phoenix44

new topic? the female will die, just like with any other fish - if there is something wrong with the water. if you have plants, then the female can hideaway from the harassing male. if not you can separate them.

hey everyone! one of my friends came over with a canon 400D DSLR camera, so i thought id take some pics of a few fish and post them on here, for everyone to see. I love apistos so there are some nice pics... although i was the one taking the photographs, and im not very good at using the camera with all its million settings and lenses etc.

fantastic stuff! the parents may be small, but are protective of their children! Mine had babies, and defended them successfully against other s american cichlids, clown loaches, and a syno! avoid keeping them at 17 deg C... its too cold. i fed mine that baby fish food stuff you can buy (forgetting its name)... and then brineshrimp.. they grow pretty fast. My babies went missing after 2 weeks - I think it was the syno at night.

does it have a fuse?

i have a massive file thing. refil gets filed in there, in between lecture slides. system works perfect, lol.. and everything is colourcoded.

lol.. you need to see the amount of nnotes of vital importance i have to take. 1500 pages of finance 320 last semester, and those were my notes only. another 500 lecture slides, all terribly important. guess it depends what level the paper is at, and which subject it is, lol....

warehouse stationery. ps - if you are going to uni get refil pads and not books to write. they are a complete waste.

300L and you have fewer fish in there than I do, so i also do not think your tank is over stocked. i cannot understand how other people are struggling with temperatures soaring... my tank has a lot of lighting, and the heater is always on, but the temp stays at a steady 29.1. It went up to 30.0 yesterday, but fish were perfectly fine...

oh no.. that sucks muchly. i :evil: it when that happens.

what an awesome powder blue! :bounce: awesome stuff... looks so happy and healthy.

didn't do a sign but normally just tell people verbally. all us fishy folk know what they are... least i think so.. lol... what ive thought of is a fake sign that says blue face apisto - but the code comes up as borelli or assorted dwarf cichlid on the till. Zev - that's almost what we are doing now (now there are no blue face apistos left - i bought the whole lot ) :lol: but yes.. i wish confusion like this did not happen - i was so happy when i thought borelllii's were back on the import list - it was only here that i learned that they were blue faces... still a pretty fish, but i still want the real borelli =(

why do you say that?

ok.. so.. lol heres the deal lol... they are imported as borelli's and so sold from wholesale as borellii's. then every so often a fishgeek like me comes along, and sees the word "borellii" on a wholesalers order form, and i do a mini :bounce: , and then i order some in. now why dont i change the name when i know they are steel blues you ask? :lol: well simply put the computers say NO. lol if i order borellis, I have to invoice in borelli's, and when i accept the invoice for the borelli's - then borelli's are entered in the stock. computer codes are generated (6 digit numbers) based on the suppliers code. and so.. by the end of it, the computers register the new fish in stock as borelli's. BUT.... why can't I create a new code and buy them as borelli's and sell them as steel blues? 1.) cause its really really really hard, and more importantly.... 2.) its like the old credit/debit system. for every borelli that is ordered in a borelli must be sold, and if any die, those numbers have to be taken out of stock. so if i ordered in borellis, but sold them as steel blues, some where along the line there would be a huge number of borelli orders, and a whole number of steel blue sales..... like fish being created out of thin air... So... what I do is order the borellis, and sell the borelli's - but always tell the person im selling them to that they are steel blues.. and the whole deal with the steel blue.. 9 out of 10 ppl dont even care, lol... hope this helps, lol :lol:

sure they do... I think...

only chch? stuff that! lol :lol: ive got 7 steel blues (fake borellis) 6bolivian rams, getting 6 blue rams. PS - I played this game before too, but meh... lol.. its a fun game :lol:

the borellii's on the list are steel blues. i just got another 6 of these "borellis" from animatees here, cause they had bred in the tanks. they are not borellis but have to be sold as borellis.... i had a real borelli a long time ago, and its fins were much longer and it had more purple on it.. these guys are either yello or blue. like a metallic blue dwarf gourami blue....

No it is not true. please do not try doing that. the ramifications are far too complicated!

my tank is bigger than that, but i had all those fish with no probs... i didnt want them breeding though, but all the squabbles that they had were quite civil...there are lots of plants though so that makes for excellent hiding spaces. you could maybe try it out, and then if it didnt work sell the fish? i usually do that, and never end up selling any of my fish.

but ... but that defeats the whole purpose of having cockatoos!

:lol:

there is nothing wrong with eminem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:lol: i think emos are cool ha ha. but i think a blade will suffice. :lol: