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I would be contacting the local SPCA to get them to check it out.

There used to be a sleeper train but I don't think they have run for many years now. Trains used to be good, cheap travel but not these days! Hitchhike

Sponge filters are great for dry. Guppy fry tend to scoot about just under the water surface so you are better with floating plants than some sort of fake grass on the bottom.

What sort of filter do you have? All you need do is hang the filter in the main tank. When you are ready to put the female in the little tank, use water from the main one (or 2/3 - 1/3 as you did before) and add the filter, which will have cycled. If you set up a tank with water and no fish it will not cycle if an ammonia food source is not being added. I suspect not enough water changes compared to the amount of food being fed. Daily water changes would be better. Food is a little, often. Remember how small fry are - their stomachs are even smaller!

Well I have spread them from one end of the island to the other!! :lol:

Excellently thanks Doug. A lot of them went to Christchurch conference and were passed on to southernman (Marty). Another lot went elsewhere (I can't remember who I gave them too :oops: ) and last week my remaining ones went on holiday to participate in the Tasman Club's Fish Display for a week in the Richmond Mall. While there, one of their members fell in love with them so a few remained behind to start a colony over there. The ones left have been producing fry slowly but steadily (which is why I was able to spread them around further) :bounce:

Thanks for picking it up so fast!

Oops, I am useless with numbers! :lol: I meant 2cm and 3cm :oops: Grant tells me that is the same as 20mm and 30mm :-? They are just doohickeys to me on the ruler 8)

Boys only reach about 20cm, the females get to 30cm

Leopardfish, Phalloceros caudimaculatus are lovely little fish and easy to look after. I have not seen them for sale in shops very often. A few would be fine. They are a live bearer and more likely to spawn after a water change

Are conditions in the QT tank the same as the main tank (pH, temp etc)? Seems to me the loach was stressed by the move from QT. Hopefully it is unlikely the other fish will catch it since you caught it quite quickly. I would think if they were going to get it they would have done so by now. I think 10 days after treatment has finished is recommended but if you have treated it then put it back in the same tank as before the same thing might happen again.

A quick search will find a number of images of goldfish anatomy showing the position of the stomach and intestines. Goldfish are very messy and produce a lot of waste!

Welcome. I hope you recover soon! :lol:

Progress 8)

matriarch

Depends on what you have running on it though!

Looking good but pics are way too small (for my eyes anyway) fitting that many on a card (which is also too big. Needs to be 9cm x 5.5 if I remember correctly. The printers also said to make sure nothing is too close to the edge that will matter when they get cut as they sometimes lose a bit around the edges.

Tasman's fish display had 12 tanks and equipment running off 1 double outlet. It was checked by an electrician to make sure it did not exceed the maximum load allowed on a single circuit.

Apparently the card designer only has a pic of that much plec - no tail :-?

What a neat idea! http://www.woehr.de/en/projekte/budapest_m730/index.htm

As far as I understood, swords are just a sub species of platies so would interbreed. It is only selective breeding that produced the tail shape. A book I have here says "mutual cross breeding of the sub species as well as pure strains is undesirable" so that says to me they will do so. By that I mean various platy types will interbreed, not that they will breed with mollies or guppies

Wasn't on here. I am sure I would have noticed someone selling snakes! He got off lightly. I am wondering though when he said he couldn't bring himself to kill them and didn't want to set them free because that would be stupid. What did he think selling illegal species on the Internet was - savvy marketing?? :roll:

Never trust a Vogon! :lol:

Jude there is no white colour, just absence of colour leaving it white. If I used blue card on the last one the writing would also be blue from the card.

Does it make it hard for him to see or anything?