ryanjury

Had a good time yesterday it was good to meet some new people and catch up with some others, big thanks to everyone who put in the hard yards arranging things!

Yeah I usually do the same But really depends on when they breed and when I have time to get in pull tanks down to catch and strip them.

They haven't been imported for a while but there are gold and red cockatoos on the current import list so you should start seeing them in stores..

What exactly are you looking for? Double red agassizi or cockatoos?

What is the scientific name of the peacocks you have? And you will need to strip them if you want a reasonable amount of fry to survive, usually 2-3 weeks after they first start holding..

I agree more females would be good.. Not many other options in a tank that small though, maybe yellows and jullies maybe shellies. What sort of peacocks do you have? Different types get to different sizes and have different temperaments etc. Dems would be ok short term but will outgrow the tank..

Hi caryl.

Did they get imported as rios this time or are they still spotted bristlenoses..

Should be able to buy it by the sack at a garden centre it is used as a media for pot plants and stuff like that..

There are tons on trademe, or consider pumice or scouring pads etc..

If you wanted to get a small population of them then you could just do the bath tub filled completely with moss and each summer they would breed by themselves.. To get more then you need to go down the routes mentioned above..

You are right neither of the top 2 are female ice blues, the top one could be a Metriaclima callainos (cobalt zebra) but the shape doesn't look quite right to me. The second one in first pic I am unsure on as well but doesn't look like anything pure I have seen so guessing hybrid. Bottom one could be a male ice blue do you have another pic of it? Something looks off with the colour in that one but think it is the pic.. Problem with zebras in NZ is most of them are hybrids people go on the net make up names and just breed them with anything or breed them in mixed tanks and sell the fry as pure. We just end up with lots of hybrids and some of them can throw looking very similar to pure fish so it is very hard to tell..

I am coming down for conference if that helps?

I agree with the others here, maybe if you took it straight from a marine tank and it was filled with all sorts of gredlies then it might end up causing ammonia spikes as this stuff dies etc, but if it has been used in a freshwater tank then should be fine. I usually just add coral water and then chuck the fish in with a bit of cycled media in the filter and good to go with normal weekly water changes.

I believe there may be some merit in it but it is not good to just treat for the sake of it, also hard to pick what drugs to treat with (can't treat for everything) and hard to know the long term affects of the drugs on the fish..

Probably wouldn't recommend this if the mesh got blocked your filter would overflow.. As above it is normal, and I don't think the fish could come to any harm in the filter it would just be sitting on top of the sponge wouldn't it?

Nice fish! Really loving these guys I have a nice young trio here breeding like crazy too, can't wait until they put some size on like those ones.

Wow I have no idea what happened there but I could have swore you were henwood Oh well ill just roll with it, was probably posting on my phone which makes it hard work so ill blame it on that.. My hot lotto tips - don't buy them because I am going to win so your wasting your money..

If you are designing an off the shelf unit then along with the stuff that henwood has mentioned price and reliability and availability of parts are a biggie too

Nice fish As with everything boban posts pics of probably about to show up on the brooklands list! Any altos coming through any time soon?

They are sold in New Zealand most commonly as dragonsblood peacocks, sold internationally as all sorts of things strawberry peacock, golden peacock, strawberry blue peacock.. They are all pretty much the same thing which is a hybrid peacock man made and line bred to be that colour.. This is the closest profile you will find.. http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1315 Cool fish though I really like mine, have an awesome male that I bred who has an amazing red shoulder and awesome blue fins

Yeah I saw one of these the other day at a guys place in the city, awesome fish can't wait to see henwoods one

Throw it on the garden. No a better suggestion would be to figure out how to turn it into diamonds and make millions collecting used carbon.

It states the spirulina as an ingredient has 60-70% protein no mention of what the finished pellets have, even if it was that high it would be fine if it is a vegetable based protein as the fish are designed to process it.. Key point in the auction is that it only recommends 0.5-2% spirulina in a fishes diet I have read a few things that suggest that a diet too high in spirulina can be harmful to fish.

If they are happy, healthy eating and not flashing off everything or gasping away then it is probably like Alan has suggested so just keep an eye on it. Should be well into breeding at 1yr old, the females and males should be obvious. blind fish should be fine, just an issue if it is genetic and you are going to breed from them you might end up with a whole heap of one eyed fish, but most fish I have seen with 1 eye have lost the other one during their life. Any high protein food is good for conditioning fish, variety and separate the sexes, BBS is quite cheap decap is also another good option and goes a long way.