camtang

im with you now. thanks you heaps for the advice, did you recive my email the other day?

when you say only mix females of speices that you can tell the females apart as an example do you mean dont have several varites of peacocks in the one tank.as they can be very similar?

Before I start I wasnt sure if I shpout have this in this topic or the cichlid topic, so please correct me if im wrong. Im thinking about breeding some of my africans, and im very aware of how they cross-breed, so im trying to think of ways around this. id like 101 species only breeding tanks, but i know I this isnt possible, for several reasons.So my mind got a working and i thought if i seperated my tanks into male and female tanks, then when i decided to breed a particular species of fish I can just add the male of the species. This way I will know any female holding will have been at it with the only male in the tank.Then in my theory anything from that species can be kept, anything from a diffrent one can be fish food, and eliminating cross-breeding in the process. Is this a viable option, or am I just looking at pipe dreams? and any other options too try and keep my future fish from being cross-breed? Thanks

im looking at getting a master test kit. does anybody have any thoughts or recomendations on any particluar brand? easyer ones to use, more acurate, value for money ect any help would be good thanks

:nfs: makes me want to set up another tank just for males

:slfg: haha, fun summer suprise for an unsuspecting victim in white :thup:

so just to clarify this a little. if im using just sun and tank water to grow algae outside. does that mean the algae that grows in my outdoor pond that only has water in it, will be safe to use in a fish tank?

i have noticed very little grow on rocks in my cichlid tank if any. i get the odd spot on the glass but nothing on rocks. so its as simple as tank water in a container with rocks and direct sunlight?

wow, now your asking the tough questions haha. not sure of the name but the stuff that kind of carpets rocks for cichlids too graze on. i dont know if that helps. i was looking through this forum last night and found a couple of pics that people had done so if my very vague description didnt help ill try find it again and see if it has a name or at least try and add a photo of it

Can someone please tell me how they intentionaly grow algae on there rocks please. do you add anything in particular or just let nature do its thing. what has worked well what hasent ect. i realy like the look and want to add some to one of my tanks, but i dont know where to start. thank you

man they are some nice looking fish!

excuse my lack of knowledge. :dunno: But can someone please tell me what F1 means? i keep seeing it pop up and im asuming it means the first in the country, but to be honest i have no real idea. so can someone please give me a quick lesson.

at the moement both the yellows and the dems arnt to much bigger then the shellies, so it might be as good of a time as any to try it

i have recntly just got some shellies. And wasnt sure of possible tank mates as well. so this has excited me as i was thinking about adding them to my dem/yellow tank. now reading this i think that will be the rite tank for them

nice fish!

lovely fish

thank you all. i have only had the pleasure in meeting a couple of the tasman team, but am looking foward to meeting more of them

hi all, im cam from nelson. i mainly keep african cichlids, but recntly have been fascinated with catfish and i also want to dip my toes in the saltwater keeping soon