Need Help Sexing/Identifying fish

I do reside in BC. I live on Delta/Surrey border. Right now its my SA ciclids that are out of their elements, (chemistry wise.) I was told the dempseys are found in dingy water conditions at best in the wild and my GTs don't seem to care about water. I do weekly water changes (for clarity reasons, lots of wood) and everybody seems to thrive.
 
BC Kron, you should check out http://www.malawimayhem.com. We are one of the largest sites dedicated to Lake Malawi cichlids, and are based out of Vancouver so we have lots of local hobbyests. We hold bi-annual meetings where you can buy/sell/trade fish and equipment. Anywhoo, its a great way to meet other locals who keep the same type of fish.

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-Diana
 
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BC_Kron said:
I was told the dempseys are found in dingy water conditions at best in the wild and my GTs don't seem to care about water. I do weekly water changes (for clarity reasons, lots of wood) and everybody seems to thrive.
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Its good you do weekly water changes but you really think your GT doesnt care how good the water is? No matter what kind of fish their gills still get burned and they still get stressed when conditions start to get worse. I would tell you to use carbon to remove the tannis from the wood, but then I'd be afraid you would never change the water.
 
DeRo316 said:
Its good you do weekly water changes but you really think your GT doesnt care how good the water is? No matter what kind of fish their gills still get burned and they still get stressed when conditions start to get worse. I would tell you to use carbon to remove the tannis from the wood, but then I'd be afraid you would never change the water.
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Wow, DeRo316, thats a pretty profound and absolute statement. Ya know, if ya pulled your head out of your ***, the worlds a much bigger, brighter place that you seem to realize.
 
Way to be mature about it. The reason water changes are done is to dilute nitrates which are a product of the nitrogen cycle. Although ammonia and nitrite are more harmful to fish than nitrate, it still burns their gills and causes them stress. If you are doing water changes only to remove the yellow color(tannis) then you are doing them for the wrong reasons and probably not often enough. It takes about a month and a half for my driftwood to turn my water yellow at all and my nitrates would be around 90 by then.

To say that your GT "doesnt care" about its water conditions is a pretty ignorant statment.
 
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