ryanjury

Wow 2 in a row? I reckon you should bring the boxes of a crap and a fish tank? lol

Yes! Thanks Adrienne, have just text Aaron..

You can just use your hot water cupboar or float a 1.5L bottle in your tank, you may find it warm enough if you stuck it on top of your tank too.

You would probably be pushing it to get more than $10-15 for a front and around $6-8 for a lump head.

Probably going to be looking at a 6 x 2 x 2 ft min to grow them to a size big enough to pair off and actually have a chance of no deaths when they do pair off. Probably min of 4x2x2 for a pair.. You can breed them and remove the eggs and raise them like angels (just watch fingers).

I feel for the stores here, there are allot of hybrids on the wholesale lists or descent fish cost money.. If they buy descent fish then noone will want to pay retail for them, so they get cheap hybrids off the lists or off other breeders with mixed tanks to stock their tanks and people complain.. Sometimes they just can't win

They aren't ice blues..

I have an 8ft long container that is made with clear glass that would be ideal to house fish in.. It is not very wide/tall though.

It has a kadango shaped body but peacock type colours, hard to tell what it is a cross with but it doesn't look like a pure peacock to me sorry.

Nav was/is the only one in NZ that I am aware of with albino brichardi, not to be confused with the daffidols or normal (black eye) brichardi.

Thanks mate, have it on my-sky now

The Kandeense are very slow and males only really show awesome colour when breeding.. The lithobate should be doing something though? What are you feeding?

I've read about it b4 and it was normal the suggest was to leave it a while and if it doesn't sort itself out soon then manually move it like Mark has suggested..

Bugger! I missed this I still have those Lights for you Mark!

Yes don't mix peacocks with brown females.. However you can mix say 1 species with brown females, dragonsbloods and ob peacocks because you can tell the females apart to put them in their own tank to breed..

That is a good way to do it, another way to do it is to have 1 display tank and 1 breeding tank and only mix species that you can tell the females apart. When you want to breed a species pull them all out and breed them then stick them back into the main tank. If you are mixing fish from different groups sometimes you can get away without crossing, I have found dems/yellows/peacocks when kept together don't seem to readily cross and if they were to then the fry would be pretty obviously munted and easy decisions to cull.

Probably not that long if the fish are being looked after, but that is irrelevant, glad they have somewhere to go. Bristlenoses are great for cleaning up algae, I have them on sand in all of my tanks and don't have wood in the tanks for them. I think they get enough roughage eating left over cichlid food (if there is ever any left). If you want to add others then the cuckoos can be a good option too.

Hybrid zebra of some sort would be my guess.. Really interesting shape though?

I am sure that his fish will be going through the stores anyway.. If you have descent red kadangos they will be a bright orange/red colour anyway? No comment on its worth.. Fronts tend to stay lower in the tank and not be as active at feeding time, once your other haps/mbuna get bigger they will all eat tons of food meaning the fronts may miss out. They can do ok though, it depends on how the fronts are raised etc.

Empresses or kadangos would both be good options for some red.. I'm not sure how well kadangos and empresses would get along but only time would tell.. Another option would be to source some nice red males off rcon he mentioned they would be avaliable via stores in the future. Tank size should be ok, I have similar fish in 540l 5ft but yeah some of them do reach 20-25cm so more room is always good, it would be a number of years before that is a consideration though..

I would stick with the giraffes, the livingstonii will likely munch the jullies and dems, possible the giraffes can but mine never did. Numbers - giraffes 6-10 Demasoni - 20+ Yellows - 10 Jullies - 6 bumblebees - 6-10 Could probably stock even heavier than this if you wanted. Fronts might be ok but probably wont get allot of food in a tank with those other fish..

Steady on I'm very good at fixing up cracked tanks, my only failures have been the tanks that are bigger than 3ft! So I recommend replacing the glass on anything bigger than that.. Biggest thing with repairing cracks is to make sure that it has finished running its course and there are no points where it might continue from. No point in patching it if when you put water in the crack will continue or spread. As for repairing it, obviously replacing the whole bottom is the best bet, but cutting all the silicone off the inside cleaning off the glass and patching it works well. Make sure you run some silicone over the cracks and then stick the patch on then seal around it and it should be all good.

Your right, the name on the tank isn't any indication of linage, I am well aware of that.. However the ones that HFF had were from the German import that came in a few years ago they were stunning and from Germany and had a price to match. Generally however the term German blue ram gets confused and after all it is just a common name. Zuri hopefully you get a pair and hopefully they go better than any blue ram I have ever kept for you

Yes it's a blue ram.. Generally a german blue ram is bred in Germany, they are usually better quality, bigger and hardier than ones bred in Asia. The Internet and most people call them the same thing, a few years ago hff had some true German blues in and they were amazing fish, it's a shame they aren't still around

F1 means they are offspring of wild caught fish.. Usually the best ones to buy because they are tank bred and awesome quality.. Offspring would from them would be F2 and so on, most the fish we get in nz are many thousands of generations removed from the wild.