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HI richard helped me out heaps with my tank i recomend going in and bugging him when you feel the need. I had a few hermit crabs in my tank they were great once the food gets on the ground my seahorses were pretty dopey when it comes to finding it so the hermits were good for clean up. I added tropical type shells for the hermits that were coulurfull to look at and revmoved the old shells as they grew looking quite cool. Dont add fish though I tryed a gobie type fish (i think) from a rock pool he would activally push the seahorses out of the way for food they cant compete with fish.

Whanaki go right round to brookers bay there is some great rock pools around there!! Its were i got all my bits an peices for my seahorse tank.

Hey just wondering did you get these off richard at the pet store in town.

Lol so I like black angel fish and i am pretty sure i have two black males and 2 striped female angles. I was going to try and find some nice black females and breed more black angel fish but thats a bad idea due to bad problems with tumors etc. So breeding over a veiltail silver would be a good idea. Now then a silver is a fish with no stripes?? or just a striped silver angel fish like i own ??

Yes i have been thinking and they are such nice fish ( i brought them of a breeder on trademe same guy i got my female dwarf gouramis) that if im going to breed them i might as well breed more nice fish, so im going to buy more blacks and try and breed some. I love black angel fish and i really dont like marbled fish at all. I would like to go down the gene road as i have bred birds (love birds, indian ringnecks, finches etc) and have a simple understanding of genitic inheritance if any one is ever interested .

I have left guppy fry in a tank all togeather with lots of plants and basically no water changes well one every 2 months maybe and a once a day feeding. And they grew slowly and the girls got pregnant early and they didnt get very big full stop. I have also put a batch of guppy fry from the same stock into a small tank with a sponge filter and have fed once a day heavily but with about 4 three quarter water changes a week and the growth was amazing seemed to get bigger 3 times as fast. So ill listen to the older guys on here any day.

Whangarei Aquarium Centre in Cameron Street is definitly the best they have helped me out heaps.

Run a pipe and run a cord from under the house my garage is supplyed with power this way. just make sure if you sell the house you cut the ends of the cord so your not liable for any thing. I did this at the advice of a electricion mate of my fathers lol. your actually supposed to get a certified electricion to do it by law and get it certified/registerd with the concill thats why ill be cutting mine when i leave this place lol.

Ive never really even considered breeding them before it just that they seem to have formed this pair and i have some spare tanks and have breed and am breeding, drawf gouramis,fighters, dainos, whiteclouds, guppys lol, and a new challenge would be fun. dont think ill be thinking beyound the fry from these two. Does it work like a certian percetage would be black and a certain percentage would be striped etc. Or is one colour dominant so all the fry will carry that colour??

The two that appeared to have paired up are a striped and a black quite nice looking fish too better than ones ive seen i the petstore any way

Hey Feelers are you still going to go the octopus cold water marine way? your rock should have al sorts of goodies in it make sure you post what your up too as i want to do something similer in the future.

Sorry if its a stupid question i brought 4 young angels from a breeder via trademe theve grown up now and two seem to be attacking the other 2 relentlessly and sticking together I take it this means those 2 have paired up ? is there any issues with breeding different coulor angelfish together etc?

what about a pin through the rhizone would that hurt the plant you think ??

I think I know the petstore you got it from they have black beard alge in all there tanks. If you want some real good fish advice go into the petstore in the cbd and ask to talk to richard hes a real knowledgeable guy.

Blueandkims tank is imppressive so many ideas so little money lol At the moment im considering a big cube type tank with two levals a deep leval with a slopeing java/wistera/moss wall to a higher leval with emergent plants and a planter on the back wall of the tank above the top of the emgent plant foliage with damp loving ferns etc that would hang down to meet the top of the emergent plants. i have a very basic paint outline type pic but i havent masterd posting them yet