ryanjury

Completely free but noone goes on there to buy anything so why bother

I think the fees are high, but they probably do have alot of staff and all sorts of other costs plus the aim of business is to make money, they pretty much have a monopoly on online auctions so why not charge through the teeth for it

Have all the fry hidden because you stirred up the tank and upset them all when you removed the fish? Or did you remove one of the pair upsetting the remaining parent enough to eat the fry? Or did you stir up the tank so much the pair felt threatened and ate the babies? A few options that may or may not be the cause..

It is almost impossible to cure as the symptoms can occur from a wide range of internal problems.. Some have luck with antibiotics (obviously these will only be effective if the cause was a bacterial infection) epsoms salts etc.. Generally it doesn't achieve much but you don't loose anything by giving it a go, good luck!

Are her scales sticking out when you look at her from the top?

I have to agree with you there mystic, I run 30 tanks at the moment and I need this many tanks to breed the15-20 or so species that I am breeding or attempting to breed correctly. I set things at a price that will hopefully sell enough of them to cover my power bill, fish food and extras like filters or stuff like that when they blow up or need new ones, or buy new fish if I want any. Unfortunately I don't have the spare money to cover that in the budget so I have to try and make it out of my hobby and spread some good fish at what I feel are good prices in the process. People selling fish dirt cheap will drag the prices down for everyone else who sell that fish but it all swings in round abouts, once someone drags down the price on something then that just gives you a reason to try and breed something else instead Of course you always keep the fish and back ups going just in case everyone gives up on them at once and they die out.. Anyway I think this thread should maybe be split as it has gone off on a major tangent from the original posters intention

As above I would have been keen as but they are too much for me.. Maybe they are the right price for the market? Who knows, you also have to remember that it is close to christmas so most people don't have alot of spare cash I have noticed a distint lack of people buying fish and a distint rise in people selling..

Go for a caldina or a avenir (primera wagon) we have owned our avenir for 3 years now and it has never had anything go it is 2lt manual and has a bit of get up and go and enough power to haul a full car load of stuff around, but then is small enough to be economical. Only thing to worry about when buying a nissan is don't buy a CVT one they cost $5-10k to replace need lots of servicings and can only be serviced using nissans special fluid which costs a bomb..

I probably wouldn't keep them any warmer than 28 either, they may well handle the higher temps but it will shorten their lives and make them more prone to diseases.. Plus they are nowhere near as flashy as rummy noses or cardinals.. You guys have a heap of tanks why not get some cardinals and try and breed them, it would be a good project

Awesome at least you know what you have.. You didn't get what your splotchy ones in the photo are called though.. It will be hard for you to get info on what your sunshine peacock is as it will match with many scientiffic names for peacocks (the issue with using common names). And you also won't find a profile for blue zebras as all the person who sold it is saying it is a zebra and it is blue who knows what fish were bred together to make it.

Wait until it is cool (put your hand around the element).

Congratulations Were there any other zebras in the tank when she bred? There are plenty of threads on this subject if you use the search feature above and cut it down to the cichlid section and search for "holding" or stripping or something like that then you will find all the info that we will all just post again..

praziquantal is the full name it is avaliable over the counter from vets as a few various drugs droncit is probably the easiest to get. 1 50mg tablet treats 25L and lasts a few days, you will need to treat twice to break the cycle.. http://fins.actwin.com/aquatic-plants/m ... 00146.html If you google "praziquantel for treating fish" you will find tons of info..

Very easy I am sure google will have thousands of very good sites on it..

Was the list I gave you above not good enough? There are probably plenty of other options but the yellow/dem/peacock route is the best for a smaller tank and gets a good mix of colours and lots of fish in a small tank.. You can keep bristlenoses or loaches in with your africans if you wanted to.

Yeah PP kills all bacteria and wouldn't be that nice to plants I don't think.. Prazi is probably much nicer on the fish and easier to use etc..

The filter will be fine, I run most of my african tanks at relatively high stocking levels and only have 3-4 times an hour filtration plus 30-40% water changes a week and I have had no problems. I think some people get really carried away with the whole number of times per hour is actually needed in tanks, yes more is good but is it enough to advise people to run out and buy canister filters for 90L tanks? The 165L tank would be good, I would sell off the zebras they generally get too nasty and bossy for a tank that small, you may have luck with them but probably not, plus they are probably hybrids or at least unidentified if you have no idea what they are. The yellows and OB peacocks should be fine in a 165L tank but I would advise building upto 6-8 of each so you will get good numbers of males and females and then maybe add some dems (at least 12). The dems/yellows/peacocks should all breed true in that tank and if there were crosses it would be dead obvious so it would be a good stocking for breeding a couple of fish if that is the plan in the future. I have managed to keep plants in a few african tanks but most of mine eat them, some have success with anubais and java fern.

All fish are likely to be affected with the flukes treat them all if you are treating one, even if only a few show signs it could be because they are more affected by it the others likely still carry them. The fluke or fluke eggs may hang around in the tank sometimes they have a large incubation time.. I guess it would depend on the type of fluke that has affected them etc it is probably safer to treat everything in the tank with prazi or pp or something like that and wipe them all out.

Also only having 2 of each kind of fish usually isn't that good, if you end up with a pair the male hassles the female usually stressing her so much she dies. If you have 2 males the dominant one beats up the sub dominant one, the only good situation is getting 2 females which may get along but they won't be very colourful.. Of course there are exceptions to this but it is what I have found, you are more likely to get away with smaller numbers of each type in crowded tanks or in larger tanks.

Your tank is too small for them, it definitely won't be suitable for another 2 years.. Also the advice you were given on the sizes these fish will reach is incorrect most of them will easily reach 12-15cm long and empress maybe bigger.

A 90L tank is too small, it may do for the short time but the empresses should be in a 200L+ tank as they are big haps your 2 blue zebras and what looks like a red zebra at the bottom (looks like wrong shape for a peacock to me?) are zebras as they will grow and get nasty as well especially if they are males your 2 splotchy ones look like ob peacocks.

They will happily scrap each other out at 7-8cm usually they are in a big enough tank or you have enough giraffes in the tank to disperse the aggression so it is fine. I have seen females with the slightest hint of colour in the face but it is nowhere near as much as a subdominant male.

I use decap with all of my guppy and african fry and none goes to waste it is IMO the best food and they fry eat it from day one and grow fast on it. IMO you are wasting your time hatching it for guppies they are only their most nutritious when they freshly hatched so why not just feed the right amount so there is none on the bottom? I should add that I don't soak mine just feed a little and the fish eat it off the surface.

I think it is an interesting one, in a smaller breeding tank with only a bubble filter is there going to be that much water flow and therefore good bacteria in the gravel? Or will he build up of waste or any uneaten food cause more issues than it would actually be worth... I wonder if that is one of the questions that anyone can actually answer? lol

Everything posted on this site (I think PT and E and a few others are locked until you join) is available to anyone with an internet connection.. IMO it is probably a place you want to protect and share with people you trust.. I would hate to see what someone would do if they wanted to catch some of those little guys and these people would probably be the people who don't know how to look after them and would just kill them anyway