Mcculloch

I've kept and bred Neolamprologus multifaciatus in Australia here in NZ I've kept and bred Neolamprologus ocellatus in the past and I now have a pair of Neolamprologus brevis and one lonely Lamprologus kungweensis. I hope who ever got the rest of the kungweensis does a good job of breeding them as I want some more to turn up! Shellies are awesome fish probably one of my all time favorite's.

Hey I brought the last Lamprologus kungweensis from Pupuke aquarium today just wondering if anyone else on here brought any from there.

Hey I have four I no longer want. I'm in auckland though and I can't be bothered shipping..

Just thought I'd show an update of how the Pothos is doing now. It has grown down the length of the tank then I bent it around and it has grown back towards the pot again. The Tropheus do eat the roots but it's still going strong.

The finished product. It was hard to take really good photos however with the glare on the window.

Yeah I got rid of it kept all the glass and useful stuff but it was a bit rotten to be honest. I do want to keep gold stripes at some stage and I will probably build something of a similar size for them.

I had three in a 400 litre tank, well 200 litres really as it was half land in a paludarium type setting. They were all quite quick to accept a massive variety of food even skipping over the deeper water to steal food off the surface. Two killed one in the first month, then I had two survive together for about 6 months with intermittent fighting between them then eventually the bigger one won. Then I had one left who survived for close to another three years with no problems until one morning I found him dead. No idea what went wrong with him but these fish are all wild caught and all three were full grown when I got them so who knows how old they were. In short these guys are really aggressive and I think I had three males. I've watched a different species of mudskipper in asia and the males there were maintaining a "territory" of about two meters not letting any other males anywhere near but allowing females in. And from I've read I think the ones we get here are similar. So I think next to nobody gives them enough room in captivity but I would like to see what happens with a good sex ratio. These really are one of my all time favorites though and if I get another chance with them them I would be severely tempted to go all out with a huge tidal tank in my garage. Oh and in the past importers and people shipping them around NZ have killed lots through shipping them in bags completely full of water so they basically drown, their gills can't handle permanent immersion for hours now having evolved for the exact opposite :roll: Think theres still a picture of one of mine on the fnzas past POTM winners way back.

Not sure yet I might do it up put something else in it.

Just thought I'd share my new enclosure put a bit of work into it so might as well show it off. First the old enclosure And the brand spanking new one I'll post more pics once I have it all set up..

Man maybe one day....

Couple of photos of the parents.

Have you had issues with aggression between the giant kokupu ?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-29/r ... rk/5705024 Really lucky to have these guys available here. Such a cool turtle.

Yeah I have a couple of forests as well but thats all. Not enough sun at my place for many enclosures unfortunately.

Yeah I have two like that now quite cool the pin striping.

My Malawian cichlids decided to concentrate on Tanganyikans which I do really enjoy but still I miss my Malawians !

Just thought I'd share a few photos of my favourite Naultinus elegans juvenile from earlier this year.

My two :bggrn:

A Cyprochromis species was here !? I've wanted Cyps for literally years and years..

Second that opinion In my experience when you keep them outside they are way more terrestrial than people think especially through summer always out wandering around..

I got four there pretty cool I have to admit.

Nice that tank looks awesome ! So you got the two from lincoln rd animates took the temptation away from me for that year, they look like there a good size already.

Extremely important topic in reptile husbandry Just thought I'd share this website with you all: http://www.uvguide.co.uk/whatreptilesneed.htm

I brought what looked like a young pair of these of trademe. As they have grown out looks like I have two males :facepalm: . Just wondering if there are any more out there at the moment ?