Silverdollarboy2

Thanks all.
Caryl:  Family is doing well. 
 It's good to have fish tank setup again. I'm a bit rusty in how it was suppose to be done.  Also finding out that "common wisdom" has changed a bit these last 10 years. Especially wrt to planted tanks. A few myths busted etc.  I have a lot of catching up to do.
Will post some of my questions in the appropriate forums. 
 

Clown killies being moved to a separate aquarium as theres 13 more boys then girls 🤔

Yellow sunset discus - Symphysodon aequifasciatus


Rising sun discus - Symphysodon aequifasciatus

Chocolate gourami - Sphaerichthys osphromenoides


Blue Moscow Guppy - Poecilia reticulata

Black Plakat Betta

My garden pond is looking good
 
 
 
 



 

 

 

 

Hi all,
As the title says I'm getting back into the aquarium hobby after 10 years and just wanted to say hello to some old friends here on this forum and hopefully make some new ones in the future
It is good to see this forum and the FNZAS thriving. I used to be very active here however this time around I expect to take it a bit slower and check in every now and then.
I currently only have an empty 20L nano tank. The plan is to set this up as a low tech planted tank and gradually convert this into a high tech planted tank.  The dream is a much larger planted tank in the near future.
Greetings from Upper Hutt
Cees
 
 

They are a powerful fish and can jump.  May never happen but since they have the ability it would be taking a risk, all they need would be a scare (mine jumped from a quarantine tank once). 

Kia ora all!
I've been away from fishkeeping and this forum for so long that I can't access my old account, so here's to new beginnings!
I've been setting up a new native tank with plans to mimic a nearby stream. Back in the day I was involved with setting up and running the 5000L native aquarium at Te Manawa in Palmerston North, so only having a ~220L tank to play with now makes everything feel so small...
I've included a shot of the stream that I'm sort of attempting to replicate - all materials so far have been gather from within 10m of where I took this picture. It's about 100m behind my house up a track, and lugging rocks and things there and back has not been all that fun! I hope to go spotlighting in about a week to collect the fish for this tank from the same area.
Filled it up today and noticed some neat macroinvertebrates that must have hitched a ride on some rocks are wriggling about! The filled tank is too cloudy for a nice photoshoot at the moment, so all I've got to show are some tank shots without water.
 

This is where I will put progress shots of Albie my albino p82 who hatched from my breeding trio... hopefully more hatch
 
 

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Green Severum


Keyhole cichlid - Cleithracara maronii


Forktail Rainbowfish - Pseudomugil furcatus

Greetings from the deep south!
Hi everyone, I keep a South American fish (blackwater). At the moment I have Apistogramma, neons, black neons and corys. 
Cheers
Andries
 

Congrats, very nice photos too.

Guppies are tropical. They can cope with slightly cooler temperatures than other tropical species, so semi-tropical, but should not be considered cold water species - no matter how many advertise them as such.
I hope you realise you will not be able to keep paradisefishes with leopardfishes as the former will eat the latter.

As I have now come full circle with this species I thought I would share the journey on here as inspiration to others.
For the record I am not selling these fish privately so please do not pm me about buying some. They are currently being sold exclusively by Hollywoods Fish Farm who also ship country wide I believe.
First some pictures of what the fish look like now a little over 2 years after I bought them. They are fully matured and the male regularly spawns with one of the other females. ie. they do not form lasting pairs. The largest fish are around 15cm in length and are relatively peaceful towards each other. It is important to keep these fish over a fine substrate such as sand to allow them to sift the substrate through their gills when eating.

 
October 2015: I bought 7 newly imported youngsters. These were the first fish ever to be imported into New Zealand:

March 2016: Growing quickly but still not a lot of red on their forehead:

Dec. 2016: The dominant male is now showing full sexual maturity colours and are starting to impress the girls:

May 2017: First couple formed and the female's forehead is as red as the male's. Their spawn on the glass bottom but end up eating the fry:

Sept 2017: The male has now spawned with another female and has been removed from the tank as it was him eating the fry. The fry has just started to swim freely but often seek shelter in their mothers mouth:

A week later and the female has been removed as the fry are now capable of seeking food themselves:

Feb 2018: The young has grown rapidly in an 800L tank with sand substrate, heavy filtration and weekly 50% water changes. The have now reached the same size as the ones I originally bought. Circle completed:

 
 

 

Got a call at 8.45pm tonight from a young guy Kees Tucker that hehad caught a strange fish so he sent me a pic of it.
I quickly raced dwn to the marina and picked up what appears to be Histrio histrio or Sargassum Weedfish.
Now in te seahorsetank tilli can sort anoter tank out.
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/190183/0
Before he went in the tank


 
 

We’ll I got a pretty bronze hm Betta and did as you said. I trickled water in over a couple of hours then released him. He seems very happy! I did get a plain mollie which I put in first which he seems to ignore for now. I’ll keep an eye on them. Thanks for your help and fingers crossed!
Pania : )

I might suggest a group of firemouths (x5) let them pair off. They grow quite slowly, so 150L could accommodate 2 pairs for a wee while, or one large pair plus dithers long term. Convicts are easy and under-rated, I have a very nice female with great colour and finnage but not fussed about finding her a male even though she deposits eggs every few weeks on her own.

3 x 25% water changes and algae bloom under control 😅 so far this is a lot easier in a big tank. Also changed dosing to macro and micro every other day. Increased bubble count to 3 per second
New inhabitants are some red twisting worms...... if there were fish would be good food
A lot of pearling and pretty happy at the growth.
Added some filter media from my other tank to speed up the cylcling, will start to measure water parameters next week. Think I will trim the glosso this weekend..... closer to adding fish 🐠