600 gallons of cichla!
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Thanks mate hope all your fish are doing good! You remember my temensis "bahia" (pinima)? My baby died a couple of days ago. Damn twas my fault i have to admit. Went to shanghai for vacay and brought some aquatic plants back home and put it in my bahias tank without even quarantining the plant or even washing it first. 6 hrs later the bahia was gone. Damn i figured the shanghai guys mustve sprayed something to the plants to let it live emersed much longer coz thats the only reason why my baby died. Anyway just had to share. Very heartbreaking 
On another note, one other thing i bought in shanghai was a uv sterilizer. I wanna ask how it works so i posted a question in the filtration section of mfk, but i wanna post my questions here also and maybe some of ya'll with uv sterilizer experience can help me out. Ill just copy paste my post ayt, thanks guys!
Hi guys i just recently installed a 36 watt uv sterilizer to my tank which is about 700 to 800 gallons (yeah, not really 600 gallons after all). I bought the uv sterilizer in the hopes of killing off an algae bloom but when i got back from a vacation the tank suddenly balanced itself out.. Nevertheless i still planned to install the system for other uses which is to kill off other harmful stuff and of course to prevent algae blooms from happening again. Anyway so i attached a pump which pumps about 350 gallons per hour. The hose that connects the pump to the uv measures about two feet high. im no good with calculations and have only brushed the surface on how uv sterilizers work, but is the pump's water pressure adequate to kill off algae and other bad bacteria in the water? Thanks pls ask additional questions if you need more info.
Hi guys i just recently installed a 36 watt uv sterilizer to my tank which is about 700 to 800 gallons (yeah, not really 600 gallons after all). I bought the uv sterilizer in the hopes of killing off an algae bloom but when i got back from a vacation the tank suddenly balanced itself out.. Nevertheless i still planned to install the system for other uses which is to kill off other harmful stuff and of course to prevent algae blooms from happening again. Anyway so i attached a pump which pumps about 350 gallons per hour. The hose that connects the pump to the uv measures about two feet high. im no good with calculations and have only brushed the surface on how uv sterilizers work, but is the pump's water pressure adequate to kill off algae and other bad bacteria in the water? Thanks pls ask additional questions if you need more info.
Dang man, first time I looked at this thread. Im hooked now, everything is awesome. A big pack of azuls would be awesome though
Thanks mate hope all your fish are doing good! You remember my temensis "bahia" (pinima)? My baby died a couple of days ago. Damn twas my fault i have to admit. Went to shanghai for vacay and brought some aquatic plants back home and put it in my bahias tank without even quarantining the plant or even washing it first. 6 hrs later the bahia was gone. Damn i figured the shanghai guys mustve sprayed something to the plants to let it live emersed much longer coz thats the only reason why my baby died. Anyway just had to share. Very heartbreaking
Thats terrible news mate, sad to hear. Lets hope some more come are way soon!
Dar so sorry I didn't know you lost one this weekend! ( my condolences but thanks for helping me with this bad boy. This was taken like and hour after I texted you. Check him out!
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( my condolences but thanks for helping me with this bad boy. This was taken like and hour after I texted you. Check him out! Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app
Yeah bro two fish died last week tsktsk the pinima and a temenis sp salvador... Cant do nothing but move on bro but thanks! Dang you got a keeper right there! Beautiful fish Ilian!
time for some updates on my tank. uv sterilizer is working pretty great at clarifying my tank.. thanks again ken for the help.. some new additions also in the tank, just moved around some growouts to this tank. have some more growouts being groomed but still not ready to mix in with the big boys but when they are ready, i have to put my big tems down to the pond. i just can't seem to let go of my pleiozonas in this tank, i just love them so much hehe. sorry for the load 
hope you guys like them fish.
hope you guys like them fish.
