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Looking good . I was wondering what you were upto looks like you have been busy.. Glad the apistos have stopped apisting and starting breeding!

Wow nice fish!! :nfs:

I think Caryl has hit the nail on the head there are plenty of well paying jobs for qualified people or people with trades.. I know I have applied for a few jobs over there but I wont move unless I get very good money and/or a relocation package, there have been plenty of reports of people spending all their time/money/energy moving over there for a new start but being unable to find a job and having to come back with nothing to show for it and in worse shape than when they left. I think you will find the cost of living and how things work will be a bit different in Brisbane compared with Te Puke..

It is a good article There are tons of them here http://www.cichlid-food-canada.com/ that I have read too, you do always have to apply a scaling factor when something is written by or for the manufacturer though would be nice to see some independent research done.. In saying that I feed NLS and find it a great food

Cool, what else have you got in the tank?

They look pretty good to me too.. I know that some good ones were imported a while back but the people in Auckland with them were having issues breeding them.

Make sure the legs sit under the top so they transfer the load down.. Bracing is your friend even diagonal ones help heaps and I would use ply, MDF shouldn't be around water, unless you plan to spend lots of time sealing it and then even one stratch through the sealer will let water in and it will fall apart. I have build a few hori stands and got a mate who is a builder out in the weekend to "help" build a new one, needless to say he had build a stand to hold 2 big 5ft tanks in about 2 hours from statch and it was 10 x sturdier than anything I could make.. If it helps with the cutting I can loan you a circular saw (providing you don't chop any body parts off with it) but if your only doing 3 or 2 x 2 then a sharp hand saw should be pretty easy.

Sounds like a nice tank, pics would be good.. Aggression only gets really bad when they get some size on them and the males start throwing their weight around, but by that stage you ususally have rocks filled with fry growing out from them spawning when they were youngers so you have plenty of fish. I have thinned my 30 odd that I used to have out to 2m and around 12f and that seems to work really well in a 350L 5ft.

Yeah Phoenix did have a really nice dem/yellow tank I can't remember what happened but they started to die so he sold them all yellows/Dems are a good combo and should be ok in a tank with the footprint you have quoted (1000 x 400). Cycling your tank will be pretty easy if you were starting out with smaller fish, take some media from one of your existing tanks and chuck the fish in. Small fish have a smaller bio load and there is a large volume of water to dissipate any ammonia spike that may occur.

Theory is that fish are only designed to process the fats from cold blooded animals so when you feed them meat from warm blooded animals then the fat doesn't get process which causes all sorts of issues as the fish gets older. Can be very good for growth etc but may cause other issues in older fish due to excess fat build up in livers etc.

Hi and welcome Your new tank would be a good size for a demasoni/electric yellow tank, they are a really good mix because the dems are a very brilliant blue and the yellows are a nice yellow so you get blue/yellow in the same tank.. They are also both more suitable for smaller tanks because they stay smaller, the major consideration for this mix is making sure you have at least 10-12 (ideally 15+) demasoni because they are very hard on each other and need to be kept in colonies to spread the aggression. If you did want some dems I will have some ready in a few weeks that I will be selling, just let me know..

It is hard to know.. He obviously isn't very happy/dominant in the tank, would be interesting to chuck him in a small tank by himself or with some girls and see what colour he goes. Colour is really hard to pick, it depends on mood, lighting, food, tank layout, colour of rocks etc in the tank and quite a few other things.

Yeah its really weird, my breeders are brothers/sisters to yours though and they don't look like that.. It is very weird how some fish can react under different conditions though..

Thought so, what bizarre coloring.. Was he otherwise normally coloured before the change?

Cool! What is it?

I would be very careful of trying to treat bacterial infections with acriflavin or any thing like that at a weaker dose you run the risk of bacteria developing resistance to the drug. You are always best to use the full dosage and run a full course.

Probably because I have never fed any of my mbuna bloodworms it is not a very good food Personally I wouldn't feed it to mbuna but that is just me and others do..

Electra could be a female or a young male or a subdominant young male, best way is to vent it, what tank do you have it in and with what other tank mates? Second fish is a kadango shape definitely nothing like a peacock (when you get a bit of experience with these fish you will see this too it is hard to see at first most people can't tell the difference). Kadangos are quite a round fish and their mouth goes to a point towards the middle of their body, peacocks tend to have a flatter bottom profile and mouth more towards the bottom and larger slope at top of body. Have a look at some good photos on a reputable site (like cichlid-forum profiles) and you will see once you get your eye in. I have no idea what the other "kadangos" you have are then, they should resemble this fish, maybe they are dodgy? - there have been quite a few dodgy kadangos around in the past. If you got it off Phil it could be anything depending on the mood he was in on the day and what he decided was "rare" enough to sell. Bottom one will be good if it came from Andrew, can you get a better pic of it? And what are its take mates they could be affecting how it colours up.

First looks like electra, second like a red kadango (or kadango cross there are some many randoms around), bottom one I am not sure can you get more better pics? Where did you get it from and as what?

The ratio is pretty bad for a tank that small with big nimbos they can be pretty hard on the females I have 2m 4-5f in my giraffes in a 540L tank when I breed them and the males are pretty hard on the girls.. It is just one of those things really if the females aren't getting injured and he isn't being too nasty then its ok, just keep an eye on it.

What is your ratio? That sounds like normal behaviour for them, how big is the tank? If you can find out what he is using to determine his terriotory (ie what is in the middle of the tank) then you might be able to move it over slowly so that his terriotory gets smaller?

NLS cichlid, spirulina flake, granugreen, novorift are a few that work quite well.. Mine are on NLS and spirulina flake and that is mainly what I have been using.. What mbuna do you have?

Is the fish still eating? That looks pretty pineconed already

They are probably in NZ I have heard rumours of so and so's mate has them etc but have never seen any, think they are bow hunted in the Waikato.. Anyway they are not allowed anyway so don't try and get any unless you are getting them out of water ways and killing them

I agree if you use your filter to disturb the surface and your power head then you have redundancy If you dont have a heap of power heads lying around then you have to use the airstone and you can make them look alright if you run the inline in behind things and hide the airstone..