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Filters, sorry I have a preferance to power filters for aquariums in the 900 - 1200 mm length. The two leading brands are Ehiem and Fluval, both have adjustable flow control to cater for different spiecies that may inhabit an aquarium over a lifetime of use. Given that there are times when we want to keep different fish an increased water flow for slender fish such as Angel fish and a reduced flow for wider bodied speices. If I were to enbark on breeding Guppies I would probably use 600mm aquariums with air filters. This is because of the shape of guppies and the way they tend to get blasted backwards in strong currents. If you use a 4mm micro irrigation tap in the airline you can adjust the flow from 3 bubbles per minute to full speed. You would need to use your judgement as to what is comfortable for the fish.

Thanks for that Lilli, I had been using a system generated PW. I changed my email as soon as the inernet came to life at the new house. This computer was in a shipping container 19 days then we had a further 11 days before we got the satellite internet working. Jo-Anne will try to log in on her account. She has been lucky and one of her browsers remembered her details. Thankyou for your perseverance.

It had a very low fish load for the water volume, the plants utilised all fish waste, same as when adding fertiliser to a veggie garden.

I can try to confuse you on hardness of water, perhaps though the basics are that water hardness changes with the region and the fish that naturally occur in one water type may struggle in another water type. Large inland rivers where water runs thousands of kilometres across rock will generally be harder than rain water. Short rivers and streams that rely on constant rain to flow will generally be soft water. Most water supliers in Australia will add minerals to have a neutral PH, they will seldom become involved with General and Carbonate hardness. In Aquariums we will often use minerals to make water hard for fish from the Rift Valley Lakes. If your town water supply is like Adelaide (hard water) to have success with Guppies you will need to grow aquatic plants in the aquarium all the time and the extra biological material will soften the water naturally giving the fish longer life spans. Fish load for an aquarium varies based on personal experience, it is largely from one person recognising what they are looking at and responding while another person sees a change and either over-reacts or tries finding out. This is why most of us have experience with fish that are in plentiful supply. The 1000 litre aquarium I left at my old house when I sold it was set up as a no-maintenance required, and the fish living in it would continue to live and breed for several years with just food a couple of times weekly. Yet to farm the fish in there would cause a population explossion and a resulting decline in plant life, the fish numbers would decline with the plants. Your biggest choice is the aquarium size you like, take into account space you have available and your budget.

Welcome to the forum, you know there are so many fish speices kept in aquariums, sometimes walking through a large shop will have something that catches your eye. Guppies have always been good as beginner fish, alhough when you start researching you find there are many dedicated breeders world wide that find pleasure from looking at genetic differences and applying simply livestock breeding principles. Beginner quality Guppies will be in plentiful supply, if you want to try your skill at breeding them straight up you will only need to buy females, you can research the reason. If you have your tank set right it will only be a short time till you see young fry swimming in floating plants, a densely growing plant like Java Moss is a common breeding habitat for a planted aquarium with small spieces fish.

Good to hear your family like fish you selected. Here is the genetics you pm'd me for. My spawn logs on the forum seem to have some gaps, with experience I'm sure I will reach the stage of having everything needed. Grand Parents; Multi Colour Giant Geno Male, ex Thialand and a Royal Blue Double Tail female (Best Female prize winner at 2007 Queensland Betta show). Parents; (extract from spawn log) (Feb 20 2009, 02:20 AM ) Two mostly white bodied fish from the parentage above, large bubble nest, looked like hundreds of eggs outside of the cup in amongst the duckweed. By the time I removed the male I was concerned of where all the fry were, I had seen alot of fry on the bottom of the tank the night before. Result is 7 fry around 1cm presently. See I didn't make notes of the date. (extracted from spawn log) This is the spawn he came from, Photo 6th March 2009. As they have matured the result has been 5 females, 1 male plakat plus the male you selected. This will be the male parent As we can see the grand mother was double tail, so a double tail female from one of the younger spawns will make a nice match. ( If you like double tails) a single tail from the same genetics will still produce double tail like the two black double tail males that are due to be jarred from tank 10.

Yeah, the first pair that bred for us had lived in several comunity tanks for 4 years before we saw fry when there was just an old anglefish co-habiting with them From tow spawns we had been able to removed some 170 fry, the first female died and it took maybe a month before the second female spawned. At the moment there is just young fish spawning in the shed and the size of each spawn is noteably smaller than what the old females has been able to produce. Initially one shop around here wanted them at 3cm at a dolllar each, because I had some history with them I gave them about 20 discounted fish. Then I started dealing with a shop that I have a long history with, and they pay a minimum of the current wholesale catalogues prices, for graded 5cm, 6cm and 7cm sizes that I supply to them at upto 50 fish at a time. Growth of bristlenose comes down to feeding and competition in the tank for the available food. I think we got lucky the night my wife saw the first 3mm fry. The Anglefish was blind in one eye and he exited the tank so fast Until people see the changed behavior in bristlenose when they are in a large colony without predation from other fish that like to nip and chase they are a greatly over looked fish.

Well done with the Albino Bristlenose. I breed the ordinary BristleNose. I have two colony tanks set for breeding them, plus a extra tank to grow fry to market size. The grow out tank is an odd size 44" Fulval 4 plus filter Slate, Rock, Driftwood, Java Fern and a number of the small pond snails. I have had as many as 250 fry in the tank at one point. This way I can wholesale the fish in a number of sizes. An old photo of fry in the fry tank. The algae on the rocks seem to be a good feed at any time of day for them.