sandgroper

Christmas present from the fishes, 2 mouthfuls of Xenotilapia singularis that were recently obtained from Rob's Aquariums a few months back. Yay

Usually when they don't name there ingredients, there the same old ingredients fish meal,corn gluten, soya meal, wheat germ and the likes as there main ingredients. Cichlids go crazy anyway when fed. Same old , same old. If they were different they would advertise it like the better brands HBH, Spectrum and others.

HO ho ho ho ho How about we save on the pillows and put a white beard on you. Ho ho ho ho ho Merry Christmas.

Classic tank crash syndrome, your tank has to recycle. For quick relief add porous rocks from a mature tank and a mature filter or expect high losses.

Is Bunnings a new sponser.

Hey that's a good idea for our Christmas party, every one that comes along brings a fish related Christmas wrapped prezzie for Santa to hand out. Now who's got the biggest gut to play Santa.

This story is ribbiting. Had it happen to me many many years ago, my small Koi were going  missing in a pond. At first i thought it was a cat then one day i found a frog similar to the one above. So i caught it and put it in solitary confinement, on the second night it regurgitated a fish skeleton. Who wood-a-thunk.

The thing is for me is that it does nothing to enhance the original type, in fact it does the complete opposite and down grades it 99% of the time imo. There are always the odd exception but they are few and far between. I also breed parrots and with all the mutation around these days it's hard to get a natural type that breeds true to form. Is this the future we want for our fish? Why take a beautiful fish and breed the colour or marking out of it . It just doesn't make sense and if it doesn't make sense then it must be wrong

If we eliminated all of the MORONS in the World Humbug, the Earth would be a BEAUTIFUL place.

That's a BIG no and no. Selectively line breeding a fault like this is for MORONS. You could do this to all fish that have barring, by picking the worst of each batch to breed from. People should be doing the opposite and only selecting the very best to breed from that are true to form and by doing so strengthening the species not weakening it. Breed for our future don't destroy it.

Hood there is a Christmas do on in early Jan sometime during the day, you might be able to make that one. It's a good time to relax, have a chin wag and a drink or two.

Chris your confusing selective line breeding true to type fish with selective line breeding for mutated fish and deformity. I was meaning as what happens in nature, the biggest most vibrant healthy specimen. We have a responsibility as fish keepers to not breed from CRAP other wise we are only hurting ourselves.

The biggest problem in my opinion starts with the suppliers dropping the scientific names for made up marketing ones. There is nothing wrong with line breeding, your just selecting the best examples of that species. So why drop it's proper name for a made up marketing name like super red or star light. This just confuses the inexperienced resulting in the loss of confidence in the true identification of a fish. I won't by fish if the seller hasn't got the proper scientific name and even better the location. Then when on selling fry keep the location name also and don't sell true types and location dirt cheap just to compete with the cheap crap ones. People who are truly interested in fish keeping will pay for quality fish that are true to type.

Finally putting guppies to good use.

It depends on type of fish and filtration, if you had a skimmer i would definitely use sinking. Some fish feed at the surface, some mid water and others at the bottom. To make sure all fish get some thing to eat feed at several locations, not just all in the one spot as the more aggressive eaters will get most of the food. I use mainly sinking, the floating is only occasionally (HBH veggie flake and whole freeze dried shrimps).