I had a friend who moved and needed someone to tank his tank, so I offered to take it from him.
The tank is a 40g hexagon shaped tank on a stand, 24" tall and 12" panels, about 5" with stand. I have a large heater but I am not sure what temp they need.
The filer is huge, it's a 150g series so it seems more than enough for this tank, it has a media storage and the guy gave me some ammo-carb and carbon with the bags, I Wasn't sure if I need to use these or not.
I just got it setup, filled it up with water and got everything hooked up, but I need some advice since I have never had these type of fish before.
The tank has three 4" african cichlids, two are dark gray with black stripes, one is bright orange with yellowish spots.
There is some fry in the tank, they appear to be orange/transparent and are about 1" long right now, none of the other fish are messing with them but the orange one is very protective of them.
There is also one smaller cichlid, it is a silver color with black lines over the eyes like a mask.
Other thank the cichlids there seems to be these two spotted catfish in the tank as well, about 3" long each. There is also a pocostamus (sic?) sucker fish in the tank that is 6-7" long.
One issue I noticed with the orange cichlid it seems to "seizure" in a sense, it sits and shakes, like it's trying to stir up stuff from the rocks? Is this normal?
Any advice would be great, thanks.
The tank is a 40g hexagon shaped tank on a stand, 24" tall and 12" panels, about 5" with stand. I have a large heater but I am not sure what temp they need.
The filer is huge, it's a 150g series so it seems more than enough for this tank, it has a media storage and the guy gave me some ammo-carb and carbon with the bags, I Wasn't sure if I need to use these or not.
I just got it setup, filled it up with water and got everything hooked up, but I need some advice since I have never had these type of fish before.
The tank has three 4" african cichlids, two are dark gray with black stripes, one is bright orange with yellowish spots.
There is some fry in the tank, they appear to be orange/transparent and are about 1" long right now, none of the other fish are messing with them but the orange one is very protective of them.
There is also one smaller cichlid, it is a silver color with black lines over the eyes like a mask.
Other thank the cichlids there seems to be these two spotted catfish in the tank as well, about 3" long each. There is also a pocostamus (sic?) sucker fish in the tank that is 6-7" long.
One issue I noticed with the orange cichlid it seems to "seizure" in a sense, it sits and shakes, like it's trying to stir up stuff from the rocks? Is this normal?
Any advice would be great, thanks.