punman

Were these fry from egg layers? Live bearers? If egg layers, were they mouth brooders? I have had good success with hatching brine shrimp and use it with all my fry for at least two weeks. Send me a personal message and we can discuss tips and tricks.

Glad to hear that. I feel good when my stock goes to responsible individuals who will take good care of their fish pets.

I like sandy just because debris stays on top and eventually into the filter. Gravel just acts like a poo trap. If you don't believe it, take a butter or yogourt sized container and scoop out a container of gravel and then see how much "mud" gets stirred up from doing that.

I have been a customer for 7 years. I have never had a sick fish from them and maybe only had two get sick (other than old age)that I bought there. They rate high in my books.

Nice to see the female rewarding the male from time to time. Sometimes my wife gives me scrambled eggs and toast!! Congratulations on all your happy fish.

Welcome back to the craziness.

Thanks for sharing - those are great shots of nice fish.

They are in with my cyps and compressiceps. It cost me $200 for the seven of them so I am happy to see some maturity and breeding activity.

They were 1.5 - 2 inches when I got them. They took 6 months to get to 3 inches. They get only NLS except the odd time I will throw in some live baby brine shrimp if I have hatched some for my cyprichromis fry.

Yeah - Spencer Jack is where I got mine from. They started to colour up about a month after I got them. I'd trade you one of my males for a female if you seem short on males.

I bought 7 juveniles - gender unknown and it ended up that I had 4M and 3F. Would have preferred the opposite but the outcome could have been much worse. Who is J.S.?

I did not see them spawning but here is a male on display. I got four fry from their first spawn.

It seems to be working now but I'm not sure what I was doing wrong or why it did not work.

I have cyps, E. kilesa and compressiceps in a 90 with cyps breeding regularily and kilesa just bred! (only got 4 fry for the first time). Compressiceps are still too young.

Do have have to delete the old one first? If I am posting from Photobucket, which box do I paste to? Or is it better to upload from my computer? How do I change the name under the Avatar? I have tried a couple of times and I must be doing something wrong.

Fry from which fish?

I had foai sibwesa in a 180 with cyps for a time. Started with about ten juveniles. Males were gorgeous at spawning time. The silver females were not a bad colour either for nondescript females. That is probably the one fish I got rid of that I regret. It needs to the boss of the tank though. Can't put aggressive stuff in with it so you are somewhat limited. I found a pic of mine on my computer so I post a picture below.

Where did you find the O. ventralis? I am surprised to see this thread resurrected. I started it over 6 months ago. The comps are starting to grow and dig among the rocks and the kilesa are 3 inches with the males showing nice colour but the females don't seem too interested yet.

I don't use flake food any more but I will crush NLS Grow if the fry are too small.

That does seem puzzling. I ordered in some compressiceps six months ago. They were an inch in length. I fed them NLS Grow and 1 mm and for a few days they would not touch it (no idea what they were fed before that). I was kind of worried as that is the only food I use but I persisted and after a few days they started to eat it. Now, 6 months later they still go right after it and are growing well (according to what I hear growth for comps is like). Bottom line - I don't know what the problem is - cannot imagine it would be the food but I guess that observation does not help you much.

Target Play-sand from Home Depot worked for me. Mild rinsing. I found a place that serviced pools off of Blackfoot in Calgary five years ago - bought some pool filter sand from them for about $9 for 50 lbs. They did not have it last time so I went with the Target - a bit cheaper and not much different.

I have one Coral Life T-5 unit with a double bulb for one tank, my other tanks have standard fixtures with single T-8 bulbs. I need a strip for another four foot tank and am thinking of Coral-life again for a cichlid tank. Been pretty happy with it. Have any of you tried Coral-Life and regretted it or gone back to the standard, say All-glass deluxe strip or similar? Can anyone explain the pros and cons of T-5 vs T-8 lighting?

So we are having a friendly (or not so friendly!!??) family game of Scrabble. AQUATIC is on the board so at my turn I add an A. I get challenged and it is not in the Scrabble dictionary so lose a chance at many points and lose a turn.

I never go to this link much but it would have helped me six years ago when I was starting out. Thought I'd add a picture of a holding Cyprichromis Utinta. It's quite dramatic - more so in the picture than real life as the camera flash shines through the stretched skin. They are small mouthed fish so usually just a few eggs but it is amazing how they cram them in there.

When you buy them, you normally will just get the sponge with the tube and the air stone inside the tube. You then have to buy some vibrating pump to attach a line from the pump to the filter. Filter is cheap but you have to still buy the pump. I have used them with success but think I would just as soon buy a small Aqua Clear hang-on-back filter and put a sponge over the intake. Then when the fry grow, just remove the sponge and I have a filter in place.