oneeyedfrog

My first lot of sterbai eggs hatched fine and have grown up no problems. The next 2 lots started dying soon after hatching. In the morning they are moving around normally by afternoon theres afew white bodies. Within a couple of days - none left. I am doing the same as I did the first time. I put the eggs in a container floating in the parents tank with a drop of meth blue and an air stone . Once hatched w/c 2x day with parents tank water. some java moss in there and feeding microworms and bbs. The danio fry that hitched a ride on the moss is still alive. Any ideas on what's going wrong? Thanks

I would go for the largest tank you can fit/afford. 20- 30 l is pretty small. It would limit your options with the type /number of fish you could keep. It's is easier to keep a larger tank in balance. Have you decided which type of fish you would like to keep? Also with the all in ones I found the small access a bit of a pain. I like to muck around in my tanks with plants etc - catching fish was harder too. Most of my tanks now have glass lids that are easy to remove .

No you are not a wimp. The others must have noticed it if you did and they haven't stood up and done the right thing like you have. Good on you! Not a nice situation to find yourself in. What he is doing is not on and he should expect consequences.

barracuda- me too. I remember yrs ago a friend was staying and had caught a huge one . For some reason he folded into our spare fridge. I unsuspectingly opened it and this huge ugly thing unfolded itself and seemed to spring out headfirst at me I nearly had a heart attack

I found a product called Odarid is really good for getting rid of smells and stains.

about 2 tbsp/l. I tried less - down to 1tbsp/l and tried more but no luck. How much should I have used?

I had been hatching brine shrimp with average results. Then I ran out of salt . Got some more - same brand- and then suddenly hardly any were hatching. Read on here that someone used sea water so I tried that. Wow now I have heaps. Fantastic hatch rate. Thanks for the tip!

My sterbai spent a couple of days spawning . I thought I would see if taking water from this tank and adding it to my trilineatus tank really would encourage them to spawn. I took one bucketful from the (100L) sterbai tank and put in to the 400L trilineatus tank. The next morning they were busy! Didn't manage to save any eggs though - the other fish were following them around gobbling them up. Managed to save around 30 sterbai eggs despite greedy platties nipping at their fins to get the eggs before she'd even stuck them anywhere

How about a fish shed outside instead of a pond :lol:

Only small -The female is about 3cm and the male around 4cm I was surprised as I thought they wouldn't breed yet. Ryan I am very happy with them they are so cool- Thanks

A got a few of these off Ryan a couple of months ago . A few days ago I noticed a couple pairing up and removed all the others to a larger tank ( I don't think I'll ever be able to get them out of there now - man they are fast! :lol: ) Yesterday I came home to find the couple had laid eggs :bounce: I could only get some crap pics but they show the lovely colours.

Completely blacking out the tank for a few days can help too. I have had sucess with: -100% water change- stressful for fish though - adding several willow branches- putting cut end in tank and leaving for a couple of weeks letting roots and leaves sprout- takes time but free -uv filter- completely clear water in a couple of days but costs - Not sure how much in Aussie

I recently visited Pupuke for the 1st time and was impressed. Worth a visit I reckon . Also the only place I have seen that has a sign by the goldfish advising they need a large tank.

Thanks for that. They are in a tank with about 10 l water at the mo. I might stick some more airstones in. I won't be surprised if I lose them but will give it a go. Cheers

Hi Milena, could you give me some tips/ let me know what you did wrong ? My blue rams are spawning now and I am keen to try to raise some. Ive set up a small tank half full with some water from the parents tank and I'll try removing the eggs when they've finished. Thanks

Well I don't know about that. If I won some money I would be planning my next tank/fish room :lol:

Ive got some striatum fry :bounce: I got some striatum from Zev a month or two ago and have just left them to it to see if anything happened. The plants are taking over and it's looking rather "natural". I've seen them chasing each other around- couldn't spot any eggs though. After reading about Sophia and Mr T's success I had a hunt around the plants and found 4 eggs- I've popped them in a separate container floating in the tank for what seems like ages - but is probably only a week (patience is not one of my virtues )- I can see the tiny fish developing inside them. Anyway I was mucking around this evening in the tank and saw a tiny fry darting around. Spotted 2 tiny and one larger one so there may be a few more in there. :bounce: I ran excitedly into the lounge to tell the family - the girls were keen but hubby just rolled his eyes. oh well I think I might be turning into a fish geek. :oops: I've been looking daily at the eggs with a magnifying glass and also using it to watch my sterbai fry scoff their dinner. Only a month more to wait before I can try hatching the korth eggs Barrie sent me

I use the little black rubber bands they use for plaiting horses manes. ok for smaller bits of wood or use them to rubber band plants to small rocks - they stay where I put them then and can be easily moved.

