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blue eyed

How big are they? I this behavior a lot with larger cichlids that are re-homed. Sometimes it is stress and sometimes they just seem to be pouting. :) It should stop within 24 hours or so. Try leaving the lights off if you haven't already.

Is it actual brown algae or diatoms?

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Acid rain

This thread is baffling.

Feel free to quote me if I am one of the people.

I cannot say if your test is accurate or not but those paper strips are not usually very accurate. Do you have a real fish store in your area who could do a test for you?

elephant gun

It depends what "a while" is. If a while is a few hours than no, if we are talking about a few weeks then yes.

I don't think transferring the water from the main tank is going to do much unless you are thinking it will make the transition into the tank smoother in the future? My bigger concern is that unless there have been fish or some other bioload in your tank than it will probably not be cycled anymore.

Sure, you could do a pair of gbr in a 30g tank. I am not familiar with the 30l is that a 3ft tank like the 30 breeder or a 4ft tank like the 33 long?

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For reference, here is one of mine that was collected in Peru. EDIT: There is a white strain of A. cacatuoides so your fish could be that.

How big is that fish right now? I doesn't really look like a typical female Apistogramma from those shots, unless it is quite small still. That being said, some of the highly line bred species like cacatuoides can have different characteristics.

You don't need stress coat but you should acclimate them. If nothing else the temperature will be different.