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I found it more like Ferngully then anything else...but yeah it doesn't matter it was still awesome to see. Loved the bioluminesence and creatures.

Very cute Did you let the parents raise them or did you place them back in once they reached a bigger size?

That's wonderful news! :bounce:

I am not sure whether the little things jumping at the surface are even related to your parasite problem. Fish lice and/or copepods are just the first thing that came into my mind when you mentioned little critters burrowing under the fish's skin. Maybe even anchor worms if they are the right shape. It would help if you had access to a microscope to compare the 2 or if you succeeded to grab a photo of an infected fish. Do the fish scrape against objects at all? Jennifer would probably be the best person to ask about treatment, but I will suggest saltwater baths, malachite green or PP.

Could it be fish lice? I thought that all fish lice where quite big though... http://www.angelfire.com/blues/fish_pro ... HLICE.html

I say just put him in the whole guppy fry/cabomba tank and let him go to town! hehe

YOU! LOL :lol: Awesome!

Probably a differenct species. You could try growing him out and see what he emerges into?!?! Could be really perdy

Hrmmm

Do I know you? Lol

Lets hope your frogs are bigger then this! Lol.

See! Now I can tell you to go to Animates Kaiwharawhara because they recently had a tank filled with all kinds of gouramis including kissing at about 7cm from memory. :lol:

Dragonfly larva. If you think that's gross, you should look at its mouth under a dissecting microscope. Let just say that I know where the movie 'alien' got its inspiration!

Stong light is likely to cause photoinhibition more then anything else, especially when coupled with temperature. But it needs to be really strong (> 500 µmol photons m-2s-1). Co2 is one of the limiting factors. If you think you are a geek, you should read my thesis on this crap...lol :lol:

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Lol, yeah i had to starve mine at first too! Well they starved themselves...didn't eat anyhting for 3 weeks despite my efforts! I love seeing my little ones fat too They are so cute when they rush out to feed and then have a little bump like 10 minutes later :lol:

Forgot to add, discus are grazers which means they will cruize around and try to nibble for food all day, and shouldn't be allowed to eat TOO much in one feeding. So feed as often and in little quantities as your day permits. I found using a worm/feeding cone works for me. Took them a little bit of time to get used to but now they swim up to the cone as often as they feel like having a munch. I always put a mix of food in there: colour bits, pellets, bloodworms, bringshrimp, and it lasts for about an hour while they pick on it. Helps save me standing there when i don't feel like it too

Thats just my opinion and I'm no expert on discus. I wouldn't medicate for anything just yet. You only got them yesterday right? Try finding out the exact food they were being fed before. My discus also spit some of the food i tried at first. The leopard was really fussy and at first would only eat colourbits and not the other pellets i tried. The White butterfly would spit the colourbits out and would only chow on brineshrimp and bloodworms. Now they both take some of everything. Also, my white butterfly is a really lame feeder...most of the time when he goes for food he misses it completely! It takes him several tries before it finally gets in his mouth! I don't honestly know how he ever got to be that big :roll: The leopard just sucks it in on the first go! Like pow pow pow, one after another

Probably best to keep them together for now. Its probably just naturally more picky, but will likely learn over time to accept the new food. If you separate the runt by itself, the stress of being alone will likely make it go off food completely.

I love CTs and these guys are soooooo cute!

If you use species from rockpools they are more tolerant of temperature fluctuations. I did monitoring for 2 years during my masters and temperature ranged from 10-28C and salinity had a range of 30-45 ppt (but changed more gradually then temperature). Typically in the summer, the inshore water is 18C so non-rockpool organisms will be fine at that as long as you acclimated them slowly back up from current temp.

Yeah didn't remember him listing the pellets before. I contacted him originally for his flakes and decap and that is when he told me about it.

I will try That albino sure looks big and tough!

Oh wow, that is super extended! Did all of their royals look like this or did you chose a special one in the tank I think you should name him/her 'Flicka'

Lol... 'trained' or just artificially selected for? Like the name Asani, well done