125gal tank build. Lots of pics beware.
- Thread starter tidioute06
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The tank has been up and running now for about while and with the filter media from an existing tank I was reading 0 ammonia. (i think, i'll explain)
the Readings on my tank are
8.2 ph
GH 7-8
KH 10
Temp 78.8
Ammonia .25
nitrite 0
Nitrate 5
Now my home water has chromines or how ever you spell it...which give false ammonia reading...kind of sucks for testing..but anyways I had the shrimp in there and the ammonia went from like 6ppm to nothing over night and has stayed that way for 2 days, which is making me think it's ready.
I did a 25 gallon water change and my daughter, wife and I headed off to the fish store.
We ended up getting
Melanochromis Auratus (Auratus)x2
Labidochromis caeruleus (yellow Lab)x1
Labidochromis caeruleus (Nkhata Bay)x 1 (or Psd. Blue Dolphin not sure exactly and either was the employees. Beautiful fish though)
halomaylandi cobue lilac greberi x1
A common pleco and a few snails.
All of them are doing great. The Yellow lab and the Nkhata Bay's fins are a little beat up from the fighting at the store. They fed quite eagerly this morning and the Nkhata has decided he wants every cave in the tank lol. He keeps jumping from one to the next and trying to chase the other guys out. It's quite funny to watch. I'll post some pics tonight or tomorrow morning when I get a chance.
Thanks for reading!:thm:
the Readings on my tank are
8.2 ph
GH 7-8
KH 10
Temp 78.8
Ammonia .25
nitrite 0
Nitrate 5
Now my home water has chromines or how ever you spell it...which give false ammonia reading...kind of sucks for testing..but anyways I had the shrimp in there and the ammonia went from like 6ppm to nothing over night and has stayed that way for 2 days, which is making me think it's ready.
I did a 25 gallon water change and my daughter, wife and I headed off to the fish store.
We ended up getting
Melanochromis Auratus (Auratus)x2
Labidochromis caeruleus (yellow Lab)x1
Labidochromis caeruleus (Nkhata Bay)x 1 (or Psd. Blue Dolphin not sure exactly and either was the employees. Beautiful fish though)
halomaylandi cobue lilac greberi x1
A common pleco and a few snails.
All of them are doing great. The Yellow lab and the Nkhata Bay's fins are a little beat up from the fighting at the store. They fed quite eagerly this morning and the Nkhata has decided he wants every cave in the tank lol. He keeps jumping from one to the next and trying to chase the other guys out. It's quite funny to watch. I'll post some pics tonight or tomorrow morning when I get a chance.
Thanks for reading!:thm:
Looks like things are going great! One word though...I've never kept cichilids, but I'm not sure you're going to be able to do live plants with them. They will likely uproot everything you plant, and will probably tear them to pieces. Perhaps someone with cichilid experience can overrule me, but I'm pretty sure that's the case.
My labs(and others) didn't like the java moss or fern-they just tore it up every time I planted it...
Looking forward to pics...
I'll post some tomorrow morning.
What do you folks think about adding mela fix to help with the fin damage from the fighting?
What do you folks think about adding mela fix to help with the fin damage from the fighting?
