Caryl

No worries.

Fish are fish Julie. Try different stuff and see what they like. Make sure it hasn't any sprays on it and remove any uneaten bits before they go soft and rot.

I have some full colour A4 posters for you if you like. I designed them for just this sort of thing. All I need is the actual details to add to it and I can print them and send them up.

They produce every 4 - 6 weeks and how big they get depends on the individual females and how many fry they are holding.

What sort of tank do you want? Planted or rockwork? Do you prefer a few large fish or lots of smaller ones? Do you want a slow, peaceful looking tank or a busy, active one?

You two need to get together and plan a meeting then put posters up advertising it. Be proactive. An article in the local freebie paper helps too. Put the posters on noticeboards in supermarkets, libraries, vets, schools (if you don't do it until school has started again), malls, anywhere you see a noticeboard. Don't try and wait until you get enough people to hold a meeting, organise the meeting first or it will never go ahead.

What size is your tank? Give us dimensions please, not US gallons. Is it tropical or coldwater? What sort of fish in it?

Hi L and welcome to The Fishroom.

The heater has a thermostat so will only turn on if the water gets cold enough. In summer (well, here anyway) it is always so warm the heaters never turn on so do not use electricity. If you meant you would turn it down to 24 - 26C from 28C then that makes sense.

Your Betta fins will continue to get nipped. Tetras and barbs can't resist the flowing fins

and all this because I wanted to point out that the correct word for young fish is FRY and not bubbas :roll:

Do not adjust the heaters. If the temperature is high enough in the room the heaters will stay off so not use extra power. You will not save anything by turning them off. Turning them to low will not make them safe either. If it sticks on, it will stick on high no matter what the temp is set to.

black widow tetra?

Fish need very little food. Look at the size of the fish then imagine how little of the body actually consists of the stomach. Do not turn the lights off when you feed them.

Hopefully there is. The Palmerston North club went into recess a few years ago but at one point was a very active and thriving club with some very prolific fish breeders.

African cichlids are prone to bloat when eating bloodworms apparently.

It seems to me all who have bought either brand have been happy. Sounds like the Jebo may be easier to start.

Do you cut the tadpoles or the tomatoes in half?

I would never suggest such a thing! :lol:

Being hassled by the tiger barb is a possibility. Tiger barbs are nippy fish and better off in shoals of 6 or more so they can spread their aggression between themselves and tend to leave other fish alone. One or two in a tank usually get bossy and aggressive.

I don't know if he will go yellow (unless he eats the skins) but it might make him more appealing :lol:

I eat up to 8 - 12 carrots a day and I am not orange. It has stopped me getting sunburned so easily and I brown more easily.

Anyone watch Brainiac the other day? They wanted to know if food could change a person's skin colour so they got 3 volunteers. The first ate nothing but red beet for a month, the second ate nothing but carrots and the third had to spend their month eating spinach. They wanted to make a human traffic light :lol: At the end of the month, the beet person was slightly flushed looking, the carrot eater was a touch orange in the creases of inner elbow and behind ears and the spinach person showed no sign of green at all They also tested the spinach eater's strength before and after to see if Popeye was right - he wasn't. :roll:

You can also make your own fish food corral. Get a short piece of airline tubing (20cm or so) and the little plastic connector that joins the tubes together then just form the tube into a circle, connecting it with the connector to form a ring. This will float on the surface. Drop the fish food in the ring and it will stay in there, until it slowly sinks of course, but will give the fish time to feed. Alternative is to feed wherever the current is least.

All over? How old is it? How quickly did it change colour? Does it appear otherwise well? What size tank is it in? Do you have water test results? What other fish are with it?