AGGRESSIVE CICHLID TANK WITH NO AGGRESSION

[4D3]

You must of missed the part where he said his wife accidently filled his rainwater bucket with regular chlorinated tap and failed to tell him. Not her fault if she doesn't follow the hobby and not his fault because he didnt know. He didnt do it on purpose nor was it a result of ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate.

Thanks for that!

Yeah, she put 18000l of town water into my water change tank, no biggie though.I still love her!

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[4D3]

You have a heavily stocked tank in a nearly sterile bare bottom tank. The lack of any substrate means that you have to rely almost totally on the canister filters for external biological filtration.

Substrate suggestions welcome...although I'm not interested in gravel vacing every day....maybe sand? If so what type?

Tiles? Again what type?




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[4D3]

Your filtration is admirable, but that creates nitrates; it doesn't lower it

Either my fish only poop till ammonia is 4-6ppm and my canister has zero bacteria, or my fish are pooping, the canister/terracotta is covering everything but cannot keep up with the ammonia production.

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[4D3]

Editorial comment:

IF ANYONE WANTS TO DISCUSS MY TANK CYCLE PLEASE GO TO THE THREAD I CREATED ON THE SUBJECT - THIS THREAD IS ABOUT MY FISH, AND STOCKING TACTICS

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[seedubs1]

Substrate suggestions welcome...although I'm not interested in gravel vacing every day....maybe sand? If so what type?

Tiles? Again what type?

Pool filter sand. Lots of us use it. It's dense enough that it doesn't cloud up, and doesn't get into filters (unless fish spit it in the intakes like my bastard fish).

You also don't have to vac it because detritus sits on top and doesn't get down in the sand. And if you have diggers like I do, you don't even have to stir it up as they move it around constantly.

 

[4D3]

Awsome tank! Ilike the heater and filter guards, dont know why I havent thought of this years ago, thanks!

They are made from a food safe bread crate, eheim 16mm hose, aquarium divide suction cups, and a few tie wraps

They are fantastic, fish can't get wedged in and attacked.

One other thing I do have 2 small bristle noses living behind the guards for cleaning purposes!

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[4D3]

Pool filter sand. Lots of us use it. It's dense enough that it doesn't cloud up, and doesn't get into filters (unless fish spit it in the intakes like my bastard fish).

You also don't have to vac it because detritus sits on top and doesn't get down in the sand. And if you have diggers like I do, you don't even have to stir it up as they move it around constantly.

Would you mind naming some diggers I can get in with my fish?

Also with pool filter sand would it be best to raise the canister intakes 3-4 cm above the substrate level?

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[Drstrangelove]

What are the other things you have in the tank. I guess I missed where you posted it: 2 containers in the back and a bag of something on top of the baked clay? I could guess, but it's better to ask.

 

[4D3]

What are the other things you have in the tank. I guess I missed where you posted it: 2 containers in the back and a bag of something on top of the baked clay? I could guess, but it's better to ask.

The 2 canisters on the back, on the left moving bed with hel-ex on the right denitrifying filter with aquaclay f4-10

The bag is full of matrix, it is out of my 2080,the pump head broke so while waiting for a new head I put it in the tank!

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[seedubs1]

Would you mind naming some diggers I can get in with my fish?

Also with pool filter sand would it be best to raise the canister intakes 3-4 cm above the substrate level?

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You have tons of cichlids man. They will dig a ton. My Hait takes big mouthfuls of sand and moves it from one end of the tank to the other all day long. Cichlids love to dig.

And I have my intakes about 8" above my sand. I wouldn't want it all the way at the bottom.