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Very interesting! Thanks Perpin!

they're very nice

Here is a few shots, yes I know the glass needs a clean but I want to give them some more space (i supposed sticking a camera in their face doesn't help matters) Mr Big Orange has a piece missing from the front of his dorsal fin, It looks like it is slowly growing back but I like it! It has been there since he was young so I don't think it will fully recover, gives him character hehe. He's looking raggy from all the MTS and corydora helping themselves to soft fins while he was sitting on the bottom. From head to tail the orange male is about 16cm, Its made me think seriously about using this tank as a sump on the 2.4 meter If only I could do maintenance on it. I will try get a photo of the fin extensions on big Mr Blue later too, they're very long almost like a VT ram. I just need lots and lots of sword plants now, pygmy chain especially. Then its on to the 100 cardinal tetra and 10 marble hatchets. (ouch my pocket)

lol really! I have only had one that had moisture in it, itshorted it out and all the springs let go from the bottom. Made a hell of a noise and flash. Enough to put me off for life. I have felt electricity go through water into me and out the ground, not pleasant to say the least :-? The risk isn't worth it for me, considering heater is worth far less then the stock in the tank. I have had an aqua one 300w for 3 years now, not a drop of moisture in it. I have 5 smaller aquaone heaters all the same age all without moisture. Any that collected moisture I took back. Over cautious perhaps but better safe then sorry as they say.

rehome or set up another tank for it. I rehomed my syno's before I added apisto, they would have been eaten for sure.

Novotab is great for cories! Lol sophia I have done it myself once or twice. I've left a couple on too, start wondering what that smell was. :facepalm:

I agree with Alan, I tend not to risk heaters with moisture inside for the sake of saving some money. Cooked fish will cost me a lot more then a heater.

Haha thanks Jazzyjeff I only do what anyone would really, try save their fish. He's up and about now, and shimmying away, it was about 1am he snapped out of it, shook himself a little and went and started flirting. I will get some pictures later on in the afternoon when the sun has moved to the other side of the house, otherwise its just a big mirror..Plus it gives him more time to rest though he has other things on his mind now. Looking a little raggy from the MTS and corydora but he'll be fine, lots of little water changes

Id say that's exactly what is happening. Either that or they are older then stated and stunted.

yeah just 3 hours a night, from 9 till midnight. They bask under it too, I never noticed them out as often before.

this is the quote from an online brochure. The Reptile MoonLight tube is a low light fluorescent tube that provides a soft light that replicates moonlight while providing small amounts of UVA and UVB light. These tubes are ideal for nocturnal species and can help to replicate natural lighting conditions in any reptile or amphibian enclosure. http://www.reptileone.com.au/catalogue/ReptileOne_A5_Mini_brochure.pdf There was a more descriptive write up around some where too, I will keep looking.

I read from the reptile one catalog that they produce 15% of the uva/uvb of the daylight tubes. I also had a website with a write up on them before I decided to get one. I will try find it again.

pet store, with all the other tubes. Not from this particular store but you can check it out at least. http://www.petandgarden.co.nz/shop/show_single_product.php?prod=1157 There is some information on the web about them, lists the uva/uvb output ect.

not to sure lol, I guess being able to sell them young and sexed has an advantage over unsexed.

rainbow fish aren't cichlids as far as I am aware 8) Definitely has the head of a male rainbowfish though, I don't think boesemani have such a pinched head. Hmmm Melanotaenia fluviatilis?

I didn't read the auction I see what you mean though. I guess there might be another way. I can't think of what else could be done, perhaps shining a bright light through them will show reproductive organs ?

Probably been incubated at different temperatures.

Lol that's good observation!

Now that's an idea

Cherry barbs and Otto's Or fowlr they're not difficult, biggest requirement is patience imo.

Welcome :thup:

have you got ramshorns, mts or both? MTS are good IMO as they turn the substrate over.

I have been watching him through the peep hole for about half an hour now, he was on his side most of the time but just picked himself up, had a little swim and went to settle down in the ambulia forest, which is good because its holding him up. He seems a lot more alert then this morning, I will still leave it blacked out until he is up and acting like all the rest. But I am quietly confident he will be ok.

It will be his first community tank too, so your right there I think. He's been a breeder his whole life. I hope he pulls through, seems like he wants to just can't quite snap out of it.

Only reason I put him in the bucket is I thought he was dead, no sign of life for about 40 mins on him. It took about 3 1/2 hours of pumping water through his gills to get him breathing on his own again, I thought it was worth a shot since he wasn't moving at all, and it seems to have paid off. Ordinarily when I add new fish I don't go near the tank for 2 days, but I have covered it all with news paper and just left a peep hole to keep an eye on him. He seems to have had a try at swimming since my last post, ended up on his side but at least he's trying now. The lack of oxygen when he stopped breathing for so long could have lead to brain damage though, as well as the hard smacks on the glass. I will leave it black out till tomorrow but then the other fish will be getting hungry, I already had to feed the corydora because they found him on the bottom and the slime coating was too hard to resist.