Alan

I have not read or heard of anyone spawning them in an aquarium. Good luck

It's crypt affinis if my memory serves me right, and one that wont grow emmersed, not in my attemts anyway. Definitely fades away with that treatment, but should have enough guts in the rhizome to start again. Keep the light hi to get that red under the leaf too.

You have picked one fish where this couldn't show up clearer. Have a look at the airbladder. I'm sure someone pointed tis out the other day and called it the ovaries and gonads. You will see a different shap as long as they aren't all the same sex. Some will be elongated and poited others will be shorter and rounded. Now go check some of your other fish that have almost see-thru bodies. Have a stong light behind the subject and it is rather clear which fish are which sex. Try it on fish that you know the sex of, and confirm it for yourself using this method. I'm sexing Apisto panduros at about 10mm, just for the fun of it. If I wanted to do it seriously, I'd separate them. No!! I aren't going to tell you which are pointed and which are rounded. Figure it out for yourself and you'll remember it better. By the way, it is an excellent way of sexing the lighter coloured swordtails before the gonopodium or tail extension starts.

David, TROPHY. David I sent you a request for the classes needed for the killies. Did you get that letter or are you choosing to ignore the correspondence from the NZKA?????????

:evil: Where is the hair puling out by the rootsEmoticon?? I'm getting more fish sent up from Welliewood and I have a T&T on it. "This number is not listed" What do these tossers do?????????????? Looks like another worrying sweat tomorrow.

I don't wonder that they will not accept insurance claims Jim when they can't even get a paid for, over nighter right, and a redirect to Rotorua instead of Whakatane. Really disappointed about that lot. Also a very expensive overnighter from the Westcoast, TWO days later. Yeah Right!! Luckily I got away with both of them. The first even had a track and trace on it and it wasn't even entered. Good service?? NOT

You gravel vac the area above the filter and using a hose, vac the air uplift with the air off. There is no good reason why you really need to do that tho as the "mud" stays put under the plate anyway.

Black your lights out. You saw what happens at my place using that system. Must cut some soup tins up for light shades. There is only one name for that Paul It is a Killi Kupboard

Evil, use a thermostatically controlled fan heater set to 25oC, No more cooked tanks. All tanks the same temp. No more condensation. Cut some polystyrene to cover your windows at night to stop sneaky heat.

The "golden panchax" are killies stimpy, breed as per net spawners and take about 10 - 14 days to hatch, taking bbs at hatching.

My best educated guess is bristlenose eggs

Yeah loopy, they age from the day they are laid. That's why some of our breeders are picking their mop-spawners eggs daily, (cuts down onpredation), and put them onto a bed of damp peat, about 5mm apart, removing any fungused eggs as they show. Then re-wetting the peat 14 days plus from when the last egg was stored. By doing this, all the babies hatch at the same time which saves a whole lot of mucking around with a hatching of daily lots and all the problems associated with it.

Don't blame him, those females are fantastic little fish, mind you, males don't have a conscience. If those are mop spawners that you have eggs of 2 weeks, then they are due to be hatching now. Pick some, or all of them, and put them into a small container. Mine go into plastic, matchbox size contantainers for observation and hatching. As the eggs mature you will see the baby fish developing through the shell of the egg. Should hatch from about day 10 onwards. They'll take BBS straight away. How are you spawning the Korthouse??

IMO, if the pairs can see one another, the effect will be similar to having dither fish that bring out the parenting defense mechanism, and better care for their brood. In one case of mine, a pair of apistogramma paduros, with no dithers or having viewable fish, eat all their eggs before they hatch. Yet a pair of A. nanay melgars, in a divided tank have raised one brood of 26 and are now working on another brood from a spawning of about 100 eggs. What works for one MAY work for you.

Way ta go Bazza and Paul

If you mean that the blu line is bent, then all you have discovered is the way to sex them. Those are the females. The boys are sttraight liners.

Yeah Paul, my tanks are 200mm x 200mm x 300mm. This is fine for all but the SJO's. Have to go up to a 600mm x 300mm x 300mm. for them.

Try this then. http://www.webcityof.com/ffpw3.asp?IID=237 Not quite it but close. Or this one http://www.killifish.f9.co.uk/Killifish ... rianus.htm

It is the New Zealand Killifish Association. Affiliated to the FNZAS, with a membersip of over thirty killi enthusiasts all over NZ. We are an email club and don't have meetings as such, but have a good newsletter out monthly.(Or else).

Rix, why don't you join the NZKA then you'll have all the contacts of killi members Nth and Sth. Eggs are simple to send, your job is to hatch them and raise them. You'll need bbs at hatch time too.

The only thing I get from down in the Cook Strait when I'm there are the mozzie larvae. You guys are so spoilt with that source of food. Just have to watch out for those angry fur-seals with cod-liver-oil breathe and dirty teeth.

It's name wasn't Ulun was it??

If you had of been at Conference you could have got some.

Don't be such a sooky!! 8)

OK. Go barefooted and hold it on the concrete path and blast it with the hose, turning it over till it shows no signs of dirt. Works well, BUT remember that using the chlorinated water has killed all the good greeblies that were in it. You can do this as often as you like till it starts to disintergrate. Oh!! Your feet get a good clean too.