smidey

my red zebs have developed small dark blotches when i ahve feed them spirulina based foods, it did fade after several weeks of not feeding them that type of food. your pics look more like they have rubbed themselves on something dirty, are they brown nosers when i comes to feeding?

give it a go, whats the worst that could happen? i do have some concern about it moving sideways but it should be fine.

just keep in mind when setting it up that all the weight is going to transfer down through the carcass ends. Also when you level it up on the floor make sure the floor itself is not to far out of level as the cabinetry could rack sideways if loaded in one corner if you get what i mean as there isn't to much horizontal cross bracing. still a good job

nice work, good cabinetry skills. how many litres is the tank? Im not sure the adjustable legs will be up to it. Are the legs overlapping the cab ends or just on the base?

what i have found is virtuaully everything in this hobby is just someones opinion. Often opinions are common, we often get a group "sing one song" & often we get a minority "sing another song". Who's write? we may never know with most.

here's a link to the aulunocara species list with common names off the cichlid forum. http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/r ... p?genus=17

i paid $30 for 20kgs

it does look like the aragonite that i use, the fish have had no issues with it but it does scratch the glass very well when stuck in the velcro glass cleaner.

only downside to building a customone could be the stand & hood. I have the premade tanks as they come with stands but they are generally limited to around 4 foot maximum length. no limit to size of custom tanks.

i just got given two around the 20cm length. not sure if i want them & they don't do much. I got a white female & black male.

it could have died naturally then been eaten

really? where, when & doing what?

just turn it off for tonight & turn on again in the morning until the water is warm again. the fish should be fine tonight.

& she wouldn't moan! Boston legal is my favourite show, DENNY CRANE!!!!!

i know guys that say things like, ah their no good, those aren't real! Well i say, their there, i can see them & someone can touch them. Thats real enough for me!

wouldn't it be amazing if we could find out exactely how many fish came from just the original pair up to today if it took 6 years to breed 20,000 of em? Its been 28 years since they started!

it does, i didn't notice that around the head. :oops: i have no idea what that is, doubt is white spot.

my memory is not perfect but here's part of the article: L. caeruleus was first identified in 1956 by G. Fryer. He described this fish as normally being white, with a black stripe through the dorsal fin, which would become a pale blue cast in breeding males (probably the morph from Nkhata Bay, Malawi). Believe it or not, this species was named caeruleus (meaning "blue" in Latin) for this very reason. It wasn't until around 1980 that this xanthic color variant was discovered by Stuart Grant and his divers. Grant et. al supposedly discovered a small colony of "Electric Yellows" at Lion's Cove, Malawi. Stuart Grant only collected a few specimens, but refused to mass-collect and export them because of the population's small numbers, fearing that they would be pushed into extinction. Then two Swedish collectors paying a visit to Stuart Grant noticed these beautiful, bright yellow mbuna in his tanks and requested that he collect and export some for them. The story is that when he declined, these two Swedes bribed some of his divers, who knew right where they were located. They then returned to Sweden with two yellow labs, unbeknownst to Grant From what I have read, these two yellow labs were then given as a gift to Pierre Brichard, who was very impressed by them. This is where the story gets really interesting: Brichard then took them back to his fishing operation in Burundi, along Lake Tanganyika (of all places!) and bred some 20,000 fish, all related to that pair. Quite amazing. And he did this in less than six years time. Then, in 1986 he made them available to the public, selling them for a hefty price from what I hear. Brichard ended up making a good dollar off that pair, while Stuart Grant on Lake Malawi, who found the fish in the first place, was left holding the bag. The story of the yellow lab doesn't end here, my friends. When Brichard put his yellow labs on the market in 1986, he called them "Labidochromis tanganicae", which caused immense confusion among hobbyists. Was this a Tanganyikan Labidocrhomis species, or had Brichard collected this "new" Labidochromis from Malawi and raised it in his ponds on Lake Tanganyika? Eventually the issue was settled, but it did cause quite a commotion. And to think, that most yellow labs in the hobby all descended from that single, illicit pair. Stuart did capture 22 fish later on but had a bit of a spill and only a few were left. These were given to Gary Kratchovil in San Antonio, TX. You'll see him offer F1 stock from time to time. A couple of years ago, a friend of a friend bought some F1 yellow labs that had been pond-raised in Africa. Surprisingly, they were no better in quality than other good yellow labs that we have seen! There are plenty of bad strains out there - some with lots of black on the body and face. There is a morph with a whitish belly that is not as attractive. Don't be mislead into thinking that is a man-made strain. This is a naturally occurring morph that comes from Lion's Cove, along side the yellow lab we all know link to full article: http://www.cichlidforum.com/articles/l_caeruleus.php

Hi All Anyne had any success with a tumbler for their africans & how did you make it?

from what i have read about e yellows, every e yellow in the hobby is a line breed fish. the story goes something like, only 10 were taken from the lake in the 70's as there were roughly only 250 yellows in the entire lake & hobby supply has come from them. I must say that my yellows have breed the youngest & have certainly breed the most out of all of my africans. must have been from years of practise.

it could be but kinda hard to tellfrom that pic. white spot looks like they have chicken pox except white if you know what i mean. I had white spot on my clowns once, i dosed with white spot cure as directed on first day then did a 70% water change & re-dosed the next day. I repeated that for 4 days & have not seen it since. White spot is a bacteria that all fish carry, it just comes out when they are run down or stressed etc.

looking good. by the way, If you don't want the airation you don't have to have it. The wet/dry filter does that for you.

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