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Question by Stephen: Aquarium Lighting for a Kahuli Loach and 2 Black Moors?
Should i keep my light on 24/7 or should it be off at night or vise versaIt is a small flourescent strip, and i knoiw that the kuhuli loach is mostly noctournal, so should i turn my light off at night or in the day, or just leave it on 24/7

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Answer by luvmyfish44
The light should be on for no more than 10 hour/ day and unless you have real plants, it isn’t necessary to have them on that long. The fish need some kill time , and they need the light retired to rest.Besides inordinate light will cause excessive algae.Turn it on when you are around to enjoy it, day or evening and turn it out for the overnight.

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This was my 4ft Freshwater Community Tank from a few years ago. It changed a lot over the time I had it, and the tank is now being used for Cichlids. This is just a moment in time where I liked how it looked. This was my first ‘real’ tank, and since starting this back in 2007 I’ve learned a lot more about aquariums and improved my fish keeping skills. Thanks for watching! -Jazz

This is Part 1.2 of my fish tank.

I have 1 angel fish 1 golden gourami 4 serpe tetras corys and 1clown loach could any american chichlids go with these fish without eating them maybe a firemouth.

my tropical fish tank

The plecostomus normally comes up to feed too. Shot on 5 June 2007.

The plecostomus normally comes up to feed too. Shot on 5 June 2007.

Duration : 0:1:15

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After many changes, the finished Malawi fish tank, housed in 450 litre bow fronted aquarium (5′x2′x2′) are approx 70 fish including 4 clown loach, 3 Pictus catfish, 3 Bristlnose pleco, 1 Rainbow shark, 4 Denison Barbs, 3 Tropheus and an array of Malawi Cichlids from a variety of Alunocara to Yellow Labs and Livingstonii.

Before you say there are too many fish, I promise you there aren’t, if there were any less then the aggression between them would be too high!

The set up consists of:

Juwel Vision 450 Fish Tank (450 litres)
1 x Juwel Jumbo internal filter
1 x Fluval FX5 external filter
2 x 1500lph powerheads with air inlets and polishing filters
2 x 300W heaters
Approx 100-120kg ocean rock
Colour and Blue T5 lighting tubes
Blue moonlight LED strips

As expected the malawis are breeding regularly, there always 2-3 females pregnant at any one time, 25-50% water change carried out once per week.

Approx cost including fish was £2k but it brings hours of relaxation so worth every penny !!

Duration : 0:4:14

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My Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/laughtoyourself Part 1 of my 2 part video on how to set up a cichlid tank. In my tank : 3 Convict Cichlids 2 Firemouth Cichlids 2 Clown Loaches 1 Plecostamus

Duration : 0:9:51

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Check it out!

Duration : 0:1:15

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