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The sheer amount of SA species available in the hobby is what really draws me to them. You can find a good variety of CA species if you look hard enough, however they are all mostly cichlids. I'd love to have a large SA display with big schools of tetras and interesting catfish, with some...

Thanks for the kind words and suggestions. I previously had Yucatan Mollies in here before and they ultimately had the same fate as the swords did. Nothing has really changed since my last update. I am currently house shopping, which has been a complete nightmare with the market the way it has...

Thanks Stan. The pair of robs are growing more aggressive by the day. Lots of rock cleaning today, as well as some mach egg laying runs by the female. I wonder if they'll actually commit this time and spawn. For some reason nothing ever seems to spawn successfully in this tank and I don't...

Managed to finally getting around to uploading a short video last night. Not the most exciting video as it was late and everyone was winding down. The one pair of robertsoni are showing some interest in spawning again with the rock cleaning as you can see. They are also quite territorial, even...

A group of Thorichthys would compliment the pearsei nicely. I have kept mine with a wide assortment of other CA's including both T. meeki and T. pasionis. If starting with young fish, I'd get a small group of pearsei (4-6) in order to get a pair and narrow it down from there. As for the...

While I really like all the "vieja" types, none of the species I have kept have been as outgoing and/or personable as my ~7 year old pair of pearsei. I've had these two since they were only a few inches. They are not skittish at all and readily feed from my hand. They are also very curious and...

I have a Current LED Sat+ that I leave on 24/7 as well. While mine doesn't cycle automatically, I have a custom day and night mode saved that I manually change in the morning and before going to bed. The night mode is a mix of blue and green LEDs and is very dim, just enough to give off a faint...

Looking good. Hopefully you get lucky and end up with males, especially considering you only got some singles. Hets are a great species. They tend to be much more mild tempered than the other "vieja" species. That could work against you in this particular instance. I've also heard they are slow...

Thanks everyone. The pearsei get along great. They have the rare scuffle but it never gets serious. They have spawned three times, however always end up eating the eggs.

I'd second keeping an eye on the SD's during feeding time. All the SD's I have had have been absolute gluttons and could easily out compete smaller cichlids for food. How many of each species did you order? What is your vision for a final stock? I'd personally add sand as well as a mix of...

Thanks. I was just using the "pro" or manual mode on my Android phone. I had the ISO at 800 and the shutter speed at 1/60 I believe. I would have liked to use a faster shutter speed but the pics were too dark. It can be hard to take good pics in my tank as the lighting is so inconsistent with...

I posted some of these over in my thread within the biotope forum, but I reckon many of you all don't venture over there so I figured I'd share them here as well. My 7 year old pair of pearsei: And a few of my group of robertsoni:

Interesting means of delivery, I've not seen this done before. I'd be interested to read more on the topic as I still am not sure how beneficial dosing vitamins to water really is? For instance how much to dose, as I am sure the water volume makes a difference in how many tablets one would use...

I've always used Boyd Vita-Chem. I typically try and soak pellets in it once a week, however some of my fish will only eat flake. Does adding it directly into the water actually benefit anything? I can't imagine dosing my 220gal tank with the stuff. I'd go through it like... water.

Thanks Stan. Cell phone cameras are pretty amazing these days! Dan, the robertsoni squabble similar to Thorichthys. They will gill flare and do the "tail flapping" but that's about it. The pair however can be pretty territorial and have claimed the right third of the tank. Of course, no eggs...

I have two FX6's but can't recall exactly where the o-rings are... aren't they on the filter lid itself where the valve slides over onto, or are there actual rings within the valve? Like you said, It definitely appears to be leaking from the knob which would lead me to believe you'd need to...

Snapped a few pics this evening before feeding. Any white dots throughout the pics are just bubbles as I have quite a strong one directional flow in this tank in order to mimic a more riverine environment. Male pearsei. Male Robertsoni squabbling amongst each other. One of the female...

I initially started out with a large group of Thorichthys consisting of 9 T. meeki and 10 T. pasionis. Once they all began to mature it was evident that the meeki were the more robust of the two and were clearly out competing the pasionis so I decided to sell the meeki. The pasionis seemed to be...

I am running dual FX6's on a 220gal that would be considered mildly stocked to most people on here. I clean my filters out roughly once a month, often times less frequently. I simply alternate which one I clean, and even then I never touch the bio media, I am simply rinsing the sponges and...

Thanks! I was unsatisfied with the flow from the FX6's stock returns so I actually hard plumbed everything with 1" PVC. Both returns are reduced down to single 3/4" outputs and the flow is much better (stronger) IMO. Here is a short clip showing the flow shortly after I completed the project. As...