Navarre
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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
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were some down here with redwoods last shipment
havent seen any since
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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
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my place for fish...lol
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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
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ferrous
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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
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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
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You should rub your lucky charm more me thinks
good luck with the next spawn
please put me down for some fry
Nav
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lovely
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warm = male
cool =females
not sure at what stage
ph plays a big part but again my memory fails me
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how are "our" wrigglers doing Simon?
lol
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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
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Still the same
no more
no less
nothing constructive
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I'm not being picky
I just don't like the idea of line breeding. And it sounds icky too :lol: Imagine having kids with your cousin or sister :lol: Can someone please explain to me everthing about line breeding so I know more about it? I've only been keeping fish for two or three years so I know next to nothing about all this breeding/genetics stuff, and my opinions are based on what I have seen/read in the time I have been keeping fish
I've only ever bred three species of fish in my life.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
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i didnt wanna do it
you know you made me do it
stop with the torture
just stop
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yes they were nice fish A Town
Wish I had had more success with mine as well.
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Some locally bred ones kicking about I think
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And sorry to be so rude
VERY nice pics
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Wow Jennifer what AMAZING fish
I REALLY want a pair :bounce: :happy2: 
:love: :happy1: !drool:join the very long que...lol
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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
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explain EI?
Please?
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Not sure on ID but happy to have some down my way when you breed them
lol
Quake proofing tanks.
in DIY Section
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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