Fred

Hello all, thought id spend the sunday driving round wellington having a look at what lfs had to offer. Only thing is i cant find anything more interesting in the yellow pages than animates. Where are some good places to go for tropical fish in wellington, I live in karori, but dont mind driving porirua/the hutt Thanks !!!!

**new question** the oscars are large 25cm+ will the oxygen supply for them be enough for 8hours just in the box/bag? does anyone know? perhaps how many litres of water wud be suitable for a trip of that length? also are there options of oxygenating the containers? or should i look at a battery operated airpump as an option or something similar Maybe i should not put the oscars through that kind of stress? Thanks

wow sounds like fun, im too lazy to cook for myself but now il be doing it for a couple of fish :lol: everything ive heard about oscars is great, i am really looking forward to getting them next weekend

thanks for that, sounds alot easier to than having to move all the poor fish everywhere speaking of feeding, i read somewhere that cat pellets can be used for oscars? as its cheaper for their big appetites is this true? also what brand would be best if it is true? assuming it is jsut as good or better than normal cichlid pellets maybe i should rename the topic to general questions on oscars =)

have one large chilly bin will get dad to grab some poly boxes from the hospital. with regards to putting them in the tank, i dont think i will have it set up the same day i get it as i wont be getting home till late, also would have to cycle the tank? i currenty have 150L a 100L and a 60L tanks with varoius fish, am i best off to leave the newly acqured fish in these tanks, (ie one oscar in each of the bigger ones, and moving the original fish into the 60L or my sisters tank as the oscars would beat them up) for a week or two while the tank gets cycled or would it be possible to transfer the 150L from the bigger tank into the newer tank then fill another 150L of fresh water? meaning the tank will be less than half full, then add 20% fresh water per week till the tanks reached the 750L capacity?

brilliant!!! have a friend who works at the local woolworths will ask him =) wow lifes so easy when u can rely on other peoples brains :lol:

Sounds good, will have to get my hands on some poly boxes then, i would not have thought of just letting them be in the poly box true about the raphael spines piercing bag, didnt think of that either :lol:

**new question** the oscars are large 25cm+ will the oxygen supply for them be enough for 8hours just in the box/bag? does anyone know? perhaps how many litres of water wud be suitable for a trip of that length? also are there options of oxygenating the containers? or should i look at a battery operated airpump as an option or something similar Maybe i should not put the oscars through that kind of stress? Thanks **old question** Only 7 more sleeps till i get my new tank woohooo!!! Fortunate enough to also acquire new fish in the purchase, two large oscars, a large upside down catfish, and a large chocolate/talking/raphael catfish i am sure i will have many questions concenring the new set up but the first is this: I am picking it all up from taranaki on sunday 13th, in regards to transporting them down what is the best way of doing this? A cooler? also should i try keep them all seperate? or let the oscars travel together to keep eachother company in the stresfull trip. It will be approx a five hour trip, i have managed to bring angels before from auckland to welly and just stoped every few hours and stired the water in an attempt to oxygenate the water, they survuved the trip, do i do the same?

Hello all, ive got a parrot cichlid and another unkown species name cichlid (looks like a normal cichlid) pardon my lack of knowledge whom have had a bit of a clash they did the breeding thing i think it was? swimming in tight circles around eachother and biting/kissing. they cant be any more of different cichlids and i noticed that the parrot has got a few fins ripped now and also her (jsut named her polly so hey lets guess its a she) lips which parrots have are big and they are kind of blistered a fair bit just wondering will the fins and lips heal? is there anything i can do (ie add certain stuff to the water) should i seperate them? or is this just norma behaviour and results, they were together for about 2 weeks with no issues, just chased eachother a bit when i first introduced the parrot. there are a few other cichlids in the tank too thanks heaps

Hello all as you can tell by my impressive posting numbers of about 3 im a newbie im going to asia in under a weekk and when i come back i have plans on getting a large tank 700l proximaty and i am wondering what kind of filters do people recommend? do you get filters that can run that big or is it cheaper easier to get a couple of smaller filters? it is for a cichlid tank cause ideally i would like to get myself a filter from asia potentially a fair bit cheaper than they are here sorry for the very vague question still learning thanks heaps