The trick with mollies is they like warm water, as well as hard alkaline. Around 80 to 82deg. They won't do the 'shimmies' in these conditions. That might be a touch warm for lake fish. But plenty of people keep them in cooler community tanks and they breed, which is fair enough. My tank temp sits ...

Hi, I'm new here, and i was curious why the word cichlid gets editing out like it's a bad word. quite funny actually. I've also seen people spell it sicklid to avoid the "censoring". i was wondering what's behind that. Thanks!

I'm just curious if Syno Multis will socialize the same way with different Synocats, or are they pretty much particular to their own kind?

it's your standard 29gallon. 30"x12"x18" high. I'd love more multis in there, but I completely can't afford it. I got this multi a few years ago for maybe $30-$40. The prices seem to have shot up. Question though, if I find a smaller/younger Multi, would my current one enjoy the company, or should ...

thanks PeterUK. Yeah, i fully expect any and all livebearer fry that are produced to be eaten up unless they are particularly good hiders or something. I was just curious about temperament,and i'm glad to hear that I shouldn't have to expect problems. After keeping africans for a few years, I'm sort ...

Hello everyone. My first post here. I have a 29gallon tank that currently houses one 3" cuckoo cat, and one 3" african cichlid. I will be trading in the cichlid to my LFS. I recently had 3 african cichlids that lived together for quite a while, then my last one decided one day that it wanted to be ...