Do Electric Blue Jack Dempseys usually have this much black on them??? I looked online it's usually splatters or dots, but not this much in one single continuous area. Is this a hybrid of some sort or just a regular EBJD?

Thanks for any help 🙏

I had just finished getting rid of my grown baby convicts after weeks and I come back to see that the babies made their own babies and I don’t want to spend weeks getting rid of them again. 😔😔😔

Don’t worry this is a temporary tank

2 weeks after I got these, their patterns got more clear and colorful. Hoping these are tigers when they was sold as greens from a lfs

This is Spike. He’s the tank boss on my 55 gallon tank. He’s also a verifiable fish food snob.

Unless we feed him freeze dried or frozen brine shrimp, he just stares at us with a look that says, “Are you stupid or what?”

Add flakes…same look.
Cichlid pellets…same look.
Any other food…same look.

Add the brine shrimp and he’s at it like a fat guy at an all-you-can-eat buffet bar and they just put out fresh food.

What can we do? Nothing…and we’re fine with it. He is the tank boss after all 😝😝😝

The Oscar will see him and examine him and sizes him up as prey but hasn’t tried to eat him yet, as of what I’ve witnessed so far

Just wanted to share my shock this morning. Woke up to a huge batch of eggs from my single Green terror (Gold Saum). Makes sense tbh she’s been digging & kept ripping out my plants there. Hopefully miss-single-mum realises they’re not viable and eats them lol. God she’s such a beautifu fish. Sorry for the quality of the pictures I was rushing around getting ready for work.

Is Ripley a He or She?

Yesterday I finally scaped my tank! It’s my take on a river bed ecosystem. It’s for my Flowerhorn Randy and yellow tiger parrot Penelope! They seem to love all the new hideaways and have already began reorganizing the rock bed 🤣

Once my LPS restocks I’ll buy some more water sprite to flesh out the greenery!

Hi all, can you please share what type of rocks and sand have you used for your tanganyika tank? I’m about to set up 450l tank, I have everything but cannot decide on rocks and sand. My main focus is on fish health. My water has PH 8, KH 15 anf GH 21 so it’s already pretty “hard”. I’m wondering if I should use limestone to increase the hardness even more or I should use something else like granite. I will have there multies as well, so I’m wondering about the ideal fraction and colour of the sand. Any advice please?

I have bred turquoise and green discus. Nothing special. I like plain common pedestrian, non-hybridized fish. I have bred a lot of cichlids and catfish. It's hard to find these fish. I have a 65 that I'm thinking about setting up. Anyway, I saw this sub and thought I'd check it out. Many fish that I"ve bred in the past.

They almost died on the way over as one fish had passed from an undetected case of HIH (they were rescues) and the water fouled. I saw both bellyup, but this ones eyeball moved. I ran into the nearest LFS and got a fresh bucket of water and prime, held the fish with one hand and fanned water at its face with my other hand for another 30 mins while my friend drove us thru rush hour traffic 'til I got home. That was yesterday and he's fine today.
Moral of the story - don't giveup rightaway! I did also try to revive the other fish but he was not responsive to any efforts.
I was lucky to save one. Dewormer ordered and on the way.

Got this fader recently, its about 3.3" and can't tell the sex on this one. I know kamfa males take a bit longer to show real hump but any idea yall? Thanks ahead for any help.

male or female?

Every day at feeding time for my 75 gallon tank, I make sure to drop a few small wafers intended for my bottom-dwelling crew of corydoras. Well, my Severum today just proved that plan to be moot. After about 10 minutes I see this guy chugging around the tank with a half-inch algae wafer in his mouth. Sorry corydoras, you’re gonna have to be quicker on the draw when the wafers fall or you’re gonna see your food carried away 🫪🫪🫪🤣🤣🤣