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do you feed seafood to just marine fish or freshwater too? (ie guppies,kribensis ect)

you have to watch with algae eaters tho as they can get really agressive,my mums killed a heap of her guppys overnight and the ones i used to have used to pick on my bigger fish too. i love those biiiig snails as cleanup crews,they dont make mess and everything is sparkly afterwards lol,just gotta watch it with them if you get a breeding pair as you will be over run with them and they do tend to chew on your plants,my tanks have never been cleaner since i got mine tho 8)

i keep baby apple snail in all of my guppy traps with newborns to keep them clean (which works amazingly well) and some adults in all my bigger tanks,ive got a 15-10 l tank that has most of my babys in atm-roughly 100-150 guppys and it was getting a bit messy so chucked in one of my adult snails,about 10 min later i went back in to check on it and there was about 25+ guppy fry circling the snail,which was still in the shell,i watched for a bit and one of the tenticles came out and all the guppys lunged for it :lol: in went the snail and the fry all fell back to watch it intently again!!! it was so funny! they just hung there not moving waiting for it lol. i have found that guppys are on the dumber end of the scale and havent got much personality compared to things like kribensis,fighters ect but it was quite cool to see new behaviour (well new for me) in them,i keep guppys as i like the constant movement they give to a tank and love all the different strains you can get but i got a bit of a laugh from this

i so love stick insects and now ive seen that close up,im so never going near one again

lol whole article is copied and pasted to my computer :oops: i sooooooooooooo want a marine tank but sooooooooooooooo cant afford it goal is:step -1 go to wintec next year,step two- become qualified step three get a good job, step four- GET A MARINE TANK!!!!!

yea i keep meaning to get some of that melafix but always end up comming home with something else lol,like 5 different types of fish food lol

sweet i do that for the females after breeding anyway and i add a little bit of aquarium salt if its been especially long or the male has been nippy...this is where i miss my old fighter pair blue and ember.....they had 4 lots of fry without a singlr nip or scratch!!!! just used to put them in the tank and away they went!!!!

another question,im breeding another pair 1st,theres been alot of squeezing but no eggs as yet and she is FAT!!!!! lol,also she has a couple of bites to her tail,whats the best meds for that? im going down to the pet shop when theyve finished

:oops: :oops: i meant inbreeding :oops: :oops: sorry lol wrong word

really wow i thought people steered clear of closely related fish lol,i still think i wont pair these two,its 50/50 whether they where related or not but ive got others that will pair with these two

photos?

some of my females do that too,i kept one and bred it with one of my males and she lost her stripes

how closely can you breed fish? i got two fighters off a hobby breeder and he couldnt remeber if they had the same fathers or not?? i dont really want to risk it but a shame as they are both beautifulll fish,i have lots of different pairs so can easily mix and match,i always keep records of who comes from who tho,if it happened that they did 'interbreed' do you get deformed fish?

yea i want to keep them,if i dont give them to friends and family i sell them,yea i think i gonnna take them away,just dont like dong it because they are such good parents

my kribs are just rearing their 2nd lot of fry,they hatched on the 31st of dec,the ones before that where on the 30th or nov but i took them away at three weeks old. now the female is building up eggs again and is getting quite fat and she has been going in and out of their pot they claimed for the last two lots of fry. will they breed again with fry around them or should i take the fry away?

my oldest fighter died while i was away this week,she was comming up 13 months,got a few more atm that are comming up 12 months and looking great,other than that all mine are reletivly new,i have a 30cm pleco that must be quite old but dont know how old exactly

this wasnt one of my puppys was it

i will when i get home,im on holiday atm

heya i saw your arowana at la's place,he is beautifull really want to get one but want to wait to get a nice big trank b4 i try i dont think people realize how big they can get!!! i was amazed when i saw them!!

do you guys not use formalin for white spot? i love it because it seems to get rid of it quick and safe in community tanks ect... can even use it on fry with no deaths

i have a 30cm common pleco that has been living in my tank peacefully for ages now,yesterday went to the petshop and they had a 25cm ish albino pleco they where giving away free,i fell in love with it instantly and took it home,now my original pleco and the albino are inseperable!!! they lay next to each other all the time,squish into the same log and just ;hang out' round the tank together its so cool to watch and i didnt know plecos did that also in that tank i have a breeding 5som of gba,20 ish guppy,a pair of kribs and a khuli loach,they must all be happy with this combo as they are all popping out babies everywhere and they all seem to stick to certain areas of the tank!!! gbas have claimed the rocks,kribs have got the pots,guppies hang around the top and the plecos chill in the log or on the walls......the khuli dissapeares for weeks atr a time ever since i changed the base to a finer gravel......he loooooovvvvvveeessss it lol

can they be kept with other fish?

yup thats ok with me,is there anyone in my area that would like to car pool?? i have a four maybe 5 seater and if my mum hears about it she will want to go too and she has a mini van

lol ok...id better not get any then...the temptation to test my theory might be to much for me to stop

this is probably a really really stupid question but something i always wanted to know :oops: do the dwarf puffers puff up when they get startled? :oops: :oops: