malawi_man

what is this stuff about tanins?? one of my tanks has a yellowish tint, what is this biochemzorb stuff?? is it expensive??

they are quite big

lumphead eggs are like 2.5mm across. have you bred african before stu?

Ok i was looking at my 800litre tank this afternoon and i noticed that my female tropheus duboisi was holding (i actually thought it was a male but have now changed my mind) anf the only other fish that hangs around that end of the tank, i dominant kinda and is kinda the same colours as a duboisi is the male johannii. has anyone else ever had this happen to them>?? should i see what the fry turn out like?? (please note there is only one duboisi in the tank so they aren't pure duboisi's.) BTW if anyone has a tropheus duboisi male for sale please contact me or even if you have a lone male that you want to breed with. thanx Malawiman

lol stu :lol: btw i was suprised how fast heads and tails developed, last night they were just eggs but this morning they had eyes and now they all have heads and tails i picked out another fungused eggs this afternoon oh well still 62in there:)

:lol: 8)

canadian dollars are fairly close to nz dollars, cant remember how much though :roll:

Last Saturday (21 may) my blue lumpheads (cyrtocara moorii) spawned for the 3rd time, the last two times she has spat out the eggs and all of the other fish have eaten them, but this time i managed to catch her at night time and put her in a holding tank without her spitting out the eggs. The next morning i decided to put some rocks in there to make her feel more secure but this was a bad move, she was scared by my hand being in the tank and spat out all of the eggs. I left the eggs there for an hour to see if she would pick them up, but she didn't so i got an eye dropper type thingy and picked up all of the eggs one by one and put them in a container with water from the tank and a drop or two of tonic. in the end i counted 65 or so. i got a piece of wire and attached the container to the side of the tank. then i put an air stone in there just to get some flow going and to imitate the females "churning" motion. i am doing 50% water change on the container twice a day just to keep the water fresh. the next day (25th may) i picked out one eggs that had gone from the normal tan colour to a faded green, this eggs may have been fertile or just got ruptured. this morning (26th may) i went out to the fishroom and discovered that all of the eggs had grown a small knob with two blck dots on it (little heads to any slow people :lol: ) and strangely one of the eggs must be developing faster than the rest because one of them has developed a tail where none of the others have so hopefully this time i will get a successful spawn of little blue lumpheads. i will keep you guys updated and i will try and get some pics but the camera (even in macro mode) wont focus on the container unless it is 30cm or so away :-? i will post again when all of them have grown tails. 8)

why change trademe name??

is he bidding??

wow, the floor must be strong lol, how many litres??

whos tank is it?? someone from here??

you'd be looking at $60+ but i haven't seen them here before.

anyone seen calvus in new zealand?? i have some alto comps but that is the only alto sp. i have seen in nz.

hasn't peter moved?? i have wild colour sword tails but not double

anyone know where i can get some larger ones?? what gear do i need apart from tank?? do i need a light etc.??

do they still breed the zebra plecos?? what is with the pl*cos?? what corydoras sp. are they breeding??

i haven't seen them at your house rob , what tank are they in?? were they with the keyholes??

where did you get your red shoulder peacocks from?? i am after some females for my male, do you know where i could get one??

i know this post is quite old but.......... i have a 220 litre with -a pair of aulonocara baenschi "sunshine peacock" -one male copadichromis borleyi "borleyi redfin", (females will soon be added) -a pair of cyrtocara moorii "blue lumpheads" a 90 litre tank with a colony of electric yellows a 220 litre tank with -40 or so labidochromis caeruleus "electric yellow" fry -8 melanochormis auratus "auratus" fry -3 female copadichormis borleyi "borleyi redfins" -6 copadichormis borleyi "borleyi redfins" fry -8 or so labidochromis textilus "rainbow fish" fry -2 peppered corydoras fry -1 maylandia lombardoi "lombardoi" fry 80 litre male africans tank with......... -3 male labidochormis caeruleus "electric yellow" -1 male unidentified aulonocara species -1 male melanochromis auratus -4 small african hybrids 800 litre tank (pride and joy) with (takes a deep breath) -1 dimidiochromis compressiceps male -2 altolamprologus compressiceps (unsexed) -1 melanochormis johannii male -2 melanochromis auratus (one is turing into a male, the other i'm not sure about) -a pair of maylandia lombardoi -1 male aulonocara hansbaenschi -1 tropheus duboisi (i think it is a female, could be wrong) -3 year old labidochromis caeruleus male -tyrannochromis macrostomas male (could be a tyrannochromis nigriventus) -1 male maylandia greshakei -trio of full grown nimbochromis venustus -1 maylandia crabro male -3 chinese algea eaters pant pant

looks like a slender kribensis, i have a poster of one, they have the more coloured face, they are almost the same as kribs but not quite.

doens't mean that they're not in the country

i read somewhere about the males having a more pointed dorsal, going off that i would say they are both males, should i put sand in the tank?? basically, what gravel if any and plants rocks should i have?? by leopard corydoras i meant jullii.

ok, i want to have a go at breeding some corys, i am still deciding between peppered and leopard (which one do you guys think??) how hard are these to breed?? how do you sex peppereds?? i have two peppers and i dont know if they are male or female. basically any imformation on breeding corys and what conditions do they like for breeding?? is a 40 litre tank big enough?? thanx in advance

saw you wanted thing on trademe. 8) welcome 8) you should introduce youself in the "welcome" section what other fish do you have??