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great price, he's lovely alright hopefully he'll get better fast and make some babies for you. Nymox you'll have to get a better pic of your boy to show off how nice he really looks, that doesn't do him justice

he looks like a lovely boy, metallic?

the fighters were more a problem for what they could have been harbouring, or what could have been in the water they were packed in. I know aussie with their much easier import restrictions has far more diseases than we have here.

from what i know, yes its one of those things that is nearly always in your tank, and only takes hold when the fish are stressed. I think the most common cause of it is bad water quality/overstocking. There's lots of different treatments, like raising the temperature, salt, lots of water changes, different meds, but i've always just used wundercure and it goes in a few days. I've had a few batches of fish from shops come with it but its never been a major problem.

yup, but don't bother adding carbon, just do water changes afterwards to get it out.

is there a filter in there? Take the wool/carbon out if there is so it doesn't soak up the meds. When i've treated fish for it i've done daily water changes and added the med to the water change bucket to keep the right amount in, good clean water is the best fix for it.

if he's new, are you sure its whitespot not just his pattern? can you isolate him? it heals really fast, few days he should be looking back to normal.

i would bet that some of the people on this forum, and no doubt others that mark has talked to would know more than the average vet about treating turtles, and are more likely to have first hand experiance. I'm sure turtle will get the best care possible and be euthanised if she doesn't improve.

good news today just sat down to go over things with the iwi person who deals with river stuff, she's gonna be brilliant. The 'unowned' land is going through a claim in the maori land court already, for being taken illegally all those years ago :bounce: She knows the land and the wetlands well, grew up playing there, and has clashed with the horizons man we are dealing with many times and won. She's stoked to have the support of everyone on the street to help out too. Meeting tomorrow afternoon, horizons man is coming to 'clear up the neighbours concerns', poor guy wont know whats hit him with a whole community of objecters waiting to have their say lol. Will let you all know how it goes.

outlined like this? http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwbettashm&1253289858 i love browsing on there, so many stunning fish

he looks much tidier and happier

darkfur my angels eat adult guppies too is it good to just let them do their thing and breed? Depends what you want. If you want more golden guppies you could set up a tank to breed them, but if she's already got tail colour she's likely already pregnant too, and you'd want to have paired her with a golden male really. Otherwise leave them to it and enjoy the different colours and patterns that pop up from random breeding

wild guppies and endlers are different again from each other, though whether they are seperate species or just different strains is still under debate. And yep they're both alot quicker than fancy guppies

i got lazy with one of mine, he was in his own tank far away from the others and i'd lost my mirror, and when he next caught site of a girl a few weeks later he ripped his top fin on the first flare So there's another reason to keep up the practise

no, they only get bored cause they realise they can't get to each other, and that other space is the other fishes territory. when they're blocked off then see each other they think the other fishy is coming to invade so they do their best to scare them away. i use ice cream carton lids as dividers, just jam them between the containers, don't know what your set up is like for what would fit.

yup, they'll get bored and ignore each other before long. If you seperate them except for 20mins or so at a time they'll flare like made the whole time

second - super delta first - looks like he's 1mm short of hm, is that the max his tail goes out to? Grab a few more pics of him flaring and see how they look, its hard to tell when their top/bottom fins overlap the tail too. here - thanks to bettysplendens.com

cool i'll check both places when i'm up for the holidays then

are they nice and healthy? And how much?

yup, by the gravid spot. If they're too hard to study in the tank, put them one at a time into a glass and hold them up to the light. And don't feed them for a few hours before hand so they don't have little black poo dots :lol:

Neon where have you seen them? I've got one lonely boy and really want another 10 or so, but haven't been able to find them. Saw them at one place in auckland last time i was up, but they were pretty manky looking so i had to pass. Would love a whole school of them, they're the coolest looking fishes with the way their little yellow front fins flap around :bounce:

we've only had short ones touch wood, but i put duvets on all the tanks to keep them warm and they don't loose more than 1-2 degrees over a few hours

they were bred by david lw, and his fish are some of the best around. She looks lovely in the photos, but if you're picking up you'll be able to check how she looks before paying up anyway

i leave the fry in with the parents, and pull the males out at about 2 weeks when they are sexable, but no where near ready to grow gonopodiums. Then when the girls have grown a bit but not ready to drop their first ones i choose which ones i want to breed, and move the extras out to join the boys.

maybe because you're not supposed to make bread from them thats the wonder of guppies though, there's an almost infinate variety of colours and patterns that can pop up unexpected