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If you can reach I scrape it off using an old eftpos or credit card etc.. Its easy and doesn't scratch the glass

I think you can just goto the hareware store and buy the right sized hosing for stuff all.. Depends if you want that corrogated stuff or what..

Maybe this should be posted in the cichlid section, I have heard of the 2 living together but it depends on the temperment of the fish involved, if your duboisi are established and breeding they may take very unkindly to any more introduced fish especially one single fish... Maybe if you were going to give it a go do a big water change rearrange the rocks and stick the extra in before night time..

Looking awesome Mekhaela Cant wait for those fronts to grow up a bit they will be spectacular look like awesome fish! I dont know anything at all about the filter but it is probably a minimum water line, ie the water has to be over it or at that level at a minimum..

Im sure there are people on the forums here that will have tanks spare for that cheap.. Check with your local club, also sometimes second hand shops or tender centres..

No definately not with those other fish I probably wouldn't stick anything unless it was really rugged and fast in with a pair of convicts in a 3ft tank.. You coudl possibly find a 3ft tank for 20 anyway dont know why you'd bother with that tiny one..

Considering a mature convict would be around 150mm long maybe bigger id say that tank is definately not suitable for them at all.. Sorry id say 2.5 to 3ft for a pair of convicts.

Its quite common to stick rainbows in with africans I know ive seen it in a few tanks and also seen it recommended on a few sites.. At one stage I had some in a display tank also they seem to do pretty well and look cool

Hi and welcome to the forums.. Tough tanks seemed really really busy when we were up there they wouldn't even quote us for a tank cuz they said it would be like a month before they could do it.. Im also unsure how economical it woul dbe for them to make you a tank stand Best best would be to find someone handy on the forums or a retired chippie or something... Ask around your family/friends someone will know one, or else ask around and make one yourself depending on what you want its not hard to make one.

Isn't fishy TB really bad news? In the fact it can be easily transferred to humans and cause alot of pain and suffering?

lol and the whole discussion/argument starts again :)

I do it in a tank with the big boys.. But ive got a vege bin from a fridge that I spent ages (and broke a few tiny drill bits) drilling tiny little holes in the bottom.. Even though ive stripped and tumbled babies in there haven't lost any from fish sucking them through I think if they're kept moving and the holes are small enough its alright and its big enough for them to grow to an alright size too. I regularly stick my male bristlenose in there complete with his ship and egg's and then strip a few batches of babies in there.. Mesh on the other hand is a disaster.. I remember catching a fish and stripping the babies into a really fine net, i stripped the first lot and then gave her a break looked back in the net to find all the babies had been mushed..

Before I sold them to blue they were in a mixed malwi tank.. They seemed to do very well in there

Yeah it is simple supply and demand.. Alot of people walk into a pet shop and buy the pretty blue fish or the pretty yellow one.. Although a few of us would buy these if they showed up the majority of people may not.. Or they may not even be allowed in the country

I wouldn't do it.. not only are the water conditions different and all that but the discus may munch out on the dem's.. Or the dems may get agro..

what else you got in the tank? Is it a malawi community tank?

Yeah you need a current draw to ensure you can provide what it needs.. also an old computer supply can be handy for 12V and they can put out some juice with a few mods..

I thought that salt water was safer because if theres any salt water bugs on it then they wont live in the fresh water.. the opposite for freshwater..

If your keen you can boil it and that or even put it in a salt bath to attempt to sterilise it .. but I just used to get them from wherever and chuck them in..

I dont know about them but think they're got blue males and females.. The shape and yellow female/blue male suggest melanichromis somewhere along the line..

3ft breeders..

def not demasoni

hmmm well looks like a blue and a gold fish to me? lol Ive seen and even owned a male identical to that one looks to be too many bars to be interuptus but ive never seen one of them in nz.. The lot I have seen that were like that came from the "golden johanni" that came in and the male went blue like that.. And also Glenn had a few similair ones in his tank but not as many bars I dont think. And ive also seen the alexrod book with about 10 different fish some very similair to that pictured being named as johanni, I presume like Glenn that they have since been renamed. All and all who knows really im sure someone who knows more than me will jump on and clear it up... Have you tried cichlid-forum?

What an awesome fish And as always great pics.. He does look quite big and solid how big is he?

Sorry to say that you cant tell anything from that pic.. Any chance you can get a pic of the wounds?