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Great site, Aqua. It's especially true what they say about having two pairs in the same tank, I had two pairs of fully grown Convicts (about 15cm each) in a 4ft, they each took half as their territory and defended them doggedly. One pair actually dug a pit behind a rock ornament through the ~5cm deep gravel to the glass beneath, causing the ornament to fall over and create a cave which they then laid in! They're definately role model parents and really interesting to watch.

If you wanted to keep it alive you could put it in your other tank, but like I said there's probably enough bacteria in the tank itself to reseed the filter. It doesn't really matter where you keep it.

There should be enough bacteria in your tank to re-seed to carbon when you put it back in. Don't sweat it

Yeah I know, I put the Daphnia in there before I realised there were fry in there. I took most of the Daphnia out this morning, all I could catch anyways.

I guess the only solution is to get more tanks so the food is used up quicker. :lol:

I can just see it now. Image removed as unsuitable for forum You have a PM Eric. Bill Mod.

Snails you say? Not snails, Daphnia!

Yeap, they're too small to even eat baby brine shrimp or microworms at this stage. Thing is Caryl, there is a light on their tank I've noticed some of them are a lot more reflective than others, probably they're the older ones. Here're some more pics that are a bit better (You can see how tiny they are compared to the Daphnia in the right pic): These are the tanks they're in, a divided 2ft (Adults tank is on the left there) I've got the heaters set to 20c, the tanks sometimes get up to 24 in the day though :-?

One of them just looks kind of pregnant

I've actually got a little jar with lettuce and water in it that I set up on a window sill when I started trying to breed them, ah, the benefits of forethought

Should think so, yeah.

Yeah nice job. How many tanks will it have when completed?

Last night I was putting some Dapnia in the breeding tanks I had tried (and failed, I thought) to breed my WCMM's in and I noticed some tiny highlighter blue things swimming around, which after a moment of confusion (the WCMM's were last in there two weeks ago!) I recognised to be WCMM fry. They're by far the tiniest fry I've ever seen (Never bred egg scatterers before) Anyways here's a crappy photo of one of them: Really hard to get a good pic of them, I'll try again tonight.

Probably my favourite cichlids would be Convicts. They're really neat to keep, they're awesome parents but the only 'problem' is that they're fairly aggressive when breeding. Jewel cichlids would probably be the only other cichlids tough enough to be kept with them then, but bottom feeders like plecos etc would be fine with them too.

Totally awesome....what shop is it in?

Wow Hard to judge scale in pics with little fish in it. A great size for any tank.

Yeah I was sort of wondering that myself. Nice tanks though! Is the 700L just a really tall 4ft or?

If cycling was occuring then you'd have some nitrates. How often are you doing water changes?

Hold on though, the nitrite levels went from 0 to 0.25...it almost seems as if the tank has started to cycle .

Awesome to hear dude, good luck raising them!

Jewel Cichlids can be kept successfully with Convicts, any bottom dwelling fish should be fine with them too.

Awesome to see someone else's getting at it too, congrats man:D

From what I understand bettas that have grown up together (even males) should be ok in the same together, isn't that right?

Awesome, things ya learn.

Electric Yellows are mouth breeders?