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You won't have much luck with finding these, best idea is to use something hardy which can be acclimitised to the pH e.g. val, anubis, java fern etc and go from there.

I had the same thing happen to a clown loach last year, developed a lump ontop of its head behind the eyes, became lethargic with varying levels of activity finally just lying there and then dying. I was unable to determine what the problem was before it died, im sorry i wasn't able to shed any light but just saying the same issue has occured for me. My post was here; http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/clown- ... tml#295853

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Looks good, are those e yellows all doing ok? e.g. not eaten

you can try think of as A, B, C and D like this; E = Excellence M = Merit A = Achievement N = Not achieved I was the in the first year to sit it and that was a good ol' shambles still passed every year i sat so guess it worked. You can also use previously accumulated points over the last years pass, if i recall it was 72 for 5th form - and then additional ones over that you can use to bump up your points for the next year if you wanted, well something like that :lol:

Yup theyre pretty hardy as ryan said just got adjust, ive got my pictus in my african tank hes fine so go nuts

Update; the loach with the bump on the head died in Q tank, the other sick loach is on the mend and fin rot has stopped and fin looks healthier now so everything in that tank is fine. A siamese fighter had started to have its tail nibbled by e yellow fry and then developed dropsy, moved to its own tank and did water changes etc dropsy dissappeared, white spot came and went and he also seemed to developed gill flukes (white areas/spots on gills), dropsy has now come back, have performed another water change/gravel vac/cleaning filters etc and have got some drontal. fyi i asked for droncit as this is the pure prazi medication however i was told this is no longer manufactured so took drontal instead which has other crap in it but better something than nothing IMO for this fish.

After a lot of frustration and swearing at my computer for the browser crashing while writing this post im writing a simplified version. History Monday Discovered clown loach with fin rot on tail fin (top half 1-2 mm missing), and a bump on the black stripe immediately behind eyes - did 35% water change and small dosage of tonic salt. Tuesday Could not find loach - lifted rockwork and driftwood up still could not see, counted 1 loach short assumed it had jumped out or died, could not do any more so left it for the night. Wednesday Discovered the loach lying lethargic next to pvc pipe, grabbed net and moved into 40L planted tank with a BN. Does not swim much if at all, has issues moving body in both directions is not maintaining balance and sinking to bottom - lying on substrate heavily breathing. Another clown loach is having issues; dorsal fin pulled towards body, issues swimming (was having trouble hovering in one spot, point vertically to maintain position, no fully moving its tail side to side more rapid flicking movements) no bump on head though - has fin rot on tail and white spot. I will move this loach into the 40L once the quarantine tank is warmed for the lethargic one, will perform water change + tonic salt + stress coat between fish relocations. Tank info there are 10 clown loaches currently housed in a 200L african tank which has been running 2.5 months (housed with peacocks, e yellows, upside down cats, pictus, BN, brichardi. pH mid 8 region, no ammonia or nitrite recorded when tested 30 mins ago), have had no previous issues since setting the tank up. Fish Symptoms First loach discovered - one with the bump Appearance bump on head behind eyes on top of first black band fin rot (2mm lost tail fin) and now on other fins (wednesday) scratching on skin from rubbing against rocks etc no white spot noted Behaviour Started out with dificulty swimming in one spot, was ok at speeds directing itself. now is lethargic and has difficulty swimming if at all, heavy breathing, appears to have scratched against rocks due to skin scratches. Second loach discovered - white spot + other symptoms Appearance NO bump or scratching so far. fin rot on tail fin, white spot Behaviour dificulty swimming in one spot however still active and swimming around, was ok at speeds directing itself,heavy breathing. Neither fish has lost any black stripe colouring which can occur if fish is stressed. If anyone could shed some light on what action/treatment should be used it would be most appreciated. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4 ... =650872095 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4 ... =650872095 update: have moved lethargic loach with bump into quarantine tank.

Here goes :lol: I remember buying my 20 gig ipod 3rd gen for around $700 in 2001/2002 its still going well cept with the earlier generations the battery would start to lessen in operating time after a while so I just bought a new battery and installed it last year it goes well now The chunkier ipods (compared to nano or shuffle) and other large memory media players have physical hard drives compared to smaller ones with flash memory, physical hard drives are mechanical and require more power to operate e.g. keep discs spining and reading data where as in smaller flash memory players there are no moving parts so the battery does last longer. The main problems I have had with Ipods/Apple are from the software, by far the most annoying thing in my opinion is that you cannot extract music from your ipod onto a computer using itunes (there are other ways e.g. manually copy the files or using a third party program) this was particularly frustrating to me when one of my hard drives became corrupted I still have all the music on my ipod but was unable to transfer them onto my other hard drive via itunes. In terms of formats the Ipods use mp3, aac/m4a and wav which are the main ones, this doesn't really cause any problems itunes will let you convert some other formats into one of the above and you can burn your cd's into the formats too and then add to your library. Overall im happy with my ipod which is old and chunky its still chugging along and ive dropped it, scratched it and taken it around the world and its never let me down cept for the battery dying but thats really a problem with the early ones. The iphone which is a combination of a ipod and smart phone has not been confirmed for coming out in new zealand, Time magazine has it as the best product of 2007 it is a shame that we cannot check it out for ourselves over here though maybe some time in the future they will provide the service for iphones in NZ but who knows it will probably take a while. Ive known of iphones or the hack on trademe which are purchased by a man in christchurch who then installs the software/chip on an iphone and then it runs on vodafone, apple is aware of these products and plans to use software updates on iphones to avoid this issue also some of the features which make the iphone so attractive do not work in NZ with this hack so it does loose appeal. There is also an ipod touch coming which is basically an ipod in an iphone case which you can connect to the internet and use some of the features of the iphone this does look quite nice but it has a small memory size 4 or 8 gigs. In my opinion you need to decide what your looking for in a media player there's loads of features like video, pictures, address books, internet browsing, integrated with a cell phone; each have pros and cons like weight/size, battery time, price and features etc and then look into specific brands and models, as people have said shop around and check out what you like the look, feel and features of at a price your comfortable with. You can pay a high price for an expensive brand new product or half that for a perfectly good product which meets your needs but doesnt have all the features or memory etc of the expensive one. In my experience with something that your planning to use for a while it can be better to go for a well known product/brand which you know can last and will still work in the years to come or a cheaper product and ugrade again when you want e.g. dvd players are at a disposable price nowadays you can pick one up for $80-100.

