Our heckel's

[Gajowa]

Hi everyone
I would like to show you our wild caught heckel's. We have them sience january this year. I hope you will like them
Tank; 350 liters;
pH; 6; NO2-0; NO3-5; temp-29 deg C; water RO

Barbara

[DiscusEden]

Beautiful! Simply beautiful!

I love them!

[scott bowler]

they are awesome fish well done in good health to great work would like to see more pics soon

[scuba123cliff]

absolutely stunning, you have to love the fish in its pure form.

[Ben]

10/10

[Bald_noggin]

Very nice Barbara! :D I love Heckels

[helenuk]

WOW those are just stunning i would really love to have a Heckle I think they are lovely :wink:

[fish_r]

stunning looking fish and look good in a school of all the same too :)

[ILLUSN]

I'd kill for some of those here in oz

[the german]

WOW 10/10,just beautiful,tank fish all perfect

[strzelec4]

Barbara, co to masz za plywajace roslinki?

[nicholas76]

thats the stuff ....perfect.

[Gajowa]

To Strzelec4
To wglebka - riccia fluitans

Basia

[samir]

lovely fish Barbara, wish I had a few of them :D

[hudobski]

Barbara , śliczne masz heckle :D :D :D

[discus992]

Dear Barbara,
Keep it up, very nice collection.

[Tommo]

Sensational Fish,I Want Some!

[Anf]

Nice Setup. :)

[nicholas76]

Barb,

Can you post a full tank shot please for 350 litres it looks massive!!

[Gajowa]

Aquarium is not that large. The dimensions are (sides) 87 x 87 x 65 cm height. This is corner tank. The maximum amount of water and minimum occupied space. It looks like a quarter of a cylinder. Sadly, we have only 5 heckels left. One we lost by an accident, the other one died because of "mad discus" swimming. I wrote about that in "Illness & medication" section;
http://www.discusforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12140

Barbara

[Gajowa]

Update about our heckel's
Fish are after treatment on Ichtiosporidum hofferi and their aquarium was totally disinfected. During treatment they spend two months in sterile fish tank and were given additional 4 week long salt bath according to Andrew's treatment for oddinium.
Aquarium matured for 10 weeks, therefore time came on to return to their "little house". Fish look satisfied though this interior look is not yet such pretty as the previous one. One thing worries us a bit; fish which once "went crazy swimming" in March, she had attack day before yesterday, and now it swims like nothing would trouble it. It is the fish which has visible non healing wound on dorsal fin. This wound cant heal science arrival in January
Pictures done without flash , to reproduce the best climate they have.

[scott bowler]

hi guys they are beauitful fish you guys do a great job with them well done. keep the pics comeing so we can drool some more hehehe

[GrkBoy]

Damn! Got to love them, Keep up the good work, I want some also!

[condorean]

Those heckels are lovely

[Merrilyn]

The remaining fish look wonderful, and very healthy Barbara. You've done a wonderful job with them. :P

[Gajowa]

Hi
We decided to send this heckel to a discus show in Italy at the end of the month. The fish is about 18 cm. Do you think it is a good choise?

Barbara

[ILLUSN]

That is a VERY nice fish, Good Luck!

[scott bowler]

yes i think it is a good choise very nice fish beautiful colours and the bars are awesome . good luck keep us posted

[samir]

I'd give it first prize :thumb you sure have beefed it up :shock: very impressive

[Merrilyn]

It's a magnificent fish Barbara. An excellent choice for the show.

We all wish you the very best of luck.

[Gajowa]

Hi
I forgot to let you know what happened at the Italian show. Heckel went there and came back with.............nothing. German judge disqualified all heckels, because of their red eyes. In his opinion, heckels must have black eyes and that's it!!! He said, that all fish shown are royal blues. End of the story!!!! Heiko Bleher was there ( us an observer) and he just couldn't belive what was going on. I hope you will not invite that judge to Australia!!!! This is a tread to show results. At the bottom of that page you will see all fish at the competition

http://www.mondodiscus.com/discus/it/articoli-mondodiscus/campionship-discus-italy-2007.html

We done some changes to heckels tank. Removed all plants, add more driftwood, peat moss, bits and pieces of wood and floating plants. Heckels just love it :D

Barbara

[Gajowa]

Not as beautifull tank as it was before, but they love it

Barbara

[rwel4809]

I think your fish was nicer than all of those prize winners on the link put together... Your a winner in our eyes Barbara :D

[Matt15]

Barbara this is the first time i've seen your post and there aren't enough words to use to complement your fish. They're just beautiful.....!!!!

Shame about your Italian Discus show results, fingers crossed for next time thou. Thx for sharing your pictures with us.

[Gajowa]

Hi
Little up date onour heckels.
We have lost one :( .
This heckel arrived last year with a little wound on the dorsal fin. We have tried everything possible on that wound (looked like a cigarete burn), but it was growing biger and biger and finaly cut thruough the fin, later fin broke completely, and that was it. Heckel lost the battle.
Out of four that are left, there id a pair 100%.
In may the pair was dancing, shivering, shaking and cleaning root.
It was going on for 3 days and...............stoped.
Maybe next time....................

[Merrilyn]

I think you have the nicest heckels I have ever seen Barbara.

I really hope that pair breed for you.

Please keep us informed :P