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the tetras take a day or two to get used to it. the cats seem to go for it straight away

damn it those neons are such tasty little fish in fritters. Oh my God I can't believe I even wrote such a thing - and on a fish lovers forum - JUST JOKING EVERYONE!

remember Mikey, you need to get a group of say 6. They really don't like being on their own or just in pairs.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets excited when I watch the fish do something different. Cheers

most of the fish listed - mollies, platys, danios etc will get very round in the belly, they become much larger then the males. The angel fish will just suddenly lay a bunch of eggs on a leaf somewhere and the sorydoras will suddenly lay a bunch of eggs on the tank walls or a rock or somewhere without you even knowing she was pregnant. I have no idea however about the loaches - I do know they are very hard to breed and I think the clown loaches rarely beed in an aquarium because they need to be around 8 inches before they are mature enough but don't take this as gospel.

I agree with Shae on both counts I'm afraid. If you already have these fish, I would see if the LFS might exchange them for you.

Around 6 - 8 inches I believe, bigger in the wild, but they are very slow growing.

you can also glue it to a large flat stone

Mine laid eggs in the community tank so I've now set up a 40cm square beeding tank for them with plants. I introduced them yesterday and am hoping they will lay again soon. they're beautiful little fish! I noticed they colour up much better when the temp is higher - they seem to dop much better. Also after the female had spawned she really intensified her colour.

yes your glass cats should be fine (get a group) I'm a bit worried about the mollys though - they actually need a tank with a bit of salt and don't usually do so well in a comumunity tank.

Hi Mikey, I would get a herd of neons, if you get around 15 they look spectacular, also a few more danios - they do better in a group. Catfish come in all sorts of varieties and are wonderful little fish - make sure you get a group of 4 or more of the same type as they school and like to play. I think you are better to stick to less variety but more of the same species. Clown loaches definately need to be in a school of 5 or more - be aware they grow into very big fish, you can maybe swap them when they get too big. Another wonderful and very beautiful little fish is the Blue Ram. Get 2 - 3 pairs and make sure you have a well planted tank with lots of caves for them to hide from each other. Cheers

Hi there, yes it is, they do it everyday now, As soon as I turn the bubbles on the julii cats are the first in and they play in the bubbles most of the day. It's brilliant they get more and more daring, the neons are like a little herd of japanese tourists, all lining up neatly to give it a go one at a time but the cat fish all do it together. The flying foxes come into it very casually and do spectacular flips in slow motion through it. After witnessing this I'm seriously thinking I should give up eating fish.

Hi Caryl, the tank is 80cm x40 x 40 I don't know what that converts to in litres. I have 5 Pearl danios and 5 long finned zebras, 11 neons, 9 glowlights, 2 bristle nose, 3 julii cats, 2 panda cats, 3 rams (2 males 1 females) 2 flying foxes and I think that's all Gee it sounds like a lot for the tank doesn't it, but they've been in this set up for around 5 months so far with no problems. They all live very happily together, the tank is heavily planted and has lots of rocks and caves. I'm getting a 40 x40 cube made to breed fish in, I think this will be fun, I'll plant it out too and have it as little holiday house for romance for the fish

It must be the time for fish breeding. My blue rams were busy cleaning the surface of a rock yesterday and today they have a clutch of about 80 eggs. They are busy taking turns to guard it. I don't actually expect any of them to survive as they've done it in my community tank - I am busy setting up a breeding tank for next time, but you never know. Has anyone else had success with the rams actually raising their fry in a community tank? The tank is heavily planted

thanks Guys! I will relay this along. What algae eaters do you reccomend, from what I have read about the Chinese algae eater, they seem to become very agressive too. Do flying foxes do the job? What about Bristlenosed catfish? It's a shame about the golden algae eaters they're very pretty.

ok guys, here you are I have uploaded an image of Billaneys to my site with the same image resized. Please take a look at http://www.cathydee.com/fishresize.htm and hopefully, you can see what I am on about - no loss of quality etc very small image size - I have made the actual image a little smaller and I have cropped it somewhat. I have also reduced the pixel sixe and the dpi. And I use Opera, Netscape, Explorer and recently Firefox, I try them all on my sites as I am a website designer. Mostly personally, I use explorer because I like it. I also promise not to argue about this any more :lol:

Does anyone know much about Golden Algae eaters? I have a friend who is having all sorts of trouble with agression with hers. Do they attack and kill other fish? Her one seems to be chasing the corys. She found a dead fish but is unsure if it was because of the algae eater. He is now around 5cm. Any help on this greatfully appreciated - thank you Cheers

Thank you Mrshanepaul, Regarding computer, I get it checked regularly but I, like everyone in the country have to contend with electric fence interference and slow speeds slower than the normal dial up. There is no broadband out here despite Telecon's claim to have covered NZ. Now I know this is slower than normal dial up and therefore some patience regarding images is required however it helps a great deal if people resize them correctly - this helps for all dial up, I'm not arguing this just for me!

I'm not meaning to belittle anyone. I am frustrated that I can't seem to make some people understand that you don't have to give up the quality of image if your images are resized properly. I would love to be able to see these images but SOME of them are just far too big, my machine either crashes or I just don't have time to wait for them to download. (I'm talking 5 to 10 minutes per image. Now if I feel like this I am very sure there are many people like me who feel the same and when it is just so easy to fix I don't understand why some people are getting so anti the resizing. Where can I upload the image I resized to make my point?

you have missed the point Billaney. I am trying to get you see that if you upload images that are resized correctly, we can all get to see them. Now what part of resize don't you understand. :bounce:

Here’s the thing, I have taken the image of your breeding tank – amazing set up by the way. First I have cropped the image to the important bits. Your image size is 640 x 480 px it is 117.34 kb. It took me 5 minutes to download it. Now here is a resized version – I have made it 450 px width, I’ve resampled to 72dpi. I cleaned the image up a little to bring out the contrast and saturation. Now tell me this image isn’t better than the very large one you had… Hang on how do I submit images to this part of the forum :lol:

Oh Pleeease this is absolutely ridiculous. Billaney obviously you have some great images, I don't know because they are too big for me to see on my pathetic rural connection (broadband can not reach out here). If you are the photographer they say you are why don't you learn to resize your images yourself so that we can ALL enjoy them. It's not about loss of quality. Take a look at http://www.thegirlzgardencentre.com none of those images are over 30kb. The quality is great. It's no good relying on sites such as photobucket to rezise your images, they don't seem to take the dpi down, they just rezize the pixels. Resizing is about getting the DPI down to 72 which is the resolution of your screen so will not do anything to pic qual AND about the pixel size which as cees said can be 400 and something which I think is still very large. There is an article in the latest netguide I think this month on how to resize with popular programs, I suggest you get this and take a look before dissapearing in a sulk. The person you need to be mad it by the way is me I BROUGHT THIS ISSUE UP and I'm not sorry, but please don't take it out on the great people at the forum.

why don't you learn how to make the pixel size of your pictures smaller so we can all enjoy them?

will do Blue and Kim - would you have any xmas moss and java moss for sale? Cheers

well I guess if I can't get the mini moss then some of that would be great. The minii moss I mean features here...http://www.nature-aquarium.com/xmas.htm it looks very pretty and I'd love get some Cheers