I'm interested in an A. cacatuoides "orange flash" male. Has anyone seen these around in the shops lately in Sydney? (I guess probably not in the last wee while, since I have been looking around and haven't found any.)
I had this little fella a little while back. Got him from Aquapets but he got crook and died. Haven't seen many around lately but they pop up now and then.
There are yellow's at aquapets right now. BNC had some nice triple-reds about 2 weeks ago. Pretty expensive for cacs and there were no females that I could see.
Yeah, the B&C triple reds are quite nice - I got one myself and for $35, it was quite expensive for a cac, but I couldn't resist.
Anyone else bought the "peru wild" cac from SLS? It is only F1, despite the "wild" designation. I suppose the "wild" bit only meant it didn't have a lot of colours! Mine died of dropsy- how are yours going?
yep
but in small dwarfs they are prone to fish tuburculosis which comes from bad genetics and is heriditary
some people will miss diagnose the two
chris
It's always darkest before dawn ... so if you're going to steal some rocks
from your neighbours garden for your display tank, that's the time to do it.
If it's bacterial dropsy (pinecone), when caught early enough, repeated salt baths 2 - 3 times a day for a week help. I brought back a female aggie by putting her in a fry trap, one of those plastic ones, and putting about 1/2 a teaspoon of sea salt in with her every 4 hours or so. The salt leaches out of the trap through the slits into the main tank (which in my case is a 4ft) so the fish is not constantly suspended in a heavy brine solution. I constantly fed live food, too, to keep up its interest in feeding. after a week the bloat had gone and the scales were back to their normal flatness.