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So I'm sorta of a noob. Never had rays. Just wondering. No pleco? Because no gravel and plants?
I guess with a tank that size it just doesn't work? Constantly cleaning gravel?
 
LBDave said:
I'm catching up on your bass. What size thank is that? I'd kill to have a tank that big. No room for me. I love Vitachem. And you have an oscar?!
So cool.
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The large tank is a 600 gallon 8’ x 4’ x 30”. Always have had Oscars in my aquariums great teacher fish and can’t bring myself to get rid of them.
 
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LBDave said:
So I'm sorta of a noob. Never had rays. Just wondering. No pleco? Because no gravel and plants?
I guess with a tank that size it just doesn't work? Constantly cleaning gravel?
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No Plecos, I would like to add a Luteus. Whatever I get will have to be stingray friendly. Used to always have my tanks scaped with gravel and it was a pain to clean the gravel it seemed like I could gravel vac every 2 days and would be like I never cleaned it. I can maintain my water parameters really well and overall better water quality running bare bottom tanks my fish have never looked better imop colors really pop. The hardest thing I have to do is sump / media cleanings filter socks once a week my large filters get backwashed once a month so not to bad on maintenance.
 
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cigars said:
No Plecos, I would like to add a Luteus. Whatever I get will have to be stingray friendly. Used to always have my tanks scaped with gravel and it was a pain to clean the gravel it seemed like I could gravel vac every 2 days and would be like I never cleaned it. I can maintain my water parameters really well and overall better water quality running bare bottom tanks my fish have never looked better imop colors really pop. The hardest thing I have to do is sump / media cleanings filter socks once a week my large filters get backwashed once a month so not to bad on maintenance.
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I am currently intrigued by the idea of Peruvian apple snails for algae. They have a trap door so a bit of protection from predators.

The only thing holding me back atm is I have some big swords in there I don’t want the snail to eat.

Right now I have a larger sized L200 in my bass tank but it doesn’t seem to bother with the algae or any vegetables I put in the tank for it to eat. Just munches on said sword plants, and hopefully pellets. So I am planning to re home it to another tank once I lower the current bio load. It’s hard to find a pleco that actually eats algae. Smh. Lol
 
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Matteus said:
I am currently intrigued by the idea of Peruvian apple snails for algae. They have a trap door so a bit of protection from predators.

The only thing holding me back atm is I have some big swords in there I don’t want the snail to eat.

Right now I have a larger sized L200 in my bass tank but it doesn’t seem to bother with the algae or any vegetables I put in the tank for it to eat. Just munches on said sword plants, and hopefully pellets. So I am planning to re home it to another tank once I lower the current bio load. It’s hard to find a pleco that actually eats algae. Smh. Lol
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My green pleco does the same. Does eat some diatoms (brown algae) at times if you don't feed him much. But I usually feed him pretty well.
Sorta murder on the swords.
 
Beautiful stable of cichla you have there,are there ever any aggression issues?
 
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Beautiful stable of cichla you have there,are there ever any aggression issues?
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The aggression seems to have come in stages of growth had one intermedia that was extremely aggressive at on point territorial over the right side air bubbles especially to the pair of brokos I had in the tank at the time lost one of them I believe to the fighting /chasing separated remaining Broko and reintroduced now the Broko is the most aggressive bass at the moment stakes claim to left side of the tank chases all other fish away except Intermedia. All others flare and charge each other some allow themselves to be pushed but don’t run so not bad.

The Intermedia are still the most dominant Cichla in the tank hands down, there is very small damage that occurs to the Cichla over all just normal Cichlid behavior. Dithers and catfish get banged up but that’s what they are there for one wide bar lost an eye he has learned and is very smart now and the vulture cat get his whiskers eaten especially during water changes but they always grow back. It's really not bad considering smallest bass is 12” largest is close to 18” + eyeballing and these are the worst case scenarios I’ve had.
 
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