Green Terror Cichlid Tank Care (True Evil?)
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Aquarium green terror Cichlid Fish are super easy tanks to care for. This is one of my all time favorite fish. Here is the Omega One pellet food I feed three times a week. Great foods.
Omega One Food: http://amzn.to/2AJH5BC
Here is my tank care guide on the green terror cichlid. you can boil it (may take a few hours) or leave it in a bucket of water and chaneg the water out every few days, or just stick it staright in after a quick wash and crub if you dont mind tannins. tannins is the brown colour (humic/fulvic acids) that leeches from the wood, great for shrimps betta fish etc, and other softer water fish, and fish from amazon etc.
Tannins is the chemical that leaches into the water that turns it that tea color, it lowers your pH and softens the water. Most fish will be fine with it unless you are trying to keep Rift Valley Cichlids that require hard water and high pH. But if you just have tetras or rainbows or you know, typical tropical fish, they will be fine and most actually thrive in it.
Green Terror Cichlid Care (Tank Setup)
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It’s the water often looks tea colored. Brownish. It does go away. But great for some fish. Wood needs to be waterlogged to sink. I just got some great Manzanita pieces from Tom Barr and he recommended I soak them for a week or two. Mine has patches of Wolf Moss...those will be scrubbed off completely as they can be toxic to fish.
My wood has been sun dried, so shouldn’t have any critters. So I’ll soak, scrub and soak again. My Farlowella needs new wood. Soak it in water for several days, changing water at least once daily. Then, because it looks too large to boil, boil water, in a tea kettle or something, place wood in the tub and pour over the wood several times until no color leaches out.
If pos boil if not ( for perfection ) clean with hydrogen peroxide but in truth soak in hot water untill it stops floating and stops turning water brown is what most will say but I have pieces 20 years old that still leak a little colour there is a new chemical treatment to seal it name escapes me but after a good soak I would use in my tanks never had problems. Green terror cichlid care and tank mates.
I wouldn't use it. This piece might be rotting already, or might be soon. The wood we use in our aquariums (or most ppl do) is all sorts of wood that have been sealed off from oxygen under a thick layer of wet acid peat. Which makes it semi "stoned". Boiling a piece of wood only fastens the chance of rotting because you damage the cellstructure. So I personally would never boil a piece. It also isn't sure what stuff is in this piece of wood. No need to boil. Soak in water for a week or two. If you notice any "critters" dump a bunch of vinegar in with it.
I would squeeze this peice and see if it feels soft or hard. If soft I'd toss it. Humor me here. I usually buy my sand from the lfs. But as I bought a fish on impulse and without a tank setup, I need to be cheap elsewhere. What type of sand am I looking for at menards/homedepot. All of the black blasting abrasives I’ve found to be in stock are silicate based. Not sure if that’s acceptable or not.
The tank I’m using is already painted black so I’m looking for a really light sand. Nothing to brown. Crushed quartz is the purest lightest you'll find. Let me wake up the fishes so I can get you a pic. We're Army and stationed at Fort Bliss, El Paso, TX. I can never find it here so I always pick up a couple 50 pound bags from Menards when we go home (Omaha, NE)
Also Silicates are tank safe. When it comes to the blasting sand, there are varying grades of abrasiveness. You don't want anything so fine it aggravates your fish. And give it a really good rinse, and then rinse it again. Sometimes there's an oily residue, either from manufacturing or from storage. Scaleless fish seem most sensitive to it, in my experience.
If you have a fish with barbels or who will sift the substrate through their gills, stick with pool filter or play sand and avoid the blasting media. Noticed some teeny tiny white-ish grey balls on the bottom of the tank and did some investigating. Craaaap. My mystery snails have obviously been very busy. I'm guessing the brown one is a pest snail and the likely culprit responsible for the holes in my lotus plants? Green terror cichlids are beautiful aquarium fish.
Answer me this...So i see lota of bashing about busy tanks...not enough room for fish...and then i see busy tanks.....why? Surely if a fish has room to move around adequately its good?obviously the more ropm the better... but is there a ok rule like a standard care rule? Pic for attention.