Alan

It would work MV, but you are going to make it impossible to shift without a removable way of doing it. Just imagine if one broke. Half the other would be all over the floor. "Oh bugger the neighbours under our flat" In an EQ area also, if there was flexing between the tanks, woops. mmmmmmm I wouldn't; but your choice. Just have some mops and buckets ready. You could have the floor pre drilled as well. Alan 104

Any bubbles that form can be sucked out using a piece of airline as a syphon. Poke it thru to the bubble and suck it back out. I do that with one of my HOB filters when it gets an airlock in it. Clarrie Stead, deceased, X of the Levin A Soc., use to make tanks with a tunnel. A common base had two octagonal tanks built either end with the sides facing one another having a cross over tube of about 150 mm square. Look quite different. One of his favs, especially for auctions, was one built as a boat. I don't know how practical they were, but they were eye-catching, and must have taken a lot of time and patience building them. Mabe his widow Hoya, if she sees this, could give us a little run-down for her first posting, on this. Alan 104 ps. I don't think there can be many members who remember these now. mmmmm Al

That doesn't show for me. Did a C&P in google. Nothing matched Alan 104

If you have a fairly airtight lid, that will keep up the humidity and the eggs will be okay. DON'T submerge them. I can't remember how long they took to develop, Rob could possible give it to you down to the minute, but you will see the mass starting to literally dissolve, and as it does so, the baby snails drop down into the tank in a drip. To save them from predation, have them drop down into a floating icecream container with some of the tank water in. Alan 104

Don't make up too many BBS at a time. Try just to do two days woth. Yes to feed out till MT.But plan ahead and have a culture ready to hatch as required. BBS are the most nutritious at hatching. Did you get babies from both lots?? Alan 104

FB could prolly get them imported for his own personal collection that he loves to share with all NZers, and visitors, specially the last. Alan 104

Yes there is a certain cure that you should carry out as soon as you have finished reading this. Dispose of it. Why risk the others for the sake of a $2.50 fish. I'm not saying that it is TB, but that is one of the signs of it. Loosing colour is also a bad sign. In the right places, that tends to be a sign of Neon Tetra desease. Sorry. Ok Go and do it NOW. Alan 104

Werner, make sure that you don't mix those two sets of babies. UNLESS EJ's are the straight yellows too. We have the two types in NZ, one is the straight, and it only produces yellows. The other produces red and yellow types. That is the beginning Werner, hope you know how to cut glass and make tanks. Another requirement is being able to convert your garage into a fishroom, then building yourself a carport. DON'T enclose it, as this too will revert to another fishroom or storage area. Fun eh?? Alan 104

Xtra kewl CB Good one Alan 104

Nope he wasn't feeling any remorse at all. He was sitting there slowly grinding sharky up in the back of his mouth. I lost one of my firemouths like that. It looked all the world like the oscar was poking tongues at me as it breathed. Don't make it two losses and ge rid of oscar Just get bigger tank mates. Alan 104

And also in Whakatane. Dozens in his tank. Remember Cas?? Alan 104 ps. Both of them have killies too. Al

Yes carbon will do it. That's why the say to remove it when treating. Alan 104

Thanks for that Z. Now I know what fish you are talking about, and I thought it may have been that one. LB has got Aquidens curviceps, but then there is still the question as to what the original writer, Dally meant. Maybe by reading Z's link, you can confirm the fish you have and also get some valuable information on the same. Alan 104

YES,BUT WHAT FLAG THE KILLIE OR THE CICHLID?????????? Alan 104

and after all this we still don't know what sort of fish (taxanomical name) you were talking about ?????????????/ Alan 104

MsNavaho, where are you from?? Alan 104

Hope you got a pic of it Blue, may need it for Warren and the MAFia Alan 104

100 killie males of the one species Alan 104

Go here Jude. Look for Michelles reply. That has what you want to fix it Alan 104

Do you mean the Jordanella Floridae killie fish????? If it wasn't for the Americans buddy, you'd be speaking Japanese now. So thank your allies and don't hate them. We have got some on this site, and I hope they hit you for what you deserve. Alan 104

Dally, go down to the bottom right, in the GOOGLE box, and type in "Flag Cichlid", click on the WWW search, and you will find two mentioned there. A. Curviceps and M. Festivum. I think that was what LB was meaning. Alan 104

Make a N shape from three pieces of PVC piping with two right angles and fill with water and drape over the centre partition. The water level will stay the same on both sides. You may have to cover the ends to stop the fish doing a short cut. You wont even have to glue the pipes together. Alan 104

A lot of cryps are grown hydroponically too. So the leaves that they have out of the water will dissolve and then new immersed leaves should appear. Were the roots nice and white?? Alan 104

Glad you put in my opinion Stu. The only cleaning that an U/G filter needs it gets when you gravel vacc. IF you wish to suck out what little sediment that gets under the plate. You only need to put a syphon onto the airlift from the base plate. There is a lot of myths about them being bad, but I run almost exclusively, U/G filters, and I have had up to 200 tanks, and I have at least 100 at the moment. Those that don't have them have a sponge filter, box filter, or no filter at all, but these ones normally being small, have a large % of the water changed per day. Alan 104

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~zebra/index.htm This is a link to the only people in NZ that I know of, that have bred Zebbys. They were members of the FNZAS and have pics on their page. Alan 104