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I moved recently I got rid of my big tanks but kept my betta in a 10 gal the new house has well water it's untreated no water softeners it's not very rusty but it has a slight metallic taste to it my questing is will prime be enough to make the water safe for my beta or should I find another...

A variety of african cichlids peacocks mbunas mostly and my community tank has a few guppies bolivian rams fork tails and a some tetra glo fish

I am moving this weekend I am keeping my tanks and will set them back up eventually but I am shutting them off for now I am going to donate my cichlids and my community tank fish to my lfs unless someone here wants to come pick them up before Saturday I'm in lake county illinois about a hr north...

And is there anything I should or could do for the fish? It's missing both its eyes so i know it's completely blind now. Can it still live a healthy life without eye sight?

OK what could of caused them to suddenly do it? The pleco has been in the tank woth them for 7 months and this just happened any idea what could of made them suddenly want to go after it?

And I am going to move it into another tank when i get home

They are african cichlids mbunas and a couple small pecocks the largest fish in the tank is 4.5 maybe 5 inches

I was looking in my cichlid tank last night I have 1 clown pleco in there with my cichlids I noticed both of its eyes are missing and I noticed a few of my cichlids nipping at it is there anything I can do for the fish both its eyes are missing I feel bad I didn't notice this sooner he's been in...

One is a 36 bow front other is a standard size 55 the 36 is a community of guppies forktails a few bolivian rams and some tetra glo fish (kids lol) and the 55 has a small assortment of cichlids in it mostly mbunas and 1 male 2 female blue pecocks

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OK I'll have to look at it when I get home from work it's not the lid it was making the noise with the lid on and off I'll look at the impeller when I get home amd see if I can find anything wrong with it

I did a water change today and cleaned out the media on my fluval c4 hob filter when I put it back together and plugged it in it did nothing so I took it out and noticed the impeller had debris on it so I took the impeller out of the housing and cleaned it the best I could. It's now working and...

Yeah thats what I was thinking get 1 or 2 fish and quarantine them for a couple weeks and see how they do were heading there right now so we shall see lol

Tomorrow me and my wife will be going to a local flea market just to look around and get a few things every time I am there there is a old guy with a booth and he sells birds and fish I have always been hesitant to but from him tho because I'm worried about getting a sick fish or the fish being...

I'm not sure how many for a 90 gallon I have 4 adults and 1 juvenile in a 40 gallon community tank and they get along with the other fish and are not very territorial with each other if that helps at all.