So what new addition did you get lately?

That's crazy, unless wild caught.

 

I got 3 bronze cory cats....@R35 one, still need e more to complete my school, but that wil be at the end of the week.

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Wow they are nice.

 

I doubt very much you would get wc here but i do know Uarus are just as expensive here and not easy to come buy.
You find them now and then at the bigger LFS's and a little baby is minimum about 250.00
Slightly bigger ones are around R300.00.

 

Yeah WC won't be easy to get. That's rather pricey

 

Yep.. not sure why but they are pricey here too
Maybe not easy to breed...

 

Could be that nobody is breeding them large scale, the one type of uaru is rather hardy and they look after their fry like discus do

 

Got myself 2 beautiful Angels today

 

I have added 3 panda cories to my tank
as well as 3 Apistogramma Borellis (umbrella Cichlid) 1 male and 2 females

 

Got our AAA Flowerhorn today. Letting him settle in his own 4ft tank.

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Thats a beautiful fish

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Congratulations @Blade .. he is stunning!

 

I finally found some African knives through a friend, he'll sex them tomorrow and if there are females...

 

... how? Unless they're ready to spawn, it's pretty damn hard to tell without very invasive techniques.

 

No invasive techniques necessary. Just visual

https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/african-knifefish-breeding-what-we-know.28446/

 

Yes, but egg fullness and visible genital papillae are only apparent close to spawning time. The fish need to be both sexually mature and conditioned to spawn.

 

I could sex both of my males at a small size. It's rather apparent through the angle at which the papillae lie

 

Admittedly, I don't know much about African Notopterids; I spend a lot more time reading about the Asian species. In those species though, sexual diffeentiation using papillae was only possible once the fish reached a few years of age. I know in my clown knifefish, even at 40 to 45cm, the papilla was just visible if you got the angle just right, and even then you wouldn't be able to confidently determine shape.

Maybe it's different in the African species, but I can't imagine so much so. Even in the article, the fish are of a moderate size (considering their maximum size), and the fish are conditioned with both hormones and breeding triggers (extensive live foods being used).

Just consider that sexing might not be accurate. The papillae will be very similar at this size, I suspect. All I'm saying is you might have a better time getting the sex ratios you want by buying a good sized group of fish, and growing them up.