Alan

All fish do better with clean water.

Dave, can you email me a copy of the form so as I can send it out as an attachment to my club members. Thanks

I'm sure that the killies would be very happy if you were to release them in with them.

Throw away you pH adjuster, otherwise it will be running your life. Yes, the discus might prefer 6.5 in an ideal set up, but you are only .5 away with a stable setup. I'd throw it out. The reason your other fish are stressed IMO is that they have had a too big a pH swing for their liking. They should recover tho.

I had mine in a 4'er but the nest was not huge, maybe 200mm across. Had it under a polystyrene plate. DON'T put you hands near the nest. They attacked me quite visciously.

That's why I said not to come down Q.Bday weekend Barrie. Tim and I have club duties to perform.

Yeah keep in touch, the T/M Dealer will be coming to conference, so if you need any more, yell out. That goes for anyone reading this too.

That's what happens when they read, Killifish, then lump them all in together. A lot of blame could also be put on the supplier who hasn't explained the intricacies of keeping killies. KBK Not permitted to put Keep Keeping Killies

Check the shape of the dorsal fin. The australe are shorter on the leading edge and longer on the back. The nig, are rounded on top. Depends what your guppy actually has wrong with it. I'd put her into a floating ice-cream container in your bigger tank. Clean out the small tank, and put the australes in there, with some java moss. Use 50% water that they are in and 50% new, equalise the temperatures so that that mix of water is the same temp as the tank. Make sure that the small tank has a CLOSE FITTING LID. They jump.

Have you a small tank that you can put just the trio in? Use a bunch of java moss in with them, both as a security thing and also, when they settle down, an egg recepticle. I have them in 200 x 200 x 300mm tanks

I have started a thread due to a "way off topic" created in this topic discussing a skimmer, it is under OFF TOPIC and is labelled Global Warming. Go for it.

Why don't you offer to take her around your park. Just think, it would rock her soxs to see part of the park named after her. The tortoise enclosure "Effies Retreat", or something. She may go for it in her failing years.

Are those yours David??

Don't know if they have been downsized but as they are now, they could all come up about 4 times. What we look for are maxing out about 128,000.

At the moment I'm in the process of making a tank with "V" section thru the centre. The idea is that as mum pops them, they sink, go thru a purpose made gap in the bottom and to freedom and away from danger. The water space looks like an "M" shape with the top of the "M" spread for water purpose. I also have provision for three dividers thru the annex part.

Hi there stargazer and welcome to "lil ol' New Zealand". Hope your luck improves quickly after perusing the heaps of info on this site, and don't forget to ask questions if you get lost.

GZ-L I'm glad you said "I think". As far as I know the commercial ones are collected from sludge pools associated with sewerage ponds and the reason that they claim to be disease free is because the have been nuked. So the ones that you get from your bath, washing machine bowl etc ponds at home would probable be cleaner and better than the nuked ones.

Only if you buy them from your LFS. When they came back to NZ just under two years ago, they were selling for $75 a pair. Check out the breeders in the NZKA to get a bargain, and get a better bargain by being a member and getting a discount.

Welcome aboard Tania.

Sounds like a pair that you have there. Keep an eye on them as, like most cichlids, the fighting can get a bit ruff, but with the bad comes the good and you could have Texas Long Fins roaming your aquatic wonderland any time soon, ya hear??

What did your fish die from???????????

Fantastic news on the pl*co front there. Don't they look so kewl. What size are they in the pic., and are they past the danger point and is it all grow-time from now on

The water I used was from the "Kaimai Spring", heated to approx 26oC, and a touch of meth blue or similar to try and control the enevitable fungus. Also a handful of java moss to promote infusoria. I use a small "U" shaped sponge filter for circulation. And I also have a long pipette that I use for sucking off any eggs that I see aren't fertile or are fungusing. They develop a white spot in the egg which continues to consume the egg to bursting point, then of course that contaminates more. So get them out early. Just before hatch time, the fertile eggs get very loose and with only the slightest provocation will fall off. These are picked up and are placed away from the hatching area, but still in the same tank. The eggs hatch and literally just sit there slowly changing to the wriggler stage, then to the "jumpers", then free swimming. My babies took BBS straightaway and also micro worms. A couple of ramshorn snails are added to control any left over BBS, and as general cleaners. Water change three days apart with the same type of water and temperature. To give you an idea of the numbers, I had about 100 eggs, about 30% fungused, and another 50% odd of the babies that hatched did not survive up to a week after free swimming. Now when I go out to the shed, they are out to the front begging. At the moment, I have an excellent A. melgar with a nice little batch of almost, free swimmers. My teenage A. eronotus are showing signs of spawning, ie. colouring up and guarding a pot. So hopefully, I'll have three species spawning soon.

Not protecting eggs is it??

Haven't had that species MM but my A. panduro has eaten more lots of eggs than I could shake a stick at. I have got between 20 and 30 babies from hatching them away from the parents, they are now 65 days old. Good luck with yours.