I had a think about this.....

It is fine IMO if the sales staff disclosed this.  The assistant should have gone on to on selling the food that they are already consuming. 

Every time that I have bought fish the assistant always brings up food, and this should be #1 concern for sale of pets/ animals.

There is nothing stopping your mate from going to buy the food that enhances colour and having the fish he saw at the shop.

Just my 2c

epic!

I need to talk to the minister for war and finance....

It has caught me out, but i am curious if others have had the same experience

My saratoga has just had a massive jump in food consumption.

It has got to about 12cm long, really healthy and lively.

I have been feeding the floating high protein aquaculture food.

It gets 2 feeds a day, with 9-12 pellets at each sitting.  It used to "chew" each one prior to swallowing.

In the last week it has started engulfing 4+ pellets before swallowing and would eat around 20 per sitting, also picking up a 3rd feed at lunch of 10+ pellets.

I would comfortably estimate consumption has increased +50-75%...

Has anyone else growing these things out noticed a huge jump in metabolism at this size?

I have read that the african black arowana generally dies in captivity at this size due to requiring 5+ feeds a day at this age.

It has caught my surprise as I haven't come across another fish that has changed is feeding needs virtually overnight instead of following a linear pattern.

Wow, would have to raid the cookie jar tin but could be worth it.

you must have a DEEP cookie jar!

cool fish but at that price it is rather exclusive.

congrats!

wow, very nice!

Good luck with the sale

Sorry I didn't.  My wife wouldn't surrender her phone.

The shop owners were a bit sketchy about us in their shop as it was definitely not on the tourist trail.  

I would have loved to see a farm but my poor search skills only turned up farms on Java and other islands.

When I was in Bali a week back or so I went to a tiny fish shop......

5 million (under 500 AUD) a full size golden cross back, he was like 7-800mm and really fat.

8 million had a red arowana at about 500+mm, bit of the drop eye though.  These were prices without haggling either!

The colours are heaps better in real life than on camera.

They had jardini bred in kalimantan for about 30 AUD at around the 7-8cm length. 

nice community tank

that's awesome!

sorry, couldn't resist

Sorry, still lost on “Kevin”? A movie star??

http://www.smh.com.a...3829597910.html

an aussie icon lol

Just thought id drop in.

Kevin is doing well. (don't ask, have kids and was sort of was named by my wife, cause it is going to grow into "big kev")

I had him on some tiny old slow sinking pellets from years back. going OK ish.

You can make out the tiny scale spots as well as some initial spots on the fins.  The tail fins are yellowish.

Got my order of aquaculture food in, as had run out of 6mm pellets for the Jag.

He/ She was rather impressed, as the recent move had shocked it badly (going from hard as scheme water to rainwater and somehow crashing my bacteria).

It got her pattern nice and dark and instantly starting smashing the glass reflection.

I ordered some 3mm floating to try with Kevin and he is happily smashing them.

Cant wait for the growth rate to explode!

I also keep telling the other half I regret not getting 2.... she gives me the evils!

He would be lucky to be as long as your index finger.

Not much to them at that size either to be honest.

No luck with the commercial foods yet either.

a tiny grasshopper/cricket on the other hand........

It turned up yesterday!!!!

Sent monday at 3pm, on doorstep 8:30am wednesday all the way out here.

No quarantine bill, $120 all in.  Pretty happy, but its pretty small.

Very impressed with livefish, as all the mucking about with a trip to perth to a LFS is avoided.

Will be using again.

Rodgy.

All things being equal should be here by Wednesday at the latest with Monday shipping.

bugger... hope I dont have the same problem.

Just saw that gosnells aquariums have one listed on gumtree for $180.

Just ordered a leichardi from Livefish.com.au

120 with free shipping.

Putting this up here as others might want one too

cheers, ended up being 83 inches

we are reshuffling!!!

Ive had problems like this before. 

Filters are only to be cleaned when they are blocking up and not flowing.

Use only tank water to declog, never ever tap water even if it has been treated.

Ive never tested water but you can see the water goes a white cloudy tint if you crash your bacteria/ nitrogen cycle.

I'm currently using a secondary intank filter to get flow within the tank and I clean this weekly to rip out solids from the pleco and jag, not aiming it to be a biological filter at all.

This allows me to go 3+ months until canister flow drops below a satisfactory rate.

Hope you got on top of this....

Hi everyone.

Just joined up, though I may as well.  Ive had my 4x1x1.5 for 16 something years. 

Kept many cichlids over the years, as well as many other cool fish that I have now seen the prices of. I have had my pleco for like 14 years.

I currently have a few pacu, a Jag that is 28cm (this week) and has started smashing the suckerfish (he is like 42-3cm...) so have convinced the wife to get a bigger tank!!! Yay!

I'm picking up a second hand 7x2x2 tomorrow so pretty excited, and when funds permit I will do a DIY K2 filter.

Well that's me, hope to catch everyone around!