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Hazel is a retired lady who plans to come to the fish show. She is looking for a female who would like to share accommodation with her at Kennedy Park. PM me if you can help her.

If there are 4 you can see there is a good chance there's another 10 you can't see They lay eggs inside caves or under logs so you may not ever see them although they are large eggs and a nice orange colour. I hope you have some hardwood in the tank as it is a necessary factor to aid their digestion. The male looks after the eggs and fry although the fry are pretty independent from the beginning. At that size they could be 3 - 4 weeks old. They don't need special feeding as they will browse on algae and bottom feeder pellets. They also like veges - both fry and parents - like cooked peas (pop them out of their shell first though), zucchini, and cucumber. I believe they also like carrot and apple though haven't tried either myself.

Tropical Blues is always worth a visit

Welcome saffaboy. I believe there are some discus breeders in Christchurch and the largest number of fish shops per population in the country Altum angels are rarely seen here (they have one at Redwoods) and importing fish is very difficult because of our import regulations.

Will try and remember

I have daphnia. I posted some to Wgtn once and most of them survived the experience I will be heading to Napier in September and meeting up with an Auckland member there so perhaps we could get some to you then.

Hi and welcome Ash. Several of us are in the chat room most nights by 9.30pm. Some of us have kept axolotls too and Dennis is waiting for some to hatch at the moment.

Gorgeous! Well done. No wonder you are excited you've done a good job.

Pictures never do the real thing justice. I have seen pics of pies tank for instance and thought it looked great but it was nothing compared to seeing the real thing. Looking forward to visiting Layton to see his tank in a couple of weeks if we are able to arrange it. Nice pics jackjackjack, thanks for sharing.

Computers are a wonderful modern aide are they not? :lol: Our back-up computer is failing too but we also have back-ups elsewhere. Having lost major data twice now we don't take chances any more!

Not necessarily doc as she said they decided to get a tank about a year ago, she didn't say they actually got it a year ago. And they have only had the fish 6 hours.

Why use ammolock if you don't have ammonia? Why use it at all for that matter? I understood that stuff mucked up test results. Clowns like good water quality but it may be just one clown with a problem and not the whole tank.

I would buy some more fish but put the fighter in a tank by himself.

Welcome to you both. Discus aren't the best fish to begin with but I hope all goes well. Echoing Matt, what size is the tank? Had you cycled it before adding the fish?

I wonder if duckweed, Lemna minor, would work as well then?

That looks like an interesting idea. You could also use a half coconut or similar and hook it over the top edge of the tank with wire. Make shelves using plastic siliconed to the sides (you would need to drop the water level while you did it and it cured of course) and silicone gravel or sand to them.

3 cheers for Janey!!! :lol:

All you can do is give them a go and see. Some oscars are worse than others and you may find some plants (or their positions) will be left alone. Then again... :lol: I remembr one of our members having oscars and a tank with a large piece of driftwood, Java and vallis and the oscars weren't taking any notice of the plants. They were only half size fish at the time so perhaps they don't attack plants until they are older.

It is not so good to mix tropical and cold water fish like that unless they are fancy goldfish and the temp is not too high. What sort of filter was always clogging up before you put in the under gravels? Generally speaking, under gravels and goldfish don't mix cos they rummage through the substrate and when biggre can expose the filter plates. Perhaps your fur is also clogging things a little unhappy and wet ferret

I like a dark blue (RGB 0, 51, 204) myself and spray painting the outside is easiest.

My African tank is full of red algae - no plants to compete with. It looks nice so I leave it alone, just wiping it off the front glass so I can see the fishes.

I don't think there is a large demand for feeder guppies ballistic. Those with large carnivorous fishes may want them but only as an occasional treat rather than a daily diet. I might be wrong though

Hi and welcome to the fishroom. Do you have a lot of tanks?

The shells should work fins

Put it in a plastic bag (seal well) then a tall thin cardboard box or map tube.