ryanjury

It looks like a dolphin to me as well

Yep have to agree with all the above They purchased them as red shoulders, and then randomly went around to their friends house who had some "sunshines" so they decided they looked the same and then jumped on google and decided sunshines (which is the common name for many peacocks worldwide hense the problems with common names, there is someone else selling baenshi as sunshines on there too) were maleri. They even managed to put them down to an exact locational varient which to my knowledge none of the peaocks we have are imported with loctional varients.. They are doing very well I have seen a number of zebras being sold as peacocks using the "my mate has one the same in his tank" way of iding them it seems most people can't pick out small (or even large differences). They do look like nice fish though and could well be pure but who knows what, as mark said maybe the breeder mixed up his fish, or maybe they're nice hybrids who knows and to me its a big risk to take for $15 a fish. My advice would be to stay away from them and do what I am doing and wait for marklb to breed his red shoulders, they came from a (semi) descent source and from the photo he posted earlier are going to be stunning fish.

I believe the worms are paralysed and pooped or fall out within the 24 hours which is why you have to suck them all up, before they (presumably) wake up and reinfect the fish? I doubt that callumanus eggs will be visable to the eye, maybe do a google search and you might find some more specific information. I would wait until you have fully treated (3 doses) the affected tank before moving anything from it otherwise you will just spread the problem. REgarding dosing, did you read the article that I posted? It states at the bottom that dosage rates suggested have been between 2 and 25mg/L, it seems to be harmless to the fish but has no additional effect to the worms after 2mg/L. Using 1.25mls you used about 288mg so around 12mg/L the fish should be fine but you wasted some meds.

If he has little red worms hanging out his bum then it is most likely Camallanus, there are a few ways to treat it but Lavamisole HCL is the easier to source. An article for you http://www.loaches.com/disease-treatmen ... chloride-1 It has all the dosage rates (2mg per L) and treatment plan in it.. You can buy Lavamisole HCL in a product called Aviverm it is used for worming birds and can be purchased at your vet or on some online pet supply stores (google it). Even though the treatment is in the article I will summarise it for you.. day 1, large water change and treat with aviverm, aviverm is 230mg lavamisole per ml so 1ml does 115L. day 2, 24 hours after treatment do another large water change vacuum the gravel as well as you can to remove any worms as they will only be paralysed.. Wait 5-7 days and do the above again. Lavamisole will only paralyse the worms which you must remove, it wont kill any eggs so they will hatch in 5-7 days hense the re treatment to break the cycle. The article also suggests a 3rd treatment a week later to really ensure you get them all.. Good luck I HTHs it is a particularly nasty worm to have but my friend who had a heavy infection got rid of it using the above and due to how nasty it is I did my whole fishroom and do all new comers for it..

I wouldn't recommend removing her thats for sure, I tried removing a couple of females from my colony when I stripped them and conditioning them by themselves and then reintroducing them with a rearranged tank and they still got beaten up so much one got killed and I had to rescue the other and try again later.. Best thing to do is to remove them and strip them and then put them straight back in, if you wanted to let them recover maybe you can put them in a net breeder in the same tank as the colony so that she might hold her place still as she is in the tank, unsure if this would work I usually stick them straight back in and they recover. Another thing to add is if you haven't had much experience stripping fish dems are very difficult to strip, I have stripped hundreds of fish now and I still struggle with the dems especially the smaller females. It can be very easy to injure them when stripping them. Lots of people have said that leaving your dems in a fully rocked up tank and letting them spit works better. I have also had trouble with aggression between the babies recently and them actually killing each other off.

Females will be smaller and slightly duller they will also be rounder in shape.. It should be relatively easy to tell by how they are behaving.. Give away for holding would be the fish stopping eating and hiding, mine usually swim around or hide in the plants or around edges of rocks and you can see they are holding. What else do you have in your tank? How many dems do you have? And are you planning on stripping them?

Sounds like it could be courting type behaviour or them just deciding who is boss/playing.. Do you think you have a male and female? (view from above females will look alot fatter and generally be bigger than males).

