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I think he was after a picture of the male bristlenose In question.

I don't believe corys are a cold water fish however the largest Peppered Corys I've ever seen came out of pond that was being emptied. They had been In there for years In Auckland temperatures I found it pretty amazing at the time.

They look real good man, each to there own in terms of what you like in your tank look real clean and well looked after unlike some I've seen.

From what I've read the yellows are a great host.

That fire eel is wicked would love to have a big one like that.

Good old danger danger is gone aye. You could go to the lfs on manu road, Or to Northland pet and Aquarium centre on Cameron street opposite the cop shop now I believe.

I like the constant drip system idea and will definitely do it once I get a tank big enough to warrant it. This frontosa tank has a good system and information on it: http://www.fmueller.com/home/aquaristic/240g/

Ah yeah the dodgy DIY internal filter has been removed too :oops: .

Wife complains about the gear lying around as well Altos are about 2 1/2 inches and I seem to have 1 male two females no spawning yet but have begun to dig around a shell and pop in and out together etc to be honest I d like to grow them a bit bigger before spawning so I'm not actively encouraging it, and yes they do take for ever to grow. The small fish around the top are good old zebra danios i've since added a few bits of Indian fern floating and they spawn in that every week or so. The tank has had the current lot of fish together with no losses for 7 months now being: 3 Synodontis Petricola 6 Gold ocellatus 2 Julidochromis Ornatus 2 Leleupi 3 Alto Compressiceps 8 Zebra danios 2 Bristlenose Cats I had a Bricardi which I removed due to aggresion towards the Shellies now he was trying to rip them out of there shells :roll:.

Just thought id throw up some pics of my inside Tang tank.

Looking good man loving the colors on your female

A risk maybe but I can only go of my experience, the leleupi will need there own territory usually around a shell or cave especially as they pair up. Obliviously I don't drop shells right in front of said territory and try to encourage the shellies to invade the leleupi's space. The leleupi seem to be way more agressive towards each other and towards Julidochromis than the shellies which really don't seem to bother them, staying by there shells and doing there own thing. I would expect the leleupi to prey on the shellie fry which is why I remove shells that have fry in them and have heaps of shellies of various ages and sizes .

My advise would be to get lots of caves/rocks in there so the leleupi can get away from each other and get more shells of different sizes and more shellies.

Honestly has anyone on here tried to keep Ocellatus with leleupi and had problems? Or are you just relying on the "species profiles" you've read on the web. The reason I ask is after I did a bit of reading of first hand accounts on different forums I deceied to keep my leleupi and Ocellatus together. Currently have one spawning pair of Leleupi with two generations of Juvie Leleupi so theres lots of protective behaviour, in with a colony of Ocellatus and have not suffered any casualty's I have not even seen much aggressive behaviour from the leleupi towards the shellies.

Thanks for the reply's and photos guys. So the general consensus is that he's a brownae with more red than average. The brownae I've seen in the past looked more like Zeusterae's fish although that is a nice specimen. The Victorian I'd like to see imported is Pundamilia sp. "Bluebar" dreams are free right.

I wouldn't eat one they make good fertilizer though...

"2 fluval fx5 will crank up your filtration like something cronic you can probably poo and pee in that tank!" That sentence is awesome The fluvals are definitely the way to go value for money wise.

He definitely look similar to yours firenzenz but its the amount of red that throws me. At the end of the day he could be anything I suppose its a pity though as I would like to breed from him.

His barring comes and goes but never seems to be as intense as the browns I've seen. And when this pic was taken I wasn't feeding him on NLS just standard Nutrafin cichlid pellets I'm using NLS now and he looks even better. If I knew he was a brown I would get some females but I don't want to with out being sure.

Thanks yeah I got it from you guys a while back think someone had dropped him of? I thought he was a exceptional brown at first but now I'm not sure could be anything I guess. He looks even better now fins are all healed up and he's coloured up real well on nls.

I know he's a Victorian, thinking maybe, flameback Kigoma or Haplochromis sp "all red" could be any thing though.

Thanks, using a Nikon D80 Used to have an account on here ages back, been lurking for a while on this current account. Shellies are going real well loads of fry etc. Might post more of my pics sometime soon.

Hey I don't usually post but I thought what the heck might as well throw up some pics.