livebearer_breeder

DAMN! are you sure shes full of eggs, and not blocked up? or maybe an internal parasite. Shae

I still would have bought them if i had, had the oppurtunity, just because there are no females doesn't mean you can't use, nuetral virgins, do some selective breeding and go from there. Shae

Had a feeling, i have this mettalic aswell, its from PM7 the dark blue, unfortunatly its not strained very well, how have you found its prolificness? atleast you have a matching female, very nice i must say. Mine are slightly different, have the grey not blonde body. Shae

Were did you aquire these? Shae

Bettas grow naturally slow anyway, are you feeding them BBS? Shae

Doubtful it makes much difference unless they have some strange photosynthesis capability, its more about the amount of needed nutrients you can provide your fish/fry as to how fast and big they grow. Shae

Actually convicts are far better, Produce in huge numbers, and more often. Shae

No Worries, I think most of us like to aswell Shae

There just different sub-species. to my knowlege variatus has a multitude of different paterned bodies with solid colour fins of varies types. Im also under the impression that the common platy in NZ is just the maculatus, which are more solid body colours, very little patterning, from what ive read at any rate. Shae

http://sheneskillies.com/Aphyosemions/striatumLEC9329.jpg Shae

Mine are finally in there own tank, and have spawned.... Shae

Lol, misnoma is a salty now....need i say more about $$ Shae

I have a tank full of random guppys, that occasionaly spit out colours i like. It was originally only my orange strain, but i have guppys in there that are better qaulity, and the fact that the female has deformities, shows that its not 'qaulity'. Shae

Cheap http://www.trademe.co.nz/structure/0004-3319-3326-3345-/auction-36153735.htm Shae

haha, we will see, i dont intend on releasing any good qaulity or strained guppys for a while yet. Shae

nice to meet you 264, glad your fry are going good. Shae 250

Contact caserole, for some eggs and a hatch date. That way you can get killies mailed to you, and grow them yourself. Shae

Nothobranchius species come under Annuals. Shae

Killies, or Killifish have two basic ways to differentiate from each other, which divides the species into two groups, you've got your annuals and your non-annuals. Annuals- These are species that live on an average for 18 months, sometimes up to two years, they grow very fast from fry to breedable, and I quite often have 6 week old annual killifish breeding. They breed in peat, at normal tropical temps, and require very little tank space. The eggs need to be incubated dry, in the peat between 2-3 months depending on species, once the peat has matured, rinse it in some tank water, and watch the fry hatch out, depending on feeding and quality of the killifish, ive had upwards of 300+ fry hatch out at a time, from 1 weeks breeding. Non-Annuals- These are the species of killifish than can live 3 years plus, majority breed using the mop method, where they spawn on the wool mop, the eggs stick, allows the keeper to remove mop and place eggs in a solution of something like blue meths or malachite green, which help prevent fungicide. Fry usually hatch in about 2 weeks. For some species the peat method of breeding can be far more effective though. Fry for both species are big enough to eat BBS when hatched. Allot of this species, if fed well can be bred in a heavily planted tank, and will live with various stages of there fry, no troubles. Killifish are among the most beautiful tropical freshwater fish kept in the world, I would recommend them to everyone, with the right conditioning and water parameters, I would class them as easy to breed. Females Killifish are plain and ugly.....of coarse :lol: Some pictures of my Killifish Aplochiulus Lineatus (wild form) non-annual grows up to 13cm Fresh hatch of Nothobranchius, this was from a teaspoon of a small bag of mature peat, yes those small things are fry Nothobranchius Korthausae - Annual Young, Nothobranchius Palmqvisti- Annual Nothobranchius Guetheri Gold -Annual Young, Nothobranchius Korthausae Yellow -Annual Simpsonichthys constanciae (male and female) -Annual Correct me if im wrong Cheers Shae

I would hardly call that list big. I'd deffinatly recommend australes. Shae

Species: Jordanella floridae Aphyosemion Australe (gold or Choc form) Nothobranchius Korthausae (red form, pure Yellow form) Nothobranchius Gold Guntheri Nothobranchius Palmqvisti "gezani" Chromaphyosemion Bitaeniatum Aplocheilus lineatus (Gold and Wild form) Simpsonichthyis Constanciae Fundulopanchax Gardneri Albino Fundulopanchax Gardneri Nigeriatum Gold Fundulopanchax Sjoestedi (blue gularis form) Fundulopanchax Filamentosum Fundulopanchax Gardneri Blue Fundulopanchax Scheeli Epiplatys Degati Epiplatys Annulatus Poropanchax normani (lampeye) Ones that im aware of anyway. Correct me if i have ay spelling wrong. Shae

The thing with Brineshrimp is you can infuse them, so to speak, with things such as spirulina and green water, Freshly hatched brineshrimp will lose most of there protein within the first 5 hours of hatching. However they can still provide nutrition to fish once older, especially if they are infused. Shae

They could be the SJO's, but then again he has some really huge Lineatus breeders. Shae

i was under the impression that 7 is nuetral? so then 6 isnt very acidic. Plus i keep all my livebearers at about 7-7.5 ph, and have never had problems. Platy can be keepd in a range of different water conditions. Shae

5-Star Grass I have three and four, but ive forgotten the names. Ira gave me number three, it grows really big and in large qauntities, even in low light, i love it. Shae