Yellows and 1 large pleco I know it is a bit of a strange mix they are all fry except for the pleco hoping they will all grow up together and get along am I able to fit any more in my tank or should I leave it at that I have a few rocks at the back and a few plants thank you

No sorry I bought this second hand it has been in use for 1yr

Thank you for your replys I will forget about the electric blues so far I have 1 pleco 8 Kribs and 6 rainbow on their way and about to get some electric yellows

Ok can you tell me about rainbow boesemani their Ph I see is around 7 but I have done some reserch on them and some sites say a ph of 7 even less or can go to 8 and in the wild they come from a river with a ph of 9 to 9.5 how do you figure that one out

Yes how on earth did that happen

I will be getting fish that need a higher ph

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Tank is 450ltrs I have one Pelco (Fergus) 8 Baby Kribs thinking about 6 Rainbow Boesemani 6 or 8 Electric Yellows and some Electric blues will this lot be compatible my ph is 8 Kribs doing ok and have done reserch on rainbows they can go to a ph of 8 as well don't know how many I can put in my tank? have you any suggestions on other species help much appreciated cheers Joy

Just to let you know so far so good my Kribs seem to be doing allright in a ph of 8 been in there now for 4 days

Well I have got my Kribs baby ones I didn't take out the lime stone I put the Kribs in the water still in their bag left them in there for 2.5hrs I done a 20% water change and put in 2 cup fulls of my water in their water bag which that water was 7.5 mine is between 8 and 8.2 I just hope they live I don't care if they don't breed how long will it take for them to get use to the higher PH or when will I see signs of them not being well thank you Joy

I am wanting to have a cichlid tank and kribs being cichlids I thought they needed a high PH I am just starting my tank off so only have one pleco in there at the moment I have a piece of coral and lime stone I hope my Kribs don't die

I have 6 kribensis on there way but my PH is 8.2 is that ok for them thanks

Hi everyone I have a good amount of black substrate in my 5 ft tank one medium size coral thinking about getting another one my tap water is 7ph just wondering if I can use the rest of my rocks in lime stone only the white looks really nice against the black was going to use half grey rocks and half lime but if it is not going to push my ph up to high I would rather use lime stone I can get plenty of it I will be putting in African Cichlids sorry about some of these dumb questions I have always only had a community tank so am new to Cichlids and a larger tank with a cannister probably have lots more to ask you all you's have all been very helpful and I certainly appreciate it cheers for now Joy

What about this one or is it way to big Listing VOLATAGE: 110V/220V/240V FREQUENCY: 50Hz/60Hz POWER(W): 24 OUTPUT(L/h): 12000 WEIGHT(kg): 0.8 Comes with suction cups to hold in place and magnets From the same seller

Sorry made a mistake I was talking about a wave maker and yes I will get a bubble wall as well

yes and I think it would look pretty cool am looking on TM but can't find a 15000 L/H

Thank you there is a sun sun Jvp-201 magnet wave pump form deep blue aquarium for $85.00 listing 353723376 on TM would this be suitable

I am going to be putting African Cichlids in and I know they dig the rocks I have in so far is lime stone fairly large and just some large grey rocks on the other side still trying to arrange it all and will be getting more rocks I am running an Eheim 2329 filter

My tank is an Aqua El sitting on a concrete floor I think he is just a little worried about 450ltrs in our living LOL

Hi everyone I am wondering weather to get a bubble wall or a wave maker in my 5ft tank or maybe both thoughts on this would be appreciated thank you Joy :dunno:

I have a 450 ltr tank 150x50x69 10mm glass I am in the process of putting in lime stone and some normal rock how much rock can a tank hold putting it up around the back sitting on egg crates how high will I be able to go my husband is a little concered about the weight as the rocks are reasonably heavy thank you