Rob2904

Hi, I have 6 Demasoni fry between 5 to 10mm and was wondering when it would be safe to put them into my main tank? They would be going back in with 4 other Demasoni 2 of which are Mum and Dad and full grown I think, 8 Yellow Labs all still fairly young the biggest being about 60mm, 8 Afra's all about 65mm and some small Rustys in a 1200x450x300 tank. I know when all my fish grow they will out grow the tank and an upgrade is on the cards. The filter is an Aqua One CF1200 so is bigger than what the tank needs and should be sweet with the stock.

Sweet mate its easy. Just wear rubber gloves when you do the concrete can burn your skin and will dry out your hands real bad. Good luck mate :thup:

I got a new tank setup to work on and still trying to find time to do a DIY POLY background for it. My first try.... Any hint for background DIY works? I got some dry clay from a landscape supply place and mixed it with portland cement at about a ratio of 7 clay to 1 cement and covered a rough shape of poly and when it was almost dry wet one of those green dishwashing scrubing cloths and dabbed it on to give texture. Some didnt have enought weight to make it sink so put it on thick. I just stuck it straight onto the glass and it sticks really well. for hollow rocks I just dug out the poly. I know acitone will disolve the poly really well but not sure if residue will be safe for fish. The cement will raise your ph up well into the 8s but it is all good for my africans and over time it comes down a little.

Hi I think no matter how long you have been keeping fish you will still be learning mate :thup:

My tumbler is an empty yeast jar, an old t-shirt and an air stone lol. I drilled a hole in the top for my air stone to fit into and drilled holes in the lid (now at the bottom end) put a piece of air tube inside the lid to keep the T-shirt material (my netting) off of the lid so it could move up and down with the water flow and cut just slice holes in the top (bottom of the plastic jar) with a craft knife to let the air out. It looks to be doing the same job as some of the ones I looked at online. Time will tell aye :thup:

Here is a pic of my tank. I built the tank and made all the rocks and background myself using dry clay and concrete. It is aprox 160L and running an Aqua one cf1200. It has 5 Demasoni (hope another 6 to come lol) about 8 Yellow labs and 8 Cynotilpia afra 5 Rustys and a couple of shellies. This is was my trial tank with my DIY rocks ect, and I want to do the same on a larger scale in a 3-400L tank. Most of the rocks are hollow facing the back of the tank to add more places for the fish to hide ect.. but still giving the look of fairly large rocks from the front. In my planned bigger tank the background rocks will also be hollow and filled with filter midia with a few power heads pumping water through them to add to the filtration as I have found the Malawi's to be rather messy little buggers lol. I have also been adding a little bit of ferts I use in my planted tank to help add to my Algae for them to graze on. Hope you like it? http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/m521/Rob2904/RobsPhonepics030.jpg

Hey guys Well patients is not a vertue I hold unfortunately, so I googled egg tumblers as Ryan said and decided to have a crack at one and strip the little demasoni and see how I got on. Not sure if I got it right but here is a couple of pics of it. http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/m521/Rob2904/RobsPhonepics028.jpg http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/m521/Rob2904/RobsPhonepics026.jpg Excuse the poor quality photos if it even worked as I had to use my phone to take them.

Cheers mate I will see how she goes. At the end of the day I am sure she will do it all over again :slfg: Thanks for the good advice guys, it is a great resource this forum to get advice from people who know what they are talking about.

Hey Ryan Cheers for your reply. She is fairly thin on it and she was swimming around with the other fish and I did see her a few times sneak in a small amound of food in her mouth, even with it full of eggs. The 8 or so I have seen in the holding container when i did strip her looked like little tadpoles, white with tiny stripes and a big yellow yoke looking thing on their bellys. they swam around quite well but if I was to strip them now I do think I would need to make a tumbler. I think there would be about 10 or so give or take.

Hi I am new to keeping Africans and have a female Demasoni holding, she has been holding for 2 weeks now and I have had a go at stripping her. She has more than 8 fry in her mouth with the yoke sack still attatched. I stripped her but when 8 fry(still more left in her mouth) came out with the yoke still there I put mum back in the container with them and she gobbled them back up. She is now in a clear container with an air stone floating in the main tank in the hope she will not loose her place in the tank. My question is, would the fry survive in the wriggler stage now with the yoke? They were (the 8 I saw) swimming about but the yoke was still quite large in comparison to the fry. Or would it pay to leave her as she is in the container for another week? I have turned up the heater to 27deg from 24 as I have read being a bit warmer could speed things up? or am I screwing it up :dunno: Cheers Rob

Hi, I am going to start up a 150L Malawi tank and was wondering what to put into it? I really like the electric yellows and was thinking of some Demasoni's. Any input would be great. Thanks

Yeah there is now, I am the newbie Rob. and you assume right WAS is Waikato Aquarium Society.

Hi I wonder if anyone could help me? I am trying to make my tank a Southeast Asian theame and have a very nice Tiger lotus, I know they come from West Africa but have found quite a few sites saying they are also found in Thailand can anyone shed some light on this for me please? Cheers

Hi everyone My name is Rob I am a member of WAS and have a 400L Southeast asian tank, I am running 2x Aqua One cf1200 filters, 372w of light a mix of T5 and T8s. I have a 200mm Fire Eel, 7 Tiger Barbs, 4 Giant Danios, 2 Odessa Barbs, 3 Simease Algae eaters and 10 White Cloud Minnows.