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oh yeah they don't buy them to ride them

lol

agreed..altho doing nothing rules

Awesome work man good numbers going there for quite an expensive fish

I do like the dovii, just so aggressive beyond reason haha. These are aka the Wolf Cichlid right?

I boiled mine in a pot then let it cool and placed it in the tank. This way it will sink straight away. Use the boiled water of course too cos it will have a nice low pH, lower the hardness (if you have any), and will give that beautiful dusky dark blackwater look to the tank

cool too much work tho

get the Hauraki peat i got mine from mitre10 ages ago

Good on you Dixon!! Great to see this..... in fact i have tried to breed cardinals myself and i was inspired by the article that Bryan wrote (tell him if you see him Caryl!...actually i'd like to ask him a few more questions eg does he put the males into the breeding tank first??..I think it doesn't matter). Anyway i had no luck but i think the main problem was my breeding stock was too old. He mentions use fresh young ones. I'd love to have a 500 strong school of cardinals hehe PS when i tried i just used standard boiled peat 2cm thick on the bottom

lol so true! in fact most of the world has it.....especially teens..... :-?

i thought 'girrl' implied the grr that a dog makes haha

didn't go, maybe lucky i didn't as heard there was viewing problems? not enough seats???

HAHA!! not working at the mo but looking for dream job so interesting to read ppl's dream ideas hehe

bristlenoses are less problematic than standard plecos.....shouldn't be any problem but it may be one of those 'different for others' type of things

hey dude you want the ones discussed here http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/best-s ... 29750.html far easier to clean than cannisters or internals so you do it more often. I use to clean mine daily when I changed the water. If you have daphnia they love the gunk you squeeze out

hah yea riccia can grow like wildfire esp under metal hallide and create a matt that blocks light to the plants below......but if you put the effort in and tie it down or grow it through stockings and attach it to rocks and driftwood it looks magic

If you can't boil it pour boiling water over it thoroughly to kill any nasties then away you go

Wow...awesome... a lot of time and effort and $$$ in there!!! Love the discus/flash pleco/cardinal tetra mix

No I read this too and thought about commenting on the auction

Agreed

Cool shot tiny. The only thing can be that with close-ups one part of the pic is out of focus...this particularly happens with bigger lenses/really close close-ups. Smidey i was meaning with the 100mm macro lens too.

WOW incredible pics.. what sorta camera is that? I hope this inspires more people to breed these lovely fish. Once we found a baby panda by accident in a 2 foot tank. Cories often surprise you

Canon 350D SLR with 100mm macro lense, 1GB card...love it All up cost me $2k through long-term monitoring of trademe. Probaby costs that now. Back then was $2.5k

Even with that light it eventually it all died off.....apparently the reason is is that in the wild it grows sometimes submersed other times right out of the water which of course it never had in that tank. I see riccia as harder cos you have to tie it all down, no roots at all

On my barebottom discus tanks I did......and some 2ft corie/tetra conditioning tanks.... if it's going to be ugly i'd clean it