hi ther to all
i was wondering if anyone knew of someone or someplace that would be
happy to rehome my Niger Cath Fish
it is approx 21"long i have rang a few palces around bristol and no
one has room for it
any info would be greatfuly recived
with thanks
wes

when i joined this group, i thought (and hoped) it was a tropical
aquaria group.

how wrong can i be.  out of the last ten messages (not including this
one!) only two are are fish related.

if i wanted to join a dating group i would of.

this is the second yahoo group i'm leaving in as many months for the
same reason.

spamming from other 'dating' groups seems to get everywhere, maybe in
the future when yahoo have stopped all this spam i might rejoin some
of the groups, until then i can manage without.

wayne

i have had a Jewel 180 tank since Sept 2006,it has various fish,white
cloud minnows,serpae tetra's,rams etc...,i had 4 angel fish when i
started the tank but 1 died leaving me with 3,2 seem to be together all
the time and the other 1 just keeps to itself usually,would it help if
i bought a similar sized angel fish to keep the other 1 company or
would the others attack it being a new arrival to the tank??

Hi all,
Does anyone know of any Angel Fish breeders in the Cambridge area.
I have, what I thought to be, a pair of mature marble angelfish, which
have been breeding for several months now.
They both go through the courting rituals and then lay eggs on either
the slate or the broad leaf amazon swords.
It now appears that I may have a pair of females, the dominate one
laying the eggs and the second one, acting as a "surrogate" male.
So, I really need to find a 1 or 2 males.
Many thanks

Carl Jenkins

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Hi, I think the species you are referring to is probably C. synspilus, A
beauriful large species of cichlid of Central America. Finding a good breeding
pair is quite difficult, however, once a pair have bred successfully they are
quite prolific, this should be taken into consideration when attempting to breed
as they fry are fast growing and will need a huge amount of tank space to grow
properly, stunting and high mortality will otherwise occur.
The problems you are encountering can be due to several factors, it may be that
the eggs are not being fertilised, this could be due to incomptabilty, or, this
not bieing uncommon in Cichlids, in fact you have 2 females! It is not uncommon
for a subdominant female to take on the 'male' role.
However, there could be other factors, if the eggs are disappearing then it
almost certainly dur to them being eaten. This will only stop as and when the
fish 'learn' to guard the eggs. It is also imprtant that once eggs are laid
there is minimum disturbance as this increases the egg-eating tendency.
If after a few days the eggs are white, this is due to 'fungussing' an
indication that the fish are are tending the eggs properly, they should be
picking up the eggs and basically cleaning them in their mouths and spitting
them back into place. If the eggs dur fungus then they will no longer adhere to
the nest site and simply drop into the substrate, hence the disappearance.
The use of artificial hatching is a common practice. It will require a seperate
tank, will good but not powerful filtration, a high water flow is not needed. If
the eggs are laid on a removable surface, this should be removed and placed
vertically into the rearing tank, directly below this an airstome needs to be
place so that there is a constant flow of water over the eggs, this will help to
prevent the eggs fungussing. Should the eggs hatch the airstone can be removed.
The fry will require feeding withinn a day or two of hatching and as much tank
space as can be provided, a 48" tank just for the fry is not exceptional!!
within a matter of a few weeks if the hatching is large, say 50+ the fry will
need thinning again.
As you can see the breeding of such a potentially large fish is no small
undertaking and whilst it is nice to successfully breed fish at home, you really
do need to be fully aware of the amount of work involved in this.
I hope that the above has been useful to you, and perhaps to any others thinking
of breeding the larger Cichlid species.
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----- Original Message ----
From: j390170 <jim@...>
To: tropicalaquaria@...
Sent: Sunday, 13 May, 2007 10:22:04 AM
Subject: [Tropical Aquaria] Breeding chiclasoma syphilis

Hi All

Please can someone advise, I have a male and female " Red/Pink belly
chiclasoma syphilis" and they have been together for one and half
years now. In the last 4 months the female has laid eggs 3 times, and
then they keep watch over then until they turn a White colour.

Thye male is about 18 inches, and the female is about 12 inches nose
to tail.

It seems that after about 5/6 days all the eggs just dissapear, so I
am thinking that they must eat them.

There is nothing else in the tank so it must be them that are doing
the eating!!!

Should I take the eggs out early? And place them in a net enclouser
or something.

