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Blue zebras are already pretty much guaranteed to be hybrids.. That is generally what they are zebras that are blue with no scientiffic name or anything.. Dolphins are usually pretty good

lol well your not the best unbiased person to ask if it is any good then are you

lol awesome What foods do you feed your fish over there? Have you tried the prestige foods?

I guess that depends what version of the stories floating around you believe. I have heard all sorts, but the most likely version is they all came in together on the same batch and were split up from there. I certainly hope this is the case if people are going out of their way to source others they believe are from different imports. There would be no accurate way of determining what exact species/variant the fish on each of those imports (given the quality and poor naming of the fish we receive here) were and it would cause issues with any breeding done from these groups..

9 times out of 10 that polite message will be answered with sarcasm or with "that'sS what the people at the petshop told me they were" so you have to realize why people aren't usually polite about it. I have always gone direct to the source when I have had concerns about fish that I have been sold and usually told to smoke off by them.. There are so many dodgy cichlids especially africans out there it is really hard to know what is what, no doubt half of what we think is good and are working towards is not very good anyway so we just have to do our best with what we have. If you got your male from "somewhere different" and had them all in the same tank then there is a potential that the fish are in fact hybrids and people would say they are dodgy. End of the day it is a very difficult situation and very hard to ask someone questions or try and point something out when they think they are right (or you may well be wrong). Do you have pictures or more details of the fish for sale so we can make an educated guess as to the likeliness of them being crossed?

The issue with the fronts here is they are not allowed to be imported so the highly inbred burundi we do have with all the broken bars and random barring that pops out is all we can legally get.. I know what you are saying with the yellows, but I also thought there was a naturally occurring strain of white Labidochromis caeruleus, same with how there are blue ones (caeruleus is somehow latin for blue). I think it is very possible the white maybe caused by inbreeding but it could well be the naturally occurring ones.. It is good to know how to tell the fronts apart although I doubt most of us will see any others in NZ.. What would you call a burundi that sometimes throws 7 barred babies?

The label at the top of the yellow photo says "electric yellow haps" I thought this was saying that they were Haplochromis when I thought they were mbuna.. Was just wondering if some sort of reclassification had happened recently that I had missed it doesn't really matter I was just asking An article here describing the differences.. http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/haps_vs_mbuna.php

There is a bit of a petstore directory here http://www.fishkeepers.co.nz/forums/vie ... ?f=2&t=783 Haven't got around to rating them all yet but it gives you some idea what is around Enjoy your trip and don't annoy your new wife too much on your honeymoon by visiting too many fish shops lol

Awesome photos and fish cheers for sharing You look like you have alot of nice fish.. Are yellows haps now?

Awesome fish I wish we could get other fronts in NZ it would be nice to some some different ones around.

Hi and welcome it is good to see new members here I think I have seen some of your posts on the queensland forum, are you braddo?

Yeah supasi is breeding a few of these He has started a few threads and put out some advice over here http://www.fishkeepers.co.nz/forums/index.php just use the search and you should find a bit..

I have always had my unheated tanks temperatures stay at temps around 2 degrees colder than the room temp as well for some reason?

That is awesome, the parents stunting should have no bad effect on the fry, maybe only smaller spawnings if the female is smaller

Sounds like some good advice offered, you can leave her to spit and with plenty of hiding places then the fry have a good chance of survival.. If you want a better chance then strip her between 2 and 3 weeks of holding. I do also have to say that electric yellows are not typically all that good in community type tanks and you may have issues when they grow of them eating the guppies or neons or anything that will fit in their mouths..

That about sums it up it depends on alot of variables.. But generally most healthy fish should be fine for at least a week with no food.

lol it is amazing how far that comment went It was a genuine question and one and maybe trace&steve had no idea about mixing peacocks? It turns out they know about mixing them and also got them from a good source so all is good, not that there would be anything wrong with them breeding in mixed tanks as long as they were honest about it..

Congrats just feed the fry the same food as the parents only crushed up, or bbs or decap or any number of things.. On another note did this breeding occur in a species based breeding tank with only the one species of peacock in it?

How big is the tank they are in? It is possible yours is a male and the others could be males also so he is trying to exert his dominance over them, if the tank is too small for them to all have their own space they they can get injured. Or it could just be with all fish you sometimes just get bad eggs ones that are particularly nasty and go completely against what is typical for that species, you may have one of them.

Gutted Jimr I am sorry to hear of your loss.. Like you said lucky noone got injured.. What would the cost of those tanks be in 15mm glass? I haven't seen any tanks made of glass that thick even 5-6ft tanks made by "reputable" tank makers are only 10mm and sitting in peoples lounges..

What a shame you aren't venturing to the main land

And considering yours originated from mine then they should be the same

The 2 are separate at this stage and have never been mixed they will stay that way until I figure out what it is I have and if they can be mixed, I am leaning more towards not mixing them at this stage.

Yep very aggressive that one is a male, I have seen males a couple of years old own half a 6ft tank to themselves before I would hate to see what it would get sold as and what tank it ends up if they have no idea what it is..

What symptoms (if any) were the fish who died showing?