Caryl

Tip on how to get a partner interested in your fish keeping hobby - try and find an angle that interests them. It may be they like gadgets so ask them to find a specific gadget for a specific fish keeping task or perhaps design a computer programme to help with feeding or breeding schedules etc. See if you can find one sort of tank that may interest them more than another - some like big fish, others like lots of smaller ones. Some like sparse tanks, others prefer heavily planted landscapes and set up a tank aimed at their preference. Ask for technical or artistic advice, depending on their interests. Sometimes it will just be that they have no interest in them whatever you do. In that case, enjoy them on your own - as long as they don't object to anything you spend, or do, with regards to the hobby. Nobody wants a partner spending money on fish when there are more important bills to be paid or things they could be doing together with it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030811121906/http://aquarticles.com/articles/people/NZClarke.html They were 9 - 14 years old in 2003 so 22 - 27 now? (Just counting on my fingers )

These photos were taken in 2005. I think the fish were about 22 years old then. http://smg.photobucket.com/user/carylnz/library/FISH and TANKS/Colins clown loaches Aug 2005?sort=2&postlogin=true&page=1 Have you got the name of the article and where it appeared? Never mind, it was the one Howard put in Aquarticles I think. That account seems to be suspended (probably after Howard's death). I don't have a copy of the article as I originally thought it had appeared in the AW magazine. A pity about that account as it had a lot of great articles on it.

I have photos of his clown loaches if you like I should have the article too. Will look.

You might have to wait a while. The archives are now up in the roof (5 large archive boxes). It was 34 here today below the roof so I hate to think how hot it is up there at the moment!

If I had known you wanted one I have several copies here, plus there is one in the archives.

Welcome. Check out the native fish forum here as it has loads of information.

I was there a lot (to moderate of course ) but it died a slow death as people found other ways they preferred to communicate. It seems the NZKA fell to the wayside as the older members died, or left, and nobody took up the reins

Have you been able to breed any other double tails from these fish?

Why not ask someone with a mature tank if you can hang your filter off their tank for the time you are away? That will start the bacteria going. Or, get some used media from someone. Start the stocking low, to match the bacteria numbers, and you will be off to a good start.

Hopefully Living Art can sort it for you. If you think having kids does in the memory, wait until you have grandkids!

Contact someone from the club (see link at top of page) and see if someone near can offer you a ride. I think they have some Wainuiomartians attending. Clubs are a great way to meet others with the same interests, pick brains, and get free or cheap stuff

As said, good exercise. Also makes it look like live food swimming about Loved the tubifex cube rolling along like a tumbleweed

I had to look up the name as I know them a Cochu Blues and have not heard them called Blue Kings before. These fish like a densely planted tank with floating plants to diffuse the light. They are very active and are known to harass other fish especially when in smaller tanks but your tank is not small. I wonder if they are all just getting the new pecking order sorted out. As long as none are showing sign of injury, or stress, I would wait and see if they settle. A little re-arrangement of the decor may also help.

Not sure any fish are keen on eating those hard green spots of algae.

Just when you thought it safe to fill the tank again

Welcome. Africans make a great display.

There are smaller species of corys that would do well in there.

I have an overabundance of red rotala, some crypts and a bit of Anubias nana you can have for the cost of postage (which will be about $10.00)

I have always been told that surface area is more important. You can put more in a longer tank than a higher one with the same volume.

Sounds like the same thing that got one of my daughter's cats a few years ago :-(

Fry pic not showing for me. Great looking fish and not one I had heard of (which doesn't mean a lot). Every time I see your posts here I read "Maxine Kills"

I shall clear some out on Monday then. Your tank will not be empty for long!

Keep an eye on the Chinese algae eater. They used to be fine but I think they must have been crossed with piranhas over the years as they have become very aggressive (especially when they age) and will latch on to the sides of fish and suck rings on their scales, particularly more on flat bodied fishes like discus and angels. I always like the Ancistrus and the sharper gravel does not seem to wear their barbels down like it does the corys.

What size is your tank? I am sure I can fill it with the extra rotala I have here! (The fish had to get their machetes out!) Will also add crypts and Anubias nana. Want any Java moss?