37 replies to this topic

[benckie]

Thanks for the replie, Thanks for clearing that up ?, Thanks for the offer, But no thanks, Ill will pass !


Cheers Shane

[monobono]

boys boys ......... is this really about fish here and there, or are you both just thirsty for a good saturday night drink??????

[Andrew]

give it up boys, this is lame :wink:

[SynoAngel]

I agree, move on.

[Dramat1c]

Was looking forward to hemiking's BGK post. all ruined

[temptazn]

woah...

yeh i was hoping for some extra information on hemi's post haha... maybe he will be nice enough to still consider doing what he tried setting out to do...

so much hostility nowadays in the forums since "congrats benckie!" to today's "grrrrrr"...

chillax guys haha... have a few drinks and let it go... u bred bgk before -> good on ya... keep it up... im happy for ya...

every1 cool now? ok good...

ps... any chance for the bgk post hemi? i would love to read it

[benckie]

Its All Good!

I have sourced more bgk's from shops and in the future i will have another go at breeding them. Then i might not be the first to breed them and i wont be the last to breed them, which doesn't really matter! Just getting them to breed was awesome.

Then maybe i will be able to say i bred them again with out other people saying i bred that fish first or i was the first and if all my trial and error from the last pair (swapping partners) pays off and if what i think works again, there will be no links to any one on the forum and if it all works out well then i know the info is worth giving out and i can share my info as will others by then to save every one the time and effort in doing a google search.

I do want to share my information with everyone its just that I have to keep my word for the buyer of the bgk's and i need to know if my info is correct to breed again, cos I don't want to tell everyone how to do it etc and then it doesn't work if you understand what I'm saying. But now it doesn't really matter, what's said is said and whats done is done.

[madasa]

As some of you know I bought the BGK from Shane and am very happy with what I paid and what I got. Myself and Shane have had dealings before and consider one another a friend.

Re: water chemistry - the BGK spawned for me in much different water chemistry then Shanes. I think the real challenge is in finding a pair.

As an addit - I think plaudits all round for Shane for what he did and enough of this negativism toward him. For those of you who don't know Shane and haven't had the privilege of meeting him like myself...he is a really decent bloke with a beautiful wife and all the characteristics of personality one admires.

[benckie]

Thanks pete

Bunbury dosnt put fluoride or chloride in the drinking water so i thought that might of had some thing to do with them spawing but as Pete has proven it dosent !

So realy its any ones guess and that any one who has bred them i bet all the water chemistry would be difrent ! and like ive been saying all along its trial and error to find what works and once again i bet its all difrent for all of us and our fish.

Cheers Shane

[hemiking]

shane i have to say this to you. breeding fish by off chance,mistake,accident dosnt give you brownie points or a pat on the back. but doing what you did, setting agoal and acheiving it does i will give you a pat on the back my hats off to you. maybe one day you might spill your water so every one can grab a test tube full.

[benckie]

I must admit i didnt relise they spawned Geoff

I sure did try and breed them though, i spent ages swapping pairs and playing with water.

I do feel i did put in some hard yards and made a bloody good effort and i did set a goal and i invested alot of time into it and achieved it. Hence my reaction to your first post !

As for the rest when it comes to bgk's youll have to figure it out yourself

P.s Brownies are no good to me unless they are the edible type

Cheers shane

[temptazn]

here here

[hemiking]

shane thats some real serious work, i just couldnt go to thouse lengths. after reading your topic makes me feel like a beginer. i like to give my tanks 50 perc water change once aweek then put some melafix 30ml in each tank and the amount of seachem salt that is recomended on container if i remember in the malawi tang tanks. my smaller acidic tanks sometimes get left out as they evaporate so quick they get toped up. ive even put seachem in them sometimes what the heck, ive checked the ph hardness,ammonias,nitraits and co2 al is fine.so i dont bother no more ph usually6.5-6.8. co2 is never switched of 1 bubble every 3 secs. for the small amout of seachem that i put in it dosent make any diff or does it. i used to put the sera plant fertilizer in when i had the discus but i got sick and tired pulling plants out once aweek so i stopped that 2. the congos, corys and tetras have been alive in that tank for over 4yrs now when some people say they downt live that long. i even used to find cig buts and cans of beer in theresat morns after my workers got paid fri nites

[temptazn]

wat does the melafix and seachem salt do? hemiking... now YOU make ME feel like a beginner haha... actually i sorta am haha...

[madasa]

Melafix is a natural remedy for many fish ailments.

Seachem is a conditioner which eliminates chlorine and can also reduce any ammonia levels present.

[temptazn]

thanks madasa...

oh yeh ive got the seachem, water conditoner right?

i guess i will have to buy some melafix so i can be ready if my fish do become ill (touch wood)...

thanks again!

[benckie]

Melafix ia great stuff a bottle of pond melafix is a lot stronger so you use smaller doses and a bottle will last a life time, but rember when using melafix you need to have a good air and circulation going into you tank cause it dose slows down the air input into to water melafix is basicly an oil

[temptazn]

thanks benckie
i will keep that in mind
gonna buy some tmr which is friday since its only 11:46 now haha