show tank

[ilroost]

I was cleaning the male malawi show tank last night and what do i find in the holey rock?
Fry, Thats right fry. Um, i'm going to have to look into this problem lol.
Now, how in the h*ll do i catch these little guy's out of a 125 gal tank? Not gonna happen

[Mugwump]

I was cleaning the male malawi show tank last night and what do i find in the holey rock?
Fry, Thats right fry. Um, i'm going to have to look into this problem lol.
Now, how in the h*ll do i catch these little guy's out of a 125 gal tank? Not gonna happen

That's great... ...put that net in there and watch em scatter.....

[ilroost]

yeah, no way of catching them. They would be hybrids anyways. But it might be fun to grow out and see what they look like

[PaulineMi]

I had a male Malawi cichlid tank filled with holey rock across the entire back up to the top of the tank. Trying to catch fish was impossible.  After several years of pulling all that rock out a couple times per year to clean (I was anal about keeping the rock white  ) or to catch fish I sold all of the rock and fish! 

[b125killer]

That's cool. some of the hybrids can look pretty. Good luck catching them.
Pauline How do you keep your Holey rock white? Mine is losing it's color. I just thought it was normal. 

[ilroost]

I would like to know that also, all my holey rock is no longer white

[Mugwump]

What ,,,holy rock is white?...oh no....

[PaulineMi]

Bleach.  It whitens it right up like new.  Then rinse, rinse, rinse, Prime, rinse, rinse again.  I know of some people who take theirs to the car wash and spray them clean. 

Here's a piece that I had in my Julidochromis tank:


Here's the last picture of the 90, ready for cleaning, before I got fed up and sold it all, fish included.

[BallAquatics]

Don't feel bad Pauline...  I got tired of looking at rocks too and move on to something other than cichlids.  Took me about 30 years though.

Dennis

[derick]

congrats ilroost keep us up to date on the fry mate.

pauline that's a beautiful piece of rock, stunning photos too. 

talking of photos do with have a photo comp, month, fish, tank,