Alan

Are those the ones with the spining disc?? If so I think you should ask Noah, I think those were what he used on the ark. Nah Haven't seen them around for yonks Gannet, prolly are collectors now. If ya into that.

That guy got busted, and did time, also he was closed down with all his stock, not only the gold axxyies but reptiles, birds, anphibians, etc, all being confiscated. He had a petshop/garden centre out Mt Roskil way, can't remember his name now but I guess older members here will recall him. He had a real interesting setup to say the least, guarded by a black crow that was the ideal foil to unwanted visitors out of hours.

Get a lotus lily, they stand above the surface.

That's a real impressive confession there OOA. Heard of "Loose lips sink ships"?? I once had some african clawed toads, one mention of the fact to the wrong person and I had an investigating MAF officer on my doorstep. Result. Smacking and confiscation. Dare say you could get a visit. Depends who reads what you just wrote. With fish it could result in ALL of them being confiscated.

First time is always the best. Best of luck with them

No, but if you saw me you would possibly be thinking "Well when are your scales gunna stik out Al??" Like one of the posters have said already, the body just keeps expanding with fluid retention to the point of, well you read about what happened. Not nice for the fish and the best treatment is to remove from tank and youthaneyes it.(the fish).

Bare Bottom Tank

Hopefully they are in a BBT and you have snails in with them to clean up surplus food before any pollution takes place. When syphoning, I use an air line hose and into an icecream container with a net in that water, that way there is no drop and they aren't out of the water either. Near enough to what Paul said

Although the carbon does date out it's usefulness tho.

No Paul, and I won't be even attempting to take one. With my skill, it would prolly be a failure, and I also don't want to light up their area while the babies are so young. The top of their tank is covered with the indian fern that they decided wasn't food and duckweed, so with only two 2' fluros the tank is nice and secure for them as far as lighting goes. I have just come in from feeding the parents some shrimp, and I saw the babies on the flanks of one of the parents, in a similar fashion to discus fry. The babies are also taking BBS and pick all day over the substrate.

Guess you havent seen a fish in the final throes of dropsy Carla.

Good one Wok. Is it strings and do you want salt, vinegar, or sauce with them??

I have used poly on almost all my tanks with no problems It doesn't break down as you suggest. Ever seen the flotsam on the shore line??

I have a pair of Uarus with free swimming babies as of today. About time. I saw some babies back in'88 and thought, "Yep, I'd like to breed them one day!" Got't'm, nearly 20 years in the making tho. Lotta dollars to with the various attempts.

He may even want to buy your ones from you.

Helps in cornering.

Remember the time when Rolph Jensen had his shop on a corner with a downstairs where he had his marines stashed away. Not many pp saw them, to view was by invite I think. The shop was so stacked with tanks and stock it was hard to move around, then he made his move just down the road to where his big shop at 3 Kings is, now we all know what has happened, a chain of shops now.

Saw heaps of babies yesterday. In a babies tANK AS WELL AS SWIMMING WITH THE GANG. sOME PRETTY QUIK ONES TOO, AS THERE WAS A COMPRESSICUS IN WITH THEM. Sorry for the CP. Even had at least another one femaleholding. Can't say who's it was, butmaybe they'll come o line and say.

Try out the search on the site. It's hot to go. Just did a search for MEDAKA and got ten hits Excellent Cees, didn't take too long either. Well tonight it didn't. Bang on, there'll be a lot of smiley faces on the forum I reacon.

Salt water dip will bowl the snails, you can do your plants, dip into salt water then rinse, soak the rocks and gravel, or you could boil the stones and gravel too. Wash out the tank and leave outside in the sun for a couple of days. Only thing is you may have snail eggs in the plants, but a lot of those can be remove digitally.

How to decap the correct way. http://www.fao.org/docrep/field/003/AB909E/AB909E00.htm

Carla, dats 0e. lol

At least it will be soaked and stay in the pot till the amourous fish chuck it out again. Syphon it thru a net, that will catch it all then you just need to put the water back anfd the peat into the pottle.

All of those "tiger barb" are just a colour variation, I think I can name four of them off the top of my head.

Well, the answer is in your hands if they bring them in isn't it??