Alan

Happy fishies.

Note the difference in their anal fin Myah.

I think that you will find that they are a fairly poor result of mankinds fiddling with something that was perfectly ok just to get some deformation(long fins) and a colour variation that hasn't quite cut it. Zebra danio. IMO

try this site for some added information http://aquariumlore.blogspot.com/2006/0 ... tetra.html

1 golden algae eater {have 1} If it is the chinese algae eater, you have one too many. If your not sure, put up a pic. They don't do the job they are supposedly bought for, and they develop into a nasty fish.

Stop getting GE paranoid. A lot of fish when bred commercially loose their colouration compared from in the wild. Others, like the discus, have it promoted. There are three types of rummy noses, you prolly have one of the other not so common ones Sharn.

No, he doesn't fertilise the eggs as such. She lays, then when he spins around and canters over she mouths at his vent and takes his milt into her mouth where the eggs are fertilised. No, we don't want any more discriptive replies after this either.

You don't use wool Barrie. You use acrylic. Wool rots.

That makes them hard to breed then Luke. I think I ended up with two females from the line of ten that I got. I never even saw her and her mate working the pot. Although now that they have, looks like another pair is going to try their luck.

A helpful hint to how to improve the safety and well-being of your helpers. Get some old safety belts from down at the wreckers. These make great lifting and carrying aids, especially where their is a risk of hands slipping off the edges when carrying.

Yesterday morning I went out to my fishroom and turned on the lights, and on doing my quick visual on the tanks I noticed in my Apistogramma eunotus tank, a female that really stood out in her yellow regalia that all apisto breeders would know what I'm talking about. She was not defending a pot and was out in the open. I mean, way out in the open. So putting on my glasses to have a closer look, I realized that she was hovering over a school, no, a large school of babies. As we had shopping on the agenda, I crossed fingers and vowed that I'd do something with thes bubbas (Caryl ) when I got back in, because left as they were, I din't hold out much hope for them with all their tank-mates. On arrival back home I got an icecream container and using an air-line tubing, started syphoning out babies. Lotsa babies. After having removed as many as I could from the gravel where they were well concealed, I took them up to my back shed, and there, transfered them into matchbox sized rearing tanks. Ten per tank. I use these so as to have the food in their face and it gets about 90% water change a day. Total rescued, 42. Mum still guarding 5 , which I'll leave her with so so she doesn't get stroppy if they had of all disappeared as they are inclined to do. These are from some that I bought of Caserole months ago as juveniles. At last, another Apisto to mark off.

Try your local glass repair company. I have borrowed then over a weekend from our local one. Or a hire centre? What size tank are you moving??

As Mods, we only look and wring our hands in dispair at the way the English language is abused. BUT WE say nothing, because we realise that we aren't perfect either. An old saying for those that do criticize. He who lives in glass house shouldn't throw stones!!. and another. He who is without sin, let him throw the first stone.

Carla, send me your address and I'll send a starter to you with how I cultivate them. PM me.

Hey Rix, how do you figure that it will be cheaper to wait till the Nelson meeting?? If you join the Nelson club that only makes you a member of their club. BUT You can join two clubs if you want to. Years ago, you had to pay an affiliation thru each club you joined and it became a bit rich when you belonged to four as I did then. So at conference I moved a motion that each member only has to pay one affiliation, no matter how many clubs they belonged to. It was accepted. So if you joined the NZKA, it would cost you $15 for registration with the club, and $10 for the FNZAS. A total of $25. Then if you wished to join the Nelson club, it would only cost you their subscription over and above the NZKA. If you hurry and join, you may even get the latest Aquatic World, which is very close to coming out. If you want more info and a form sent. Hit me with a PM.

Yep, boil them. But if they are plastic, I wouldn't get the temp up that high in case it starts deformation.

Filter floss fills those sneaky corners too, like around those H/O filters. A garden-hose split lengthwise will block the gap between the lid and the glass sides.

Why don't you guys have lids on the tanks??

Carriej we sourced the fish legally, Those are yout written words. You would have been watching this site over that period and to say what you did above with something that is illegal doesn't make your actions legal. You had a lot of feed back,including some from me that they were illegal, I even asked those ozzies that run T/M to chop your auctions but they saw fit not too. You were out for a quick buck and I hope you got real burnt.

From one Alan to another Alan. Welcome to the forum. Where in Auck do you come from?? I was originally from OTH.

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/1-vt10 ... sc&start=0 Have a look here Jim. Several of us on the forum have seen this tank and it looks GOOD

If the joints are real trustworthy they will show a clear green. The colour of the joining glas's depth. If you see blemishes, that could be airpockets from the date of manufacture, or it could be that algae has got thru the internal corner and breaking down the integrity of the joint. Milky white is normally the silicon under stress, or very fine air-bubbles. Heading for a leak.

Wasn't the guys name Martin, not Maurice?? If it was, I use to deal with him when I used a choice of 7 wholesalers

Long gone I'm afraid.

Day before SUN. and the one after FRI.