cesarz

I used to make vinegar and the vinegar eels just appear naturally from nowhere, try making vinegar and see if they appear.

Hey Luke, I will be coming up to Auckland around mid december and will be bringing all the guppies I am willing to part with, I am going on extended holiday and they might just die when left alone with the minder. Of course Aaron-beta will have the first pick, I have to send the whole package to him.

You are welcome anytime to have a look at the guppies. I had several visitors looking at guppies today, and they were all in awe at the green moscow fry colouring up.

The third to fifth pic is Callitriche stagnalis it is an introduced species naturalised and common throughout new zealand but is not considered noxious.

The fry are just colouring up, wait another three weeks and they will be fully coloured and then you can have some.

I think you know where you're going by the looks of your guppies. The most promising one is that turquoise male (middle of second pic), I think I should send you some of my Moscow females so you can create turquoise moscows. The blue neon tuxedo has really good finnage.

If you can prove that you can keep them alive I wouldn`t mind letting you have some fry.

alanco, Try to get some of the wild forms if you want to breed something new. Those wild forms are actually a reversion of some awesome guppy strains that existed thirty years ago. When I bred them to my advanced guppies, a lot of new and unexpected colours came out in the first generation offspring and I am now trying to stabilise the colours to make them pure. Another good example is breeding with the venezuelan guppies. This picture borrowed from Billaney's photo album is an offpring of my Venezuelan (in my avatar) and a Moscow female that has a blond gene it won first place in the Livebearer show.

Yes we do have them in NZ, we also have the pure black called Onyx Moscows and we have the pure blue and pure green. Phil Collis imported the pure blacks in a couple of years ago and I ended up with them and bred them into different pure colours.

I'm interested, but mostly in the guppies that is in the area as well.

Here's a photo of Crypt affinis submerged with flower from the Netherlands National Herbarium for comparison

Looks like it lost its marbles :lol:

It is a redder form of Flamingo strain see the thread at http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/red-or ... 27708.html

Any more guppy pics?

natural light actually darkens if not actually improve guppy colour. Also feeding natural or artificial source of pigments will also improve colour, try NLS (New Life Spectrum) fish food just to see the difference.

There was one huge specimen of Anubias hastifolia at Jansens () Botany Downs last year on their main tank. It was more than a metre tall.

Not sure but one type is more golden and the other type is whiter.

Hi, There are two types of albino bristlenoses. If you breed within the same type, you will get albino babies. If you bree one type with the other type, you will only get normal (brown) bristlenose babies. There is a good article about this in one of the recent Aquarium World. I guess these normal babies came out of your golden male and the white female? Wait for the golden female to mature and pair her up with the golden male, you are more likely to get albino babies.

I agree with Stella, sphagnum does not need a lot of nutrients. Also, sphagnum dies quickly when iron or copper is present. I have lots of live healthy sphagnum growing only on the parts where I don't fertilise. I would recommend java moss instead, especially the xmas variety. Remember, java moss is actually terrestrial. Cesar

Ooops lesson learnt too late, I just dosed my snail infested killie tank with copper sulfate two days ago and looked in the tank just after i read this thread - all killies dead.

Oh yes, I forgot about that, I gave most of the yellows (3/4) to alanmin as well.

Yep, the third pic can be classified as a crowntail guppy and this I found is actually a dominant trait. It is a combtail The crowntail types are: Merah Combtail and Swallowtail Good to know the original photo of the yellow was not photoshopped, hehehe. My yellows are as good but without the green half black cast (I have removed it successfully) Too bad I gave all my yellows to Tsarmina just two days ago! Cheers, Cesar

I asked about the snails because I had this same experience with my guppies after i introduced a plant that had snails in it. it could be the snails. Get rid of them, dont know the safest way. Another thing that causes this is the hormones females secrete after giving birth which makes fish in the tank to not want to eat so nobody eats the fry for two days, sometimes this hormone lingers for days and the guppies just dont have appetite, although they eat a little. have a massive water change. Also squashed pellets are not ideal food as it is not digested quickly, use flakes or gel food.

Hi, Did you have any snails in the tanks and/or did you feed them live daphnia at any time in their recent life? Cesarz

Hi Chris, Just saw the pics you posted, it is definitely columnaris disease. Also called saddleback disease because of the light coloured growth accross the body of the fish when it gets infected. Cheers, Cesar