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Ha! Cant kill a weed Mark! - trust all is well with you yes the barbs are great and good price for the colours and personality, and hardy. Gonna chuck some groups into breeding tanks outside when it warms up. Just for giggles and to get a few survivors to grow out and put inside. I do wish the selection of rainbows around now was as good as was a few years back though

Got the camera out the other day after a Atherton change and snapped some pics .. This tank has stayed fairly much the same for last 3 years. Very low maintenance. The planting is haphazard but suits. Stocking has changed a little over time. It would be nice to get some nicer and more variety of Rainbows in there. I have what they call Eastern, splendid and striped ( exquisites ). They're expensive in shops and the bosemani, blues and reds around me aren't that great Barbs- 7 Golden, about 15 cherry but did have lots more ( had a few breed and grow out when the Java moss took over the tank for a while one time) My Odessa barbs are my favourite 5M and 3 F which I know is a wrong ratio but aggression is only a bit of ' chasey'. They've been in the tank for over 3 years and all males are beautiful coloured with dominant male just a little deeper in colour. The females can give as could as they get. Then there A few 5 stripes and a couple of checkered which I'd like more of as they are quite hidey And. 3 Sae to clean up and a small school of danios excuse some of the photos I managed to do some creative cropping somewhere in the process of sizing and uploading

Cheers. Used to have LED lights on this tank but gave away while in storage which sort of miss now I gave myself a $300 budget for fish, plants, substrate and lighting to get tank up and running So I just dusted off a couple of 4ft fluros and luckily old lid was still working. Think one is warm and one is cool white. Room is fairly light so plants ok for light

My very simple 4ft Barb, rainbow tank. Substrate is washed sandpit sand, and plants just one type of Hygrophila and then Java moss. Plenty of filtration so have to admit not much maintenance, recently took out a bucket of moss which had taken over, but had let my cherry barbs hide a couple dozen 'youngins' Fish are a selection Barbs, Rainbows of dubious origins, a couple of confused bolivian ram and 3X L200, each 20cm- refugees from a friends tank that save on glass cleaning.

Recently inherited 3 nice adults so Just wondering if anyone is keeping these in numbers and sort of sizes they've got up too.

One of the prettiest plecs I've always thought.

I'd go with more yellows and haps like the borleyi or Dolphins, protemelas, nimbochromis etc that will hold there own and swim in open water- I assume you've plenty of rock work peacocks would be inclined to go to the rocks and get bullied by the mbuna potentially getting nipped a lot and not really colouring up. Dems might also find the bigger mbunas too much

3ftr Id say- footprint more important than capacity

Very cute! BTW-Snowball is common name for a Hypan species. I've heard "Snowflake" used as common name for L142.

Scoby Doby Doo Xmas! Three of the prettiest going around-Nice Going into different tanks?

Thats the plan!- There was talk of using L46 male- that'd be a cool mix All three of the species very similar morphically. She's first time Mum about 4yrs so should be no issues with her being around to cross back with one of her sons. First thing is to get young past the first month. Dad did kick them out a tad early, but that could be because 400 is back camped outside cave.

I'd agree- but still a cool result, and someone had to come up with the good idea which is main thing Check out lighting direction on each, texture and pattern of back ground, and shape of twig. This might explain it better Shot 1 Shot 2: from a few degrees further to the right. Then flipped and joined in the middle to get result. That my guess anyway.

Probably not - I wouldn't see that they would have any real value, and at this stage best to keep them as a closed group I will post pics soon when they get a little bigger. I'm interested which patten dominates

L136 male And saome very old shots of L400 as juvie.my female darker as adult per L066 and l270, but L400 adult size like l136 and L046 Rabbit- Could you pm. Would be dead keen to make contact with other L136. Cheers!

About 20 fry left the cave this weekend. L400XL136- seems to be 2/3 of L400 markings but at 1cm probably to small to tell. Reason for mix-Necessity more than design

When when will you start using the anti-red eye function on that point and shoot man :facepalm: :

Personally i think for the money it is a bit of a white Elephant. it'ds pretty dark at top end of focal length for that price. How about getting the fixed focus 300mm F.4. Its about 25% lighter in weight, a full stop brighter so makes it a lot more user friendly by about 2 stops which more than make up for the slight reduction in focal length. The 300mm is 20% cheaper also so I'd be putting that saved money into a faster shorter focal option( either fixedd or fastish zoom) because I'd say a 1.4kg. F.4.5 100mm with a terrible minimum focusing distance as with the 100-400mm would be a dog, and chances are you are looking at that lens for the top end of the focal range anyway. And I think the 'costs' of that extra focal length don't add up. I'd definitely be trying both to compare. What would you be putting it on?

You never can be sure with male tanks how individuals colour up. And Electras are quite a mild mannered hap so will be slow to show best colour if dominated. Hopefully with a bit of time everyone sorts themselves out

First is Electra male- if its the one you got off me looking a little sad-is he getting dominated by other tank mates? 2nd is poor quality Kadango- possibly Hybrid in it's lineage. You could say probably Hybrid with that seller. 3rd is a 'Cobue' Peacock. Lineage is originally from Nav.

Wicked photos I love the the fact that they are all Tangs and the brichardi didn't get a show Seeing those Dubs like that has got to make them the best value colony fish around. Thanks for sharing

Yep about 340ltrs, and fine for that stocking -honestly. If these guys have been alright for some time then the constant is -lack of change. the lack of change means the fighttfor tank heirachy is probably fairly one dimensional and also affecting whole temperament I'd be adding more rather than removing. If anything I'd be looking to source 2-3 other peacocks, preferably yellows. Let me know I have a couple of cobue males you can have free, An all male tank needs a benign dictator, so if you could find something like a medium-big giraffe to try could also be worth a try. Sounds like a nice setup and yes, eventually you may need to weed out but by the size of your fish this is just a case of adolescent chest bulging, and it's just a case of altering tank dynamic. But extending territories, and boundaries to naughty boys doesn't achieve any more in the fish world as it does in many other situations

:thup: nice Sounds like they're getting in the groove

Never too many photos! Very nice Nav!

Yes -And i totally agree with staying with initial names as you know But to me the blue of face going up to dorsal and blue in Dorsal indicates more of red shoulder characteristic, or at least one of a similar stuartigranti sp, as opposed to maleri where blue face is confined t more to cheek area. I would think those traits harder to breed in or out of a fish than enhanced body colour. Anyway, semantics I guess a Main thing is they are here, and breeding true .

Nice shots again Man! Yeah- I too am not a Albino fan but those zebras are cool! Wonder why they chose Red Maleri as name as opposed to a Red shoulder variant name, not that makes difference to lovely fish. Good to see rusty's around and in numbers too.