We would really like to see if we could get young out of them.

If anyone has any ideas please advise.

Regards

Jim








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Hi Jim,
   are you sure about the name ?   I searched  Cichlids. com &
Fishbase  but they do not  recognise the name , has it got a Common
Name ?
It could be that for breeding they  need different parameters in the
water  for successful  brood hatching, I know some fish  will breed
in any water  but  the water chemistry can work against the eggs
themselves by  either  making the outer layer too hard for water to
flow through it  or can  make it easy  for fungal attack which can
also kill the eggs ,
I am sure some others  will give advice,
Steve  is one of the best with Cichlids.

Regards
Andy

--- In tropicalaquaria@..., "j390170" <jim@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> Please can someone advise, I have a male and female " Red/Pink
belly
> chiclasoma syphilis" and they have been together for one and half
> years now. In the last 4 months the female has laid eggs 3 times,
and
> then they keep watch over then until they turn a White colour.
>
> Thye male is about 18 inches, and the female is about 12 inches
nose
> to tail.
>
> It seems that after about 5/6 days all the eggs just dissapear, so
I
> am thinking that they must eat them.
>
> There is nothing else in the tank so it must be them that are doing
> the eating!!!
>
> Should I take the eggs out early? And place them in a net enclouser
> or something.
>
> We would really like to see if we could get young out of them.
>
> If anyone has any ideas please advise.
>
> Regards
>
> Jim
>

Hi All

Please can someone advise, I have a male and female " Red/Pink belly
chiclasoma syphilis" and they have been together for one and half
years now. In the last 4 months the female has laid eggs 3 times, and
then they keep watch over then until they turn a White colour.

Thye male is about 18 inches, and the female is about 12 inches nose
to tail.

It seems that after about 5/6 days all the eggs just dissapear, so I
am thinking that they must eat them.

There is nothing else in the tank so it must be them that are doing
the eating!!!

Should I take the eggs out early? And place them in a net enclouser
or something.

We would really like to see if we could get young out of them.

If anyone has any ideas please advise.

Regards

Jim

Hi,
I was inundated with snails, I got 3 Chain Loach and they ate every single
one.
I leaqrnt the hard way that natural ways are always better than chemical.
Chain Loach are small fish and very cute.

Kind regards

Jan

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Have you thought about  freshwater puffers ??  they are supposed to be
good with  snails



--- In tropicalaquaria@..., "sandy" <sandydawson1985@...>
wrote:
>
> does anyone know a good way to get rid of snails? ive tried "snail
> control" stuff but it doesnt seem to be working very well.
> any ideas????
>

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thanks. umm dont clown loaches grow to about a foot?

--- In tropicalaquaria@..., "Carl Jenkins"
<carl_jenkins1968@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Sandy,
> Sorry to hear about the snail problem.
> I found a small group (about 4) of clown loaches will do the job
better
> than any chemical remedy. Plus you also have the added attraction of
> watching them grow and start exhibiting their own unique
personalities.
> Hope this helps
>
> Carl
>

Hi Sandy,
Sorry to hear about the snail problem.
I found a small group (about 4) of clown loaches will do the job better
than any chemical remedy. Plus you also have the added attraction of
watching them grow and start exhibiting their own unique personalities.
Hope this helps

Carl

does anyone know a good way to get rid of snails? ive tried "snail
control" stuff but it doesnt seem to be working very well.
any ideas????

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Been ages since I been in, but  need some  info,
Over last weekend  I had a major problem with one  of my  tanks, it
has been up & running for over 3 years, with  no  major issues ,
until last  saturday,
Had a power loss  a couple  weeks back during  the night  and have
no  idea how long power was out, I know after a certain time  without
oxygenated water  flowing  through the filter media  that  bacteria
colony will start  to die off.
When I checked water after the power out  everything was fine,
Did  a water test Saturday and  found that  the level of ammonia  was
off the scale , so  checked  Nitrites  &  Nitrates as  well
Nitrites  were negligible  and Nitrates  were a bit  high,  Carried
out huge water change,and got levels  back to acceptable limits.

