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I think Ira was just concerned because a number of people hunt out pacus with no idea what they will grow into, or more importantly no concern. I recently saw an auction on trademe that had 4 in a 250L tank and apparently it was jackpot if you won it, more like a ticking time bomb. I think pacus are relatively easy to get just make sure you can house them properly and ask around your petshops they must be on some suppliers list, or if you are keen and can house them then try and find some (like these poor ones on trademe) you can save and give a good home before they end up breaking their tank or thrown on someones compost heap.

There is tons of info on here.. search.php?keywords=stripping+fish&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search It just saves people typing the same info over and over, have a read through and use the search feature and then ask any questions you may have to clarify

Egg laying fish don't get pregnant.. Is she fat? Or does she have a mouthful of eggs?

This sounds very promising.. Hopefully you manage to raise a male to put back to your gold girl and get more golds!

I am unsure exactly on blonde/gold but I think it is the degree of colour in the body.. Albino should have red/pink eyes..

Yeah it is a little confusing calling fish by a common name.. I will ask why you want to know what baby peacocks look like? It is very very hard to tell what any peacock is from what it looks like as a baby.

While we don't actually even have pombo rocks in the country (they were imported with no variant so we cannot give them one) some of ours resemble these.. But I have also seen 7 stipers, I brought in a batch of babies to increase the gene pool in my lot and noticed that half had 7 stripes the rest 6 and they were all from the same batch, needless to say I didn't introduce them to my lot because my theory was they have been mixed with these http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/s ... hp?id=1321 which have more barring. These were still very nice fish but I knew mine threw 100% 6 bars and I didn't like the ones with lots of barring so I passed them on, it is something to bear in mind when adding new ones to a colony as there could be ones that have 6 bars and carry the genes for.

These ones are descended from my ones so they should be the 6 bar ones most resembling the pombo rocks variant.. http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/s ... php?id=849 And Ktttk should add they are looking awesome that is one packed out fry tank..

And it is very likely none of those shops actually sold you the correct medicines Most petshops cannot get the drugs required to actually worm fish as they are vet only medicines..

I have found that one needs to be diplomatic when discussing these things, some people seem to think that these discussions are personal attacks and no matter how constructive and how many points you bring up it seems to end badly with people throwing the toys. The Azureus you have are nice fish and they are different to Fryeri and are throwing relatively true, as you have pointed out if they are a hybrid they are a very well established one that has been "line bred" over many generations to give the fish you have today. End of the day it is very hard to know with any of our fish as we tend to get alot of rubbish in NZ, I have the attitude with all my africans that if I get them from one place those fish stay together and I introduce no new blood from different imports of people as we just don't know what we really have or what may be showing up. I believe the same should be observed for plecos and even killies as both of them have different variants of the same fish collected from different places. Cobue loose the spots and (if they only way to describe it) fryeri type shape after around 3/4 of mine already have but a few smaller ones still have them slightly showing through. Like you I haven't seen this before but again it is very hard to know what to expect or what it may mean? And even harder to find reputable photos of juvvies to compare to. I look forward to seeing how these grow out and I have 20 so should be able to do a good comparison between them all. Utaka spots on Fryeri, I know that most the fryeri in NZ have them but I don't like the looks of them. Yes the fish that have them are still stunning and breeding true but when I had the option of getting some without I took it

It is my opinion from the research that I have done and talking to experienced people that Fryeri shouldn't have utaka spots. Again don't want to ruffle any feathers I haven't researched it that heavily as mine don't have them so it didn't really bother me that others do.

Yeah I can definitely see Fryeri in their shape that white blaze does look very fryeri too.. I guess comparing them to something like a Borleyi that is in the same family and a similar shape and starts that shape from very young only to broaden slightly as they get very old.. I am wondering where these fish came from? If they were imported as Azureus or as something else and the imported decided that was what they were? Or if they showed up at the importers/wholesaler from a breeder? Like I say I haven't kept these fish or done an awful lot of research so don't want to ruffle any feathers it is JMO

Nope, I don't have OOA's line that Johannes and Phil collis has or bobthebuilders line.. I have a line from Alex that I like far better than both of those lines.

