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Breeding Chocolate Fish Cocoa pisces (deliscioso) I recently managed to acquire a trio of Chocolate fish to try breeding with, A melanistic male, a normal female and an albino female. Breeding Tank parameters. Minimum size 100 litres Temperature under 18 centigrade otherwise they get soft and lethargic. PH neutral to soft. I used chocolate sprinkles as substrate and fed them Cadbury Flake food to condition them for breeding. These fish usually spawn in caves laying a large egg mass which the male guards for7 days before they hatch. Egg mass. Once the fry hatch I remove the parents just in case they are tempted to eat them. Picture of newly hatched fry. I feed the fry fine particles of food, this is easily achieved by grating a chocolate bar on a kitchen grater. I hope this article helps you achieve breeding these sweet fish. Fry ready for sale.

Sad to see your fish has bit the big one but luckily they are a common import nowadays.

As Caryl has said it should be good to go using tap water.

No it looks fine just asleep, it is an albino or white chocolate gourami. When it wakes up and opens its eyes you will be able to see if the eyes are dark or red.

Can't wait to see this set up.

https://view.joomag.com/iherp-australia-issue-3/0682664001501470952?short

Your problem is the heights of tote, barrels etc in the shed It looks like you pump uphill from the tote with poret in it the blue line is greatest capacity of sump water you can have without flooding living room when power goes off the only way to increase it is to take sump to green box line allowing more water for pump to work to capacity

Yes a grey area I would argue they are the same fish posing the same risk they did before being reclassified Was quite surprised that some only exist on the list no where else to be found on the planet lol

Just over a 1,000 freshwater fish to do now lol I have already loaded in Identification links for each species on MPI list with corrections for current binomial name and a ? if i can't find them. Where there is a family of fish that come from the same area and water conditions and care I have made a generic listing and copied and pasted for each species. Example is Ancistrus This fish is from South America: The family are commonly known as Bristlenose Catfish as they have fleshy tentacles found on the head of adult males; females possess tentacles along the snout margin but they are smaller and they lack tentacles on the head. Freshwater Bottom swimmer need good filtration and driftwood to graze on. Community compatible. Min. Tank Size 200 litres. Size 16 cm for males, females are smaller. pH 6 - 7 Temp. 25 - 28 °C Water Hardness 5-12. Diet Herbivore graze on algae and other surface growing organisms as well as eating algae wafers or tablets, flake food, squash, spinach, cucumber, zucchini, green beans and peas. will take flake and pellet foods

Database with general care info for all tropical marine fish allowed to be imported into N.Z, https://aquariumworld.nz/databases/14-Tropical FWFishallowedinNZdatabase/

Sorry I keep forgetting I use this as copy and paste into the entry box, then search google and use fishbase, Planetcatfish or seriouslyfish to garner information to fill it out, and include any other info that may be pertinent to a viewer. compatibility, aggression etc. Threadfin Acara http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/acarichthys-heckelii/ Size: 14.0 cm PH range: 7.0 – 7.2; Water Hardness: 5-15. Temperature; 22°C - 25°C Distribution Amazon River South America. Diet: Worms, crustaceans, insects, will take live, flake and pellet foods

It worked on my sump

Weldon number 16 here. http://www.anythingacrylic.co.nz/anything-acrylic/accessories/acrylic-cement/ Use of acrylic is fairly rare in nz at this stage.

LOL slowly mowing them all down, only 100 marine fish to go now

A database of all the Killifish allowed into New Zealand. https://aquariumworld.nz/databases/20-Tropical FWFishallowedinNZdatabase/

Finally got a halfway decent video of the Scorpion fish i have grown on since last year.from a larvae caught in plankton net. la

I usually find the fish supply enough nutrients

LOL you can't sell the native ones without a permit. They start appearing at the water surface in the plankton layer around November, can catch them with a fine net. The Mantis larvae are a light green colour.

I have a pair of nz ones that i grew on from larvae collected last season

The early bird catches the Anubias

Excellent way of profiling a fish.

Beautiful

Should be good now Barrie