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Daphnia is pretty easy just do it as everyone above has suggested Are daphnia small enough for newly hatched axys? Brine shrimp are also very easy, get a 1.5L bottle, chuck 1L of water water in it and an airline (no airstone) 1TBS of salt shake it up and chuck in some eggs adjust the air till the water is boiling then in 24 hours you will have brine shrimp, siphon through a handkerchief and your done. Micros are even easier.

Fingers crossed there may be F2 avaliable in the next year or so!

Lol it certainly made my day seeing these and some of his other fish let's just say there will be some very exciting fish for sale in the next year or so!

Went around to a mates place and had a tank full of F1 (yes the real deal F1 ie offspring from wild fish) Tropheus moorii Kambiwimba Red Rainbow!! They are only young fish so not fully coloured so the pics above are off the net, but they are F1 fish from a good source I didn't think I would ever see anything like these in NZ, can't wait for them to mature and colour up fully!

I think a school of tetras may help, or they may be so small that the fish don't even bother chasing them. 4m and 2f is not a good ratio and it will be very hard on the girls, as you say you can only keep an eye on it and see how it goes.

Extra height doesn't mean jack, height makes for more litres but doesn't aid with the oxygen exchange which is purely based on surface area, and also doesn't create any extra territory for aggressive fish like African cichlids. I would ditch the haps off your list and it should be ok depending on numbers, in a 1m tank you can also do a colony of dems. 600 wide would be better.

I agree the fish will get used to the tank placement and people moving by it is a shame you can't make it wider so that you can put some rocks down the middle for somewhere for them to chill out. I also agree with Smidey though not many of those fish should be kept in a tank that small.

They are still standard guppies and wont cope below 18-20C..

I would set them up in a big container (last time I used one of those blue shell paddling pools from the warehouse) use 100% rainwater or old water change water. As with fish just start off feeding small amounts at a time until you get the hang of it, they will die quickly in polluted water but wont die of starvation as fast. Have you considered hatching brineshrimp and using microworms for your eggs? They only take a day to hatch and they are allot more reliable than a daphnia culture.

Yes it is more than a new tank.. However if you have gone direct to a glassier it is probably reflective of what it actually costs.

Yay I remember reading a few posts about your jags over the years.. You can probably just start the fry off on micros and then onto crushed flake if you can't find daphnia?

Bugger Even though you have some caves and stuff in there it is still very open and the fish wont actively seek out cover behind big rocks, even if they do the big fish will swim by see them and give chase again, although it doesn't look pretty it sometimes pays to have more rock work in there.. I have no experience with geos though so maybe others will comment. If the fish was bullied to death then I would expect there to be fin damage as well unless she got really hammered in the side.

Just a reminder this is happening this Saturday!

Best way to sex egg scattered is to do it in the morning before being fed that way the food isnt influencing things.

+1 I used to use water change water and small amounts of mown grass to feed mine, I had. I luck with buckets they were just too small to keep stable I think..

Yeah I agree, looks like air bubbles when the tank was assembled to me too..

UV filter is only a short term solution unless you find out what is making the water go green then it will just come back.. I had green water from food I was feeding that was high in phosphates but I think your plants should deal with that so I am not sure.

I would ask you that question. But would probably expect around 7-8 months from free swimming to breeding, depending on variety and care. But to adult would be years.

How did he get dwarf angels? I thought they all got to a good size unless stunted. A mate of mine had an angel and all sorts (guppies, tetras, swords, platties etc) and after a year he only had a huge angel left alive it ate eveything else. Angels are cichlids, they are aggressive, predatory and they get relatively big so be careful with how you stock them and make sure your tank is big enough. I have actually found them to be quite horrible to keep, I have only just got a few more with 10 albino angels growing out nicely.

+1 Now I need to find some in Auckland

Check with pupuke they are get them in from time to time, I have picked some up and shipped it to people in the past..

Awesome! Glad to hear that it is all looking good!

Ethics are an interesting one and allot of people breeding/selling fish seem to be lacking them.. IMO if you are going to the effort to breed and sell fish then you have a responsibility to take some effort or duty of care to ensure that you are producing nice fish worth spreading. It is quite frustrating being a breeder and seeing people ruin what you spend so much time and money trying to achieve or just breeding rubbish making up names for it and selling it. Inbreeding is a very interesting one found a good quote based around electric yellows but holds true for all species.. from http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/l_caeruleus.php And more interesting discussion on it here http://www.cichlid-forum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=233277 which is the stance I tend to take too.

Thanks It is always handy to know where a vet that has knowledge with fish is on the off chance you need it. From looking at that fish I would say there is no saving it so it would be awesome if you do manage to treat it!

Yeah you need to treat it right and make sure you keep retreating the last thing you want to do is knock them back give them a half dose and let them come back again.. You will be amazed at the difference in your fish a day or 2 after treatment but make sure you do a second dose (think article recommends a 3rd as well but have a read). I think the affected fish looks like a fighter maybe? The affected area is towards the front (if the drawing is correct) so doesn't look like a live bearer. Although all fish can be hit with calamanus live bearers and angels are very commonly affected by it.