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Most adult/teenage bottom dwellers wether by mistake or not can come across fry and suck them up, but if you have good parents they should do a decent job keeping them away from the fry. I think for the most part, at least in the beginning you will be fine growing them out all together. Just make sure you do plenty of small water changes and plenty of fry foods like BBS and fresh vege for the GBA's, shrimp pellets work as well, Bare bottom tank would be best if your going to feed live foods like white worms and the GBA should find them on the bottom and will chow down if they don't have time to disappear into a substrate. Dim light shouldn't effect anything accept plant growth as long as there is some form of day time for them. All my fry live in planted tanks but that's because i have food holders at the top and adult fish in the tanks, so they eat as they go, without letting any live food spoil in the gravel. just normal substrate and common plants, i don't use co2 or additives of any kind. Hope this helps and good luck on the breeding Do you have a large culture of white worms?

Wow, you can't tell me that guy has 15 years experience in kung fu and is undefeated. It was pathetic, poor fellow didn't stand a chance. If he had some real experience in fighting he would have had far better evasive techniques against an aggressive opponent. that was really disappointing. look all over youtube and you'll find all sorts of martial artists in different styles beating others. It really comes down to the fighter and how he applys it in the ring. Lol i smoke too, its just a gem of information, because i find my stamina lowers a lot if i do not train regularly and smoke a heap.

go kan ryu and judo are a joke. I did it when i was younger 12-16, did not help me once. Muay Thai and JJ, NOT BJJ is were its at. Combine that with some basic boxing techniques like perrying and as long as you've got good ground game and some decent foot work then your gonna stand a chance in most situations. Kung fu and wing chun are incredible, but kung fu like shoa lin is only good if your fighting a person who has trained in a similar martial art. wing chun was designed for woman and is all about using your opponents weight, speed and strikes against them, great stuff, but you'd need to devote your life to it if you really wanted to be great at it. The idea is to be untouchable. I don't do any martial arts anymore mainly because of responsiblites, but i still spend a lot of time in the bag room at my gym training the same techniques, if nothing else its really healthy and gives you a solid core, very important when a lot of your strength in fighting comes from your legs and core. a Lot of fighters spend to much time on there upper bodies and not enough on there core. big mistake! Train Train Train and you'll find when you get in trouble or competitions you wont even need to think, your body will just react. Its actually amazing. One thing i didn't like about some martial arts (karate, judo) that i did love about boxing was they don't do enough conditioning of your body. In boxing you learn how to take a punch, you realize your not made of glass and you figure out what your capable of receiving before you needa get out or end it. The best moments are when your out on your feet and you find out what your made of. the tough stuff or the soft stuff. Ive found that of the guys i used to train with, it was always the ones who had bad lives or sad backgrounds that could dig down and find something extra to throw before the end. The most important part of the body to condition is your brain! Use it as a tool to fuel your ambitions when competing or training. and for those of you who train and smoke your doing yourself's a disservice, your lungs are so important. "breath or you'll die", that's what my old trainer used to say lol morbid huh but very true

They are designing electric cars that recharge off there own kinetic energy. We have the technology, unfortunately everything is owned by large greedy conglomerates that will squeeze as much as they can get out of humanity before changing. Humanity has a big problem. The earth is getting angry

If you want that to change you just need to put some more fish in there. I find if there is plenty of activity in my tanks all the fish will compete for food, thus swimming straight to top just from the vibrations of you being in the room. However less fish and you get a shy aspect, almost as if they are a bit weary. Pretty sensible behavior really. safety in numbers

Did you have her in a trap or isolation tank just for the drop? Remember that too much stress on a female and she can re absorb or prematurely drop. What are you feeding? how often? how many water changes weekly? tank conditions? Things we need to know

Use a blonde female instead, the colour wether black or dark blue will be more vibrant than breeding with a straight grey, also don't expect 100% of the offspring to be full blacks or even long finned to begin with, You'll want to do a few generations of selective breeding to the traits your after. The Albino genes are fun to mess around with but you need a template to start from. Its all about time and tank space

Howd you score that? I Have a 3 1/4 black male without the extended fins. not nearly as good as that one though.

Yours are really nice kiwi! How do you guys get such good pictures? i try so hard its almost impossible and i even have a SLR

Ich is a huge problem! for importers and fish stores alike, also beginners and less educated fish keepers and even experienced fish keepers. I havn't had an issue with it since i can remember, but i know people who would suffer from it regularly. I found it was more a product of stress in fish, or maybe the stress made them more susseptable to the disease, I am unsure. De iodinized rock salt and plenty of water changes always saved the fish from a more bleak end though. Certain fish however do not respond well to salt added, catfish for example.

LOL send me a bunch of the Full black 'terminator' guppys and ill give you $50 a fish

Mine looks a bit better than those. No green at all. Dark full solid Blue

Thats Epic

Hmm.. My blue moscow in some lights looks a bit purple but you can definitely tell its a blue. Perhaps theirs is different, I'd have to see first hand. But it sounds like a guppy worth having regardless!

Thanks for all the suggestions. I think an oscar would be unfair to have in a 150l, I was thinking maybe a large freshwater yabbie, something interesting and unusual but can still help me in the circle of life that is culling lol Cheers

Really keen to get some as well to cross with my lyretail swords, anyone in wellington with them?

I'm setting up a 150l tank for a solitary fish, I want something medium to large-ish Must be carnivorous and have personality, I'm thinking cichlid of some type, personal hand fed kinda pet. The main reason is because I have a lot of fish (livebearers, big surprise!) That need to be culled out every month and the freezer method just seems a bit wasteful. Free Food is the best food. Off course the fish won't be fed just on live bearers but i thought it would also bring a small amount of primal excitement for my flat. The moments when the large fish eyes up the smaller fish and then BAM! You know what i mean lol So my question is..... Any suggestions? previous experiences to draw from etc? Cheers in advance

lol hit the nail on the head there Caryl, well done Google search them sunrise, a lot of people often past them by as they are not colourful at all and are quite small. I happen to really like the dark patterns on them though and no two are the same. They are no where near as prolific as guppys though. When i first got them I had a couple new fry in the tank every week (28L), I now have atleast ten well sized females in a 300L along with guppys and i havn't seen a single leapord baby in almost 6 weeks now. Quite disappointing really! They are all very fat, and have growen alot quicker than originally thought in tropical conditions though. Fingers crossed I've been trying to get photos of them the last half hour but my crappy camera wont focus properly or there isnt enough light in the tank. Will drop by my parents house and grab a small tank from the fishroom that i can hopfully use to get nice crisp clear photos.

I have 6cm females atleast, they must be monsters, in tropical conditions though

Before i got rid of my pingus, they were exactly the same accept with a strong peachy colour in the tail. Nice Guppy

That would be from the import list right? If it looked like a full black its probably a blue Moscow or the H/B Black deltas. Because i don't think we actually have full blacks available yet

Albinos are quite sort after, 80 fry is primo!

Thats awesome! I wish my females had some more colour. Sorry A-town, lol

You'll find that guppy here: http://www.goldpisces.com/premium/guppy-ribbon.html He's just pulling your legs.

He doesn't look sick to me in that photo. Those patterns on his scales look like just that, patterns. Do you have any side shots of the scales?