HelenMac

Unfortunately I'm going to have to sell my african cichlids and 4 foot tank. Not feasable for me to keep anymore. Only thing is I'm having eye surgery on Thursday so you will have to catch them yourselves. Sorry about that. I really need them gone by 15th October as have knee surgery then which will really put me out of action for a while. List is 4 peach zebra's males 3 red flush chilumba peacock males young ones 3 red fin kadango's young ones red fins coming out now 2 orange shoulder peacock males young but showing their colours 3 electric yellow males young 1 ice blue male 1 marble peacock male 1 young male red empress 1 cobolt blue male 1 young dolphin male 1 labeotropheus trewavasae 1 red blood dragon quite large ring for prices of individual cichlids or to come and look as I won't be able to check forum after tomorrow for a wee while please ring me on 8130503

hi ryanjury how much salt do I use I've been and got tonic salt? Doing a water change as Thursday night is the night for doing that. Thanks Ant N but no more iceblues for me thanks.

Yes and I think I know who the culprit is observed today my ice blue is having a trantrum and chasing everybody around. Been at it for the last couple hours. Even the red dragon peacock who is twice the size is now hiding in the rockwork.

3 kadango's they are smaller than him,1 cobolt blue, 2 red shoulder peacocks, 3 chilumba peacocks, 1 red dragon peacock quite large sorry not sure if thats right name, 4 small orange zebra's and 3 smaller electric yellows, 1 iceblue 1 very small red empress and 1 smaller dolphin. Also 2 plecos in the tank. The tank is male only tank. Tank is 4x2x2 with a sump underneath so round 500 litres.

one of my cichlids has what looks liked chewed fins all of them look like that is this a disease or would he have been fighting. He is the only one. He is a marble peacock.

maybe give telecom a ring they can set it up in a way so people ring the number and the donation gets charged to the home phone account.

What a relief for you both. 4 weeks isn't long but boy alot can happen in 4 weeks. Now just need to find a way to get problem solved permanently. What can we all do to help? Is there someone we can all hasslewith emails to get things speeded up or what? There's got to be something we can all do as well as donate. If everyone on the forum donated $10 that would really help out I'm sure.

I watched campbell live last night also, what a awsome place you have. Wishing you all the best for today really hope and pray something gets sorted in time. Sending you all my prayers and thoughts

I'm presuming jumped. Top has a gap about size of a match box obviously big enough for a killi to jump into..

yes got him out and off he swam.

one of my killifish decided not to wait for the brine shrimp to come out of the hatchery I got up this morning to find him in the brine shrimp hatchery :roll:

Well hopefully blocked all the holes now used cut hose right round the tank no gaps I can see now. Fingers crossed. Big thanks to Barrie for the new killies Muchly appreciated

probably about 20 cichlids most are still juveniles couple real big ones. Did water change last Thursday so due for another one Tomorrow when turn everything back on. Found another small power head so have put that in the main tank.

I've put a couple powerheads in the sump to keep the water moving. There is also a heater in there. No way filter media can dry out there is 100 litres of water in there.

I've had to turn my sump off to do a minor repair to a pipe that was leaking have siliconed it back together. I'm supposed to leave to dry for twelve hours. Can I just leave the cichlids with a bubble wall going and couple air stones and heater overnight. Tank is 4ft by 2ft x 2ft.

okay so now my blue gardneri has vanished thinking decided to go for his second jump thru the 1mm gap the cat was asleep on the floor under the tank this morning. Been pacing up and down under that tank all day. :evil: Any bright ideas of what I can do to stop this. The gap is 1cm max wide by 6cm long its right in front of the hangon filter where the water comes in over the overflow into the tank.. Its the only place I can see that they could possibly jump out. I don't want to loose any more.

Found my albino gardneri on the floor yesterday couldn't figure out how he jumped out as the tank has lids. Anyways put back in was ok Then this morning found him on the floor again unfortunately this time dead I can't for the life of me figure out how he got out. The tank has lids and the only gap is at the most 1cm wide and 6cm long, this is in front of the hang on filter. Is this big enough for them to jump out?

Thanks Barrie but all looking good so far still swimming round and eating. Must be very hardy fish

Doing a water change so lid was off went to get the water to tip in tank, came back to find the cat about to pounce on my blue garneri who had decided to take a flying leap. Picked him up put back in the tank floated sideways then righted himself swam to the top thought was a gonner but this morning swimming round eating seems fine :lol: cat not happy stilling looking round the floor for his supper

Yes The word Killi is from the Dutch language and simply means water source or stream.

Absolutely love the display of colour can't wait for my new cichlid tank to look like that one day :lol: :lol: that is one stunning tank.

Wondering what lighting people use on cichlid tanks. With having the black background and black sand and then shist tank is a bit dark. At moment got two t5's probably go to 4. Got one blue and one life glow bulb.

ok thanks sounds like elbow grease it is.

I had a marine tank with black blackboard paint on the back I'm turning it into a malawi cichlid tank. How do I get the black paint off the back. I've tried scraping it with a paint scraper but not working very well. Any ideas. Can't move the tank as its 4x2x2 12ml glass and full of water and shist.

tomorrow will list everything on trade me so this is your last opportunity still got live rock and protein skimmer pm me. thanks