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ok thanks... although 1 of my new rams has taken a liking to the young guppys......i didnt think they would try eat them.

im looking at getting some baby lionheads but is there anything that wont get along with most comunity fish?

ow what a neat pic, id love for mine to breed to any ideas on how to get them to breed?

wow very nice, i had 2 but they died and i cant say y....i have a rainbow one now and is still very small.

id love to have some. i cant get mine to breed, how much to post some to greytown

i found a albino cory folating dead.... all the others seem fine but still i wounder what could have caused this.. both my albinos were playing happly yest and then i turn on the light to the tank to see one floating. any ideas water is clear and ph is all fine

if they breed in the com tank its unlikely the young will survive i have some home wreackers in there lol

wow soo much info to be learnt lol. thanks a bunch i cant wait till they arrive they will be in a com tank 125 ltrs till i think they will spawn they they will go into the spare tank

ok thanks and nope havnt got them yet. i have a spare 60ltr tank would they both be fine in there, how will i tell when they are going to spawn their eggs? will any out door flat rock do? what live food do you reconmend?

im wanting to try breeding them so does anyone have any good methods i could use?

if its already cycled or out of a current cycling tank he should be fine, also you wont need to put any air bubbles in the tank as fighters breath from teh top. Good luck.

wow very nice transformmation

i have been offered one but cant seem to find much info on them could someone tell me abit about them and what experiances they have had with them

are these live bearers?

Hi guys, Thanks for all the ideas - I went out yesterday and got a uv sterilizer for each tank - thought it may be a good thing to try and from what I understand is not a bad thing to have regardless. All guppies seem to have improved overnight, the redness is less than yesterday and they seem to be swimming around a little happier. I also got a GH & KH test kit too. Results of those are identical for both tanks - GH is 60mg/l and KH is 40mg/l. From what I can make out, that means that the GH is at the top end of "soft water" and the KH falls within a range that is normally associated with a low PH - good for fish that prefer acidic conditions. Have retested PH today and both tanks are 7.0 We are rural and our main water supply is a bore but last year (in the middle of winter!) our bore ran dry and we bought a plastic storage tank and hooked it up to collect the rainwater off the big implement shed. The tank was full about 6 weeks ago, so we switched from the bore to using the tank. I have to admit I didnt think too much about changing the supply - I thought with it being rainwater it would be ok. Both water supplies go through a filter that we have added. Today we are going to switch back to the bore but I will maybe test the bore water before adding it to the tank as well. I guess I dont understand enough yet about the GH/KH and PH levels - I'm learning as much as possible as quickly as possible I promise! :-)!! This will no doubt be invaluable information for me for the future. Also, I thought I read somewhere in one of the replys someone mentioned that I was only changing 20% of the water weekly - does that mean I am changing too little? Cheers for all the answers, I really appreciate it. At least we have had no deaths overnight and the fish seem happier.

Hi again, sorry I really should have posted a bit more information from the water testing I did. I set both tanks up at the beginning of this year and at that stage we were using water from our bore. We changed over to the rainwater tank approx 6 weeks ago. I do 20% water changes every week and I test the water approx 2 - 3 weekly. My PH is 7.0 in both tanks and I have 0 ammonia and o nitrites. These readings are the same since changing from the bore to the tank. I wouldnt have thought changing would cause us any trouble, but since the change, any new fish that we add which happen to have been guppies seem very stressed, red in the gills and sit bouncing on the surface of the water. Last night I lost guppies from each tank, whereas all my established fish from both tanks remain healthy and happy. I am at a loss and just wondered if anyone had any thoughts on whether or not the change of water supply could have an effect, even though I would not have thought it would. They are both community tanks with a pleco and bristlenose each, neons, glowlights, black phantom tetras and a dwarf gourami. One is 180 litres and the other is 125 litre. Thanks again

can anyone help with finding breeds that wont eat the young once they have given birth.. thanks

i have 2 tropical tanks and they have been up and running since beginning of the year, now i have recently changed to tank water from bore water and i have noticed fish going red in the gills (mainly guppys but they are new) and also last night i lost about 13fish (guppys). all other established fish are fine but im concerend about the new fish that are still alive. help.. p.s all ph levels etc etc are fine

ok will do thanks

ok thanks for that, ive lowerd temp to 26

temp is between 27-29 i want males not females,

thanks for that and bugger, i only have a guppy/swordtaill rareing tank other than my com tank,

i have 3 albino corys and getting another 2 older corys, how do i tell the sex of them also will they breed in a com tank? are they live barers?

kewl thanks for that, just went out and brought a 22ltr tank (for guppys and swordtails only) its set up just letting it cycle for awhile before i put any fish into it all up including tank, heater, stones and filter it only cost $50 so im quite happy just heading to petshop now to get a temp thingy pics will follow once set up

wow kewl thanks for that, And its a special raty cage lol. Im looking at getting another tank one that will house my guppys, neons + glowlights, swordtails and keeping the rest in the orignaly tank was 3 small marble x ghost worth 25?