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Went into hollywood mt roskill today (16/06/11) and they had heaps of little bunches for sale...seems really popular as for the time period that i was in there, quite a few got sold.

I do have a spare 50L tank in the garage, been on the shelf unused for about a decade? lol, i might convert it into a plant tank as spare just incase if anything did happen, it can be an emergancy tank or something =/ paige.xo: Thanks =D

+1 what lense did you use?

Artem: hahaha, i'v just checked out your post in the catfish section and WoW, your otos are massive, lmao...good to know mine are normal and it's not the only ones around :happy2: The-Obstacle: Thanks for all the information and clearifying what type of apistos i have. so from all of the things you said, my tank is operating as normally. that's good to know and i guess my swords were stressed out with the guppies around bullying them therefore the female gave in first leaving the male hanging on but eventually the male gave in too when more stress were added to the tank from the apistos... so sad. I have 7 guppies and they're all male...I am planning on getting 5 female guppies and lessen up the males in a couple weeks time to balance it up. I have tried white substrate at first too, but then in my eyes, it didn't look as nice and i thought for future hassle, black base would be the the way to go because dirt wouldn't show as much, white will just get dirty over time =D ***MASSIVE DISCOVERY.....well not really, but to me it is: the Apisto male seems to be getting more agressive and is chasing corys even longer (like chasing them away further) and both male and female is guarding around the plant pot area (cave)...could this be a sign of spawning??? And do Cories or other fishes learn to keep away from the Apistos territory? the Cories specifically seems to go inside the pot (cave) more often now but as always, gets chased out by the apistos..i'm afraid that some of my cories would die over time even though they are out swimming the Apistos atm. and "if" the apisto did spawn, do the eggs smell like food for other fishes? because if it does then i don't know how many are going to survive =.='' (most likely none). information from everyone in advance will be appreciated as "if" it does spawn, i have no idea what to do..well most likely get in a panic mood and taking out my lovely camera snapping shots, lol. thanks again

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Hey guys, I have a few issues regarding to the little fishies I have in my aquarium, hope you guys can help. thanks in advance for reading such a long post :cofn:. Tank Details: 170L +/- established est beginning of march Cycled 2 filters 2 heaters has plenty of live plants, driftwoods and stones. Temp: 25 degree C. PH: 6.5-6.8 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 5.0 ppm or under In the tank I have: Corydoras Guppies Minnows Otocinclus Bristlenoses (had swordtails) Apistos No fish had ever died on me ever since the establishment of the tank (other than one guppy, who only him and God would know how he was able to jump out of the closed lid and died). :dunno: So leading on from the statement above, the issues start occurring...... issue 1) couple weeks ago i bought a pair of swordtails (1m, 1f). they were a bit slow, but eventually adapted to the environment and got a lot well with others. a week later, i found the female dead after coming home from work (i don't know what cause her death as she was fine in the morning on that day before i left for work. This morning (04/06), same thing happened, the male was swimming around looking all good. I left the tank for 30mins and when i came back, the male was on it's side 90% dead, struggling to survive, he swam for 2 secs and back down onto the gravel on its side (before i could even go grab the fishing net downstairs, he had passed away. so what could'v caused the death of the swordtails? are my new pets in issue 2 has something to do with his death? (female died a week before the new pets were put into the tank. Male died this morning after a day or two adding in the new pets) male and female swordtails plus guppy male alive male dead issue 2) A.Macmasteri Cockatoos (I was told they were anyways). So I added a pair of these a couple days ago, was told that they are quite young aswell. I did some research and in my conclusion, these fish (apistogrammas) are as hardy as they will ever get out of small cichlids. they are doing great so far, but then i have realised that the male has started flaring his fins a bit every time he gets around the female and tries nipping her (he'll give up and swims away after a few tries). is he hassling her? or is it a sign of him wanting to breed? are they old enough to breed? (males colours are slowly getting brighter and more of it where the female were white, but has now shown a sign of yellow tint to the body). one thing I also realise about the apistos is they sometimes when they are still, they tilt a little (like the image of the two female and male apisto, last pic...the male is slightly tilted), is this behaviour normal? male apisto female apisto male and female apistos Also just a side story, my two SMALLEST guppies tends to hassle the apistos quite a bit at the beginning but has since slowly died down. (I snapped one of them which seems to being nipping it) <-- strangely, this guppy tried nipping the male swordtail too. smallest guppies didn't want to leave them two alone guppy trying to nip male apisto Issue 3) White Cloud Minnows, When I first got them many weeks ago, they were all small and slim. I have 10 of them and about half now seems to be big and fat. So i wondered whether I have a mix of females and males and therefore the fat ones could be pregnant females. could it be a possibilty? 3 or 4 of them has been fat for a few days now, others seems to be at the same size being slim and small. one of the FATTEST minnows in the tank Issue 4) Otocinlus, I have 3 of these in the tank (all were small, short and thin). I had read somewhere on the net saying if they go big and fat,they they are a healthy oto, but i don't believe that, lol. one seems to be getting bigger, the other two show signs of grown BUT its nowhere near as big. the body width is like a cm wide =.=''. is this normal? woow woOW WOOW Random images which I took while shooting for above pictures

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Bananas Honda or Toyota?

wooow !drool: , the molly in this article is very nice, I wouldn't mind a few in my community tank

haha ruthless, hope they knew how to climb back into the tank though :sml1: I plan to leave my filter as it is. i'm sure they'll be fine. they will probably out grow the gap soon anyways. :happy2:

hahaha, that would be awesome.

haha, so mine isn't the only one that's doing that, thank lord but as what matto said earlier - i would hate mine to go overboard and get stuck on the other side of the filter

thanks, yeah i was waiting for a while for it to climb up again so i can snap those quickshots :slfg:

haha, okay so it is normal. pheeww, cause the first time when i saw its tail hanging off below the water, it gave be a heart attack as i thought it died (not looking into the filter from above) :facepalm:

So the bristlenoses has been in the tank for about 3 weeks now. I have two of them and unsure if both of them are doing it or is it just the one. Funny behaviour I have noticed within this time is that it likes to swim up the HOB and just hang on to it :facepalm: It does it day and night, whenever it wants to, probably i'd say once every few hours (sometimes more?). Is this normal for them to do so? here are some photos. One of the two in the tank. Day Time Night Time (the light is LED, so it's not as bright as it shows in the photo) Thanks FNZAS