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Lake Mangamahoe near New Plymouth.

Nemacheilus guentheri Mesonoemacheilus guentheri

These are not my fish. I just took the picture of them in the tank that I use to photograph fish. I chose one that showed a bit of red colour on the body and as soon as I put the fish in the tank it fell in love with Labeo sp. and that was the beginning of the show. The rainbow fish became so beautiful, a fully coloured fish. The fish has been imported as M. Praecox var. and that is all I know. I have never seen any solid references that M. Praecox var. exist other than a few statement about that. This good rainbow fishes book has a bit about M. Praecox var. but no a picture, references etc. http://www.mediafire.com/file/ehmtjmkdkww/Rainbowfishes.pdf Anyway I think it is worth to keep them if you like rainbow fish.

Melanotaenia praecox - Red colour variety ???

Well I think the fish on the picture is an ancestor of your fish. Ask HFF where the fish came from. I also believe that tropheus got the fish from the very same source sometime in the past. Aulonocara maylandi kandeensis, as far as I know, has never been imported into NZ. I think that the problem is that the wholesalers name of the fish (Blue orchid peacock) along with the fish age leads to the conclusion that the fish is Aulonocara maylandi kandeensis and that has been adopted in the cichlid community. Yellow blaze is not present always, a fish could be old well over a year before starting to show if the fish is in a good environment.

I am breeding Aulonocara maylandi since 1996. It might be better to call them Sulfurhead Aulonocara instead of Blue Orchid Peacock but that name has been used for a long time now and will be difficult to change it. I didn’t photograph them for a long time so here is a picture of a breeding male I took in 2007.

Fryeri female holding eggs

No they are not. The first one (IMG_9237) was taken on 13.05, second one (IMG_9765) on 16.05 and last one (IMG_0327) on 24.05.2011. The fish was in my photographic fish tank for almost two weeks and I took a lot of pictures of it. Unfortunately many of them turned out to be just rubbish

Apistogramma cacatuoides German imports??? Yes Red tail Gold/Orange

Parancistrus can be characterized by the presence of a membranous connection between the dorsal and adipose fins, cephalic and body scutes not carinate and a large gill opening. Armbruster (1997) additionally diagnosed the genus based on posterior deflection of the hyomandibula and presence of fleshy folds along the dorsal-fin base of nuptial males. Parancistrus can be further distinguished from Ancistrus and Chaetostoma by having a plated snout and from all other genera of the Ancistrini (sensu Armbruster, 2004), except Baryancistrus, Oligancistrus, and Spectracanthicus, by the connection between dorsal and adipose fins;from Baryancistrus, Oligancistrus,and Spectracanthicus, by the large gill openings. Form me it was a simple inspection, large gill openings tell us something regardless of fish size. Anyway fish is imported as Parancistrus.

I found that too but it is a good way to have a lot of answers about the fish. As we may see here using a picture to identify a fish is not a good idea. Fish siting on a flat ground looking much different than fish sitting on a wave shaped wood. Copy/Paste Parancistrus can be characterized by the presence of a membranous connection between the dorsal and adipose fins, cephalic and body scutes not carinate and a large gill opening. Armbruster (1997) additionally diagnosed the genus based on posterior deflection of the hyomandibula and presence of fleshy folds along the dorsal-fin base of nuptial males. Parancistrus can be further distinguished from Ancistrus and Chaetostoma by having a plated snout and from all other genera of the Ancistrini (sensu Armbruster, 2004), except Baryancistrus, Oligancistrus, and Spectracanthicus, by the connection between dorsal and adipose fins; from Baryancistrus, Oligancistrus, and Spectracanthicus, by the large gill openings. Here are a few pictures of preserved specimens. Gill openings large Gill openings restricted to compare with (Preserved Baryancistrus sp.) Steep forehead, flat forehead, snout etc, well mystery fish compare with Baryancistrus. And on the end do not forget that it is just a young fish, far away from it's final shape and everything here is just a quick inspection.

What part of the fish do you think belongs to Oligancistrus and what part to Parancistrus? All pictures are of the same fish, as there was just one fish in my photographic fish tank Anyway I still have the fish in alcohol so I am able to inspect the fish again.

Parancistrus nudiventris Description of a new species of Parancistrus

Yes, we do have them here

Hyphessobrycon pyrrhonotus - Red Back Bleeding Heart

Protomelas sp. "Steveni Taiwan" one year later. Dominant male, subdominant male, female and there are heaps of young ones

Most of them I will keep for myself as a breeding stock and very limited number will be for sale i guess.

Just a few pictures of S. Fryeri I took today

Garra ceylonensis - Stone sucker

Just few photos of red map discus

Devario shanensis - Hora danio - Danio shanensis

Rasbora vaterifloris - Fire Rasbora

Diamond head neon tetra - Paracheirodon innesi

I personally think that it is not a breakthrough in guppy disease but only another possible therapeutic treatment as the paper suggested, using inhibitor E-64 probably with slightly better results than quine. But time will tell us more. If you are a hobby fishkeeper and your fish are heavily infected with Tetrahymena sp. "the best therapeutic treatment" is a bath in a cup of water mixed with a few drops of clove oil. It will take the fish out of their misery. Malachite green is good in light infections but I prefer chloroquine which gives good results against Ichthyophthrius, Tetrahymena, Epistylis etc. Chloroquine is the most readily available fish safe drug that fish keepers can buy regarding Tetrahymena infection as a mix with Methylene Blue and Acriflavine under the name "Tonic" http://www.hollywoodfishfarm.co.nz/product_detail.php?id=2636 Here are a few pictures of Tetrahymena sp. I took. The Guppy on the picture was heavily infected. Third picture shows how big the "Tetrahymena party" was. It is not a typical sign of Tetrahymena infection, it is just one of many others.

Sorry no, definitely not. I am not selling any fish. Also I am not particularly interested in breeding this fish. I am breeding Aulonocara maylandi for 14 years now and that is enough africans for me.