hovmoller

Hmmm.... little bit jealous of your red tail shark now...

Nice! Do the angels spawn in the tank often?

Captive bred real altums would be very nice indeed.. sign me up for some. Hah just last week I separated a pair out to breed.. But yeah doing it for the exact reason you mention above.

Ok here's my Chocolate Zebra Hotel. 100L tank, 7 fish in there, all hiding. Can you spot 5 of them in the dark photo?

Cool idea! will be interesting to see how it develops

Upgraded the air system in the fishroom. 25mm electrical conduit with screw in air taps. ahhh so nice and organised

I still have a group of the Peru "Altum" Angels (scalare) but not breeding them at the moment. May do again some day. About a year or so ago some Rio Atabapo wild Altums were imported but from what I heard they were all destroyed by MPI because of suspected virus. As far as I understand angels are risky business to import because they are in the "high risk" category on the import allowed species list because of the likelihood of carrying iridovirus and so may be culled without much hesitation if only a few die in quarantine.

Mine keep eating their young. dumb parents. Managed to rescue 6 that are doing great. Will keep trying to make more

Let me answer your question with another question: what does a "standard" Discus look like? I don't think there is such a thing as a standard discus. There are many different looking discus in the wild, depending on the area they are from. These are roughly grouped into brown,green,blue and Heckel. The problem (for me at least) is that close to all the discus for sale in NZ fish shops are "man made" strains and I don't like those. The few wild ones I have seen have been actual wild caught fish and therefore cost an arm and a leg and are more difficult to keep.

Good tip, thanks!

Yeah just only recently found out about that.. I would have bought some... He could have contacted me, he knew I was after wilds. Benny on TM also had some called "Alenquer Red" bred in Vietnam I think, which you would think would look wild. But they looked like some weird red/melon/wild cross so I was not interested.

So I know I'm not the only one wondering about this but why does no one ever import any discus that look like they do in the wild? Plenty of other weird looking discus gets imported. Most other aquarium fish do and these wild discus types are certainly popular overseas so why not in NZ? I'm not after real wild discus.. too expensive and too risky for me. Been there done that. So if anyone can import some good quality brown/blue/green wild looking discus at normal discus prices then I'll be the first to buy a group I promise! e.g. from here: Stendker in Germany or from Asia I don't care as long as they meet the criteria above. I can't post in the commercial topic but would love to hear what any importers or shops have to say about this? Thanks!

Nice! The bottom will get busy when the new guys gets added!

Vicious looking thing!

Schwartzi? Nice!

I suppose these qualify as being rare in NZ: Geophagus sp. "Red Head". Hopefully we can spread them around and make them not so rare.

Ok I'll participate. I suppose it could fall in the rare category. I still have two Bandit Cories - C. Metae. These are no longer allowed to be imported (not sure why) so are hard to come by. I am still VERY keen to breed these, so if anyone has any the would like to sell me please send me a message.

Yeah except for the ugly eel thing and the tiger whatever that tank had some great looking fish!

Yeah very nice fish (all of them)

Nice! Looks like fun. ?

Cool.. yeah not known as the most beautiful fish in the world, hehe.. Do they lay any eggs?

Would love to see pics of your two Red Humps?

Yeah you might be overestimating the tank volume a bit as well.. I'm pretty sure if you fill up a Juwel Rio 300 up to the line it holds 300L, not 346L You might have used outside dimensions? But looks like you have good filtration

Well there's your answer then