coelacanth

get rid of the electric yellows. The tiny bristlenoses will probably get eaten by the other fish in there. Otherwise the list would be fine, including butterfly and angel (assuming the tank size will be upgraded in future). Be warned ctenopomas like to eat other fish!

the permit is only to keep reptiles obtained through other keepers, it is not a licence to catch wild reptiles, and it does not cover reptiles obtained illegally (through wild capture). I suggest the legless lizard and any others he may have like it are released where they were originally caught. It may be hard passing up the opportunity to keep a reptile, but better than getting fines and the licence revoked.

I do much the same as Caryl, except I siphon them with a bit of aquarium tubing (like what you would have on an undergravel filter or from a pump). I put a hanky over a jam jar and push down the middle with my finger, siphon the brine shrimp through that, stick the water back in the shrimp hatchery and stick the shrimp in the fish tank. They are attracted to light so will move to the side of the container if you light it (to separate them from the remains of the "egg" capsules). I actually hatch mine in a divided container with a gap at the bottom of the divider. The side with the "eggs" is dark so when they hatch the shrimp move themselves to the lighted side and can be easily siphoned off. The container sits on top of one of the tanks to keep it warm.

I like this one. The sabre-tooth paraya Hydrolicus scomberoides, from the Amazon

I'd go with tetras or other school fish (eg danios, tiger barbs, etc). Many are easy to breed and raise, and shops sell heaps so they are easy to sell. Cichlids are easy to breed but impossible to get rid of. Livebearers are easy, but tetras are more productive. Pretty much any of the really popular school fish are easy to breed -- thats why they are so cheap to buy.

if you want to get lots of eggs and fry, set the pairs up in a specific breeding tank. All it needs in it is a spawning grid over the base (the grid can be just a bit of whitebait mesh from the nearest hardware store, cut to fit the bottom of the tank). No plants or anything like that are required. You can breed them in pairs, trios or schools (upsize the tank as per number of pairs!). The fry are easily reared on brine shrimp. I always found that the tank needed to be completely darkened as for neons or no eggs hatched, but I've never seen this mentioned in books and I believe other people breed them just fine without the darkening. (But its worth keeping in mind if you get only poor results).

One of the problems is that many people don't actually know that GBAs and bristlenoses are separate species. They think that both the GBA and the albino BN are just similar-looking mutations of the regular BN, or this is what they have been told by others or even in the shop from which they bought them.

exactly

but you said in an earlier post that it had been wild-caught the day you got it.... were you lying?

different corys will school but they prefer their own species if they can

I'm assuming you have a permit to keep this legless lizard? As I understand it, it is illegal to catch or remove reptiles from the wild in Australia. Just asking...

I know you knew, I was pointing it out for the benefit of those smart people who think they actually are dinosaurs (or lizards).

Quotes: "Well Dragon but it is a lizard" "It is a lizard but more known as a dragon check out this link." "Yes, Of corse i read it" I fail to understand how you could have read the article (or indeed, ANYTHING on tuatara) and come to the conclusion that it is a dragon or any other type of lizard. Perhaps you did not understand the words? And I know davidb was joking. As he well knows, tuatara have been around since the time of the dinosaurs but are of course not dinosaurs themselves.

yes its a very acceptable link but I think you are confused. Nowhere in the Wikipedia article does it say anything about the tuatara being a lizard (or even a dragon). Did you actually read it?

tuatara is not a lizard

they'll look the same

just look on Google Images

totally agree wholeheartedly. The punishments for ecological crimes (for want of a better term) are pitiful and are in no way a deterrent to the perpetrators.

neons, danios, angelfish, the list would just go on and on....

the problem with Animates is Animates

when I used to have kribs I couldn't do anything with the young because no shop would buy them they were so common. Thats the problem with cichlids.

I had a solitary (rescued) skunk loach in a tank of 200-odd bronze corys. When i went to catch some corys to take to a shop, well over half of them had one or both eyes missing. Now I keep skunks in species tanks, not communities! Never heard of clowns doing it, but I wouldn't be too surprised if they did.

yeah I was just at Redwood yesterday and they had red-finned halfbeaks listed on their board of fish available but not on display (because for some reason they don't like putting the good fish out where people can see them...maybe they're afraid of sales). I'm assuming from the name that they are the Sulawesi species Nomorhamphus ebrardtii. This is what I stole off the net: Nomorhamphus ebrardtii (Popta, 1912). Another Halfbeak from the island of Sulawesi, this species is sometimes sold as the “red fin halfbeak†but is more often simply included in batches of Celebes halfbeaks. Unlike Nomorhamphus liemi, this species has a straight beak and the fins are edged with thick bands of orange. It is quite a large species, with females around 11 cm (4.5 inches) in length and males around 9 cm (3.5 inches). Nomorhamphus ebrardtii is found in coastal waters rather than rainforest streams, and needs moderately hard, neutral to slightly alkaline water. It will also tolerate slightly brackish water (SG up to 1.005).

I think you're wasting you time purple, I've tried telling users on here the same thing. Nobody pays any attention. Once people have an idea in their heads they stick with it...

separate male and female for a week or two, feed them up so they're well-conditioned, put them together in a tank with a spawning grid. They lay the eggs the next morning. Remove the adults. Tank needs to be kept completely darkened because the eggs and fry are photophobic (they die if exposed to light). They hatch in 24 hours and the fry hang for two days before free-swimming. They can be fed on newly-hatched brine shrimp straight away once swimming. The only trick to it is to know that the eggs and fry are photophobic. Breeding them is otherwise as simple as danios. Today's neons have been tank-bred for generations. Only the original wild stocks were hard to breed, needing very specific water conditions etc.