The full range of Prestige Fish Food has been added to the shop.
The range includes:
Growth Bites
Colour Pellets
Veggie Pellets
Carnivore Pellets
Alage wafers
Cichlid Pellets
Koi & Goldfish pellets
The full range of Prestige Fish Food has been added to the shop.
The range includes:
Growth Bites
Colour Pellets
Veggie Pellets
Carnivore Pellets
Alage wafers
Cichlid Pellets
Koi & Goldfish pellets
As the age old saying goes “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. How true this is. By preventing illness in your fish you don’t have to worry about being able to successfully treat them. So many of the known diseases and disorders that affect fish can be prevented by providing them ... Read More
What is Abdominal Dropsy and how can you treat it?
Abdominal Dropsy is a disease that is caused by bacteria and viruses that are found in almost every aquarium. Almost all fish species can be affected. Even without a specific host, the bacteria can reproduce for months in the water, substrate and filtration of an aquarium. ... Read More
To be able to offer your fish a healthy environment in which they can live you first need to be able to understand not only their behavioral, but also their biological and chemical factors that can affect them both in the wild and in your aquarium. Two related factors that you can control in your ... Read More
Common Name: Blue Rainbow
Found: Upper Rocky Habitat
Diet: Herbivorous
Gender Differences: Monomorphic
Breeding: Maternal Mouth-brooder
Breeding Success: Not Yet
Temperament: Mildly Aggressive (juvies)
Amazingly these wild caught fish are tamer than my tank raised Ikola — maybe it is a species temperament or perhaps it’s because they are wild caught. These guys will practically jump out of the water when I ... Read More
Common Name: Ventralis
Found: Surge Habitat
Diet: Omnivore
Gender Differences: Dimorphic
Breeding: Maternal Mouth-brooder
Temperament: Mildly Aggressive
I NO LONGER HAVE THESE FISH
Wow, what a beautiful fish! I got 3 males to add a bit of color in the tank and they certainly do that. I chose not to get females as there was already enough breeding going on in the ... Read More
Common Name: Leilupi / Firecracker
Found: Shallow Precipitous Rocky Habitat
Diet: Carnivore
Gender Differences: Monomorphic
Breeding: Cave Spawner
Temperament: Mildly Aggressive
I NO LONGER HAVE THESE FISH
I have 6 of these ( 2 males and 4 females) and really enjoy viewing their interaction in the tank. They will swim with the Tropheus up and down the glass, they will sit on ... Read More
Common Name: Meleagris
Found: Empty shells
Diet: Carnivore
Gender Differences: Monomorphic
Breeding: Shell Spawner
Temperament: Mildly Aggressive
I NO LONGER HAVE THESE FISH
These shellies are awesome. You know that saying that size doesn’t matter – well these guys prove it. They simply have no fear. My Meleagris will go toe-to-toe with any of the fish in the tank if they feel ... Read More
Common Name: Julie
Found: Sediment-Rich Rocky Habitat
Diet: Omnivore
Gender Differences: Monomorphic
Breeding: Substrate Spawner
Temperament: Aggressive
I NO LONGER HAVE THESE FISH
Similar to the Julidochromis Regani, I got the smallest and the biggest from the tank they were in and hoped for the best. Again, I got lucky and they have been breeding successfully. Unfortunately their breeding site is right ... Read More
Common Name: Julie
Found: Sediment-Rich Rocky Habitat
Diet: Omnivore
Gender Differences: Monomorphic
Breeding: Substrate Spawner
Temperament: Aggressive
I NO LONGER HAVE THESE FISH
I started with a male and a female (got lucky here as I chose the biggest and the smallest from the tank at my LFS) and was hoping they would pair up. Well they did and have produced hundreds ... Read More