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  3. What is wrong with this???

    in Freshwater

    Posted

    the guy at the LFS guy showed me some siamese fighters that he took out of a polybox that had just been imported. There was about one and half cups of water in each bag, and about a cup ull of air MAX!!

    He said they can live in tiny puddles in the rice fields.

  9. where would I get acrylic or plastic sheets for tank

    in DIY Section

    Posted

    I just had this problem, and found that perspex was far to expensive for my liking, so I went hunting around town for something that would work. I found some black plastic card stuff at wharehouse stationary, I am going to try it out, very easy to work with, I am not sure about putting holes in it though. If I decide I want water to flow through I can just cut a slot in it later and cover it with that craft canvas stuff with the smallest holes in it.

    This was a real rush job and this tank will only be seen by my eyes, but I found the card really easy to work with compared to glass or perspex and it is cheap and easy to change around rip out etc...

    Also comes in a large variety of colours is black isn't your thing. I used it to go around my other tanks because I would assume because it is air filled it would provide some insulation as well as dark background. It cost $6.79

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  10. Decapsulated Brine Shrimp Cysts VS Baby Brine Shrimp

    in Livebearers

    Posted

    There are two types of decap. The one we get here is hatched brine shrimp nuplii that have been freeze dried but you can also decap the cysts and store them in brine before hatching them and the advantage is that it is all brine shrimp nuplii with no rubish. I don't know anyone who does the latter. Live nuplii is moving and encourages the fry to eat it. decap goes to the bottom and often gets missed by other than botton feeders. You should soak freeze dried decap before feeding to rehydrate it.

    Thanks alot for that, I notice a bit of decap on the bottom and only a few of my fry have the technology to eat from there, I will start trying to hatch brine shrimp again. Cheers :D

  11. Decapsulated Brine Shrimp Cysts VS Baby Brine Shrimp

    in Livebearers

    Posted

    I have been doing a bit of reading and all the websites talk about is baby brine shrimps, and that to achieve maximum growth and wellbeing of fry then that is what to feed them. I have not yet seen an article refering to Decap...

    Is that because Decap is new? Or is there another reason and should I try once again to get a decent amount of brine shrimps hatching :-?

  15. Hello everyone

    in Beginners Corner

    Posted

    My name is Richard, I have just got into Tropical fish. I want to breed Blue guppies so I bought tanks and I am getting right into it.

    I thought I would take some photos of my set up at the moment.

    This is the 300 litre tank in my lounge which currently has 8 female wild type guppies and a small pleco in it

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    And this is a picture taken in my room, I have a 100litre tank with a breeding trio of blue guppies and about 30 fry beside that I have a 90litre tank currently empty apart from two clumps of fast growing Java moss,

    Then above that I have a 25litre tank that I have divided into three sections, and a 10 litre which I have divided in half.

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    I am still trying to work out how I am going to organise my breeding so I can keep 2 lines separate, and each batch of fry separate. I think I need more tanks LOL

    Any help with my set up will be much appreciated. I would consider selling tanks and getting others if that would be more appropriate.

    Cheers Rich

  16. Tech questions with guppy focus

    in Beginners Corner

    Posted

    What is the biggest volume of water a large sponge filter can cope with, I have a 90 litre tank and I want to breed guppies in it?

    Also if I have a 3 litre container can I put 5 tiny guppy fry in there with no filter or bubbles?

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    will have water in it, But I guess it doesnt have to be full, I am just going to have one male and two female guppies in there at a time

  18. Can guppies change their sex?

    in Livebearers

    Posted

    Hi, Yes we gave them some from the 2nd lot of fry. We are waiting till the others are big enough not to get sucked into their filter .

    we love that shop - in there every time we go to town.

    DD (8) got some ideas that perhaps she could make her fortune from selling guppies! LOL :D

    Meanwhile DD (7) has decided she would like a fishtank too and is naming all the guppies she wants to keep! Sigh :roll:

    LOL, very funny!!! I used to do those tricks on my father when i was a child....

  19. Blue Tuxedo/ Blue Neon Guppies

    in Livebearers

    Posted

    I was just trying to get this right in my head. With normal finned guppies you can breed a nice looking male with nice looking females, but with ribbon finned males you cannot breed them, so you have to keep track the males siblings in order to recreate other males with similar genetics?

    So am I right in thinking you have to breed a short finned male with a ribbon fin gene carrying female in order to produce ribbon finned males?

    And then those ribbon finned males wont be able to breed themselves?+

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