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so what do you suppose had been crossbred to get the unpure kingsizei you got ryan?

my yellows are probably your yellows brothes and sisters doch i have 4 older ones that i got from lfs in palmy but once the male i got from ryan grew up it beat the living snot out of the older male and now has atleast 6 ladies to keep him occupied the older male just watches from afar and sulks his yellows are amazing they are byfar the healthiest ive seen in nz

looks like im going to have to start an account with photobucket the babys are eating well on micro worm and bbs ive found that if you syphon off a small amount of water and as much of the hatched bbs then freeze the bbs in the large meat trays you get from pacnsave(plastic ones with grooves in it ) then your left with blocks of food ready for the babies and its easy to seperate too but the best bit is no cysts or capsules for the fish to choke on how does everyone else feed their babys?

the first one looks like my red shoulders which there has been some confusion about but ryan and i have come to the conclusion that theyre Aul.stuartgranti "malari red" i could be wrong wont be the first time

I am so proud of my yellows they bred about a week before i went to aus and i was there for about 8 days to my surprise i came home to find her still holding so after deciding whether or not to pull down my tank and strip the mother, im left with 14 baby yellows do the happy dance they have bred many times before but due to my interferance they never came to term i guess it pays to just leave it up to the fish

how do you get the pummace to sink?

nah its the red i had neons in aus and they had it heres another linkhttp://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/hdntd.htm hth

do your research first so you dont end up with fish that dont mix well ryans mix is a great mix of fish they look awesome and breed like rabits but mixing some species is just asking for trouble then theres the hassle of loosing fish taking them back to lfs or selling them on ive just had to sell a few fish that didnt mix well cos my tank was over run by big grumpy psudos terrorising the reat of my fish chris

i saw something like that back in aussie and if its the same thing its called neon tetra disease it usually only happens in heated tanks and spreads to other neons and unfortunately other fish heres a link no pic though http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/disease/p/neondisease.htm hopefuly that works

is there someone in the tank stealing eggs

youve seen my pleccos havent you ryan they arent red spot or gold spot i dont reckon they are anyway from the pics ive seen and ive seen alot trying to figure out what they are

from the colours it looks a bit like geophagus brazilliensis but body shape tells me otherwise maybe a better pic would help like a full side of the fish's profile would be a great help hth chris

i keep really random hours with work as a baker so my lights go on when i finnish work at 1030 and go off at 830 pm when i go to bed the fos dont mind and its always daylightsavings time in my tank too in winter my wife was turning the light on b4 work at 8 am times change on the weekends but as Ianab said fish dont wear watches they dont really know what time it is except for dinnertime they always know when its dinnertime lol chris

i read that fish dont have pain receptors but yea whack its head with a hammer dont smash it though it may get messy if you do just imagine how bad it would be if you were locked in the freezer personally id perfer to be knocked out or find someone with a big carnivore and give it to them as food

are they online and if so could you pm me their email addy?