livebearer_breeder

Maybe money like that isnt something of an issue for you Pies, and because you are a saltie you tend to spend alot more money regularly, but some people do not have that sortta money sitting round, and spending it in goes as said above is more of a big deal to them, i know it would be for me. Shae Edited your post Shae.. We have enough moderators on this forum PNZ.

Hope all goes well mate. Shae

I know of- Peppered Albino Long finned bronze Golden Shae

fry can eat flake at birth, but i suggest microworms or BBS as a better food. remove fry as soon as you see them swimming between the plants, the parents will eat them otherwise. Good luck Shae

look up on the internet, there is some really helpful stuff on there about breeding livebearers. My suggestion is bascially to heavily plant the tank to provide hiding places for the fry, Watch the female carefully for signs of realise, one thing to check is that females who are dropping will always have an open vent. there is know way to tell when a livebearer will drop, its generally 4-6 weeks apart, but the female can hold them back instead of releasing them if she feels stressed. Feed your adult fish lots of good foods and regularly clean the water and keep the tank perameters good. Shae

Thats awsome man! *** those soughta hours, i spose thats what ya get when startin your own business, atleast your popular You might wanna change your profile to "Napier" aswell Shae

question? Was the jaw normal to start wth, or has it always been like that. Because i read some info a while back on cichlids having genetic deformities such as a "locked jaw" or "open mouth", e.g. Parrot Cichlids. just a thought. Has this person tried treating the kribs with anything for there eyes? First thought would be pop eye, i dont know anything about micro bubbles thingy. Shae

Glad to see ya back mate, is ya business booming yet? Shae

Stunning fish mate. Shae

Awsome mate

Hope all goes well. Congrates on the fry. If you do manage to strain breed a snakskin, let me know and we could do some strain swapping. Shae

I saw it about an hour ago, big fry for a newborn killie, thats really awsome. that was the biggest grin ive seen on your face so far. Congrates mate. Shae

Thats Great Mystic! Hope all goes well, if the eggs are white then there infertile, the clear ones are really hard to see. Will take some more pics in a week or so, they look like mini Black widows now, about 5mm long and 4mm high. got there black fins aswell. Shae

In my haste to help answer, i assumed she/he had tryed useing salt, as that is what is generally reccommended in books and on the web, as livebearers respond well to salt etc. So i suggested Melafix, as i have found it very affective in previous occasions. i did not reccommend melafix for clamped fins, as said above in my haste i did not answer discriptivley enough, i will rectify that to the best of my ability in future, as the answer above your post shows. Shae

As i have explained above it is not a sickness that causes the above simptoms, it is the fact that your male guppys are stressing each other and the female species, males arnt to bright, and will also in some cases try to breed with themselves and other females, this causes stress, stress causes diseases. Add the two together and you = Death. Suggestion: Reduce the male population in the tanks, make sure regular water changes are done, if you see a fish with clamped fins remove it to a tank by its own and feed it as much live and frozen foods as you can until it is healthy again. If you see clamped fins DO NOT Medicate. in most cases it does more harm than good and can stress your fish out further, this is a common mistake made by many fish keepers, so dont worry to much. Feed your fish on frozen and live foods regularly to help keep there diet in good order, which in turn increases there immune system, which can help against getting sick. If as a result of stress, your fish contract a disease, try find a more natural silution to the illness, such as increaseing the silinity of the water to combat white spot and fin rot. anything else i should have added people? Shae

OK, thanks i will try to check it out, if i get time. im up here now, took us 10 hours becuase of traffic, we arrived just at midnight, sleeped till 9 this morning and was rudley awakened by my lil sister jumping on me. Very nice weather up here, gonna go spend some time at the mount today. Shae

Im on my way up to tauranga in about half an hour, wondering if any1 can suggest good fish shops, places to see etc up there or on my way? Cheers

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When i come get the fish could i get abit of plant form you aswell? preferbaley that red somthing arather, but anythign is good. Cheers

too small for pictus and rainbow sharks. Shae

have a school of tiger barbs, and watch them there nippers, have atleast 3 pictus they like to have company. Make sure you have more female than male platys, rainbow sharks can get a bit grumpy so watch him. otherwise all we need to know is what size the tank is? Shae

are you refering to the tiger barbs?, this post is probably best suited in the "freshwater" forum. Shae

It might also be that they dont need lids to help with insulation, or as caryl said keeping the temp better. Shae

I was wondering if it was my computer, obviously not. Shae

What happened to killies mate? Shae