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Ooooh I kinda don't want yet to cos it looks spack. Especially compared to yours! Gimme a few days :lol:

Oh, wow, great, to be honest, having no experience with cichlids and very little knowledge , I was expecting some you shouldn't have put xxx with xxxs and some great now but in a few weeks xxx will eat xxxs or some nice if you want dead fishs or something. Thanks!

After all my stressing and boundless posts (sorry Ryan :oops: ), I finally have an african tank set up, I think. The substrate is silica sand, and I have a rocky background which is a mixture of limestone, river rocks, schist and some coral. I need some tips about building a good rock 'wall' though because it only goes about 15cm up the back of the tank and I haven't built it any further due to worrying about rocks falling on fish. As for the fish, I have 5 electric yellows. Then I was going to get demasoni as per a few suggestions but Glenn suggested an alternative of some melanochromis johannii, so I have a pair of them and 3 of their offspring. And then rather than sticking to one variety of peacock he suggested males only (G - please tell me if I have this wrong) and I have 2 otopharynx lithobates ( I know they're not peacocks but was told they are as close to Peacocks as you can get without them being Peacocks) and 1 aulonocara baenschi so far. They are all out and about, eating well and looking lovely. I actually thought they would be hiding for days but perhaps they don't like my caves.

Mmmmm been there done that. That was FUN!!! :bounce: :bounce:

Wow that looks awesome, what did you use as your background?

Yeah I would try some cheap net curtains from The Warehouse or I can send you some netting from Spotlight

You must be gutted. So sorry to hear that.

peas

I just wrote a reply to this but it vanished so apologies if this ends up being a double post. Have a look towards the end of this thread... http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/4-vt27 ... l?start=45 ... and the video's worth a watch. I have just put silica sand in my tank and it looks fantastic. The rinsing was a bit of a drag but it looks great. I got mine from a friend who got it from Placemakers.

Yeah it'd be cool, they have some nice fish. They had some beautiful Otopharynx lithobates (I think) in there today.

Thanks heaps for that! I will PM him now if I can and if I don't hear back I would really appreciate if you could call him. I REALLY want to buy some of his fish but I just can't justify driving to Auckland for it (it'd add about $200+ worth of petrol!) and I don't know anyone in Auckland who I would trust with fish. Do you ever ship yours?

Does anyone know if 'fishandbirds' on TM is on this forum? They are selling some fish I would like to buy and I can't get them to answer any questions on the auction

I saw a job advertised today for part time staff at Animalz which is in Petone and they wanted someone with fish experience. I thought I would mention it here in case anyone was looking.

Wow that video is fantastic, all I needed to know.

Hi David, your black mollie has been trouble since I got it!!! Ha! Now I am turning my tank into one like this thread is about and I've stupidly put rocks in to make caves and now I have been trying to catch him for 3 days to give to a friend!! Aaargh! I just PMd Kenneth about the same question, but I will let him answer.

Cool, I will await your word Ryan, and the moment any of your wee ones are availa-bull (as your town would say it!! :lol: ) I will be there at a moment's notice! In the mean time I will be patient and work on making my tank inhabita-bull.

I have only done a home type website (as in a family one) and I used Macromedia Dreamweaver which is very user friendly but I would think there would be all sorts of fantastic software out there to use - this was about 5 years ago.

Thought as much but just wanted to check

If I bought these and then added small yellows and demasoni and peacocks when they are ready is this a bad idea. I think I am just impatient to get my cichlid tank going. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pe ... 775028.htm

Oh really, well I do have one of those in this particular tank and he is the only other fish I can see who has a wound on him too. Plus the female bettas are chomped too.

He is in a 2ft community tank with 2 females, a few little killies, 3 platys and a small school of neon tetras. He has had his tail gnawed to shreds. Any clues who the culprit would have been. My only thought is that he is not the same male that the females were with before. Could it have been them? The other inhabitants don't really seem like likely culprits but I could be wrong.

Sorry just being a stupid blonde, it's a good seafood restaurant. :lol: :oops: :lol:

Shame you're not further north, I hear Mussel Boys is good! :lol:

I think this wouldn't have happened 5 years ago before the Karori Bird Sanctuary was established. I'm not against the sanctuary by any means, I just think it is most likely due to my proximity to Otari and Karori.

Oooooooooooh! I will buy some to try tomorrow!