cesarz

Well, I went and observed the tank closely and it was actually the guppy (red Cobra) attacking the killie. and the killie retailates and they both have a tumbling roll. I never thought guppies can fight like that. It almost looked like I was watching siamese fighters in battle. Anyways, I've removed the killies and put them in their own tank.

Hi, I have introduced 2males and 3 female Fundulopanchax gardneri nigeriatum gold into the guppy tank yesterday and have just noticed today that my Red Cobra guppy tails are in tatters. Would the gardneri be responsible for this? Cheers, cesarz

I now have two GBA's and a pair of otto. Are otto's catfish?

It looks like muricatus. MAF considers muricatus, grandifolius and horizontalis as the same species so probably why it is picked as horizontalis. Doesn't look anything like horizontalis at all.

Hey Psyc, I had a bad case of flukes and worms with my fish and I have used twice the dosage that SpidersWeb mentioned and did not affect the fish only the worms and flukes. Must be something else in the tablet you used ... or the water??? Cheers, Cesar

I had big problems with these :evil: and treated my fish with praziquintel at 1mg per litre. No more gill flukes, no more skin flukes and no more other parasites too! :bounce: :bounce:

Awesome!!! How many, how many? Were these from half albino or are they from pure albino cross?

Thanks sharn, I'll look out for one at the LFS. Cheers, CesarZ

What is prazi?

Hi, One guppy died alone in my quarantine tank and post mortem shows some 1/2 millimetre brown-red thingy attached to a scale-less part (scale got removed probably by scratching) of the body and lots near the vent and also lots lined up on ends of tail. The Q tank was clean and never had fish in it before and is properly cycled for about a month using fishless cycle method. The poor thing was treated to 2 drops 37% formalin per litre of water a week ago where some tiny flecks were expelled from the gills which I identified as gill flukes from a big magnifying glass. It has then been moved to a 2mg/l potassium permanganate bath where it died after several days. It looked healthy and just suddenly died. But before it died it was scratching on any surface it can get to. I've since put another sacrificial guppy in the quarantine tank and soon enough it was scratching. I examined it and it now has the parasites too. (it didnt have on first examination). I have cleaned out and dried the Q tank but what can be done to cure guppies that have this parasite which I believe are body flukes? Cheers, CesarZ

No luck with the horizontalis at Redwood . At least now I know what it looks like and there were three of them. The staff said that they will be selling the plants in the CO2 tank when they set up a new one in the new display area. They will also have an area just for rare aquatic plants. If you are interested, they said that you have to register your interest and they will phone you. I did register. Anxiously waiting for their call.

Welcome aboard Shane the Tankman! Do you make smaller ones? Rectangular ones?I prefer acrylic to glass as I had lots of mishaps with glass.

Yep, I will be there Mystic. I'll bring some baking. Hey Andrew, Good to see you here, want some more Disa Orchids? Anybody in Kapi-mana want Disa orchids? I'll bring some if anybody's interested. They are marginal plants designed for the cold and windy weather - just like Wellingtons's.

Michelle, Hi and welcome too. Those plant look like plastic, very clean. Good work.

Hi there neill, Plant propagation labs grow their plants in sterile jars with nutrient agar at the bottom to sustain the plants. These sterile containers are allowed into New Zealand without passing thru quarantine as long as the plants it contain are allowed by MAF. The aquatic plants may be planted straight from the sterile jars , after cleaning the agar off the roots, and they grow as if nothing abrupt happened. this is actually better than growing them emersed to get good growth and then submerging them. By the way, the plants in the sterile jars grow their submerged form even if there is no water inside. Knowing this, it is easy to select which ones will look good in the aquarium.

Thanks for the tip Caryl, I'll Install Java now. Hello again everyone!

Yep, I'll be there. Will pm SW he has a car! BTW I clicked on the chat nothing happened, how do i get there? Cheers Cesar Z

Hi Mystic, I might accept your invite to Kapi-Mana Club and drag along SpidersWeb. Cheers

Hi Kerri-Anne, Yep, I've been buying Blues plants and will raid his premises soon! Hope he sees this :lol: CesarZ

Hi, I joined the forum last Friday and have been concentrating on the Aquatic Plants Forum where I have been lurking for a while. Reason I never joined earlier is that I am not a member of a fish club and thought that it is a requirement. Don't know any club in Wellington and the closest one on FNZAS list is Kapi-Mana. Would love to join one. I still have no fish at the moment but am still looking for solid colour deltatail guppies. I am a plant breeder by heart and an IT analyst programmer by pocket. Plant breeding does not pay the bills,its just a hobby, I breed mainly orchids. Have been looking for Amazon sword varieties to start breeding new forms. It is nice to meet lots of friendly people here.

Hi Alan, The main reason I am hunting for these plants is firstly to be able to hybridize them. I used to actively hybridize echinodorus about twelve years ago when Tropica first released their varieties and I came up with good broad leaf reds and nice variegated reds. Too bad I got out of aquariums and nobody I know wanted them so I sent them all to Singapore. I have a tissue culture lab where I can grow the babies 100x the normal growth rate in sterile conditions and also propagate them by the hundreds in just a short time. This is just a hobby.

Hey Blue, I was about to email you about my riccias dying en-masse. Did'nt know flourish excel will kill them, and done a double dose because I bought some plants with BBA on them, my riccias have now all gone to riccia heaven. CesarZ

Alan, I will try to wrestle the horizontalis from them, I'll use my charm $$$. If not I'll dazzle them with my other charm $,$$$. If all else fails, i'll just get horizontalis and everything else from Tropica. Has anybody been successful with importing plant material from them? I have been importing orchids in sterile flasks for years and have encountered no problem bringing them in. And tropica has aquatic plants in sterile flasks!

Hmmmnn.... I'll be in Christchurch next weekend, I'll check out Redwood Aquatics, any other shops offering unusual swords?

Oh, didn't know that - thanks, I always used to call cordifolius fluitans as the horizontalis because it also has its leaf blades flat horizontal. I checked out the books and yes, horizontalis has honeycomb pattern of lines (between the main leaf veins) on its leaves and my one only have straight lines so it is just cordifolius. Thought I had something special there for a moment. :oops: