Good job. At a little under 100lumens/watt it's going to be reasonably economical. If you are growing plants in the tank I will be interested to see how well the spectrum suits them.

How close are they to the perspex? They look flush in the pix. That would be my worry in terms of heat.

Have seen ocellatus of various colours at Morley recently.

They are tricky to come by, and a bit sporadic.

I breed ptyochromis hippo point salmon and astatotilapia aeneocolor yellow belly alberts ( not strictly a Victorian, I think).

 Apart from latifasciata, I have seen enterochromis paropius, a peaceful and very pretty fish. There are some python island pundamilia nyereri about, as well as haplochromis sp.44 "thickskin. Also some haplochromis thereuterion and a few lithocromis types if you can track them down. Egyptian mouthbrooders ( pseudocrenilabrus multicolor) might even qualify.

These and others are floating about at sponsor stores and in breeders'collections, but not a great many. Have seen them at Aquotix, Vebas, Rob's, Morley, Midland . The main point is if you have more than one species of Victorian, don't keep them in the same tank (unless it's an all male display), as the females resemble each other pretty closely and the fry are pretty much indistinguishable.

Just zap with pressure cleaner then soak and it should be fine IMO

It's arguable that Brazil already has the world's largest freshwater aquarium. It's called the Amazon.

Best to have your pics hosted on a website like photobucket ( which many of us use).

Welcome.

Spruik much, guys?

You talk about extra charges? The minimum charge for an Uber is higher than a cab, and taxis do not have surge pricing. Sure, there is a three buck charge after midnight Friday and Saturday in a taxi. That's not unreasonable, and a pittance, really. In place of this Uber have what's called "surge pricing".

At about the same time as you pay an extra couple of bucks in a cab, Uber  charges 1.5 times, 2.4x, 5x,  right up to 7 times the normal fare, depending on  how busy it is, who is manipulating their system, and the price of eggs in China.  An uber out to the far burbs can easily cost $300. And has. Aside a couple of bucks, the taxi price is reliably the same. Uber's pretty sneaky, though.

So really, it's true to say an Uber is sometimes cheaper than a cab, and sometimes it will cost much, much more. Also being a completely illegal service, you have no recourse if anything at all should go wrong.

The "wait times" I also call bull on. You can go stand on a corner on a Friday or Saturday night in Northbridge and see a sea of taxis from which you can choose. Then you will see a bunch of hipsters standing around ignoring those while tracking their Uber car's approach on their smartphone so they can be one of the cool kids.

Then they get into a froth and find a forum to gush on. Ohh. It's so convenient! Ohh it's so cheap and clean! They drive you in a car! It has four wheels and everything! And the drivers are so polite, just like they are in Bali ! Ooh it only costs two dollars to get to Sorrento and I get a free martini and a handjob!... Please.

Spare me the crap about how a taxi will never pick someone up from a street corner. They do that about five thousand times a night in Perth.

We all want to pay less for everything all the time, but remember that you are now sending your money out of the loop to Google and Morgan Stanley and some guy that doesn't pay tax either and probably is working here illegally on a tourist visa. Long term this will come round and bite you too.

Boo! Hiss!

Beams Works depends on the version number. They are always bringing out the same model but with newer brighter LEDs, so later ones are better. No good for plants, though.

6500 and 10000 are probably kelvin rating rather than lumens. Generally the higher you go, the bluer they get. 6500 is a pretty neutral white, verging on cool. 10000 is getting very cool and blueish. 5000 on down tends towards yellower tones.

It's a matter of taste. I prefer about 6500 as it is close to sunlight.

Victorian.  Male is probably  pundamilia nyereri.

Female is hard to tell. IMO head is wrong for hippo point, and body too deep, but that could be the refraction. If you let it grow a bit it will become clearer

AT that size if it is colouring, I'd guess male. Looked bigger in pic.

Chuck it to me if it's a female and I'll add it to the colony

Might be a female with lots of colour food. How big is it and what is it eating?

Hey! What if cane toads ate them? 

They were Bigjohnnofish's

Might could be ...What's it to ya?

Hah. I walked into a LFS to trade in some fish today and someone had brought in some gold and some black occies. The gold ones are mine now. I'm pretty happy with that trade

Was at Aquotix yesterday and Mattia gesticulated excitedly at some of their fish.   I took photos and I post them here.    

Pseudotropheus sp williamsi north makonde.  These are the mustard yellow guys with blue lips.

Cryptoheros sajica "T-bar cichlid"

Phenacogrammus interruptus "congo tetra"

aulonocara somethingorother "dragonblood peacock"  

labidochromis caeruleus "Nkali"

astatotilapia aeneocolor "yellow belly albert"

naevochromis chrysogaster

Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor "dwarf Egyptian mouthbrooder"

Eclectochromis Ornatus Masenje

And the lovely lamprologus ocellatus ''Gold''

Possibly try aquacouple.

I concur.

Anyone worried it will be cold tonight, don't worry; the hall has heaters but we never need them on auction nights. All those people make it quite warm inside.

See you there!

Righto. Here is the lot list for the auction so you can print it out yourselves.

 May15auctionFinallots.pdf   41.38KB   64 downloads

This is a really interesting and varied list. Something there for everyone.  Certainly quite a few lots I am interested in.

Oh yeah, entries closed now.

Tonight is the cutoff, people. Get your lots in and don't miss out!

I think you are operating on a faulty assumption: The desired outcome.

If they wanted the guys home, then maybe the UN would be the go.

If they were simply determined to posture and prance and  fly the flag and dog whistle like mad while the gears moved towards the inevitable then try and reap a political reward, then they would behave much as they just did.

The rest is all theatre. All the cajoling. All the finger wagging. All the finger pointing. Theatre.  I expect both governments got to hide some real dirt between the smokescreen of Chan/Sukamaran. As they do.

Had nothing to do with what was right or correct or fair.

Executions by country. Indo is not in the top 20