Well, I haven't been frequenting the LFS recently... went for a wee drive today and was quite impressed with what I found! Redwood Aquatics has 4 big borneo tigers for sale @ $140 each... quite cheap for the size I think... they also have gold and red arowana ranging from $1600 to $6000

I really wanted to buy the tigers... but I think it would kill my wee tiger I have at home...

Pet World had a few FlowerHorns...

Fish Tank had some seahorses... and their new display tanks at the back have huge fish in them... quite impressive...

Wow , you guys make me jealous !

Does anyone have Wild discus down there?

Makes me very jealous too. Went to Redwoods for the first time on a rare trip up to Christchurch, I was amazed. The range of fish, tanks, equipment and accessories dwarfed anything we have in Dunedin.

Saw the Arowana, could not sleep at night from worry if I brought a fish that expensive, not that I would ever have $6000 spare.

SIGH!!!

will be going back next time i'm in Christchurch

AMAZING - our LFS (of which there are 3) generally only have the standard guppies, angels, loaches, plecos, tetras and gouramis. One has a small selection of cichlids, some marines and even had 4 discus (sad looking ones) recently. On rare occasions they get something different - which is how I got my chocolate gouramis - have never seen anything costing more than $245.00 (pr of bristlenose ? catfish) - can't complain though cos they take all my guppy babies :lol:

Redwood aquatics has a better selection than all the fish stores in the Wellington area combined, I think. And since NOWHERE in Wellington has any marine fish they have *ERROR DIVIDE BY ZERO* times more than Wellington.

$245 for a pair of bristlenoses? That doesn't sound right.

$245? You can buy them for $8 each for adults down here ?

I suspect that the $8 ancistrus aren't the matto grosso or snowflake types of ancistrus (these two type are the expensive types of ancistrus that I'm aware of currently being available in NZ).

Yeah, not likely they were common bristlenoses, but there are a lot of much more expensive suckies that look similar at first glance.

This is my 'common' bristlenose bought at the Napier fish auction last year for $4

Recognise it Bruce? :lol:

I recognize him! He was just a little baby back then! Hehe, when's the next auction in Napier?

Richard,

You would be surprised. I've got a 225mm Borneo in with a 75mm one (50mm when introduced). They are really good mates. They seem to tolerate each other very well.

The only time there are problems is when they have paired off and want to breed. They will then try to kill any other fish in the tank.

My bigger Borneo is one of seven original fish. Two paired-off and started killing the rest. The one I've got was rescued and donated to me

Yes I do recognise him, hasnt he grown!!!!.

The next auction in Napier is on Wednesday 17th Sept. I am sure I can find 1 or 2 more of his brothers and sisters for the auction

Wouldnt it be nice to get $245 for a pair.

****Special Deal For Fishroom Members***

Bristle Nose Pair Only $200

Any Takers??? :evil:

/Bruce

17th...Damn, too short of notice, I think. Oh well,l guess I'll have to settle for the UHAS one in November.

225mm with 75mm??? wow.... i have had mine for a year... it is still only about 80mm... hasn't grown much since i got it....cos it is so stubborn and picky at the food it will eat...

what do yours eat?

Both used to be very picky about their food too. I used to have to feed exclusively live food, - feeder goldfish, carp, worms etc.

I finally got them to take dead food by not feeding them for over a week. After nearly 2 weeks of ignoring the dead food I was putting in I had a breakthrough. I was making a batch of Discus food and cut off some slivers of raw beef-heart. They ignored that too. However, if you jab it onto the end of a thin stick and wiggle it in the water they nailed it. It just had to look like it was alive (fish are pretty dumb remember). After a couple of days of this I didn't have to wiggle the meat any more. Now they eat the frozen food mixture, and bloodworms. A couple of times a week I give them real earthworms and the occasional live fish.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, - Borneo's are fairly slow growing fish. It take's 4-5 years to get them near full size.

Dont forget about the zebra plecos for $189 and the flowerhorns for $59 plus tropheus mooris for roughly $50 upwards (many different colour morphs available). I recently lost my second siam tiger it was about 25cm, so jonathon is a loner again . I am a reluctant to add one so small in with him as it would fit in his mouth , so unless someone has a full grown siam they are willing to sell (which the person would have to mad to ), he will have to hang out the oscars. Have you tried fresh shrimp or prawns from the supermarket most fish cannot refuse these. I almost forgot about the killie fish. There are a few varietys available as well. dont ask me what varietys are avail as i dont know sorry.

Macka so sorry to hear of the loss of your Siamese Tiger. The first one I ever saw and a wonderful fish.

Yea Macka....feel sorry for u...how did u lose it? I thought they would be quite stable once they reach that size....25 cm would be a very big fish!

Thanks for the condolences (think i spelt it right) , it actually had a series of seizures really strange almost like a heart attack. You could see its skeleton through its scales when it was having a seizure. It had a total of 6 attacks over 2 days and was drained of life, i couldnt find any info on this aliment so i am still no wiser. Has anyone else had this happen? Poor fish. None of the other fish where affected thank god so thats why i thought it was possibly a heart attack or something similar.

I think it's quite possible it could have been something like that. No doubt fish suffer from heart attacks, strokes and things just like humans do.