they do like it more if in groups so 6+ would be best in my opinion, i started with 2 then added another 3 and they were all more active then added another 5 and theyre really active now And yea like ryan ive got my clowns in an african tank with e yellows which they get on well with - if you are using in a higher pH tank you will want to slowly raise the pH up so they can acclimatise to it.

Heh nice pics wish I could catch my africans in the act I just wake up or come home to 'sex pits' (i like to call em :lol:) and a female holding, I was wondering about that blue dorsal tip but its just from the flash after i've seen from taking some pics tonight. Thanks for everyones thoughts and time put in on it, I'm happy with the conclusion of the species being a variant of A. Stuartgranti Maleri, that being said it is hard to distinguish a specific area or zone of lake malawi which they have come from, for example see this Stuartgranti variant map. Alot of our (Ryan's and my) peacocks traits and characteristics are the same as those of Stuartgranti Maleri however something I have not come across often if at all through pictures or articles etc is the black in the finnage; this could be a attribute of the peacocks in the area or a maleri may have mixed with another peacock to gain this, but bear in mind I am just speculating and as we all know classifying peacocks isn't an exact science and i'm certainly no expert :lol: Please note that as my dominant male has not reached his full size he could be yet to gain/loose certain colours and attain his final colouring so it is still hard to decide at this stage Below are pictures i've taken tonight of my dominant male, if you read my post regarding Peacock ID and Aggression I was having some issues between the two large males, the largest of the two (shown below) won the jaw locking and the other is colouring down so I doubt any further physical aggression will be occuring in the near future. Edit: resized images.

Awesome looking tank, nice fire eel whats the pH at? just wondering what a fire eel can handle

You could try taking some more photos once the males have started to colour up, females look almost all identical across peacock species which makes it difficult to tell them apart e.g. which results in easy cross breeding, the white tipped dorsal fish looks to be a male. Sorry couldn't be more help :-?

It seems to be breeding season my corys have laid for the first time on saturday and sunday night and now one of my peacocks is holding which is also a first. As I love my peacocks i'll be making an effort to raise the fry however i'm slightly unsure as to what species they are - just thinking ahead and for general knowledge I thought i'd ask all of you lovely people :lol: for your thoughts, I know peacocks can be particularly difficult to ID especially when have not fully reached adulthood but we'll give it a shot. I purchased these as a 'red shoulder' peacocks which from looking into across the internets are A. Hansbaenschi yet these look more along the line of a A. Baenschi strain with no noticable red or bronze colour around the shoulder area. My peacocks characteristics are: blue heads, majority of the remainder yellow except some black colouration at top and bottom of caudal fin (tail) and beneath the white tipped dorsal fins, egg spots on anal and end of dorsal fins between body and tip of fin. Here is a picture showing males in different transitions of colouring up/down but gives you a general idea of the characteristics: Or if that doesn't work give this a go and for more pictures try this album. The current tank is 200L comprising a couple pieces of driftwood, a nice plantation of straight val, limestone rocks, pvc piping for smaller fish and coral substrate. Filtration is provided by 2x Jebo 819 which give 2400Lph - have removed sway bars as was concentrating too much flow and fish didnt appreciate it so just running the two out flow pipes at one end directed to rebound off the glass to reduce direct flow. Fish list: - 10x Clown Loach - 11x A. Baenschi? Peacock - 6/7x small E. Yellows (One in Q tank holding) - 2x Bristlenose catfish - 1x Pictus catfish Previously the peacocks were in a 50cm cube 125L - I decided to move these into my larger tank so there would be more swimming area and territory also so more males could colour up without being too intimidated by the 2 current dominant males (10-11cm) - more males are starting to colour up already since the move to a larger tank. The different species don't fight, the only quarreling is between the two dominant males - this is usually just one chases the other away to the other end of the tank and comes and goes if they're being moody or not, there has not been any full on physical contact as far as I know except the odd split fin possibly from a quick nip however today I noticed some small tears around their mouths which implies jaw locking - wondering if I should be concerned about this? Anyways thanks for taking the time to read :bounce: :bounce:

Howdy im just in taupo for the weekend and have been trying to find out where abouts in the waikato the white sand is to check it out, does anyone know of a certain area on the waikato or lake taupo i could check out? thanks