smidey

i had a cf1000 with no flow & it was sucking air from somewhere 3 weeks ago. i figure the adult dubs must have knocked off the strainer from the intake pipe which i had put back on the day before i notice the flow had stopped. i turned the canister off & reprimed & restarted but no improvement. so i disconnected the intake pipe & opend the canister to find a empress juvie about 4cm in the bottom. i looked in the tap on the end of the intake pipe & it was blocked with something. when i disconnected the tap from the hose i discovered a 6cm empress juvie that had got stuck in the tap, it was just small enough to go into the intake & down the pipe to the tap but that was the end of the road & it was well dead by this stage.

wow ira, i didn't realise mr2's looked better upside down :lol: how you manage that? H or C?

the yellows i had didn't get the balck marking ever, just a faint 5 o'clock shadow three or four times in the 3 years i had them.

iirc there were very few "electric yellows" actually in the lake, like 100 only. Lab caruleus is actually a faint blue colour in the lake in vast numbers. a small number of the electric yellows were taken from malawi & bred in ponds or pools near tanganyika which created confusion when several thousand were breed & released into the pet trade as they initially thought they were a tang. they are now the most commonly kept african in the world. i don't believe that occasional shading or barring fish are poorly bred or of less quality as mine used to show shading & barring at times. does this fish change it's shading etc from time to time?

i have just checked her & the egg has now gone.

did they say anything about what it was?

this has caused much debate in the past, some say it's a poorly breed fish or a bad quality fish. is he always like this? i think it could be diet, mood or stress but how we actually find out what it is i am not sure.

i cannot say that i have seen one of those before. where did you get it?

thats what i was thinking, i think that is the sensible option for now. i will be checking on her periodically through the afternoon to see what happens. it may be a break in spawing, i have found that africans will often spawn for a short time & resume later on, often if they are disturbed they will start again later. thanks, i hope they can produce fry this time. i am over being teased by them now. :lol:

I have a colony of tropheus pembas, they are around 7cm & there has been a female holding for maybe the second time. today i notice there are two females holding, brilliant! but i have noticed a possible problem, one of the females still has an egg sticking out of it's ovipositor, i can see approx 75% of the egg. Do i leave it or catch her & remove it? what are your thoughts?

it has always been an awesome competition, good for NZ hockey.

i got rid of mine as they were stopping the africans from breeding. they are aggressive, no doubt about that but did a great job of keeping the tanks sparkling.

thanks but it was so tough i gave up both when i was about 19, was totally over sport 6 days a week of the whole year. thats a great effort to win, congrats. where was it played? ours was in chch

the last thing i want. :lol: i was just curious if they are expensive, must not be.

nice, what do they sell for here Nav?

good quality fish, especially nice yellows will always be popular. as for the taiwan reefs, personally i don't see the point as they are too similar to the empress & the empress being are more attractive fish IMO. they are kinda the "not quite so hot cousin of the hottie down the road" if you get what i mean. :lol: their only appeal to me is that they are rare but i got over that pretty quick, especially when i looked at my 15cm empress male. i would have said that the most sought after africans for beginners would something like yellows, fryeri, peacocks then demansoni. Sought after malawis for experienced keepers would not be malawis, more so tangs like tropheus & altos. just how i see it.

those are good looking clowns

:lol: too many possible replies to type & this is a family show.....

the foxes or big pics?

it may have been a project to tech school or something & probably took less time to make than we spend on our fish each year

i like it

rankin? when i went to rankin cup we were fourth. i was in the 1st 11 for cricket to & were fourth in gilette cup as well, not bad for whangas 8)

there's only one true WBHS, Whangarei Boys

it should be a simple & cheap task to get a new brace & siliconing it on is also straight forward.

oh & i would assume this hypothetical tank belongs to a friend? :lol: