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25 quid each!!!! they must be peppermint bristlenoses or another hard to breed variety, a common bn is nowhere near that much

have you looked at empire gudgeons, im pretty sure they will tollerate colder water, they colour up nicely when breeding and best of all they are Australian!

i would probably get a new one. i know of someone who had this problem and came home one day to find a tank full of dead Tropheus, i saw the photos, not a pretty sight

beautiful tropheus you have there, some great colours. do you have problems keeping the pH alkaline with the wood in the tank? i read somewhere it makes the water soft and acidic but i could be wrong.

hey colin there is a type of superglue used to glue skin, dont know if i would put it in a fish tank though. "Cyanoacrylates were first manufactured in 1949. The first adhesives were noted to have extreme inflammatory effects on tissues. N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate, which was developed in the...

i let my females spit naurally in separate tanks, leave them in for a few days after they spit to recover and then back into the breeding tank. the only time i have ever stripped a female was after she got caught in a faulty filter inlet and i thought she was going to die. she had been holding...

basically the same yes but if your wanting to get tropheus to breed i wouldnt have them in with mbunas which was my main concern. i keep my tropheus in harder more alkaline water than mbunas. thats just my opinion. also it was tropheops not tropheus listed so i misread what sort of fish anyway...

sorry my mistake i misread the name

i wouldnt mix tropheus ,which come from lake tanganyika, with the rest which come from lake malawi. this is for several reasons, firstly they like water more alkaline and harder, secondly they are fairly strict vegetarians so most cichlid pellets have too much protein and will cause them to get...

clout is not easy to get in Australia but metrinidazole is available but you need to get it from a vet or a script from a GP. the other thing that some people use is epsom salts as a bath or even cooked green peas with the shells removed fed to the fish acts like a laxative. ive kept mbunas for...

love them all, but wheres the melanichromis maingano or m. chipokae or pseudotropheus elongatus??? although the afras would still win!

not sure how much you can add but i do know more Co2 will make water more acdic so you will have to watch your pH as africans like it alkaline. i have used vallis with cichlids and it grew well without Co2

hi firstly sorry for your loss, secondly its hard to tell from the photo but if the mass was freshy it may have been a bit of bowel that prolapsed ( turned inside out and came out of the body- gross i know) if it was a prolapse there was not a lot you could do other than seek veterinary...

i have seen similar spots on some of my female cichlids especially when they are breeding

hi im not a expert on fish but i do keep malawi and tanganyika cichlids firstly go for malawi, they are easier especially if you havent kept cichlids before. haps, Aulonocara or mbuna its all personal preference, i have all 3 in a community tank although i do seem to keep buying mbuna. over...