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hi Jay, nice CTs. Colour wise, all except batman are Cambodian. all look like females except batman and robin do you have other spawns?

I don't often vac the gravel... I'm slack and a bad fish keeper... but when I find some time I use a cheep turkey baster with the bulb pulled off and the fine end plugged into the same tubing you have. The broad part stirs up the gravel but allows it to fall back down. It can suck up gravel and get jammed, but it works and is a cheep easy diy

Hmmmm.... I also was convinced hm pk male.... but... Eggs definitely means female!!! It's the only guaranteed way of determining sex

Hey... 2013!!! Do we vote or something?

Try popping the light source right up the front of the tank and angled backwards just a tiny bit. I think you'll see an instant improvement in your pics. Looks good, btw.

Have an awesome day Lisa. Happy birthday. All these September birthdays, makes me tgink our parents could have been a little more imaginative around Christmas/new year!

Happy belated birthday, Neff. Hope it was a great 1!

I know Ness will be pleased .... She really wants the WIN! So I'm nominashionating this pic. You know, this gives her 2 nominashionated pics giving her the highest chance of winning just from a numbers point of view.... Get those cameras out people... and at least make her sweat a little! Haha

What a spectacular effort and amazing success! Kinda dissapointed that I didn't come up for the weekend. CONGRATULATIONS, and well done for maintaining the momentum to get through it. It is painfully obvious how much hard work this must have been. Well done to all involved and I can't wait to see how much bigger the show will be next month. Haha!

Words is art... Ness is artist. Just because the word isn't found in any dicksionhairy or if it ain't spellet correct-like don't mean it ain't fun or fun-ctional... Art rite? Favourite quote from one of my uncles... "I speaky the England very best, but no good the spellet!" Art!

Very unusual result Jarrod. Are these the only two that have ended up this colour? It looks like they are dark bodied teal to me. Blue green with that shimmering green/gold overlying it that constantly changes. But for this to happen, both parents need to have been heterogenous metallic. You would then have all the blues with all the ranges of metallic to non metallic showing up in the fry (if you have enough fry to make that statistically possible). If they are the only ones, then maybe your seeing they are metallic (heterozygous) royal blue and they were lucky enough to develop the mutation without having "inherited" it. Unusual, but possible.

Haha! Actually Chi you raise an interesting point... Do fish fart? If they swallow air... Surely they have to fart? Anyone seen it? Heard it?

He's got some serious web reduction and an intense yellow colour. Nice score - especially for a LFS find

You could check www.aquadvisor.com There's a calculator that checks if you're overstocked - but it needs to know filtration (guesstimate it by using a surrogate brand filter with equivalent flow rate). Might give you the answer you need.