ewokodel

outstanding matey, thanks for taking the time to answer yet another question from a new bebie.. see you there..

thanks matey, sorry to be a pain .. but... where is it????? :lol:

Hello, yes, yet another wainuiomatan here, you would think we were breeding over here or something.. thought i better stop and say hi. names stu and the wife is odel. i dont come fron wainui, i have only been here about 5 years, come from new plymouth and other places. sparky by trade, now work for fuel quip fixing petorl pumps etc on site, so you may see me out about, big ulgy guy, can't miss me.. already made a new mate here with blue (nice guy) and look forward to knowing more of you. thinking about joining the kap mana culb so i can go to the confre this year in june, looks like fun. what more can i say... i like taking photo's, astromony (have my own scope that doesnt get used enough as the wife tells me), computers, etc etc... dont have any family down here from my side only the wifes. we have a new and very good fish shop over here now and they look after the fish which is a nice change from up north i have a 486ltr tank now with two bristlenose (lost two last night), 4 clowns, 6 peppered cory's, 4 sae's, 2 neons, 6 odd mollies. eheim p2 filter and a new fx5 to replace my 404. other then that i will try not to be to big a pain round the place, just works out that way.. cheers guys and lady's.. stu the ewok :bounce:

yes... spelling was never my strong point, thats why i joined the army young.. ya, i do mean mollies, and yes theres drift wood in there as well. the temps up to help stop the clowns from getting white shot, guy at the upper hutt fish club said to do it. i did have 5 clowns, but one just went... he was a biggy too, but the small and same size ones are doing fine. one of the bigger ones does stay at the back of the tank in a corner and only comes out to eat and spends all day swimming up and down the wall talking to himself..... oh my!! the fish have become me... :lol: only the two kids made it thru to 2 inchs the rest just went and never come back as it were. even in my small tank. bugger, bristle and elephent nose are the only real fish i have wanted to keep, been working up to the later for the last 4 years.. this tanks been set up for 10 months now. thanks anyway matey.

Well it always happens. Sooner or later everyone finds there way here to the help my fish are dieing page. Wish mine hadn’t but he/she has… The last few weeks I haven’t seen my male or female bristle-nose, so when I did my water change last weekend I moved “dads†cave and he was inside looking as he always does. I saw him out later eating his tab of agle happy as a bristle could be. But there hadn’t been any sign of “mum†for over 4 weeks even with me moving things round in the tank a little and a lot. The two “kids†are doing fine, dad would chase them if they got to close and would happily eat his tea next to them. Then tonight I said to the wife again that I hadn’t seen mum or dad for a couple of days. Later she called me and there he(?) was on his back white as a ghost, dead as a door nail… As for mum??? No sign of her, but the two kids come out to eat as did the peppered corys and the clown loaches who look fine and are happily swimming around and playing and chipping away to each other. The female was the second one we have had, the first also just disappeared one day never to be found again.. When I first put the female in with the male (he was 3 yrs older then her) she was about 4 inchs long and he started to chase her round, three weeks later we had 13 little bristle-nose running round. None made it. One by one they just went. They had 5 – 6 lots over the last 6 months and both eat well. Nothing has been changed in the tank or the way I run it. Could the male have killed the females when breeding?? How long do they live??? The male was a baby (1 inch) when I got him and has moved tanks, survived power cuts, kids running round and all manner of things. No3 is 10mgl, no2 is 0mgl, ph was 7.6, kh is 14, gh is 14, dt is 7 and th is 7. temp is 28 deges… They shared their home with.. 4 peppered cory’s of different size. 4 clown loaches. 4 flying foxs. (sae) 6 moles two neons teta’s. 486ltr tank, 1500mm x 600mm x 600mm 3 x 300 watt heaters 1 z 2028 eheim p2 filter 1 x fuaval 404 (soon to be changed to a fx5) lots live plants etc. can anyone put some light on this.. I love my little suckers, and want to “upgrade†to some of the nicer l-numbers and some elephant noses, but this has given me the hebe’s a little bit. Cheers stu

thanks matey, for all the drit that gets thrown at it wainui sure beats living in welly, for a small town boy like me it's a god send. cheers guy's stue

Sounds like a plan matey, i am over in wainui, lovely place it is, only good thing is i can say i wasn't born here.. :lol: i 'll have a look in the search for it. thaks again stu

sorry but no... down in wellington matey, but come from new plymouth a few years back.. thanks for the welcome. :lol:

Hi all, this is my first post so please go easy on me, my wife beats me enough every week.. I am looking at a fish on trademe from (i think) the same guy who run's discus haven in auckland (phill), i can't find any info on it and would like ot know before i drop it in with the rest of my fishy lot. it's called a peru zebra and is whitess and Spotted With huge Flag tail. and as the auction say's "and only Grow to our understanding to approx 100mm" Has anyone seen or heard of them before?? being wild caught i am worried for the other fish and later ones. my tank is 5 foot by 2 foot by 2 foot. has three bristlenose, two (soon to be more ) noen's, 4 clown louches, 4 sae, 7 - 8 molly's. i want to add 5 -6 elephant nose at a later date and two three dwarf gowi's. i run four 40w tubes, three 300watt heaters, 1 by ehiem p22028 filter and one fuavl fx5 filter and under sar heatring cables. water are all good etc... any help or info on him would be great .. thaks guys..