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Hey Steve welcome to the forums, I don't know for sure but you should be able to get the filter you want from any eheim stockist maybe if you put your location in your profile others maybe able to offer some local choices. I think those eheims are pretty dare have you considered an FX5, sure the eheim is a better filter but I don't think it is twice as good to reflect the price.. I have an FX5 and I am very impressed with it I have it on a heavily stocked 500L tank and only have to clean it out every 2-3months and water changes ever week or 2 I would see no reason to buy anything more than that. I am not convinced that adding a canister will help with your problems, ammonia is dissolved in the water and should be converted by the good bacteria in your filter into nitrite and then into nitrate which can be removed by your water changes. If you are having ammonia problems then I would say your tank isn't fully cycled or the filtration isn't upto the task (flow too low, not enough bio media etc). How long has the tank been setup? Did you cycled it before adding fish? And what is in your sump and what is the flow rate? Another option would be to buy a power head or a few bubble walls to keep the crud stirred up so it goes down the overflow into the sump.

Awesome they are looking good Are you glad you didn't sell them? The spotty fish are juvvie Dub's, IMO they look better as young than adults lol

What is the active ingredients of the farming bloat med? Here is the article that I have read on it.. http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/malawi_bloat.php

Those fish look wicked Good work, they will only get better if they are that small.. I am also curious what you would recommend for treating bloat, I thought you used metro which is relatively easy to come by here.. Have also heard that cloat is good but haven't seen that around here yet (haven't looked yet though). Do you guys have any idea what caused your bloat? From the sounds if it noone really knows 100% what causes it..

I don't know what they are haven't got into tropheus.. Yet.. One day I will but gotta have the $$'s to buy a descent number of fish and I am waiting for them to be breed and prices to come down, have had an offer of some pemba so hoping that comes through I believe (but not 100% sure) that Tropheus Moorii Moliro (red) is what is commonly sold as Tropheus firefox in NZ? They are on the list at the moment so should be relatively easy to acquire should you want some

They are sometimes on the list as "royal blues" and there can be some dodgy strains of them around due to this common name and people crossing them with what most of us would call "royal blues".. I think that Nav may have some breeding? Where did you get yours from Mark (if you don't mind me asking don't want to start a fight just send me a pm if you want) have always loved the red shoulders but seem to be very hard to find descent ones

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lol yeah I can guarantee anyone who has them knows someone else who has them so they never loose them, or like everything rare you go balls to the wall to breed them asap and get back ups so you never loose them.. The funny thing is people have "had them" for a long time now yet I have never seen anyone sell one that has been bred, they must have lists of people lined up..

I think someone said that the first one to mature is the best to remove if they are exceptionally aggressive.. If they are all getting along I wouldn't mess with it, sometimes we go through our tanks removing the fish that get picked on and then the bully turns on the next fish, it is sometimes better to remove the bully and allow another to mature if your having problems?

lol Frenchy.. Initially I thought that Johannes was posting in this thread to say that they had brought and bred these calvus, but then someone mentioned they were fry from a pair another forum member sold that I thought were comps, and then I thought about this list and about Navs 1" of fish each in 2037 and then I realised I was thinking about it too much lol Good news either way

The fish that Johannes is taking about being bred isn't the fish in the photos on the first page which is what is causing confusion

As you said demasoni are vego's so make sure their main diet is vege based.. I used to feed spirilina flake, spirilina sticks, sera granugreen etc.. But no feed mainly NLS with normal flake and homemade mix once a week to mix things up a bit.

lol Dreams are free Nav The good thing is these fish have been spawned, hopefully I am somewhere on the list as it stands, either way its good news these have been spawned and will hopefully be spread around to be made available to plenty of others in the future Apparently although they take a long time to grow and mature once they do start they produce alot of babies so hopefully there will be plenty to go around from whoever has spawned these.

I have no idea what is going on or if this is true but a friend told me that it is an auckland city bylaw that they cannot be bred/sold up there?

I am unsure what size they start breeding as I got my pair as an adult male/female and it took them 2 years to get over themselves (or me to notice them getting friendly) and start breeding. But good signs would be a bigger and smaller one hanging around together keep an eye on things and if the tank isn't too heavily populated they might even raise some babies for you

I imagine the 8ft tank would help in your situation Mark It is always a hard road with colony forming fish some people have great luck with a pair and some have terrible luck with 12.. It always depends on the fish But if things aren't too bad and the fish are breeding i wouldn't mess with it..

This is my fav. http://www.cichlid-forum.com/ Has a forum, a heap of articles and very up to date profiles with locations and variants of each fish that other sites are lacking you can spend hours on there reading

I can't speak from experience, but I know someone (who posted on here ages ago) and he kept getting rid of his sub dominant males as they got picked on, the alpha just turned on the females when he ran out of males so he ended up selling his alpha male and females separately and cutting his losses. Personally if your second 2 males are descent enough to breed from I would rehome the dominant one, if the aggression is fairly minor then I would just leave them to it, sometimes screwing with these colonies can cause all hell to break loose How big is the tank they are in?

lol yeah you picked it He has started to stay up all night and sleep all day, helps me keep my sanity if I get him up and jump on here and do stuff at 2am in the morning lol

Sajica = T bar we all carried on using confusing common names :oops:

lol yep as Dixon said Sorry can't resist being a smart ass sometimes.

I wouldn't do it either.. I haven't kept the t bars or nic's but those tall tanks are no good for cichlids really not enough floor space for them to all setup their own turf, no matter how passive they are once they mature they will require space and there wont be enough for everyone in that tank

Yep sure is, they breed fish at BK in Chch

Yep could be a female or subdominant male peacock, commonly they can be hybrids it depends where they come from as they cross very easily in mixed tanks which people commonly setup, also if you accidently mix 2 females it can be impossible to tell them apart again..

Sorry to hear you got 2 males I would be careful thinking that you can get 2 pairs to get along, it might work but your tank would have to be a descent sized 3ft and your pairs fairly evenly matched in size/aggression..