Now i have noticed the filter  doesnt seem to be working  like it
used to, so is it on its way  out ?? or is OTS  rearing  its ugly
head?
I want to keep with an internal  filter (present one Interpet IPF
Duo2)and someone mentioned to me about a HOB filter are they
available over here  in UK  i know they seem to be a favourite in
the USA

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hi, i bought a goobie about a month ago, and he's been fine in my tank
but  i noticed today that he seems to have lost some of his yellow
colouring...is this normal?
i have just had some babies born into the tank but everything slse
seems normal.

Thanks for that info Nim, I've been on several sites but couldn't
find any info.

Carl
--- In tropicalaquaria@..., "Nimish Mathur"
<nimmat4@...> wrote:
>
> Er.. the behaviour what we consider kissing in fish is actually
aggression.
> Angels & cichlids have to display dominance before mating or
especially
> before forming pairs for mating. Clown loaches also sometimes
exhibit
> aggressive behaviour and is perfectly normal.
>
>
>
> I doubt they are planning to mate as they reach maturity at 3-5
years I
> think and even then are very difficult to breed in captivity.
>
>
>
> Nim
>
>
>
>    _____
>
> From: tropicalaquaria@...
> [mailto:tropicalaquaria@...] On Behalf Of Carl Jenkins
> Sent: 23 February 2007 12:54
> To: tropicalaquaria@...
> Subject: [Tropical Aquaria] Clown Loach behaviour
>
>
>
> Hi all, could anyone please give me some information on Clown
loaches?
> I have 4 in my aquarium (2 sets of 2 bought at different times),
their
> behaviour has been quite normal until today.
> The 2 larger specimens have been, what i can describe to the best
of my
> knowledge, kissing... (very similar behaviour to Angel Fish just
before
> mating).
> Thanks All
> Carl
>
>
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Er.. the behaviour what we consider kissing in fish is actually aggression.
Angels & cichlids have to display dominance before mating or especially
before forming pairs for mating. Clown loaches also sometimes exhibit
aggressive behaviour and is perfectly normal.



I doubt they are planning to mate as they reach maturity at 3-5 years I
think and even then are very difficult to breed in captivity.



Nim



    _____

From: tropicalaquaria@...
[mailto:tropicalaquaria@...] On Behalf Of Carl Jenkins
Sent: 23 February 2007 12:54
To: tropicalaquaria@...
Subject: [Tropical Aquaria] Clown Loach behaviour



Hi all, could anyone please give me some information on Clown loaches?
I have 4 in my aquarium (2 sets of 2 bought at different times), their
behaviour has been quite normal until today.
The 2 larger specimens have been, what i can describe to the best of my
knowledge, kissing... (very similar behaviour to Angel Fish just before
mating).
Thanks All
Carl




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Hi all, could anyone please give me some information on Clown loaches?
I have 4 in my aquarium (2 sets of 2 bought at different times), their
behaviour has been quite normal until today.
The 2 larger specimens have been, what i can describe to the best of my
knowledge, kissing... (very similar behaviour to Angel Fish just before
mating).
Thanks All
Carl

Hi Dave,

Sorry about your Molly, unfortunately these things happen (sometimes
more often than we would like!!!)

I had a bizarre thing happen yesterday with one of my Flying Foxes.
We heard a clanging coming from the top of the tank and when we
looked the metal cover for one of the strip lights was jiggling
about.  I removed the cover and saw something go over the back of the
tank.  By the time we got the 'something' out from behind the tank it
was a very dead Flying Fox.  I felt really sorry as the poor little
thing probably burnt itself on the light before taking  a tumble and
then gasping for breath.  There is a cover on the tank and the only
escape routes are where the filter pipes come in, and these are not
very large, so what happened was very unfortunate.



Kind regards,

Jan


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Hi, I'm afraid it does seem that we have been invaded by spammers, I think you
will find that all groups sufer this from time to time, it's a problem with open
forums like this. They tend to come and go, and it's not easy to keep them from
joining the group, I do try to eject them but by the time I get to find out they
have already sent out their spam.
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craig201826 <craig.grant@...> wrote:
           just wondered if i am the only one or is everyone in the group getting
this.
like the mail items concerning fish and fish keeping but getting pi**ed
off with people liking my profile.
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just wondered if i am the only one or is everyone in the group getting
this.
like the mail items concerning fish and fish keeping but getting pi**ed
off with people liking my profile.
if this keeps up i think it will be time to leave the group.

craig

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>
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> and like it a lot! Could you sign up this site for free to chat to me
> directly? Then we can know each other better. My username is Judylee
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>
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>