african cichlid setup.. please help, Qestions!!

F

fish lover 561

AC Members
Oct 17, 2009
70
0
0
so i have a 30 gallon tank and was wondering if i can put those yellow and blue cichlids into it, and how many of them

i recently made a rock casstle type of thing on the backpart of the aquarium so they have swimming space at the front of the tank,

my temperature is around 78
and iv had the aquarium running for about a month with a few convict cichlids in it but i want to get rid of them to bring some life to my tank.

and what has to be my water parameters? like the ph,
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Btw when i do water changes and i see the filter is getting dirty should i clean the filter along with the water change? meaning the blue and black cartlages inside the cascade filter, i added tap water back into the tank and used amquel to remove the chlorine and ammonia
 
For a 30gal tank the only realistic option is to have a dwarf mbuna one species only tank. As you love blue and yellow fishes, the best choice would be Pseudotropheus saulosi: males are blue with black vertical bars and females are yellow. 3 males and 6 females would be more than enough in that tank.
You can clean the filter's cartridge and change it every month.
We need to know your water's pH, GH and KH to then talk about that.
 
thx efors ill go see which petshop has them, but will 3 males and 6 females lower their agrresion if i buy them when their all small? and can i add them all at once to my tank ?

by the way lasttime i went to a petstore they refused to check for my water parameters and simply said to me that my water was fine... which made me a bit mad, is there a testkit that they sell to check for my parameters ?
 
You can add them all at once; no problem with that because your tank is already cycled. The problem of buying them too small is that they are born yellow and later, the males change their color. When they are ready to change color, what happens first is that males develop eggspots on their anal fin. This is not a very aggressive species generally speaking; so the M/F ratio I told you may work fine.
Buy API liquid test kits for pH, GH and KH. If you think your water's pH is a bit high, buy the High Range pH test kit.
 
ok thanks man =] and even though my tank it cycled or it should be by now uhmm i guess i can replace the blue filter cartlage because its been there for a month,

and could you help me answer one question please?
i was wondering if whenever i see algee hanging from the filters mouth dripping into the water should i clean it off? because what happends is that white gooey stuff accumulates on the filters mouth and it ends up inside the tank, since the water is cycling out, and the other cartladge the black one, had accumulate that gooey stuff so i cleaned it just so it would end up in the tank... what should i do when i see it accumulating again?
the blue cartladge has brown fishpoop or algea on it which i hear its beneficial to them, please help. no one has ever answered me this question for some reason
 
hey thanks for thr site it gave me a better understandding of males from females but i was wondering if whenever i see algee hanging from the filters mouth dripping into the water should i clean it off? because what happends is that white gooey stuff accumulates on the filters mouth and it ends up inside the tank, since the water is cycling out, and the other cartladge the black one, had accumulate that gooey stuff so i cleaned it just so it would end up in the tank... what should i do when i see it accumulating again?
the blue cartladge has brown fishpoop or algea on it which i hear its beneficial to them, please help. no one has ever answered me this question for some reason
 
Whenever you see those pads dirty, clean them; then change them after a month. If there is a sponge for biological filtration, do not change it; just clean it well with the water you remove from the tank in every water change. Replace the sponge only if it breaks or get damaged.
You can remove the algae yourself; but I feel confused with that "white gooey stuff". Are you sure it is algae? Does it moves like a worm? Do you vacuum the substrate frequently?
 
im not sure if it algea but i talked to someone else here and they said it probably was,

it doesnt move like a worm it kinda just stays there haning from the filters mouth maybe i could try showing you some pictures,

and whenever i do a water change i dont tend to vacuum the gravel because my substrate is a combination of pebbels and sand so i dont want it to suck up all my sand,
 
But, does it look like white fine hair or long fish poop?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
AquariaCentral.com
Top Bottom