livebearer_breeder

Got mine yesterday morning, Cheers Shae

hehehe, now i just need a female, got one for me to buy yet? Cheers Shae Oh and dude, nice pic!

Mine are the same Carla, they will not touch anything, accept bloodworm, spirilina discs or trout/shrimp pellets. Shae

my male Shae

Size doesnt help in sexing Blue Ram, Females can be bigger or smaller, it depends on age and food availability. Males can have the same amount of red in there tummys as the female. Finiage can be a helpful factor in determining sex, males have higher and bigger dorsal fins, with a long black point at the front, but again i have seen females with this aswell. Keep them in a stable tank, and what i mean by that, is dont move a stone to them, it could put them off, have places in the tank that they can readily spawn on, try not to get to close to were they've spawned, leave them be, if they feel threatend by you they can and will eat the eggs. I no it seems exciting that they've spawned and there doing there parenting thing, but you have a higher chance of a succesful spawn if your not putting ur face right up to the tank to stare at them every few minutes, or as some, iv heard of getting up in the middle of the night with a torch to see if the eggs have hatched yet, and they wake up in the moring to find there gone, because the parents felt threatened. The dwarf flag in your bag (poetic) looks exactly like my male, accept because it is stressed it has lost some colour. Im currently breeding the Dwarf Flags, will let you know when i have some available. Unless steve has some available first. Shae Shae

ok well i have 11 tanks on the first stand so far, will post some pics once everything settles down, am mighty happy though, finaly i think its worthy of the title "fishroom". Still bits an peices here and there to do yet though. Cheers Shae

ok well i have my first stand, and its getting painted this afternoon. i have two questions, one, what do i use across the railings of the stands to support the tanks? or are they small enuf that the edges of the steel frame will hold the tanks? also another question, should i do any preperation on the underside of the shelves for the lighting, as i havnt bought it yet and was wondering hw i was going to secure them to the unserside of the shelves. Shae

I saved the picture to paint and marked each fry, then added it together and came up with 174, impressive. Shae

Nice guppys. the DS gene runs in the female, so i hope you have a female of the DS, could do some really cool stuff with that! Shae

I have done this by mistake, and my fish ate what they usually did and left most of the rest of the food to the gravel. as far as my posts go, I've obviously proved my point if all you can do is pick apart my spelling, of which everyone knows i struggle. Shae

the reason i have chosen the word "unnessary" is because of your previous post .........."causing intentional unnessary suffering is" If you think that untammed animals are simply out there to eat everything they can, your looking at nature far to simply. If anything humans do this, animals eat what they must to live, or eat in excess to hibernate. Very few "bing eat" like humanity does, look at obesety in our population. Each animal, plant, tree and insect has its own roll in the eternaly circuling existence we call nature. Therefore they all have there own part in regulating the ecosystem. e.g. dirt, worm, bird, cat, dirt. and within that you can add, fruit, trees, plants, small insects, feterlisation etc etc. there is a purpose to each animal, insect, plant and humans life. that's it, plain and simple. Shae

Of course not jude, because you wouldn't do it, so therefore there is no consequence or result to the enviroment. HummingBird - jude said this "cruelty of nature". secondly there is no unnessacary cruelty in nature, this is what i am trying to portray, every action of the untammed, is the neccasity in a chain of events to keep regulation in the wild. Thirdly vultures by nature, pick on the dead, almost dead, or sick, so it comes to me as a surprise that they kill perfectly healthy camels (will look into this further). Shae

If the tank is the measurments you say it is then its 270l, taking in account of glass thickness. Shae

Whos to say fish experience terror? i would say burning alive in the stomach acids of a fish would hurt much more, a slow torturous death (sorry to contridict you Blue). Jude nature is not cruel, the circle of life is a nessesaty. And for this very reason is why it is called "nature", it is out of our control, and to those that would impose there will on it, would cause detremental affects to our enviroment and the way we live (society). Shae

How much are the Blue/Red CT? Shae

Instead of adding unnatural chemicals to the water i would do atleast two of three things. First do a small water change Secondly while your at it, might as well do a gravel vac, amonia spikes etc could be upsetting your fish Thirdly (optional) put some peat in the water, it will stabalise the PH, and acts as a natural way of calming many fish. Shae

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/diy-concrete-background-vt2335.htm Have a look Shae

has it harmed any fish yet? if the answer is no, dont worry bout it, identify it first and then see if you can catch it. No reason to take any measures against it at this stage, it could well be dead already. Shae

ahh the beauty! more and more everyday, good to have another fellow wellingtonian hobbyist. Welcome to the site. Cheers Shae

Some of us get our "thrills" in other ways, and i think "nerds" is hardly fair. Welcome to the site good to see the wellington crew going from strength to strength in members. Cheers Shae

Wet Pets up our way, happens to be one of the better places to buy fish.....quite interesting...... Shae

if it has not always been there then it is new colour pigmentation forming, it could grow more or stay how it is. Shae

I'd be very interested in doing you some swapping, mianly for the mottled albino. Shae

I am Impressed! are these running true? Shae