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Have you ever seen the male N. rachovii? They will brighting up your tank. Cheers, EJ

Hi Fox, I am pleased to see, you have removed the crainium from the aquarium! To get rid of the small snails, firstly I recommend you soak any plants to be used in any tank in allum water, and if as you have noticed small snails in the aquarium, introduce a couple of chain loaches, they will eat any new baby snails. Hope this helps! Cheers, EJ

Hi There, I did have the same problem in my AquaOne 150, I got myself four Chain Loaches and removed the adult snails when they appered, after a couple of months, the tank is free from snails. Hope this helps

He (The Nig) Looks like he came from my outdoor green water tub?

Hi Aaron, Yes, I do Austrolebias nigripinnis "Nancay"

Hi Barrie, I have also read somewhere that lower temp. produce more females which goes for several species. I have noticed the latest Nothos have produced more males, where I have stored the eggs at 24C to 28C.

Have hatched 143 N. rachovii aquarium strain and looking for foster parents

Re N. guntheri I have two yellow fry. Hope they are male and female!

Hi All, Regarding hatching of Nothobranchius, I will recomend keeping the pet in 22C - 24C for the incubaion period normaly arround 3 months depending the spesices. Before hatching lay the peat on the garage floor or store the peat arround 18C - 20C for 24 hours before wetting (Can you feel the cool rain on the Savana) the first fry will be ready for hatching. Dry the peat and wet it 2-4 weeks after first hatch, and you will be surprised there may be more fry hatching Hope this help Erling

As davidb corectly points out it can be iron deficit, but also lack of light, when you mention red plants do you mean Alternanthera reinecki "Red"? as this plant require lots of light. Best of luck.

Paul, please get in tuch with me, you must have problems which I may be able to help you with. Cheers Erling

Hi everybody! I am sorry, but you are creating a lot of work for yourself, using the sand as spawning media and the then collecting the eggs and placing them in peat for storing. Why not let them spawn directly in the peat placed in a small container with a hole cut in the lid, and have a couple of small stones to keep the container down. Collecting the peat and eggs every 14 days, dry the peat and eggs on a newspaper, bag the content in a sealable plasitc bag marked with the day colected and the day for wetting. I have used this metod for different Nothobranchius species, and have had no problems. EJ NZKA 216 SKS 156

Allan sorry they came from East Auckland and not Vest Auckland

Alan, I have a trio from Vest Auckland, the male has dark marking in the tail, but it could be just the one male I have

Hi Penejane Thank you for your reply. As I replied to Bill, I am two months away, before I am rady, and I will keep in touch. Once again, thank you EJ

Hi Bill I have joined the Poecilia. Btw who do I pay the subscribtion to? I am approximately two months away before I am ready, but thank you I will keep in touch. Once again, thank you. EJ

Hi everyone For some time I have been thinking of setting up a second rack of tanks in my fishroom for breeding two or three strains of Guppies. Can anyone give me some advice on where to purchase clear strains of Guppies, because if I am going to breed Guppies it has to be done right from the start. In advance, thank you EJ

Casper, have you chequed your phosphate in the tank? Phosphate is fertileser for algae, I am talking from experience!

Hi Jude Is the plant that is spreading the one I send you? If so, it is Echinodorus quardrostatus and it will form a carpet of 100mm to 150mm all over the tank. Perhaps I should have told you that? ej

I have recently been in Denmark (The homeland of Tropica) they grow Java Fern on driftwood with a suction cup attached to it, this allow placing the plants on the glass, which in turn makes a very good place for Discus to hide under

Dave I have about 50 fry, and should be able to help in 2 to 3 weeks Erling

Alan has been in touch with me and Andrew this morning, and is now the proud owner of A. gardneri (And Rose does know!) Thank Bruce for those links