A club for owners of Parrot Cichlids

Hello there we have two freshwater parrots susie q we have had for about eight months and blue for about a month and a half been having algae problems as of lately wondering about changing their gravel to sand would that be a wise decision and also would it hurt them or our snails or the algae eater that doesn"t seem to be much of a help it seems the algae only grows on the rocks that i'm not to sure if i should be using either it' s white marble chips, something we had just laying around we boiled and rinsed them but still very unsure if there any good for the fish

Hello,

Hi I am new to this forum. First off my name is Noelle and I have a BP currently in a quarantine tank getting better from a case of ick. I decided while she was getting better to do some remodeling in her tank. I switched from gravel to sand last night using about four 5lb bags of silica sand for a 30gal tank. When doing this I shut down my tank completely having my filters off. When I was done with this project I knew the water was going to be cloudy but thought that maybe by the morning it would be pretty normal. I didnt put the filter back on ever since putting the sand in the tank.

Im really trying too add my pretty pretty little parrots onto this site, i will be very soon but ive been very curious with my rocks that id really like too use in my tank, i want too use sand an a little mix of medium an fine grain rocks!, but can you use play sand?, will that be clean and safe enough, im soo very worrired about that!.. i wana make sure my sweet little parrots are safe!.... And also if i use sand, which i want too, how do you clean it? Of course with gravel i use my phyphener to clean but wouldnt the sand jus go up an out the tube?