A more red dragonsblood Mine are not colouring up anymore red even when fed on NLS which is supposed to be a natural colour enhancing food, maybe the lighting would have some effect none of my tanks have descent lighting or new tubes..

smidey, lighten up!!!

Yeah they are common here I have 11 growing out atm can't wait for them to mature.. They do get big though and need a large tank when grown up.. Livingart I agree very nice!

I have never had melafix do anything for the fish, also if you do need it someone once told me to read the active ingredient on the back and get it from pharmacy/heath shop apparently it is cheaper I haven't looked into it though.. Same can be said for stresscoat really.. I have never had it do anything and to me it seems to be only highly recommended by people that work in a petshop and base their knowledge on what they would sell to customers and what is written on the back of the packet. If I have a fish that has been injured I use rock salt and that seems to clear them up, I know quite a few people with many tanks and none of them use stress coat and there seems to be quite a bit of info on the net. It seems the area of fish medicines has pretty much no rules and alot of it isn't tested scientifically just based on manufacturers claims, some even say that aloe vera is very bad for fishes gills.. Of course that is all my opinion based on what myself and others do and reserach I have done.. I would hate to think how much stress coat for my 26 tanks would cost for water changes each week

Hmm could be photoshopped, I would understand if I had only seen these fish on sites with them for sale being bright red, but I have seen them on cichlid-forum when people just want an ID for their mixed tanks etc I doubt these people who photo shop them.. For example http://www.cichlid-forum.com/phpBB/view ... strawberry http://www.cichlid-forum.com/phpBB/view ... strawberry Interesting discussion on them. http://www.cichlid-forum.com/phpBB/view ... strawberry Aquatopia all of my young colour up like the male that photo is of him and hasn't been doctored or anything will be moving them to a breeding tank soon as I just sold the last of his offspring. Even though these are hybrids I wouldn't go crossing them with anything willy nilly to try and improve them, I would do this by growing out large numbers of fry and selecting the ones with the attributes you want continued or finding other dragonsbloods from a different gene pool to breed with. I still treat them as a "pure" peacock and breed them in species tanks etc. I think that the original cross (or crosses) would have been done many (maybe even 100's of) generations before the fish were actually released onto the market with lots of line breeding (inbreeding) to try and get them breeding true so it would be a very long term project to try and make your own species..

If you do a google search you will find it is extremely common with blue rams internationally.. There are plenty of theories as to why some say inbreeding, some say that parenting instincts are learnt and us taking the parents away for many generations means that the population are slowly forgetting how to raise their babies.. Who really knows why, you have options, you can leave them to it and hope that eventually they start looking after them, you can change something to stimulate them into caring for their young (add other fish, different tank different partners etc). Or you can do what most do and remove the eggs and raise them by themselves.

Yeah that is what is commonly called all sorts of things in the hobby, from strawberry blue peacock, golden peacock, dragons blood etc etc etc.. The name used seems to depend on the mood of the person naming, it is the same with all common names I guess.. They are like dragonsbloods line bred hybrids from the reserach I have done noone really knows where they are produced and what was crossed to get them. Seems to be a very firm line of people who will keep them or wont keep them because they are hybrids, personally I like them, they breed true and I only ever pass them on as hybrids so I have no problems. http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f183/ ... sblood.jpg this is what my male looks like nowhere near as red unfortunately I haven't seen any that red in NZ..

