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i've still not figured out how to do this after several months now! is anyone able to enlighten me please? thanks.

Tim you were right, it was a male nigerianus gold and a very nice one! he has continued to grow and is a really lovely looking fish. The nicest fish I have bred so far!!!

thanks for the pics, very useful! i think they are Metynnis hypsauchen. I did a google image search and they seemed the most similar and look like these guys: http://www.pecesdevenezuela.com/images/ ... S%20IM.jpg i have taken some photos of them but have no idea how to post a pic! yes we have lots of plants, the silver dollars are nibbling away on one plant that grows very quickly (i'm not sure of its name but we end up throwing handfuls of it out every couple of weeks) which is good

thanks for the link. they've been in the tank a few hours now but still a little shy. i'll try and suss out what sex they are when they come out from behind the plants. so there are 2 different breeds of silver dollars is that right?

hi, i've just bought a trio of silver dollars from my lfs. they all have a red stripe on their anal fin, does this mean i have a trio of males? thanks.

cheers tim, the fins have coloured up a little more with bits of red as well as the green now, must be the nigerianus gold.

a male, i hope so!!!

I have a small tank with originally 6 killifish - two trio's (1male & 2 females), one trio nigerianus gold and the other australe golds. After quite a while one of the females died, i'm not sure which species she was of the two. Just before Xmas we went on holiday and left a holiday fish food block (my killies eat flake food)in the tank, when we came home sadly my beautiful male australe gold was dead BUT... there was one little baby fish swimming around. I think this youngster looks more like a nigerianus gold but i'm not sure. He/she is starting to colour up on the fins with a little bit of green and is getting bigger. There's loads of javamoss in there for him/her to hide in. Which speices do you think the youngster might be? Cheers.

a bit broke this month, my poor horse got caught on a fence, had to get the vet out, very costly! there's always next month eh...

i'll go to the fish shop for flourish excel cheers. not concerned about the apple snails, i think they'll be find in my tank.

cheers sharn. another tank would be good but not affordable at the moment. i could move the killifish back to the community tank but they spend the whole time hiding and you don't get to see the 2 stunning looking males. maybe in a couple of months i could set another tank up. would he go in a marine tank? always wanted one of those!!!

yeah i've seen some brown apple snails on tm, think they look nice so will get a few of those. i hope i've got rid of 90-95% of this evil weed today, i tried to get it off the leaves of my amazon swords etc with no luck so have torn the ends of the leaves affected. i think they will live through this ordeal as many of the leaves were unaffected. i did a 20-25% water change and added heaps of fertilser so hopefully this will encourage this horrid weed to die! i can't believe how it was glued to the leaves of the plants! it appeared out of no where, quite like duck weed appeared the same but i don't mind that so much, good for the fry to hide.

i only just found out (about an hour ago) that he was brackish and want the best for him, maybe a new home you think? he was sold to me as a freshwater fish

i bought a bumblebee goby a month or two ago, since then his sightings have become less and less frequent to the point i think he's no longer alive. i was thinking yesterday i hadn't seen him for a few days then i suddenly saw him and have seen him several times today. at feeding time today i noticed he had one bite of flake food (literally one bite), a bloodworm or two and this was it. when i usually feed the fish i rarely see him so haven't been aware of how much or little he eats. i have been reading that he is a brackish fish but can go ok in freshwater. i didn't know this when i bought him (he was the only one and i thought he looked cute). he is in a non-agressive community tank, he is by no means the smallest fish in there as there are heaps of guppy fry and of the bigger fish (gouramis, haplo catfish) they don't seem to try to eat the small fish. does anybody have some advice for me regarding this fish? should i find him a few mates to make him feel more comfortable or should i find him a new brackish home? i also have a separate tank with 6 small killifish that are very chilled out, he could go in there instead, its a much smaller tank (about 35L, the current community tank is 100L roughly), both tanks have plenty of hiding places. Cheers.

would they?! seems that its my fish eating the other small snails at present in my community tank! in my killifish tank the snails don't seem to be dinner!

i was thinking of getting some golden apple snails actually but they're $4.50 in my local pet shop, a bit pricey do you reckon?

cheers mincie, you've described it right in the other post a hairy mess that smells funny when its taken out the tank! i don't have a problem with the regular algae as i have several fish that love to eat it, this stuff obviously doesn't appeal to them! i'll get to work trying to peel it off my poor amazon swords this afternoon. cheers.

its not the stonewort and i'm not entirely convinced its the string algae after looking at some pics on google. there is that sort of algae in the stream outside but this stuff is very dark green and is spreading like crazy along the top of the tank attaching to pipes etc (now gone) and the plants at the bottom. not nice.

string algae eh? i'll do a water change today and use lots of fertiliser (i do both these regularly). i've managed to get rid of most of it just whats attached to the plants is really tricky to get off, it attaches like an extra layer! whats the best way to remove it from the plants? thanks.

i added a photo of this plant/weed as my profile pic as didn't seem to be any other way. cheers.

Hi, I've recently discovered a new weed-like plant in my tropical community tank. I originally thought when i saw it it was java moss as we have a handful of that but after pulling some out have realised that it like thread/fish wire! it surrounds some pipes etc where i can get it off but my problem is that it covers plants (such as my much liked amazon sword plants) and sticks to them like glue. it appears to suffocate them and some unknown plants i had in the tank had in fact died. it seems like it turns into a moss afterwards? does anybody know what i'm dealing with here? i have not bought any fish lately and all the water we use for the tank (we live rurally and no doubt our water is from a local stream) we add water ager or similar. whatever it is it appears to be killing my plants, the fish seem unaffected. i have taken a photo but don't seem to be able to upload it, is anybody able to tell me how?! thanks.

thanks fishandchips. yeah i'm a student too. what bulbs would i need from the osram site, just the T5 16mm ones? how much roughly are they from a lighting shop? cheers.

of course, oops!

do you have to have fittings as well? i thought they came with them?! https://falkor.hosts.net.nz/petplanet.c ... d=354&=SID isn't that what the brackets are?!

lol you'd laugh if you saw the light i have at the moment, its from the 50's i think...