Abby

Thnx everyone..

Wow didnt expect someone else from Lismore ...awesome

this is what I have so far

Julidochromis Transcriptus (Gombi)

Pseudotropheus Crabro

Melanochromis Maingano

Aulonocara Bi Colour

Metriaclima Lombardoi

Sciaen. Fryeri Iceberg Electric Blue

Astatotilapia Latifasciata

Aulonocara Ngara Flame Tail

Red Forest Jewel

I guess I`ll have to get the camera out

A) neither did I

B) Most defiantly pics please :)

LOL Welcome Mittens yes were kinda photoholics around these parts.

Welcome to the forum Jude. As another owner of Kermadum's coppers, I am sure you have some stunning fish

AMEN to that my kids are turning out nicely

Welcome Bev

Welcome Bev!

Just keep them in the water and you'll be right!

My three year old niece "met" my crew recently and upon returning a few days later and meeting my new boy she was all for getting Sheldon out to hold him LOL try explaining to a determined three year old tat no the fish has to stay in the water AND keep her from throwing a tantrum cause she cannot indeed hold the fish LOL

Hey everyone,

My names Troy I live in Lismore...Just starting to get intto the hobby again..

I have a 3 & 4ft tank with cichlids

HEY WHOO im in lismore as well awesome!

I gots me 17 Bettas :)

this is Benny before his tail eating:

this is Melvin before his colour change:

this is Melvin after his colour change:

Sheldon is a great name and a beautiful fish!

Benny has the longest anal fin I've ever seen!!!

Benny? are you sure ben is the one u mean or are you referring to the before pics?

Sponge bob has a LONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG set of fins

OK we finally decided on a name..... Sheldon ( as in Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang tv show) :P

@ melbournebetta: pippin, spongebob, nero, louie, Charz, benny, melvin and the new bloke are pet store fish(ALONG WITH Dastan and Tamina):

Charz

Pippin

Nero

Louie

Spongebob

Benny after eating his tail

Melvin

These are my pet store quality boys

@ Busman: LOL!

ok so the last few weeks has been a handful. My partner and I celebrated 4 years together and te same day my great aunty died.

Dastan my first betta was sick off and on and eventually didnt make it he had popeye recovered got a huge fungus on his head and then it went away then he got popeye again but WAY worse. all this in QT tank. i think he may have had an internal tumor for the way the popeye fungus and popeye all hit him. I was called away on the friday to go to my great auntys funeral and came home the saturday and he had died :/

ANY WAY.

so now onto the FISH. so the four girls in the temp tank (Ailie, Rayne, Lexi and Caela) finally moved into their new home, a beautiful planted tank

the "Eight" bay has now had the filter section turned into bay 9 and will be divided tomorrow to fit bay 10.

with the death of Dastan, and my beautiful lps's catalouge special of 50% off male vts

brought around a new man in my life

Now im back to ten males and seven females.

sooooooooooo now the score stands at:

Girls:

Caela

Lexi

Rayne

Ailie

Bronxie

Cinder

Scarlet (agent 88)

The boys:

Louie

Charz

Spongebob

Pippin

Fredric (Agent 004)**

Cedric (Agent 11)**

Benny

Melvin

Nero

new boy still unnamed

***Cedric and Fredric are brothers to the seven girls, i found when i took Ced out for QT to let him recover from bennys visit Fred began tail biting until Ced was put back beside him. Brotherly love

here is the new boy:

*His waters low because thats all the water that came in his bag, i let him settle in before topping the tank up slowly

Name suggestions welcome :D

Hmmm so its not just me i personally think its pretty

From this same spawn Yan?

I don't think it's disease! Relax. I think that some fin development may be due to various environmental conditions (pH, dissolved salts, trace elements etc) and may reveal differences in appearance of related fish... Although I believe most strongly that this is just a range of normal.

Ok thanks Paul

so my guess is that this equates to some environmental factors rather than genetics. I also agree though, they are beautiful!

in good way or?

this was suggested on my other forum "There could be something about their environment or diet that is causing them to thrive and develop quicker…. " was what she said....

