Money Saving Tips
Helpful advice to save money when it comes to your aquarium.
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Tank Dividers
If you keep Malawi Cichlids or any Cichlid you will know how readily they breed. Having lots of empty tanks for the fry and females is not always practical or affordable. The easiest way is to divide one spare tank into two or three enabling it to house more than one holding female at the same time. You can buy tank dividers to do the job however i find them to expensive and most of them are attached by hooks over the edge making it impossible to use sliding glass trays.
The solution to this i found easy and much cheaper. You can create a tank divider by using plastic canvas (used for cross stitching) and mini suction cups with hooks. Be aware that the plastic canvas comes in different hole sizes, i found 7 to be about right for the job. The plastic canvas can be bought readily very cheap and is easy to cut to size, if you can not get the right size then just buy more pieces and either tie them together or stick them with silicon sealer. You can get a bag of mini suction cups with hooks (usually 50 per bag, size 19mm) from places like eBay for a couple of pounds. Then all you need to do is cut the plastic canvas to the right size, hook the suction cup hooks through the canvas holes, one in each corner or more if needed, then stick the suction cups into the tank. You might have to change the whole that the hook goes through so that the plastic canvas is supported tight. If you really want to finish it of and give it more stability you can use a black plastic slide binder along the top and bottom.
Water Chemistry for African Cichlids
