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Hi kyle , kerry and I could not be be bothered reading that link, we have guess that you are talking about using the nz glass shrimp to clean the fish eggs. so what you need to know is will they eat the eggs or just cavenge the bits off them leaving the eggs alive. apparently this shrimp lives in salt, brackish and fresh. and Steve O'Shae (the giant squid guy) uses them to clean his squid eggs and it works really well, so we say sounds like a cracker of an idea - go fore it. note of caution - Kerry thinks you should not use the very large adult shrimp but the juvenile or sub adult shrimps to be on the safe side, size around 10mm.

Hi Grizzly , All 3 species of dwarf cichlid are good fish to start with. if kept between 26C and 30C they will not be very demanding and are easy to breed. Good luck

Hi AquaNut, sorry I can't help with the gold fish. how are your blue gularis eggs going. when my original pair started producing large numbers of eggs I got really excited but after 24 to 48 hours most had died. you didn't mention do you have the eggs in water or lined up on damp peat? if there still fertile, you have a 5 to 8 week wait for them to hatch, start getting prepared now. you will know when there ready to hatch as you can see the fry eye very clearly looking back at you. at 2 weeks old they start to take off in a REALY BIG way, there demand on food and there fore water changes is non stop. good luck

Hi Devon, the only way to help you really is to have a close up pic to look at. However when my snow flake B/N females are full of eggs you can just make out the large orange eggs throu the belly skin. Take a look, let us know what you see

Hi Aquanut, this is what I do for my Notho. korthausae yellow's tank - 200mmx300mmx200mm no substrate - important as they will lay the eggs every were. spawning site - a "small deli pot" from your local supermarket, 100mm across by 30mm deep, with 5mm of 2 to 3mm small round gravel in the it. to get the eggs use a gravel cleaner and drain the water through a fine net to collect the eggs- wash eggs in clean tank water and mix with a table-spoon of peat, bag, name and date.

Yes Penejane, most killies are very good with guppys. they will grow big and fat very quickly in a guppy tank lots of little baby guppys :lol:

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What ya doing Marty leaving thou's lid off mate. I don't have any spare fish but can breed them for you and send some eggs if no one else can help.

Hi Krib, first off congratulations on joining us. I've been keeping fish since I was a teenager - killies the last 10 years - NZKA the last 8. i'm now late 30's. Although breeding killies are not that hard when you know the why, keeping a strain going year after year after ... that is the difficult bit. Second, YOU MUST BE CARFULL what you ask for. I could talk killifish all day :lol: :oops: Third, there are a lot of killies we have that will be very happy at thou's temp's. just a note for you that I have observed:- the lineatus are best breed at mid 20's. If breed at low 20's you will get very few if any females and at high 20's you will get very few if any males. Oh, yes I do have eggs of Nothobranchius species available.pm me if your interested. At the temp's you have your fish room I would recommend Nothobranchius korthausae yellow/brown(also known as red strain) and N. korthausae yellow strain, the other Nothobranchius are hatched at 18C but better kept/breed around 24C. GOOD LUCK

Yes WOK, Just the other day someone came round and said they had a guppy prob not any more :lol:

There great food as Alan said. my larger killies and cockatoo cichlids love them so much they chase then round the tank untill they get em - CHOMP -

cool the real spotted danio is not that common, good luck. got a pic

WOW, thats a really good spawn you have there paul congrat's awesome mate. whats next :lol:

LOL, your've emptyed it already oh well, not to worry.

I agree with Caryl, just check that your not getting sun light on the tank and increase your water changes 5% per day should reduce the biuld up of nitrates and or phosphates(do you feed blood worms?=phosphates) and remove the algae slowly. What ever you do DO NOT use an algae kill product.

Hope you have better luck this time Kyle, there a cool sucker. how are thou's snowflake b/n I sent you?? 1 of my males has been sitting on a good sized batch of eggs for 3 days now.

What size and colour are the blister, it's not white spot is it??

Well we all learn new things every day. this is something for you to learn:- if they do breed true(or close) I would like some :lol: as Shae said they are different, very interesting colouration good luck growing the bab's. If you need need advise on growing guppys very fast this is the place to do it.

wow, DX there very pretty. do they breed true?

Really beautiful Caryl, nice pic.

How does the saying go Paul ? It doesn't rain it pours :lol: I think you need to start on that fish room, a big one. :bounce: :bounce: 1 side for you the other the wife's Africans 8) pic's

I can't see your picture Gretal can you put up a url ?

OH yes, I saw you eyeing up the young cockatoo females in my tanks :lol: Pearlyred said you could try:- whiteworms, mozzy rigler, water fleas, boatmen, back swimmers, bbs, beef heart, frozen bloodworms and a quailty flake food just for starters. :lol:

my Ph is 7.2 - 7.4, with GH of 30ppm. so not that critical for this Apistogramma. food and temp is more important. They will breed at 24C however you may get belly sliders, but 26C to 30C they spawn readly in a terracotta pot on it's side.

Yeah I think that was it Alan. It's a shame you don't see more of them around.