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Dont worry about the delay. Eggs have gone now. Don't stand a chance of protecting them. Part of the reason to move them on. I can deliver if you would like? Or you can pick up.

Keyholes have laid eggs again.

Was pick up possible today Amy? I should be home by 7. So any time after that?

I'm in hardwicke. So next door. Going to watch the rugby Saturday. Half 4 kick off I think so not sure what time I'd be back.

Sorry for the delayed reply. Just down the road, if I'd have come on here I was there all day today. Ah well. If you're still interested I still have them, would meet if it helps? Could possibly deliver.

Livestock:1 - Crossocheilus siamensis - 2-3" - £3 Can now go free with something else 2 - Red hump eartheaters - 3-4" Geophagus steindachneri Breeding pair £25 2 - Keyhole cichlids - 2-3" Cleithracara maronii Breeding pair £15 Quantity for sale: See above Reason for Sale...

Vejia argentea.

Leave the snails in the tank, unless you have a real problem with them, they do more good than bad in my opinion. The snails will feed on algae and uneaten food the oscar will most likely churn up.

I hate making offers, name a price?

Did this BN end up on ebay?

Any ideas at all on a price?

Where abouts in Gloucester are you?

Cheers again.

I have an Eheim 2217, in my opinion it is a great filter; yes it's "no frills" but this leaves little to go wrong with it. It holds large amounts of media, has a fair flow rate and as said doesn't need a huge amount of maintenace. The only problem with it is the priming, but it's not the end of...

Any chance of pictures of the syno's?

What size are the syno's, the Congo tetras and the bristle nose? Is the BN just a normal brown variety?

Definetely not jurupari. The spots are an obvious give away. Jurupari are basically plain shiny sliver with some spangling. Daemon is a possibilty for a species as you have said, that would have been my first idea. Look up the jurupari project for help ID'ing jurupari.

I'd say the rainbow cichlid is as said, just not a very colourful one.

Have you got a picture of the tank?

5" or so.

Anyway, just to show a pic of one of my blue acara :)

I never said you asked, just pointed out it seemed a lot of money, £25.

£25 for a blue acara? Ok it's F0 but you can still get them for £5.50 at 4" if you look hard enough. In my LFS I bought them for 50p each, they were just normal run of the mill blue acaras though.

Tolak also breeds and raises on a much bigger scale, so will have room to accomodate a huge spawn with near on full success rate. Where as in your position I'd be aiming for quality not quanity.

Should only be a matter of time!

Why all the chemicals? I've never had that bad a problem with eggs fungusing over to myself out enough to add three chemicals to the water.... Also what's the reasoning behind the copper?

What type of filtration will you have on the tank? Ideally you wouldn't want any tank mates in a 75g with an Oscar. I definetely wouldn't add a cichlid like a blood parrot due to competition for territory.

Bogwood is more likely to soften water, I find it seems to release more tannins. It doesn't matter when you put it in, now and the fish will adjust to it when added to the tank or later when they will still have to adjust to it, though wood releases tannins slowly so it wouldn't affect the fish.

They are line bred yes. But no they aren't normally always male. ~T~ a member of this site had a breeding pair. They are known as super red severums and should be treated just the same as other severums. So they are just as easy to bred as other severums. They don't seem all that hard to get...

Shouldn't take long, if they were breeding regularly before I wouldn't expect it to be more than two weeks. What are you feeding them?

Convicts are Central American cichlids, not from the Amazon (South America) So the keyholes which are from the Amazon, would be a better choice for a biotope tank.

This is just how I usually raise cichlids but I find, a really small tank, 12"x8x8, so about 12 litres, best for hatching the eggs and getting the fry through the first few weeks. Then the 40 litre tank you have would be perfect for the next stage. But ideally you'll want about a 25g 36x12x12...

What are you planning to do with them? You know you can't keep them. If a pair formed even in a 5 foot tank you're other fish would probably take a good beating/be killed. A single one would probably be too aggressive as well with things like Endlers. So I'd suggest you try and find a new home...

What size tank will you use to raise the fry James? Ideally you'll want to use BBS or microworms as a fry food, but I only ever used frozen BBS and crushed flake. I wouldn't use any chemicals like methelane blue to prevent fungus, it shouldn't be that much of a problem. Like I said before I'd...

Have they raised fry before or just laid eggs? Also do you have experience raising cichlids? I've bred severums before, one of my pairs are about to spawn as I type this. Are you going to be trying to breed them in the main tank you have? I would suggest you remove the object the eggs are on...

And I have no proof of this; but I'd assume that a severum X convict, would grow fairly large instead of small.

Breeding can hamper growth, from what you've said I would think the breeding is why they aren't growing so big. Especially if they are laying eggs every few days, that would really take it out of the female compared to the pair protecting one brood for a couple of months, which would only...

Are the fish breeding? If you allow fish to breed at such a young size, often most of their energy goes into that, producing eggs, guarding the fry etc. Rather than growing. How often are the doing water change? What size is the tank? Temperature? All of the above questions can limit/hinder...

The humps are usually a sign of dominance. And don't grow unless the fish is "in charge of the tank", with something it shows off to. Many adult male cichlids don't develop a nuchal hump for various reasons.

Give them time to get it right. I wouldn't mess about with the pH, they aren't that fussy. Keep up a good diet and regular water changes, perhaps raise the temperature slightly. Mine usually breed after large water changes.