Our frogs are in a 5ft tank - its only 38 wide and high and I siliconed a piece of glass a few inches high half way along so that 1/2 is water and 1/2 land. Plants in the water and land. Branches and rocks all thru. They seem to spend equal amounts of time in the water or on the land. Tight fitting lid to keep frogs and flies in :lol: but needs ventilation too. I made afew lift up lids with old bits of perpex I had. Cut holes in it and covered with mesh. Made a small flap to add flies etc too.

Me too. I once ended up bidding against my brother. I didn't know it was him! :oops:

A few years ago we had 8 tadpoles. When they morphed only 3 had 2 eyes, 4 had 1 eye, and one had no eyes. We still have two one eyed frogs. And yes having one eye is a real disability when you have to hunt your food. I notice that they have sussed moving their whole body around to look but of course then that scares their prey. I doubt they could survive in the wild

Pretty sure they are glowlight tetra- they have an orange stripe down the length of their sides.

My name is Sally and my family say I am a fishaholic but I don't think I have a problem :lol:

I wonder if any one can explain this to me in simple terms. I have been googling it but my head is spinning now A couple of months ago we changed from bore water to collecting water off the roof. On bore water the PH out of the tap was around 7.2 and the tanks were around 6.8 except the two with beach gravel which were 7.2. Never had to bother about it. I only checked it out of interest. About 3-4 wks ago I tested the ph in my large planted tank coz I wondered why the val was melting and thought with the change in water the ph could be lower and found it at 6 ( could have been less as that’s how low the test kit went) . Tested all the other tanks (10 in all) – found my guppy fry tank at 6 too and the rest 6.4-6.8 except the two with beach gravel which were 7.2 as usual. . PH of water from the tap was 8.4 GH 40 mg/l and KH 20mg/l I do water changes straight from the hose ( warm water) and had had no problems before now but thought I might start having problems with moving fish around( like ya do) if the ph in the tanks were quite different. So I put a little bit of shell grit in the filters of the tanks with the low ph to see if it would buffer and keep ph more stable. Yesterday I did a few water changes and did a larger than normal one on my krib tank ( usually do 20% weekly this time did 40%) and the suddenly the fish seemed really stressed -sat on the bottom and hardly moved. I thought I’d killed them – after about an hour they were back to normal . I wondered if it could have been PH shock as the temp was the same. Strange coz I did the same to two young guppy tanks ( one with grit, one without) who were fine. So could be something else completely. Anyway I tested all the tanks. The kribs had been 6.8 a few weeks back and were now 7.6 .The tap water was at the top of the chart 8.8 The planted and the fry tank that I put the grit in had gone up from 6 a couple of weeks ago to 7.8 and 7.2. Gh now 60 and KH now 30. (And the val is flourishing) The rest hadn’t changed. So what I think I understand is that because of the low hardness the PH drops quite quickly because of the free hydrogen from fish wastes and organic matter. The calcium carbonate in shell grit raises the GH & KH which bonds with the free hydrogen therefore preventing PH drop. So I am guessing the PH in the krib tank could have dropped lower than 6.8 and I added 8.8 = unhappy fish What I don’t get is why the rainwater in the water tank has a higher PH than the bore water. I would have thought with a lower hardness I would get lower PH? :-? Is it something to do with lower hardness causing leaching from the concrete water tank? Why does the PH of the water from the tap drop from 8.8 to 7.8 overnight? What can I do to prevent this happening again? Coz it freaked me out! Thought my fishes were gonnas. Put grit in all the filters? Stick to smaller w/cs ? What would happen if I put grit directly into the water tank? Or am I thinking about it too much and should forget the whole thing? I’ve given myself a headache now