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This month we are having Mark for World of Water come and talk to us about water quailty and testing. We are having our Bi Monthly Sales Table At the Hamilton Commerce Club Wednesday 6th July Starting at 7pm. If you wish to bring things to sell you set the price with 10% of your sales going to the club. Also a list of what you have for sale and the price you are wanting is really helpful please All welcome to come along. P.S anyone interested in what there may be for sale can have a look in the private trade and exchange section as there is already quite a list of thngs for sale. :thup: :thup: Payment on the night only so bring lots of cash...

Hi Caryl, I personally got mine today and an pleased to say that two of or new members have received there magazine toady as well. Big thanks and well done. Love the new Membership cards.

Well that was a awesome evening last night was. Really good to see some of the people from the expo come along and be able to have a chat and get to no them a better. Really looking forward to our next tank crawl so i can see some of there tanks. Caryl have written something up about our expo so will sent it with a few pic.

Was a awesome weekend there was over 10,000 people there over the two days. We had to basically stand outside of our site the whole time as there ware to many people looking at the fish tanks lol. We got so many positive comments from both parents and children it was really good. :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Yeah I have taken pic's of each stage so far, it is looking pretty good even if i do say so myself lol. Will write you something once it is all over and send you the pic's We have had really good comments so far from all the workers they love our site already We only have the tanks and fish to go in now will give you an update and maybe a pic of it all done later today. Cheers Helen

That would be good, we have had quite a few new members already so here's hoping :lol:

Next weekend the 31st July-1st August Hamilton is hosting the Pet Expo at Claudlands show grounds. The Waikato Aquarium Society will be having a site there and for the duration of the expo we are going to be offering FREE Youth Membership (16 years and under) 50% of Memberships that makes it $15 for single/Senior $20 for family. We will also be running a raffle for a AR510 tank with everything included, this also come with a great maintenance kit that the goldfish bowl has kindly donated. Tickets for this will be $2 each or 3 for $5 We also have another little raffle for those who already have a tank and just want to win a few thing, Tickets for this is $1 each and with every new member that signs up during the expo they will get 2 free tickets into this raffle. So come and have a look, it should be a fun weekend. :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Have you had many sent in? Would love to see other peoples designs would be interesting to see what people like.

Hay count us in we will enter our new tank, will be nice for everyone to see a different tank in our lounge lol.

Update time again. The fry seem to be doing well, still have no idea as to numbers of electric blue. Having the usual deaths (we are better at breeding than growing out :oops: ) The parents weren't looking to well, so we gave them a treatment of furan 2, and it seemed to do the trick 8) Im hoping the Furan 2 wont effect the fry at all, but i guess time will tell. Even though we have Blues spawning all the time in our main tank, im only going to try and raise electric blue fry for a while, dont want to have the same problem as last time.

Time for a update On Monday the parents started fighting like cats and dogs, both male and female had a portion of the brood in there own corner, and were scrapping every time there paths crossed, there also seemed to be less fry We had no other tanks free, so we mixed the electric blue (about 50ish) fry with the blue ram fry that were of the same age. Im a bit gutted about doing it, because i was curious if they were all gonna be electric blue, or if there were going to be throw backs. On a brighter note, the parents have sorted there stuff out, and look like they may be getting ready to lay again.

If possible remove everything else from the tank, that would be your best shot. Otherwise leave them with there eggs, and siphon them out when they are wrigglers, and raise them from then. HTH

fry are free swimming today :bounce:

we dident do anything special to get them to breed. our water here has always been great for small cichlids. When we got them we put them next to a pair of blue rams with fry (we have a 3 foot tank divided into 3) The female got very aggressive and started looking after the fry threw the glass. once we freed up the end division (about a week) we moved them into there. From then on the male became the aggressor and bullied her for a while. I seen the female getting plump, but she was still getting chased. Once her ovipositor started showing they started acting like a pair and layed (within a day or too) we now have 3x batches of ram fry (2xblue 1xelectric blue) so hatching bbs is not a problem 8)