Keeping Africans in a 55 gallon aquarium can work it seems. Make sure you feed enough food though. This is a huge factor for controlling aggression. This is our favorite food.
More fish tank aquarium madness:
So, I’m looking for opinions. I’ve got two swordtails and long story short the green one is a jerk to every other fish I own I’ve got a 20gallon and an empty 10gallon tank and I’ve been really excited about making the 10gallon a Betta tank but I finally had to move the green Swordtail out of the 20 because he’s been nibbling on fins and just relentlessly picking on my fish. So I don’t know if I should just keep him in the 10 and not get the Betta or if I should return him to my lfs. It would be an easy decision but I’ve had him for about 5 months and I’m somewhat attached. What would you all do?
keep him in quarantine by himself for a week .. some fishes stop being aggressive if that character isn’t their nature..btw he’s good looking boy. I had a nightmare where I decided to put goldfish in all my tanks! All of them! Not a single different fish.. just goldfish...
I have totally had aquarium nightmares. I’ve dreamt that I had an aquarium that I just forgot about and never cleaned and it grew like weird squid species. I think my subconscious was telling me to do a wc.
I had a nightmare like this once. I had a basement full of aquariums housing axolotls that I didn’t maintain and one grew to be the size of a medium dog and had a bunch of fungus and rot all over its body. Scared the crap outta me. Alyson Bruce which is all so dumb because realistically all that would happen is the water level would go down really low and all the fish would die of starvation before anything else. but nope, my brain manufactured mutant squids.
African Cichlids in a 55 gallon aquarium will work. I had a nightmare that I was supposed to crochet a red sweater for someone but I didn’t have enough time to do it nevermind the fact I don’t even know how to crochet a sweater. The first thing I saw when I woke up was a ball of red yarn.
I had a dream where my husband loaded my 55 down with piranhas. One of them died and I was too scared to get it out... Because, well, piranhas ya know. When I woke up I had to go make sure the tank was as it should be. I had a 150g tank pop once and ever since then I have recurring nightmares about my tanks breaking and flooding the house
They're always worse after I get a new tank. When I got my 220g I barely slept cause nightmares. Some dreams are messages from God. It could mean that there is something coming to you that you don't yet have the capacity to keep. If you ask Him, maybe He'll enlarge your capacity.
That's not at all what he had said in the original comment, he was not saying that God was in complete control. God cannot manipulate free will and the ability to think on your own accord, and neither can I. So I suppose you are allowed to believe in what you want and we can believe in what we want. Taking a stab at our faith over a Facebook comment isn't going to lessen it. He most definitely wasn't trying to convert anyone. We are all here to appreciate fish and learn how to properly care for them. Let's leave it be and move on.
I've had a dream that I forgot about a bunch of tanks that I had different fish in, like tetras of some sort and one was a Oscar and some others, and I finally remembered them after like six months. So I run and look and some how they were still alive and some were breading and having some mutant babies and it was just really weird.
I often dream that I discover a door in my basement and inside, there are huge tanks.... and I mean huge! All murky with monsters in it (redtail cats, aros and sometimes even an arapaima lol). I always wonder how I could forget I owned such beasts.... i always wake up feeling confused.
My guppy died. Now I am back to 2 nerite snails. I am thinking better gravel vac will help. I had only been doing the top of substrate. But now I can see how much crap I have been missing. Any thoughts on how to best clean the crap but not screw up my cycle or do snails not get affected by that? I do want to do fish again but not till I know tank is how it should be. Thanks.
Tank is 10 gal. Been running for over a year but I never had the ammonia spike I have read about here. Currently no plants but would like to add some easy ones. Substrate is small stones I didn't start with seeded filter because I listened to petsmart and just added that liquid bacteria and the stuff for chlorine.The light is led, blue and white. One of those long strips.
The amount of your cycling bacteria living in the substrate should be negligible. Just don't change the filter, and you should be able to aggressively vacuum without causing any problems.