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Water changes, and dose with stability, or whatever it is you use. Prime can also reduce the toxicity of ammonia.

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I keep swords with my cichlids, I find as long as they are well attached to driftwood, and grown into substrate, they don't get dragged around.

(going form experience from my one jag only, correct me if I am wrong) The thing with the Jag is that it is or can be aggressive and if it decides to be angry the fish in the tank have to be able to hold there own, or at least not be destroyed, so you will have more luck comming it is a tank with similar sized cichlids able then you would putting it with peaceful cichlids(imo. a recipie for disaster). You could also have it with a school of smaller fish (e.g. silver dollars).

It depends on what the brick is made of, alot of concrete bricks will leach out intp the water changing you water chemistry

I would vote a list looking like the second one. Personaly I would buy all the fish at small sizes, and have them grow together, more chance of a successful com. I agree, I find JD to be weak and non agressive compared to some of the other fish on the list. Also my experiance of the blue variety is they are not as hardy regular ones. (but that may just be me) I suspect alot of the Jag looking so nice in the vid you posted has to do with diet, lighting, and being a/the dominant male in the tank it is in.

I have never had any problems with rain water in Auckland, been keeping fish for about 10 years now, rain water all the time (except for the few times where we had to order water due to running out (not my fault, if I leave the hose in the pond and walk away forgeting it the logical person to blame is not me.))

Also if you don't mind me asking, as I am thinking about doing something similar, about how much did it cost?

Wow, that is amazing. What are the fish's and turtles in that? Want to build one at my place.....

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Well that is alot of algae....

Nice, looking good. Whats the fish thats back is showing in the first picture?

Yea, 4th photo is a Electric blue Jack dempsey. I don't personally like them, as they arn't growing nearly as fast a the regular, and don't seem as hardy or aggressive, but mum likes them best out of all my fish, so they are staying. All my delhezi have similar markings, I put them having dark markings down to having heaps of dark coloured drift wood in the tank, that they like to hang out on. I am wanting to make the substrate black sand to help bring out there colours more, I just havn't found any yet.

And possibly cleaning the glass properly would help to.

I tried to take a few photo's of my fish today, these are the few of them that turned out ok. (I need a better camera to do them proper justice)

Yup, that looks like a convict.

I have decided to put wcmm in with my borneo suckers in the high flow tank. How many do youthink I should put in a 60L tank?

Wohhhh, That is intense.

The usual rule of thumb is some where between 1/3 and 1/2 water, the rest air, is your chilybin clean/water tight enough to just add them directly to that, and not use bags?

Welcome, your tanks sound cool, any pictures?

The poly under my similar size tank is 8mm, I don't have any problems.

How big is that one? A dwarf cichlid or two maybe?

Nice

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Just got called into work on saturday, so will be unable to go, sorry guys.