JoandWilly

Are you sure shes not holding??

Hmmm caryl i think he would be talking about the general hardness (gH), i think thats right, but i wouldnt know how to explain it, it has something to do with the amount of metals that are dissolved in to water. Most cichlids like a high gH 10+ i think. I hope someone else out there can explain it better than me.

geez how would you tell between the albino's... is it a zebra or peacock, because our albino is straight white, doesn't have any darker or lighter strips on him/her (like mystics) and we are 90% sure its a albino socolofi

We are now in Torbay, just moved from hamilton.... we have mostly malawis with a few other tanks... 9 in total but selling heaps of fish to get teh malawi tank looking better.

If tis on the drift wood just run them under boiling hot water and that kills the bba and then the fishes eat it or it just dissappears.

does he appear to be bloated at all??? also have you tested the water, these guys are very sensitive to ammonia, we just lost 100+ of them through over feeding

Dont use the feeding shell but 2 weeks is a little to long for most fish to go without food (10 days is about max and bigger fish get aggersive with no food and will eat others), i would say if you have your friend coming over to feed your cat to just make up a few little containers with enough food in them for 1 feed and get your friend to feed them one of these containers every 3 or 4 days. That way your friend doesnt have the oppertunity to over feed your fish and even that should knock back the planaria.

Up here in hollywoods they have arogonite sand which is white marble chips, is about 3-4mm i think. Its the stuff that some salt water tanks have.

I've read before that once you open some brought fish food by the time 6 weeks has past it will start losing its nutritional value, storing it in a air tight container in the fridge will prolong this though.

We are in the process of moving 10 tanks from hamz to aucks and what we do is bag all the fish up... even the big ones (hollywoods have nice big bags) and then we fill coke bottles up with the tank water to take with us and then bag the filter material up just like we would a fish but with less water so when it slosish around in the car the filter material stays wet and gets airated, so far we have had no problems. Dont clean the stones or anything just gravel vax the day before and on the day you move to get most of the crap out, an always do a water change one or two days before you move and as someone said dont feed them for a couple of days before you move. I think that is about it.

If theres plenty of plant cover for the bristlenoses and baby rams there should be no reason why they can't, not sure on the sizr of the tank though. Could be a bit small.

One of them is eating the babys possibly or the filter is sucking them up. Removing the parents is a option and putting filter wool or something like that over the intake of the filter. You'lll probably find its the male eating the babies.

Theres 3.8 litres of water in a gallon, most people round it off to 4L. The way to work out how many litres in a tank is to take the lengthxhieghtxwidth and divide that by 1000 if you do all the calculations in cm's.

I find that if you turn then heater down to about 24 over the summer the tanks still sit at about 27... if your having heaps of probs take the lid off and put a fan blowing over the water... you'll just have to watch for evapouration.

Tip: If you dont want your microworm culture to smell don't add yeast to the new cultlure, when you take a spoonful from the old culture it will transfer enough yeast to keep the new one going and its the yeast which gives the culture the nasty smell.

Depending on the size i would say about 8-12 (maybe a few more if you have decent filtation) of the smaller african cichlids... e.yellows, auratus, estharae, but make sure they have plenty of caves to hide in and feed these guys more regulary but smaller feeds than you would with the other boring fish out there :lol: (go the africans) :bounce:

one of them is... the other is kinda a peachy colour... they also come in orange with black splotchs and peachy with black splotchs... also come in blue aswell.

your supposed to use the paper clip at a right angle to the fish to hold her mouth open while you shake her in the water to get the fry out, dont actually put the paper clip in her mouth

hmmm they might get a bit aggressive since they could breed, but we keep a whole range of fish with out auratus's other mbuna and haplochromis, greshaki, scofoli, giraffe's, dolphins, textilus, estharae, peacocks and a hoplo They should be fine wif most africans that are bigger then them... i found they tend to kill anything smaller unless the tanks has heaps of hiding places and is quite heavily stocked.

Hmm i had just siliconed the center brace in 7 days ago with shelleys, selleys (spelling) silicon.. the one safe for aquariums so i'll try silicon it in again and see what happens... might have accidently blasted it with the hose when i was filling ti up for the first time.

Have a tank thats 85x46x36 thats made from 6mm glass it has 2 end braces but when i was filling it up the front and back glass bowed out and tore the silicon on the center brace... does it need a center brace or will it be ok without one?

hmmm dont feed them live foods... pellets and then every so often a peice of zuchinni or spinach. tried the worming tablet with one fish and did nothing still had the same sypmtoms and then died, but think that was cause it wasnt eating and went 3 weeks without food... Im pretty positive if anything its flagellates have never seen worms or anything. Everything i've read points to it but since they only way to treat that is with metridonazol (sp) its hard to get cause its a prescription med only. Maybe I could try sweet talk the docter on wednesday.

Is stringy poos a problem... most of our fish have stringy poos, its sometimes white and sometimes other colours. I reackon alot of our fish also have sunken bellies but everyone out thinks im talking s**t. Just wondering what you guys think, cause i havent been selling fish cause of this but Jo thinks theres nothing wrong with them. Have seen fish with stringy poos and what looks like sunken bellies in some shops so im confused. Willy.

Hmm i found i get in all the tanks which get some sunlight... once i took the sunlight away it stop growing and slowly dies away... BGA is usually associated with poor water conditions aswell, high nitrates but not sure about the phosphates, have heard it can grow without phosphates.

Lol i'd prefer to sell a $50 skimmer for $10 than sell a $700 one for $400... i think i'll go for the cheap jebo skimmer, not planning on having a very high bioload on it, just 3 or 4 fish and maybe the same with corals. Once im rich and rolling in it im gonna be building an 8 foot by 4 foot by 4 foot tank... lol well a few of them... one reef, one malawi, one south american, once discus lol man i better be rich.