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Neon tetras, gouramis, pearl danios, rainbow fish, plecos, skunk loaches, harlequin rasboras, mollies, platys, killies, hatchetfish? Thanks

Thanks for all your advice, sorry one more question. How long should I leave her separated and wait for fry before I just decide it was a false alarm and put her back in with the community? I am dying for one of my fish to breed so it is quite an exciting thought!

Hmm, well will it help that she is in the little netted off bit now? He can't get to her. Should I expect some fry? She has had a long pinkish (poo?) hanging out of her bum for a bit bit it has broken off now. I am very new to this. Oh dear.

ok so I have bought him two females, and moved the gouramis to another tank but this morning he has been focussing on two platys in the tank. Both the platys look really fat in fact, one more than the other, but with swollen bellies and the molly is constantly at their anal fin, like he is waiting for something to come out for him to gobble down. I have moved the fatter platy into one of those little isolation nets. What is going on here do you think?

Animalz in Petone have a nice set up too and their tanks and fish always look quite healthy.

I have set up my first planted tank and the plants are growing well now. I am wondering if there is a plant I can buy which will form a sort of lawn / groundcover? And if so, what is it called and where can I buy it from? Thanks

These aren't terribly exciting but I just wanted to try loading photos on here and see if it worked

Sorry I am not sure exactly where to post this... I have read on various posts about a place called Wet Pets in Palmerston North and I thought I might drive up for a day trip and do a few other things on the way too (I am in Wellington) if it is a worthwhile trip. Is it a good store? Do they have lots of good and interesting fish? I am still fairly new to fish and have a couple of tanks to populate.

I have some plans I can email you if you PM me your email address. They are for a play fort like the ones at Mitre 10 Mega

I would love some blue rams but they seem to be hard to come by in Wellington. I haven't seen any in my LFSs and there seem to be very few on TM. Any ideas where to get some?

I only fell in love with tropical fish recently, but I fell fast and hard! I got my first tank in August and then a second and now I have a lovely 3 foot community tank in the living room. As a result of combining the populations of the first two tanks into the new large tank I have 2 tanks to fill! One is a 70L rectangular tank in my little son's room. The other is a 100L hexagonal, about 600mm wide and 800mm tall. I am really looking for suggestions for what you would do with those 2tanks (other than put them on TM and buy bigger ones! - Our house is small and we are I believe at full tank capacity now!). I would love something a little different but I realise I am quite limited by space and also by the shape of the hex tank. Are there any fish which are more suited to depth rather than width? Anyway, any suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated! And HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!

My BGK is about 8cm long and I have it in a large community tank with neon tetras among others and it has never shown any interest in anything yet apart from the frozen blood worms. I love watching it move and I think it is just gorgeous and so many people agree. Where should I move it when it gets bigger? Is it ok in a cichlid setup?

I am new to this fish game but I was in a store yesterday, not my LFS but one up the coast. I was just looking at the fish and there was a salesperson there with a father and son. They were buying a small tank and some fish at once. The salesperson didn't once mention setting the tank up first, cycling etc. They very obviously didn't know anything about the fish they were buying. He convinced them to buy a 2 neon tetras, 1 gourami and a bunch of other fish, all singles, which just got plopped in the same bag. I really felt for these guys and their little tank and wondered how long the fish will last and whether it will make them think tropicals are hard to keep.

Hmm perhaps that is it! He doesn't seem to be trying to bite the gouramis, just seems to sidle up next to them and try to snuggle. Does that sound likely? Yes he is my only molly, he was so lovely I had to have him. Jet black with a little blue and orange on his tail.

I was given a black mollie today and he is bullying the hell out of my gouramis. Is this normal? For some reason I expected it to be placid like my platys.

Actually I have just recalculated and it is 100L. Does that make a diff?

Hi, I am new to fish keeping. We started with a 60L rectangular tank in my son's room and there we have 2 angels, 2 platys, 6 black widow tetras, 2 dwarf gouramis and a bottom feeder type bloke. They have been good and happy for a while now and I have bought a second tank on Trade Me for our room. This is an 80L hexagonal one. (http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =121585355) and I had originally thought I would like to start a cichlid tank but having posted on the cichlid thread I have a few replies saying that the tank is too small for cichlids. So I am hoping for some ideas about what I you think I should set up this tank as? I love my community tank and if I can't have cichlids then should I set up another community? How can I make it different from the other one? My favourite fish at the moment are angels (although I am told they are not the height of fish fashion!) and I love the gouramis. I am very open to suggestions!

You're right it is taller than it is long. So I guess it is not right for cichlids. Perhaps I should go for another community tank with something different than what I have in my first tank. In there I have 2 large angels, 6 neon tetras (actually today only one and I expect he'll be gone by tomorrow - they are just the right size for a nice Angelfish snack), 6 black widow tetras, a couple of little bottom feeders, 2 dwarf gouramis and 2 platys. Any suggestions of what would be different for the hexagon tank? Sorry to be such a newbie!

I guess I was thinking blues and yellows were the colours I liked. I do intend to upgrade to a larger tank in perhaps a year. Thanks for your advice it is appreciated!

Hi all, this fish business is quite addictive isn't it. I have just bought my second tank (first is a 60L community tank in my son's room) which is hexagonal and about 100 litres and I would like to set it up as a cichlid tank but I don't really know where to start, whether to have Malawi ones or Tanganyika etc, and I have read some website that say I sould have a fine substrate like crushed coral and some say rounded gravel, some say for rocks, schist (of which I have a good few pieces) is fine, others say I should have rounded river rocks and now I am just confused. Should I have plants or will they be eaten straight away? Once the tank is cycled for a week or two how many fish should I add at once? Any recommendations fish-wise? I have so many questions! Any advice is greatly appreciated! :lol: