punman

Welcome back. What Tanganyika fish are you planning?

I have fry for sale a couple times a year but at present have no fry and no females are holding.

I can't really help but I have bought from Brine Shrimp Direct in Ogden, Utah. My sister lives in that city and when I visit I would pick up a can.

At the moment I am not raising fish needing brine shrimp so have not gotten eggs ins some time.

I doubt they ship to Canada but you could check their website. I never have trouble bringing them back across to Alberta.

What kind of fish to you plan to keep? Why do you want a PH 6-7?

Keepers of fish from the African Rift Lakes lament that they cannot even artificially get their PH up to 9, so agree, 10 seems weird, especially when you consider PH is a logarithmic scale. Eight is ten times stronger than seven, and nine is 100 times stronger than seven.

Nice to see a tank or two with plants (unlike mine which never have real plants).

In the six foot, 135 gallon. But in the fall due to a fish tank mishap, they had to spend a month in a 90 gallon. I felt bad for them, they had no rock or fancy stuff - but to my surprise they spawned in there (one female) and held full term!

Seven years ago I had wild caught frontosas (kapampa) in my 135 gallon at work for 18 months - and nothing. So I sold them at a big loss. So you just never know what will work and what does not.

Possibly - in a month.

Welcome! I had to dismantle and clean a tank once to get rid of snails. Some people don't mind them.

I am hoping to be selling some F1 Frontosa mpimbwe juveniles soon.

My cyprichromis fry have not done so well. I have had them before and they just are not that hardy as fry.

So I have just got Taankganyikans at the moment.

Glad the yellow labs are doing well.

I had a friend 10 years ago with a community cichlid tank with demansoni. He was hospitalized so I looked after his few tanks for a year. I kept a few spawns from his demasoni and grew them to an inch and sold them. I was amazed he was able to keep maybe four adults in a community tank with other fish as I felt they needed bigger numbers. I am surprised they did not kill each other. I never raised any fry to adulthood. Pretty fish with a different temperament!

I agree with the advice. If they are free swimming with little egg sac I'd put them into a 10 gallon now.

I am guessing this is not the same as an auction. Can you elaborate? Are items for sale? Are there speakers? Booths?

How has the discus keeping been going lately?  I tried it five years ago with 8 discus. After 18 months had three left and gave up and sold them and put that tank back into African cichlids. Don't think I will go that route again. I am normally a good, patient fish keeper but it got the best of me.

Hey-I just got another spawn! Here is a pic of the dominant male in his majesty and you can see a female with a mouthful of eggs. They only hold successfully half the time but I think they are getting better at it.

Thanks for sharing. I had yellow labs for many years but now am just into Lake Tanganyika fish. Lab.caeruleus are one of my favourite Malawis.

Welcome back. I don't blame you for not hauling 47 tanks across the country but I am shocked that you did not keep even one!

I have a 6 foot, 135 gallon tank with two Aqua Clear filters. I added a Hydor 1150gph pump, only because there is a dead spot in the middle and debris accumulates. It is a frontosa tank and they do not care for the strong current so I only have it on for three minutes every two days. It meets my needs without bothering the fish too much.

I did yellow labs and blue dolphins. For the dolphins you could do a male and two or three females although I find them hard to sex.

Good to have you on board. I have belonged for years. Site not as busy as it used to be. Maybe people have gone over to the dark side (Facebook).

Anything happening on the Saturday?

I live in Calgary and buy most of my fish and supplies from Gold Aquarium over the last 15 years.

I have used The aFISHionados (Spencer Jack) in Winnipeg three times to have fish flown in to Calgary with good results. He carries cichlids I want which I often cannot find elsewhere.

I have bought dry food on-line a couple of times.

I would think it would be fine but if you are in doubt just put one or two in for a couple days and see what happens.

If one was bringing 3/4 inch jade-eye cichlid juveniles, how many per bag to avoid overcrowding?

I don't have tropheus now but I have had them a couple of times. I used NLS exclusively with great results.

On the subject of NorthFin I tried it this spring on my African cichlids and I have not noticed a difference for the better nor for the worse so I am now using a combination of it and NLS.

I crush 1 mm NLS and Northfin with a rolling pin in a Ziploc bag.