Navarre

I am sorry for everyones losses as you know I have 70 tanks a mix of glass and poly lost a few fish each time and a few cover glasses. havent lost a tank yet not sure what I have done differentlyto others. Good teacher i guess over engineer tanks brace tanks poly under tanks stands braced to walls in fish room and 5cm from walls in house ( independent movement??) not sure why else 25k damager form last one floor rippled like waves and busted TnG left right and centre this time. might be right off with 2 added

you can get close with some electric fishes and some related fish to those of legend but nothing that is an actual unless youhold a zoo licence

were some down here with redwoods last shipment havent seen any since

Congrats you will need to strip fry from folks other wise they are just free food hard fry successfully raise but good luck use brine shrimp and micros to start then move up to grindals and white worms/lumbriculas once big enough other fry are also good once they are a goodly size you will need to start grading as they will devour each other as well Oh and happy for you to ship to me to do all the hard work...lol if not happy to go first on the list for some saleable sized fry nav

my place for fish...lol

to day I went to my fish room to find my Altolamp Calvus yellow pair deceased these are the only ones I am aware of and now they are gone whilst my S panamense fry are now a month old this in no way makes up for my loss today devastated

ferrous

I follow same rules as Ryan I feed a mix of foods some float some sink flake pellet live dead this way all diest are catered for and reduces the competition somewhat hth

It has been a long time since I had fighters and I wasnt that good at it, but The more water you have the more room the fish have so the bigger they can get BUT you also have to be carefull because the food can get _lost_ in the extra room Also the more you change the water the harder it is to keep stable so the more work you have to put in to it to maintain parameters BUT the more water that is changed and the more food that goes in the fast fish grow having more volume early in the piece may not be the answer but having aged water good to go a few times a day might be Maybe seeing its hols and hot a water change 3x a day and feeding straight after might be a good comprimise only needs to be a small change each time say 20% or so...trial and earror untill you sort what work for you My discus fry used to get 200% water changes every day...but it was warm aged water and they were feed 6 times a day Maybe? LOL HTH

You should rub your lucky charm more me thinks good luck with the next spawn please put me down for some fry Nav

lovely

warm = male cool =females not sure at what stage ph plays a big part but again my memory fails me

how are "our" wrigglers doing Simon? lol

well i could have suggested that he read raymond opinhimers books about what would pass for a breeding programe but hey lets get real I mean it is nearly sat morning...lol or mendles oft misquoted works on beans and peas and the what not or axylrods work on geographic varients in "the" lake but then I am not a genetics expert and I can hardly spell at the best of times let a lone type...lol so line breeding is when you use a relative of your animal to "secure" a specific trait. lets cal that a virtue this might be as close as father daughter in some instances or cousins neice nephew so on. it can work very well to secure those traits that are seen as virtues but with every generation "in" you increase the risk of non virtueous traits or faults. so for example colour you use a "flashy dog to a flashy bitch to get flashy pups. virtue...you get chocolate box markings that make pups easy to sell fault flash to flash means youmay get "white" pups with have a high incidence of genetic diseases such as herditary deafness or are more prone to cancer. another example using dogs is a disease called avrc. this is a disease that enlarges the heart causing....well...death hetro positive=carier homo positie= got it negative= not got it line breading would be where you used a realtive of you dog or bitch to create a litter that is all negative so that they could them be mated to produce further negative puppies in later generations...of course you need to test each pup and each generation if you use a homo or hetro positive dog to work which are carriers and which are positives. hth

Still the same no more no less nothing constructive

its easy to explain line breeding if it works in breeding if it doesnt end of story lol you dont like the idea? how do you think every single species on the planet got specific traits that define those species consider for a moment if you will that one theory sugests that every blonde in THE world can be traced back to one family in scandinavia or if you doubt darwin that after the flood there was noah his wife their two sons and their wives and that they are related to adam eve and their two sons...hmmmm dad the boys and mum....you work that out well that about sums up line breeding

i didnt wanna do it you know you made me do it stop with the torture just stop

yes they were nice fish A Town Wish I had had more success with mine as well.

Some locally bred ones kicking about I think

And sorry to be so rude VERY nice pics

join the very long que...lol

you can put heaps of africans in a tank that size. depends if you want to breed tho or if you want colour that matches any marine you could go all male and have dozens of colours kicking around you could go speices only and pick a colour?shape?make...could be central south american or any african Native you catch em yourself or speak to other native keepers Sky is limit plant it up and have rainbows rock it up and look at brown haps or fryeri or marleri golds and the list goes on

explain EI? Please?

Not sure on ID but happy to have some down my way when you breed them lol