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It's looking pretty good from where I'm sitting too! Gorgeous tank westey1

Hi Shelley and welcome. Perhaps you should register under a name of your own (although we already have a Shelley so you will have to come up with something else )

Dim lighting and Barry White CDs :lol: Oh, and lots of live foods. The daphnia will be good. Keep her away from the male until you are ready to breed them. If they can be in a divided tank (once you get a male), so they can see but not touch for a while, it will help too.

You would be surprised what dad can manage . They are bristlenose eggs and they sometimes lay them in unexpected places. Congratulations babymama! :lol:

Now wasn't that worth the thousands you deleted? :lol: Lovely white spots there

I also hope your carpentry skills are better than your drawing skills :lol:

A bit of sweat won't put them off your money :lol: NZKA fees are $15.00 per family (or $10 if you are capitated to another club already) and it lasts for 12 months.

Sorry, didn't realise it was a tank. I thought it was an external filter like mine :oops:

You get a similar effect if you put Tupperware on a hot element, except a little more localised warping :lol:

What exactly, in the way of fish, do you have in the tank? And what size is the tank?

Did your Jebo not come with all the media? I have the 819 and it came with filter wool, ceramic noodles and charcoal (but I think some of them didn't have media). The bottom trays have a sheet of filter wool with the ceramic noodles on top of them and the top tray has just fliter wool. I didn't put the charcoal in, replacing it with more ceramic noodles as they provide such a large surface area for the good bacteria to grow on.

This is normal. Do you only have one female and one male? It is recommended you keep one male to every 2 or 3 females to give the girls a rest.

How big was it luke? I have a friend with 7 of them that are over 15 years now and around 15cm.

Air pump with a fizz stick thing would just be a bubble wall I thought?

The pic is so small I can't make out which blob is the fish

A net costs very little. Don't worry as she will produce more every 4 weeks or so. Adding more plants will help too. Have you any spare wool about? You could make spawning mops for the fry to hide in. Get some wool (doesn't matter what colour but green would look better than fluorescent orange ) and wrap it 15 - 20 times around a paperback book. Longwise or widthwise doesn't matter, it just alters the length of the strands. Get a small length of wool and thread it through one end of strands wrapped around the book and tie it tightly in a knot. Now cut through the strands at the opposite end of the bit with the knot and you should have a pile of loose strands held together at the top with a knot. Tease the strands out a bit so they are finer and fluffier and put it in the tank. The fry will be able to hide in it. I tie a small square of polystyrene to the knot end to make it float knot end up and strands hanging down. You may have to push and squeeze quite a bit to waterlog the wool enough to get it to sink at first but it will eventually do so. This might be a quick and easy solution for you. These mops are used by fish breeders with spawning fish like killies.

The fish will follow anyway. You will know if she has dropped (which she may not do all at once) as she will be thinner. The fry will try and hide in the plants or stay close to the substrate for camouflage. Then again, they will also scoot about all over the place and get picked off by all the other fish :roll:

Hi Laura and welcome to the fishroom. My cat got onto the pooter here tonight and scanned and printed off several sheets of rubbish :lol: .

Just rub standard flakes through your fingers so it is very fine, or seive it through a tea strainer.

Agoh is right about personalities! It is often the luck of the draw. Angels look lovely in hex tanks and some tanks are shorter than others

I don't know of anyone in here who is from Opunake. I know Taranaki has members in Hawera and Stratford but that isn't much help either is it?

The most southern club, and nearest to you, is the Dunedin Aquarium and Pond Society. They meet at the Pet Warehouse every 2nd Tuesday of the month 7pm. Have you thought of starting up a local club? I am happy to help you with doing this, having helped some others already.

Mine only had one of those short fluorescents that fit an ordinary bulb socket. That was so we could see the inhabitants, the inhabitants didn't seem to care.

Perhaps she has post natal depression? :lol: How big is the nursery tank? Usually separating them for a few days gives them time to recover before being put back in the main tank but that is usually to rest the female and keep the males away, not to have to keep her away from the males! Hopefully she will settle down again and the tails should regrow.

Our club does day and overnight trips to ChCh to get fish and stuff. We all go in our vehicle (seats 7) and take our own polystyrene containers so everyone knows whose is whose. No pumps etc and it is a 4.5 hour trip home at least. All chip in for fuel costs.