Peter McLeod

Try some live food on her. If she eats enough the extra presure should be enough.

No photos. Could get some. Basically just a small 1.5 X 2.1 metre garden shed I have insulated with polystyrene and non-treeted plywood for the walls and then painted with oil based paint. Very easy to do. Small 500 watt heater with a thermistat is more than enough. Had tested it last winter and the power bill seemed to be cheaper than having 4 tanks with 100w heaters in them. The idea was that it would be outside and would need to be waterproof, but if you wanted to separate a portion of your normal garage It could be done even cheaper. Polystyrene sheets are cheap and fence rails are cheap and good for framing. The non-treated plywood is also cheap but you can always ask your local building supliers for packing sheets that they will either give you or just charge a small donation for their social funds. Also ask them about the pallets they throw away or give to people for fire wood. They are usually non-treated andeasy to pull apart and use for shelving and framing. You can also check out Recyclers e.t.c. for stuff. I do things as cheaply as posible, no shame in being tight when your already on a tight budget.

Cheers for the offer sunrise001 Have found a few fish I can use for the time being. Very nice H/B Pastel Guppy Avatar One of my personal favourite guppy strains The closest I have come to owning a strain like that are H/B yellows If you ever see any available let me know

My angel fish bred every 10 days. Most of the time they looked after them at least to start with like discus. I realised the sooner I got the eggs out the sooner they would lay more. I used a small length of pvc downpipe on a slight angle. Once the female had laid the eggs I removed the pipe and placed in a fresh one. I then put the eggs on the pipe into their own tank with a airstone at the base on a gentle setting to get water (Oxygen) flowing over the eggs. Worked fine most of the time.

If she is interested in eating maybe try some live food just to add a little presure, whiteworms or mosquito lavae. Has worked for me a few times in the past.

What colours and tailshapes are they?

Does anyone have some reasonable guppies they are willing to sell. Need to start using the fishroom I have built. Don't have to be perfect just workable. Am also interested in helping people build and get fishrooms working. Just for something to do, have had too much spare time available lately and am keen to meet some of you.

Green water is good for reducing stress in guppies. I always let a couple of tanks nearer the window in my fishroom go green, prety much so you could only see the fish an inch or so into the tank. Just don't over stock the tank or during the night the algae will take in more oxygen than they are putting out and sufocate your fish.

Only made it to Levin. Head gasket went on the car, not much we could do but head back to Wellington. Will try again when my finances get a bit better in a month or so.

Hi all Just interested in anyone who knows if it it is alright to catch the wil mollies in Tokaanu. Basically know where to go just need to know if its legal and who to contact.

I used to put a mirror in with males that refused to spawn. I think males being able to see another male will more likely encourage him.

http://www.jehmco.com/html/nets___breeder_boxes.html Go down the list and look at the piture wintow traps. Cees gave me some a few years ago, and they do work very well. At the moment I'm using 2litre lemonade bottles with lots of 1.5mm holes drilled in them with some wire bent into a hook over the side of the tank to hold them. Takes time, and don't look that great, but dosn't cost anything and they work. Albino's suffer from infertility worse than the grey body types when inbred for too long.

Looks like you have the right fish to continue with. Blues and reds cross together very well, and faily easy to separate the colours over a few generations, and would make a very good sister strain to outcross to if separated by a few generations. Would be a shame for you to give them up.

I tried sexing the females at 1-2 weeks in frount of a bright light. Works well but very hard on the eyes.

I found different strains developed colour at different ages.I also found I could sex my blue and red strains faily well at 3 weeks while the yellow and snakeskin strains were around 5-6 weeks.