They retail for around $600-700, animates had them half price a while back and people were picking them up for $350 brand new which is a bargain, I would expect second hand ones to be around the $300 mark but that is just a guess. What is special about them? They are huge and pump alot of water... Sometime like 3500LPH (empty) so around 2500LPH, they are also pretty big so you can fill them with biomedia or whatever else floats your boat. There are plenty of reviews on the net which compare it to a similar rated eheim (but twice the price) the eheim comes out on top but most can't justify paying double the price when the eheim isn't that much better. All down to personal preference I guess

As already mentioned the base under the tank is going to be very very important it has to be completely level as you have a large base on that tank and glass doesn't like to flex.. From memory the tallest to go with 10mm is 600mm so 700 should be sweet with 12mm glass.. Also as I am local, I am just wondering where you are getting the glass from? Are you going to cut it yourself or get it pre cut? I haven't tried any bigger tanks but have found even smaller tanks a pain to assemble do you have any experience building tanks or any other people who will help you? I don't know how much bracing is needed but I would do 10mm euro style bracing long ways large 10mm braces at each end and in the middle of the tank, I would also do 10mm stripes along front and back along the bottom to increase surface area for silicon to stick to, and possibly up the sides too (unsure if this is needed but a 5ft I have that is 750mm high has these).

I think you are playing with fire here, bearing in mind that if you get one adult male convict, jewel, acara or firemouth that is grumpy he will happily take over a 3ft tank There are no hard and fast rules towards stocking up tanks with cichlids it all goes on aggression I agree the poor keyholes will get a hard time as they are generally quite peaceful.. I do get the impression you have already made up your mind and thats cool noone can guarantee it wont work as some fish just get along.. I just hope you have spare tanks to rescue any half dead fish if it does all turn pear shaped and you can get them out in time..

I always thought that it was to remove mainly the hormones that the other fish secrete to stunt the growth of their tank mates, and also to remove waste from feeding heaps.. Good food is a must and lots of it, I go by variety rather than one good food, foods like beef heart are high in protein and great for growth but because of the way that fish can't process warm blooded fats will ultimately shorten the fishes lives and cause problems, probably ok in a varied diet though

lol no defiantly not value for money As Ira said it would cost a very generous $600 at full petshop retail prices to buy all that gear new probably less if you shopped around, there is no way chucking some rocks and stuff in it and making it out to sound professional SHOULD make him 1200 profit, but I have seen worse things sell for top $$ and good on him if he does.. I can cerrtainly see the angle that he is going for and it is a nice looking setup and good photos, there are people out there who will take it hook line and sinker.

I wouldn't go with anymore than what you have.. If the convicts do pair off and breed they will take over at least half of that tank not leaving much room for the jewel/acara.. As Si says maybe try some Geo's? Or if you want to setup a nice colourful crowded tank go down the african route with dems/yellows and some peacocks as they do better in larger groups..

Any shop that sells aqua one products should be able to help you with the parts for it The diaphragms wear out all the time so should be a commonly available part, good luck maybe livingart can help also?

Name: Ryan Sex: Male Age: 26 Status: Married with 2 kids

I use a 70LPM one in my fishroom and it does around 15 airstones/air powered filters with no problems and still air spare.. I think I have seen the smaller 1200LPH (20LPM) ones on trademe quite cheaply like this one http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pe ... 455242.htm they would be more than enough air to do one large tank. They are noisy though and the diaphragms wear out (like anything else I guess).. Have you tried larger 2 outlet standard air pumps?

To me you have 2 options.. Remove the blue acara, jewels, convicts and possibly angel (depending on if you want small fish tetras/guppies etc to survive in there) and restock the tank as a community tank.. Or move on all the community type fish, gouramis, rams, koolies, fighters and guppy and do a cichlid tank.. The tank as you have it isn't going to work those cichlids are too aggressive and will get big enough to eat the other fish. You also have to be wary that although the 620T looks good and holds alot of water it is not suituable for stocking up with cichlids as they like to establish terriotories and with that tank being taller rather than longer it doesn't have the footprint for heaps of fish. Also having a lower surface area than the same volume standard sized tank (ie not tall) means you can put less fish in there. Who helped you with your stocking? Or did you go and choose fish that you liked and chuck them in? End of the day sometimes these things work for you and thats great but I wouldn't recommend it I don't think it will work long term, if your cons to pair up you will end up with hundreds of babies that other fish can't seem to eat and you can't give away so bear that in mind

Can't help at all but remembered this thread which may help viewtopic.php?f=17&t=37742 good luck they sound like they're pretty handy..