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Zui, Indy flew into my room this morning with a beak full of cat fur... Oops...

I had to do a water change so I collected the last amount of fry into a fry saver. They'll probably last a day or two, they always die in there. No idea why. Don't care. Stupid Angels were chasing everything around even after lights out and kept me awake for half the night. :devil:

That is breeding behaviour but I wouldn't bother worrying about it, it's a community tank. You've got about a 1 in 1000 chance of anything surviving.

But that requires effort like getting a bucket, a hose that will reach into the tall tank and over standard height cabinet while still reaching a bucket, potentially getting water on me and the floor, etc, etc... ;P

Not really, I just want to kill them right now as they've knocked a few scales loose on Burnie who won't back down from them. As soon as somebody eats these fry, they'll be back to good citizens.

Sweet! So which tank are my Angels going into? You still want them right? *shoves them at you mercilessly* They've managed to keep their fry longer than ever before right now which means they're being real to, well, everything.

Keep in mind, we have no idea how these fry were treated. I would guesstimate they were at least a month old before being brought into the shop and they sat in an unheated, HOB-filtered tank for a week or three before I started taking them and splitting them. All I can say for sure is they were never fed properly until I got my hands on them.

I'm more keen to believe the transsexual fish/genetic factor in all female spawns rather than environmental but I don't think there's a way to test that unless someone manages a second spawn from parents of a previous all female spawn.

Can Andrew and Paige jump in and let us know what they think their fry are?

This is going to make for some very interesting judging...

We sell mature/breeding pairs at $80.

How interesting to get an all female spawn... Paul had this happen once too if my memory serves correctly.

Sooo.. Ummm... I'm bringing home a few things today... 2 female plakats, a female halfmoon and two halfmoon boys... They've all sat here for WEEKS and the boys are starting to look crappy, though the girls are still fine. No one wants girls. Or plakats. Just gonna jar them in a foam box, lmao. Plakat girls will be conditioned to spawn while the girly will go into my Discus tank.

He doesn't work sundays or tuesdays and his name is Budi, but the vast majority of staff here can help.

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Finally spotted one of my Whiptails, first time seeing it since the two of them went into the tank months ago. Other one remains unsighted.

So I still haven't gotten my busy fish... Going with Cherry Barbs (20 or so) and Odessa Barbs (probably 8). Might get them friday if we've got enough. I know we've got barely any Cherries but plenty of Odessas.

Taken tonight... All look like females :confused:

Interesting, a little hint I picked up a while ago was feeding paprika to black horses to stop them fading out to a brown in summer. Keeps them nice and dark.

Weren't you constantly going off about people using colour enhancers on cichlids a while ago, Matt...?

Make no mistake, hormone based colour enhancers are definitely in this country.

I feed my Discus tank on TetraColour Granules alone, it's a natural colour enhancer. I'm happy with it's performance, but that said, that's all these fish have ever gotten and they refuse to eat any other dry food so I'd be up fish poo creek without a paddle if I went and blew my money on some other food like I did last week. NLS Discus food for sale.. lmao.

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I've got two Dumbos currently, had more previously, all short fins or females though, the big pectorals don't seem to cause any hindrance in swimming ability.

Pretty boy. :)

2ft tanks are not appropriate for clown loaches.

I wouldn't put a long fin male Betta in a community tank without extreme caution re; filters and tank mates. In fact, I wouldn't do it at all. I have absolutely zero issue with female bettas or a plakat male in a community tank. The smallest size tank I keep mine is roughly 5lt swimming space to themselves (it's a divided tank with a filter section in back).

Yoyos plowed through my snails and that's what we use at work if a snail population crops up in one of the sale tanks. As for the reasons I stated above, I refuse to have them in my own tanks. :P

You can give her one of my mine when they're ready, lol. I certainly don't want to keep a bunch of blue w/ red wash mutty things.

That photo basically looks like most of mine right now. I have a runt or two, though. The dominant one is probably a bit bigger than the one pictured.

I'm now doubting they're crowntails at all. I think they're just VTs! All of mine are always barred up, flaring at each other, etc. I'm beginning to hoard bottles so I can jar them soon.

My dominant one looks like a cute little female, all blue body and fins but bright red ventrals. Adorable!

If anyone wants to hook me up with a doubletail PK female of any colour but blue, I'd be happy to toss them in a spawn tank in a few weeks... I just literally have no surface space (nor floor space) to place any more tanks at this stage.

And Sarah, how about I pay you with unrivaled advice and free plant trimmings? LOL

When Sarah leases me some tanks in her fish room obviously... She can do the day to day maintenance and get her pick of the spawn as payment.

Also had a female or two build nests, it's definitely possible. New picture?

someone was selling them a fair while ago, she might still have some left. They were under the name of Eternal Betta if you wanted to shoot her off an email. :)