Thanks Jarrod, im kinda urgh most of the time to tell the newly healed Lexi from Caela unless they are under lights lol

Oh the joys of fish keeping lol

no not fin rot this is how they developed, i doubt all 7 ladies would fin rot all like this. These three plus one are in a tank that holds six divided, I have a male occupying 2 bays the other four are open for these four, then the other three are in a planted tank. (these four waiting on their tank to cycle)

If you look close on all pics, the rays start splitting quite low in the tail

I feel better now too will be out front wiv me bags awaitin' on the nice little men Jo B)

We'll be sure to visit :bighug:

I surprise myself with my train of thought in coming up with the names for these fish sometimes. I have named this one Keenan.

Train of thought goes, He's yellow.....mustard yellow.......keen as mustard.......keenan

I LIKE IT!

hes too pretty!

AWWWW. My scarlet got stuck behind my filter before i put the clips in, then cinder plays on top and tight up beneath it. freaks me out every time

:bighug:

Hey all just a quick update. Everyones doing well at fish number 17 now, got some lovely changes happening as well

Dastan unfortunately is recovering from Popeye, hes doing well a week and a bit after i found it and hes almost back to normal.

ok the update is on Lexi ( she was a mess and is looking great) and Lexi, Ailie and Rayne are *the rest of the ladies are as well but ive only got photos of these three* seem to be turning from SDxHM into SDxHM CT's

LEXIS RECOVERY:

Day one:

Day one pic 2

two weeks or a little bit more later

sorry its blurry

recently (just over a month after she arrived)

one

two

Here are the three tails showing 4 ray splitting:

This one also shows lexis fin recovery too ^.^

Rayne is ALSO developing metallic purple/black on her fins.

Rayne

here are a few different angles to show the colour changes:)

Rayne 2

Rayne 3

Rayne 4

Rayne 5

Rayne 6

So thoughts on the SDxHM CT developments??

LOL i got to "would you like me to look after them" before i realized you were joking haha, my boyfriend thinks i pick ugly fish, boring coloured fish.

oh the eight bay, no it was built by a local aquarium, it cost $90 to have built.

(i have two photobucket accounts so these come from two accounts lol)

its nolonger got the two small filters it has an eheim canister filter doosit lol on it now

Ok so i KNOW your all sick of my pic spamming lol so here is one (or two or three lol) pics of each fish some are blurry and or bad pics but they are hard to photograph when they get excited lol

Nine of my fish were purchased off kermadum they are SD/HM copper metalic (these are all seven ladies and Agent 11(Cedric) and 004 (Fredrick)

the others are petstore fish.

Dastan:

Blue red purple Veil tail

Nero:

Red Cambodian 4 ray crown tail

Benny: (before and after he chewed his fins off)

Blue and white butterfly veil tail

Melvin: (Recovering from eating his dorsal)

Metalic blue and white veiltail butterfly multicolour

Agent 11 aka Cedric:

Agent 11's Pic

black and purple metalic Butterfly SD/HM

Agent 004 aka Fredrick:

004s pic

gold and red SD/HM

Louie:

Louies pic

white red blue 2 ray crowntail (his fins range from see through to aqua-teal depending on his mood)

Spongebob Fish Pants:

Sponge Bobs pic

Yellow with iridescent blue rays (comes and goes depending on his mood) veil tail

Pippin:

Pippins pic

Red Masked Cambodian Butterfly veil tail

Charz

Charz

steel blue 4 ray crown tail *new*

Agent 88 AKA Scarlet

Agent 88's Pic

silver,occasionally shows purple

Bronxie:

Bronxi's Pic

silvery with a more wild look a hint of redwash and purple shimmer occasionally

Cinder: (sex is a little speculated as Cinder im 99% sure it was cinder, built a rather large nest and got VERY territorial and a little nippy with the other two girls above, the above two are sporting a little fin damage but cinder has none.)

Cinders Pic

plum with gold "highlights"

Rayne:

Rayne pic

Yellow SD/HM with clear fins that have recently begun developing black and metallic purple rays

Lexi:

Lexi's Pic

SD/HM lady a wild colour with blue scales across her back

Caela:

Caelas Pic

Wild colour SD/HM is never far from Ailie

Ailie:

Ailies pic

Silver SD/HM whos never away from Caela.

Do you have any pictures of the system? And did you DIY it?

Sorry my brains in over drive what do you mean?

thanks FlameDragon. hes settled in well my bedside lights on at 8am nd his tank lights wont come on for an hr or so but he can see sponge bob whos twice his size and hes already looking at him as if to say "OH BACK FOR MORE ARE WE"