well my 300 litre is up and running now i want some fish to fill it where do i get some im in whitianga long way to get some but i need to get some

What type of fish do you want?

mmmmm so much potential, it all depends as ryan said on what your preferences are. Mmmm African tank

Yeah would make a wicked as tank for some demasoni yellows and a few male peacocks

i am open to suggestions on this one never had these type of fish before and where can i get some ?

Set it up as a planted community tank. That lets you pick and choose from a huge variety of fish that you can try out, even have a couple of 'Hero' fish in there. You can always specialise down the track. A species tank wont give you quite the flexibilty. Whatever you choose its always fun shopping for new fish.

Plants or Demasoni

lol ill have demasoni and yellows soon if you wanted some I just sold some demasoni to evil

This is a pic of my dominant male demasoni im sure you know what electric yellows look like, people always ask if my tank is marine mainly due to the bright colours of the demasoni and yellows.

The reason I suggested those if you were going for africans is the size of your tank you can do 12 demasoni (recommended min number) and 6 yellows and maybe a couple of peacocks in your tank and it would be wicked, or else of course you could go down the discus, dwarf cichlid or even some of the smaller sth americans.. It depends what colours and that you want

i have collected plenty of rocks and stones from the local rivers your suggesting sounds good ryan to start off with where are you based ?

Based in Bulls.. But sell the fish small so they can be shipped cheaply.. I sent 18 demasoni to evil for $20 shipping.. Brought some of those huge ass aqua one bags so just put them all in that in one box so much easier and haven't lost any yet, even managed to send 60 yellows in one 5kg box

Yep Ryan packs them up very well and is a great person to deal with. the 18 Demasoni i got off him arrived in perfect condition, in well under 24 hours of him sending them. Would not hesitate to deal with him again 8)

Cheers Rogan glad to hear your happy I know you were worried about shipping How are the little guys? I bet they've almost doubled in size?

Growing extremely fast! Little munters when it comes to food lol

sounds good ryan any thing really special these guys need at all ? and what sort of all up cost would i be looking at including shipping do they like to have plants as well

do your research first so you dont end up with fish that dont mix well

ryans mix is a great mix of fish

they look awesome and breed like rabits

but mixing some species is just asking for trouble

then theres the hassle of loosing fish taking them back to lfs or selling them on

ive just had to sell a few fish that didnt mix well cos my tank was over run by big grumpy psudos terrorising the reat of my fish

chris

Doch I have sent you a PM..

Good advice Chris, although your tank may seem big there are many african species that would dominate anything you stick in it, unless of course you stick a couple of huge filters on it and chuck a heap of fish in it and although ive done that it doesn't really work long term..

Best to ask for advice before buying any fish and do your research, someone just won an auction for bristlenoses from me on trademe and wanted to stick them in a pond.. lol Always pays to do a quick google or ask on here before buying.

Demasoni and yellow's were my first though because they are both suitable for the smaller tank And you could get away with a trio of peacocks in there (watch for the haps they tend to get bigger and more aggressive).

so you think the yellows and demasoni and some peacock are the way to go ? how many would i need in my tank

do any of you guys/gals have any pics of your tanks so i can see them and see what i need to do to mine

I think its the way you should go But its not my tank! lol Its upto you..

As I said 12 is the min demasoni's you should go.. For the peacocks your probably best to stick with one type and get 5-6 of them so that when they grow up and breed they will be pure.... And a hald full of yellows.

How big is your tank (measurements) and what sort of filtration is there? That limits the amount of smaller fish you can keep..

I will take some pics later for you, its too bright in my kitchen where my main display tank is and the light keeps reflecting off the tank and all you can see is glare, lol went in there to take a pic and watched another demasoni breed :roll: got 4 females holding and 12 free swimming babies at the moment..

hi ryan thanks for your help my tank is around 300 litre and i have a wet dry sump of around 60 litres and my pump is aroud 1200 litres an hour plenty of filration

Sweet sump makes it even better! Increases your tank volume

Just doing a water change and cleaning out filters now will try get a pic after the sun goes down

hey great ryan will look forward to them

Heres some pics they are pretty crapy don't usually tank whole tank shots they don't seem to work out, I don't have the patience tonight to get any better ones lol, and my stand is ruined so yeah not too flash at the moment, I've been buying up rimu to make a new one so yeah when I find the time..

If you want to know what any fish are just ask I don't have a stocking list for this tank theres too many fish in it and I keep forgetting half of them when I try and list it..

those fish look great :lol: the sizes of my tank are 120 x 45 x 50 cm my sump is about 60 litres under the main tank a wet dry i think they call it filters from the over flow outlet in the bottom of the tank down over filter wool then over bio balls

i also have pea metal as a subsrate at the moment will this do or do i need sand and also what about the water specs ?