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The Aquarium Factory receives shipments of fish for
sale all over the world. Four fulltime livestock
operators ensure all your fish, whether they are
tropical, cold water, natives, axolotyls, sea horses,
marines, cichlids or fancy goldfish, have been hand
selected for their health, vitality and popularity.
The Aquarium Factory Staff, as seen on many wildlife
television programs throughout Australia, giving
presentations on how to care for and look after your
fish and are only too happy to help you in the shop to
choose the correct filtration and aquarium to suit
your needs.
The Aquarium Factory specialises in
lighting and correct plants for your aquarium. New
shipments of plants twice weekly assures you variety
and quality. Plant food, anchors, iron kits, CO2
diffusers, Root Therm and many plant accessories can be shown to
you.
We stock over 500 different
species.
MARINE FISH OF THE MONTH
Each month we choose one fish from
our wide selection based on unusual characteristics.
This month's marine fish is:
Blue mandarin
Scientific name: Synchiropus Splendidus
Size: Wild 100mm / 4 inch.
Sexing: Males have larger dorsal and
anal fins also are found to have brighter colours.
Diet: Small crustaceans and algae
Difficulty: 8/10
The blue mandarin is a bottom dwelling fish
that tends to burry itself in the substrate to
hide from predators. The mandarin can be a
bit difficult to get to eat on artificial foods ie: flakes and pellets. The mandarin can be very shy in new tanks it may disappear for an amount of time. It is also recommended to keep 1 mandarin to a tank.
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FRESH WATER FISH OF THE MONTH
Each month we choose one fish from
our wide selection based on unusual characteristics.
This month's fresh water fish is:
Neon Rainbow.
Scientific name: Melanoteania preacox
Size: 2” (5 cm).
Temp: 23 – 28 degrees celcius
Water conditions: slightly hard and ph 6.6 – 7.0
Origin: New Guinea, Irian Jaya
The perfect tank setup for the neon
rainbows is a peaceful community tank
with open swimming space. The neon
rainbows tend to take what ever you
present ie: flakes, pellets, live, frozen.
sexing the neon rainbows is quit easy
as the males are brighter in colour and
have red in the fins and females have
yellow.
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PLANT OF THE MONTH
Each month we choose a plant of the
month as well.
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 Tiger
Lotus
Scientific name: Nymphaea Lotus Zenkeri
Temp: 22 – 30 degrees Celsius
Light level: medium – very high
Growth rate: slow – medium
Difficulty: medium
The tiger lotus is a very Gorgeous display
plant that makes a perfect feature in a small
aquarium it sometimes sends leaves 2 the
surface that need to be cut back so the plants
below get some light. Best maintained under
very high light to get best results. the tiger
lotus very in colours you may get patches of
purple or red and brown are common on a
green leaf or green and red leaf colour.
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