I have no idea about azureus, I did consider getting some a few years ago but I didn't like the looks of the ones I could find in the petshops, from my limited research they seemed to be too slender and too much like fryeri for my likings.. However it does look like they do like all fish broaden out as they grow up, and it is possible we just have a slightly different strain of them in NZ? Generally as you have said when growing them up and have found differences in colour and body shape one would tend to think you may have hybrids.. But then it can come down to the individual fish and that fishes dominance etc as well? I am looking forward to seeing my cobues grow too, especially after getting to see the parents a few weekends back

Awesome well you have a special male there then It would be interesting to see if his young when grown up carry the same traits? I have pure Sc. Fryeri too and haven't seen a coloured female out of my lot. There are plenty of dodgy fish sold as fryeri around the place though, quite a few with utaka spots too

That is awesome Have you vented the fish to see if it is definitely a male and not a colourful female? It certainly looks like a male to me.. And I agree those are some very nice photos and nice fish too

Info is hard to find.. But I did find this. I am pretty sure it can and probably does infect daphnia etc as birds eat fish that carry it and then poo in our daphnia buckets, I also suspect that rainwater (collected off your house roof covered in bird poo) would also do a good job of spreading the bug.. As you guys have pointed out it can and will just keep infecting fish but I think it can also go through your live food.. The parasitic fish nematode Camallanus cotti has been reported from a number of freshwater fish species around the world. Its wide geographical distribution seems mainly to be the result of anthropogenic dissemination due to extensive ornamental fish trade. In most reports it is assumed that C. cotti's life cycle involves cyclopoid copepods as intermediate host and various freshwater fishes as final host. However, the species' relatively frequent and persistent occurrence in aquaria worldwide strongly indicates flexibility in its life cycle, i.e. the ability to infect the final host directly. The present study has shown that under aquaria conditions, without any presence of copepods, C. cotti is able to infect various phylogenetically distant fish species directly for at least three generations. It was further shown that the infective free-living first-stage larvae may survive for more than three weeks in the host-external environment and that their host-attracting behaviour is not precluding direct transmission to the final fish host. Any treatment for C. cotti under aquaculture or aquarium conditions should be directed towards both individual infected fish hosts as well as the free-living larvae on the substrate.

Yeah the danger of it is the fact the worms can stay inside unseen and sometimes the fish show no external signs of it.. I treated all of my tanks for it a few years ago and will probably do the same again soon more as a just in case than anything else, usually by the time you see the worms the fish is pretty well screwed anyway

Also introduced with live food cultured outside like daphnia etc.. They are very very common in fish in shops angels in particular seem to have a reputation for being vulnerable to them and able to carry them for long periods with no ill effects but transmit them to every other fish..

Callamanus worm http://www.bcaquaria.com/forum/callamanus-worm.html

As Smidey said they should be fine.. Just keep them moving with an airstone or air powered filter if they are really early and not moving around by themselves..

It is all looking good, I would be a bit iffy about the entire centre being divided off but you may be able to use this to put different types of fish in each side sharing the same water if you wanted to go that way? If you wanted to keep all the same kinds of fish I think it would be cool to make like a mountain range through the middle of the tank with maybe a few of them going really high or something like that but the majority of them having gaps on top? As for stocking you could do dems/yellows and one colony or multiple male peacocks.. Or haps you do have to watch the haps with the smaller fish as they do get big, it would however take years before they are big enough to eat dems etc..

Demasoni may cross breed with powder blues but IMO/IME it is unlikely.. However your "powder blues" from a mixed batch of zebras are most likely hybrids anyway so no real need to stress..

You do know that zebras are mbuna don't you? I am just saying that your powder blues may not be so pure if you have got a mixed bag.. End of the day it doesn't really matter provided you don't assign them a proper name you are unsure of, if I as you I would probably just pass them on as assorted zebras.. I would love to see this documentation that came with the yellows..

Adtape is the name for the liquid stuff and it is very expensive but maybe it goes further who knows.. Another thing you can try if prazi/metro doesn't work, or even better probably best to try it first is Levamisole HCL it is available over the counter as a bird wormer and is very gentle but effective against a few different types of worms that prazi won't touch.