alanmin4304

I hope someone will correct me if I have it wrong but I would cross an albino with the best shaped fish I had and breed back to pick up the albino again. That way you should have a good chance of having a well shaped albino and introduce new genes into the strain and make it better looking and stronger.

You are right and there is more than one way to be right. They are just not right for me. What is an albino snakeskin? I thought albino was a recessive gene so if you breed an albino to a snake skin you will get all snakeskins split to albino and if you breed them to each other you will get 25% albino,25% snakeskin and 50% snakeskin split to albino. Surely an albino is an albino and requires 2 recessive genes.

I may have been dropped on my head as a baby but why would people pay a premium for albino guppies when I thought people kept them because of their brilliant colours. Methinks you might as well keep only female normals.

You are correct about the longitudinal braces looking ugly but they are not as ugly as all that water on your lounge room floor. When I set up tanks there are two main things I do, because they both anoy me. 1 Cover the top water leval, with a lid if possible or tape as suggested. 2 Put the tank low enough so that people look down to it rather than looking up to it and seeing through the water to the floating debri and lights. I have a preference for longitudinal braces as they are far stronger and they can easily be hidden, as well as providing support for a cover. There are a lot of forces in an aquarium which people sometimes forget about, just like there is on the floor it is standing on (but we dont want to go there again)

It is possible but see my previous posting. The bow will be mainly at the top because that is where it has least support.

A picture might help identify what it is, if you can provide one.

If it is bowed I think it would be better braced. People have different preferences but mine would be to brace the top with a 10mm strap around the top edge. If you drop it 10mm below the top and slope it slightly downward, it can support a lid. I leave the long brace about 10mm short each end to get heater wires etc down. I think this is a better way to brace as I have had to repair a number of tanks with a strap accross the top which has broken. There is a stress point where the edge of the strap meets the front and back and there is where they often break. Your English is good, just stay off the bamboo shoots.

Don't forget that fish do not have eyelids so try to avoid turning the lights on in the dark and giving them a big fright.

I have a friend with a very large pond full of goldfish which he has never fed and they will grow from about 25mm to 100mm in a season and I am pretty sure that is mainly what they are eating (as well as the adults emerging and laying eggs) They must be very good food value.

I use to have to drive by Lake Ellesmere often with work and at certain times of the year it was like driving through a snow storm. They swarm like bees and when you drive through them they splatter all over the car and are very difficult to remove.

I have quite a colony of tubifex in one of my turtle tanks I guess from feeding canadensis from the river. The turtles love white worm but don't go for that, yet years ago every petshop in town used to sell live tubifex and now you can't get it at all. Thats what comes from cleaning up the rivers.

Eggs would be a lot cheaper as well. Imported killies are usually not cheap. Do you know where your shop buys their fish from.

RTV cures by combining with water from the atmosphere (that is why it will cure underwater). However, when it cures it becomes waterproof and therefore if you have too thick an area (such as a large gap between a partition and the tank) the centre part cannot obtain moisture and will not cure, leaving a potentially weak joint. If the tank is bowing I would tend to put a 50mm strap around the top. It is more effective and also makes for a good lid if you place it 6 -10mm down from the top and cut a piece of glass to fit.

I have two types which have made it to adulthood. One is a metalic blue with a darker tail and some show a bit of red. The other is a metalic blue body with black tail and dorsal fin. I don't know a lot about guppy types so I hope this means something to someone. The black tail females have been with all the rest and I have put virgin blue females with a redish male. If their offspring are no good the turtles will love it.

I don't want to make a thing of it because as stated different Councils have different interpretations, but it is called the fencing of swimming pools act not the fencing of goldfish ponds act, and I think you will find that the only allowable oxygen weed is Elodea canadensis.

Your plant is not legal and your pool does not need a fence because it is not intended for paddling, wading or swimming, but do have a good day.

Waitaha landed in the South Island--- Too many traffic jams in the North----not silly.

I bought some imported show guppies in Christchurch fom a shop that also imports and lost the lot but managed to get about 100 babies which are all OK, and are now breeding. When I discussed this with the shop owner/importer they said the guppies are often treated with hormones and that recently they had seen "fresh water guppies" on the price list and had therefore started adding salt to new imports and had had less trouble. There may be too rapid a change from salt water to fresh. I was tough on mine and thought if the babies can't survive in my water so be it, and they are all doing well, without anything in the water but guppies.

Love the goldfish. Don't tell MAF about the plant.

Thanks for that. I have had aproaches from a couple of members and hopefully will have some eggs next week. Can I start the young on microworm or should I start up my brine shrimp hatcher? I was going to start with one type but have done the usual and accepted the offer of choc and gold australe and possibly N. kourtause.

They are looking good. What are the genetics of the parents?

It's pretty virulent and can manifest in other ways such as saddle back and invasion through lesions so it would pay to treat the whole tank and retreat in 3 days

I'll go with the light starved Java moss (unless its a trifid)

Good one

Tell the doctor you have amoebic dysentery and you may get flagel which is the trade name