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Congratulation!!

Pity you're in Melbourne.

Get in touch with Bubbles, she's one of your locals.

Cheers.

Hi all,

Am still around - flaggy and parra do drop me a SMS now and then to keep me inform whether I'm missed here or not.

Anyway, yes - I've been busy with an infant recent. And I'm still...

Have kept them once accidentally - came in as contaminant from a batch of iniridae. It was only one of it's kind then and from memory they prefers lower pH (although probably okay in 6.0-6.5).

Something got wrong with my PC, it posted twice. Sorry.

Yipee.... one of my pair have spawned this evening.

Here's the photographic evident of their crime 8-)


And yes - their eggs are white (compared to the red/pink egg of apisto).

Fingers...

My experience is agassizi and cacs are one of the most adaptive species and you shouldn't need really soft/acidic water for them (especially for the cacs).

Similarly your tetras, cories and...

Although I don't have any scientific proof of such issue on bloodworm, but I've had my bad time with apisto when they were being fed with the combination of bloodworm, discus granule as their primary...

Apisto are mainly micro-predators. Worm isn't part of their main diet in the wild, although they love them. They cannot take excess of them.

This "shell" is known as exo-skeleton, and little fish...

Andrew,

Totally agree with the financial aspect of keeping apisto - especially of their cost versus durability for the inexperience (including many LFS down under). Making them a major turn-off...

Nice to hear there's improvement on the situation. I'm no experts with ram (but have spawned them so I think I'm doing something right), think they can handle higher temperature than most apisto can....

And finally....

Others.....

Too early for any waiting list, their numbers are still good so I expect there will be enough to go around.

Here's what I have at the moment:

macmasteri ($40/pr)
iniridae ($25/pr - limited...

Latest update to the batch - still growing well without any issue. Now they're off in their own tank and I expect a batch of brothers/sisters will be hatching tonight.

That usually happens.

We're in the bottom of the list when it come to fish order - we usually only get things others don't want or there's an excess of supply from fish exporters (that's the...

Yes, Mike <=> Noddy65 is our resident vet.

And he's now in Sydney (since the beginning of 08).

The tanin soften water and reduces the pH. which benefit most apisto and ram (plus discus), but...

Given the present of drift wood or peat in the tank, the brown water is no embarrassment at all. In fact most apisto/ram do benefit from this.

The tanin from wood/peat causes the water to go...

Brown water shouldn't be any issue with most apistos/rams. Why do you insist with the 50% w/c?

We do have a very small community in Australia, it is unfortunate that the majority of interest are...

In my opinion, if the fish is already having it's eye popping, then it's likely to be dead within a week (that's from my experience). I've tried all sort of medications in the past, but usually the...

I think it's the diet.

Despite ram is a common companion with discus, the little dwarf cichlid often unable to handle heavy protein food such as beef heart (that's my guess).

Can you try again...

Hi boost,

Sorry to hear of your losses.
As Andrew has stated, there can be many factors which may result with pop-eye. I've had my fair share of such myself, and each occasion could be something...

That's a bargain.

OMG --- I didn't know that board is still alive after all these years with no new post.

Steve, you shouldn't blame Simon for that problem, it's in all of us regardless - it's called getting...

Hi Steph,

Nice to hear from you again (finally), guess you're back at work now.

How many baenschi female do you need?

Just name a number and I'll sort you out (I'm sure Mike will do the...