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Severums definately aren't vegetarians. Mine scoff down bloodworms, rip up shrimp, ignore algae tablets and eat some flakes. While their diet might be mostly vegetative in the wild, it certainly isn't at my house, guppy fry would be eaten before it'd have a chance to swim.

Oh and I'll buy the clown loaches off you if you're selling them. I miss my loaches

Get it at the supermarket, like $8, cut it up. Definately will not eat cichlid pellets. If given lots of hidey holes, and feel comfortable, you'll see them all the time and will be able to feed by hand. Fire eel wont go with oscars long term.

Like $5 a sheet. So not that bad, just got to make sure you have it. I'd expect those guys to eat a sheet a week, judging by what mine goes through. But mine also eats shrimp too.

Those fire eels are huge, was tempted myself to get another eel from there. Remember eels need bloodworms and shrimp etc, they dont eat flake, although you probably already knew that anyway just thought I'd mention. Edit: and eels dont like ammonia/nitrite, so yeah filter first dude, oscars will be fine now, but in a few months when they start chewing on the corydoras you'll certainly need to change something. Wanna work out what kind of tank you want.

FX5's are like $600ish Great filter, I just can't quite bring myself to part with that much on a single tank filter.

325 litres I'd have a pair of Jebo 815 or preferrably 819's running it. I use an 819 on my 200L community. Good filter, but you'd really want more than that. Paticularly for oscars. Hutt Pets has the 819 (twice the size of the 815, and 1200L/hr) for $150 again at the mo.

You raise a good point.

Another alternative is acrylic. Tankman on these forums has made a few enourmous and curved acrylic tanks, check out some of his posts.

Also you can get black air line hosing for around the same price as the blue stuff.

Dunno, at least 5 grand for the tank, then filtering around 5000 litres, you'd probably want a sump room underneath, or about 20 Fluval FX5s. It's 'extend the mortgage' stuff.

Jewel Cichlid isn't it? Dominant male turns red.

I beleive that to be a fair response. Can we please now shift back to the original topic: 'Who is breeding what in ChCh?' and 'Whats your favourite fish?'

Ok thread is starting to cross the line now. Please no personal attacks.

It's more interesting to buy a fish with an origin and history that you know. It's also more interesting if you know or have seen the parents fish. It also encourages a wider spread of genetic variance. If you don't have time or the will to donate fry that's not a problem at all, you by no means should be expected to, but those that ask are welcome to do so because many other people are happy to offer this service. I myself have 200 convict fry at the moment and if somebody asked for some I'd gladly give them away for free. I raised them from baby fry, paired them, bred them again, now I'd like to see their offspring thrive in other peoples aquariums.

or a nice school of oscars

Very good question, no matter what anyone here says though you're going to have to confirm it with your insurer. Doing this also means they can't backout later on as it's on record as being ok'd. I'm pretty sure you're covered as it is an accident. You're definately not covered though if the tank has a slow leak and you ignore it though. I've spilled a few hundred litres before too :roll: cleaning up is a b&*&h especially when it's 3AM. Never any $$ damage though.

I'd worry about glass smaller than 5mm, as a small chip out of the glass and it'd be all over. Don't think thinner glass chips smaller! I'd expect good for lids and good for really small tanks, like cubes say 200 x 200ish.

'Water Conditioner' normally means it'll remove chlorine from water, help with fish slime coat etc. 'Tonic' is normally a name given to a combination of medications, e.g. General Tonic, and it's normally blue in colour. If its the latter don't use it, but it sounds like glorified water ager to me.

Got mine. Awesome as usual. Good work Caryl and congrats to Paul Billaney, won his own cup!

While there is tonic in the water no more white spots will appear, but it may take a few days for the original cysts to fall off from old age. Do a full treatment and a gravel vac or three. Sounds like you have it sussed.

I'd be inclined to take the medication route with this one. Sooner the better. Pretty sure its not great for the filter but once whitespot takes hold it spreads faster than you can imagine. Sorry not sure how sensitive whiptails are to medication. Perhaps a half dose. With whitespot you treat the tank not the fish.

With changes larges than 30% you need to use water ager to be safe, nand for changes larger than 50% make sure to use premixed warm water. Chlorine or sudden changes in temp don't help. You should see good results from a 90% change though.

Also remember the job of your filter isn't actually to 'filter' dirt out of the water, but to biologically filter nasties out of the water, like ammonia and nitrite, clogged or not as long as there is good flow there is no need to clean it. If water flow is reduced too much then just remove the wool, put in some more noodles or something.

Haven't got mine yet Although I got me some microworms. Ryanjury is the man