Hi,
I used to live in Dublin, now live in Surrey in the UK. I have kept tropical fish (predominantly African Cichlids) for about 8 years. I currently have three tanks, a 240L 4 foot with 26 Duboisi fry and subadults, a 60L fry tank with F1 Tropheus Ikola and Leptosoma Unita and a 500+L 5 foot with 8 Tropheus Miloro, 5 Leftosoma Unita, a breeding trio of Compressiceps and a handful of ancystrus as a cleanup crew.
All the tanks are filtered by external canister filters (tetratec 2400, Fluval 4 and an Eheim 330 i think). I do 10% water changes once every week/ten days and clean the filter sponges on a rotation basis on one filter per water change meaning each filter gets cleaned once a month or so.
Water changes are done with a hose direct from the tap with water conditioner, marine salt and baking soda premixed in a seperate bucket. The water going into the tank is colder than the tank hence the small water changes (and the fact that the two larger tanks have greater water volumes hence the changes do not affect the temperature as much) but on the fry tank I use water from the big tank to do the change with.
All the fish are fed with New Life Spectrum (NLS) including the fry and since moving to this food (a little more expensive than some other stuff perhaps) I have not had a single issue, but that's my experience.
As you can see I am focussing on Tanganyikan fish but in the past I have kept Malawi, African Riverine and some Madagascar oddities.
My wife thinks I'm nuts but has learned to live with my hobby. And lastly yes, it is addictive, one tank will lead to many until she puts the foot down.
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