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If they came from a thermal pool they are likely to be green and golds as the whistlers prefer the cooler temperatures while the others don't spawn unless the water is warm

I found they did best in rainwater with lots of algae and I fed them brine shrimp nuplii and fishfood flake.

Sae and flying fox are not the same fish. The black line goes right through the peduncle and tail on SAE but not through through the tail on the flying fox. They will eat more algae if you don't give them heaps of other food choices. Best to get SAE and get the chemical balance right.

I think the gm red gene is in pairs so the real red ones have two genes and the less red ones look a bit like the picture. A black light would show it up better. If they are, the seller is a bit naive to say the least.

Wunder tonic contains malachite green, quinine, methylene blue and acriflvine, all of which will cure white spot on their own but only methylene blue stains the silicone. I have used them all individually and combined without damage to plants if you use the correct dose.

Could be columnaris which is a bacteria and nees to be treated with an antibiotic

Great work

I enquired a while ago and found you were limited to taking 50 a day for yourself and couldn't sell them without a permit and quota. Trademe did not care.

They do

If the tail was perfectly OK before it went in the tank chances are it did not just fall off all by its lonesome toddy.

Hi and welcome to the site. Check out about Totally Tanked in the section below and you will be welcome at our monthly meeting this coming Saturday.

If you want to breed them they would do best in a seperate tank with the eggs removed and hatched and raised in another tank.

Most killies will tolerate acid conditions so it should be OK. Try to keep the fluctuations in pH to a minimum as it is the changes that cause problems usually rather than the pH itself.

You would be wasting your money unless you had the whole shootencarboodle-----CO2, strong light and ferts. Cheaper to put the weeds from the garden on the compost heap.

Sodium thiosulphate is the active ingredient in these water treatments and converts chlorine and chloramines to relatively harmless chemicals (sulphur and hydrochloric acid). I think the answer you are looking for is that people are divided about treatment. Some do treat and some do not. The reason for my post was that many people think that the chlorine will evaporate and all will be well, so I was pointing out that it is not that simple. In the end you pays your money and takes your pick. Livingarts treatment will be by far the cheapest way to treat large volumes of water.

There is also a viral form of that disease on which antibiotcs will not work.

Have a look in the FNZAS section above this one

Enjoy your time here. The Totally Tanked fish club meeting is on this Saturday and we would all be happy to see you there.

They are also usually smaller and the pouch under the throat is larger for croaking. The male is usually the one on the top and the female is laying the eggs. That is if you play the right music.

Copied from a previous post: When you add chlorine to water you get hypochlorous acid which reacts with the amines (in all proteins) and forms monochloramine. When you add more chlorine you get dichloramine and even more you get trichloramine. All these (and other reactions) form part of the "chlorine demand" in the water. You cannot get free available chlorine until this "chlorine demand" is satisfied. Therefore when the reaction is pushed towards trichloramine there will be virtually no monochloramine present. In the US they treat the water with monochloramie (made by reacting chlorine with ammonia) because chlorine will react with other impurities in the water and form some compounds that are not so nice (such as acetone) where as monochloramine will not. Monochloramine is not as effective in treating water as chlorine as is used in NZ but is still a strong oxidising agent. When people complain that the chlorine in a swimming pool is too strong and it is burning their eyes the problem usually is that the free available chlorine has been used up by contaminants in the water (such as urea) and this has pushed the chloramines back towards the monochloramine and this is what is burning their eyes. The problem is fixed by adding more chlorine. When you allow water to stand or aerate it to get rid of the chlorine the chloramines all move back to monochloramine and this will react with your fish the same as an under chlorinated swimming pool will with your eyes. Chlorine and all chloramines can be converted to more harmless chemicals with the addition of sodium thiosulphate. Flourine is not added to drinking water, flouride is sometimes. Drinking water will contain various impurites that add to the chlorine demand and will form chloramines

They climb out to lay their eggs. A lid works well.

Salt will not alter hardness as it is a measure of calcium and magnesium.

Great part of the world down there.

C. balansai, wendtii, walkeri and petchi will all tolerate reasonably hard water as they come from places with water like that. Many in Sri Lanka are from hard water and balansai comes from limestone country.