Red Devil Fish Care - Cichlid Tank Guide
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Red devil fish tanks are easy to care for. Make sure you have a super good filter. I advise people to buy these filters. They were last years most sold caunsiter. Here is a link:
Penn Plax Filter: http://amzn.to/2C9oMoq
More topics: What’s the best and easiest way to clean your tank. Was looking at the Eheim Quick Vac Pro.
Is that the battery operated gizmo? I've got one, fantastic on bare bottom, good on gravel, not good on sand - the sand gets sucked up and gets in the mechanism.
The Quick Vac would be good for midweek cleaning although one that vacuums the gravel/sand at the same time as removing water for your weekly water change would be useful too. Do I have to do water change every week?. Have gravel no sand. Got 10 neon tetra and 4 platys (I think) and 2 succer black fish and lots of baby.
Weekly is recommended. How much depends on your test results. My discus tank gets 50% water change twice a week, my goldfish the same. The bettas get 25% weekly and the community one which is very lightly stocked gets 25% once a fortnight.
I added an aquaponics filter bed to the 300 gallon koi rearing tank. It already has a nice biofilter, but this will add lots of capacity and remove nitrates.
The container is one of those plastic concrete mixing trays. To avoid spending money on a valve I melted and modified the tee to get the flow I wanted to the plant bed. I just have the one big pond- it has a DIY 3 chamber filter- skimmer and bottom drain go to a sort of vortex/settliing chamber, which overflows to a chamber with several layers of filter mats in it, then gets pumped up to the veggie filter which is an upper level of the pond, so the water then spills over into the main pond. https://youtu.be/QQGhsHF36T0
Here’s better pics and a better description of the water behind my 3D background. I test fit it and siliconed it In across the top and a few spots on the bottom. The bottom sits relatively flat but the top sticks out about 2-3 inches. There’s a few tiny holes in it and a slit that’s almost a half inch big. My concern is will stagnant water and debris get caught in behind this background? I tried running an air line and stone behind it and it basically just floats bubbles in behind it at the top of the background. It’s not thick enough to run a wave maker in behind it and a small HOB sticks out too far to put the intake tube behind it. Should I leave it as is, run something behind it to circulate water, or maybe drill some tiny holes for more circulation? I don’t think I can fully seal it to where no water at all can get in behind it so that’s kind of out of the question too.
Red Devil cichlid Care Guide info.
I'm probably gonna get hated but I don't care. I have a 6-inch freshwater barracuda in my 90-gallon tank, I have tried to feed him for a few weeks and he refused to eat. And he's getting smaller every week, so I went to my local fish store and bought a few guppies. And he ate them as soon as I put them in the aquarium.
I didn't give him live food because I wanted to, I did it because I had too. And not because I like to watch live fish get eaten, and I don't understand how it can be "immoral" to give live fish to a predator fish, it's a natural thing.
What is worse?
1: Put one/several fish in a bowl or small tank for the rest of their lives.
2. Use them as food for a predator that doesn't eat pellets/frozen food etc.
Freshwater Barracuda are without doubt, the hardest fish ive ever tried to wean off dead food. They are a nightmare. Alot of patience is needed. Im thinking about breeding guppies so i have "unlimited" amount of guppies. Did you ever manage to make your barracuda eat other food?
I was never able to get my barracuda off of live food. I did the same. Had a 30 gallon guppy tank. It goes to one person's prized tropical community tank is another persons feeder tank lol. So for someone who knows nothing but guppies and tetra it's as bad as throwing a kitten to a pack of wolves.
I like getting fancy strains of guppies but if they have s severe deformation that effects their living I'll feed them to my turtle, Oscar's, JDs, or axolotls. Couple of things i've tried in the past (with mixed results) are live dendrobena worms. They are usually very active when submerged in water and that movement in theory should be enough to trigger a feeding response, its not 100% successful however. Another thing to try are lance fish, you can usually find these frozen at most lfs. If not stocked they should be able to get you some.