alanmin4304

loaches will eat snails but not all of them and the eggs. If you want to be free of snails you need to treat the plants before you put them in your aquarium.

There is no way it will stop growing up towards the light. The one which grows along the media is called Hydrocotyle verticillata and it will stay in the media.

Like any antibiotic there is a risk that it could kill the bacteria in your filter and cause an amonia and nitrite spike but the risk is proportional to the load (stocking rate of fish) on the tank so watch for that. I once lost a tank of fish treating with Erethromycin but have got away with it on other occasions. I have used furan2 and had no problems, but it is not cheap. You use one cap/40 litres, remove what you can and treat again next day then remove what you can again.

There are millions of different types of bacteria and algae out there all the time. You cannot have a sterile aquarium unless everything is dead. It will therefore be in your aquarium it is just a matter of providing conditions which make it a great place for good bacteria and not cyano. It can be cured with a number of antibiotics as well as hydrogen peroxide and getting the phosphate/ nitrate ratio better. It is not easy to control once you let it get away, and dosing with anything usually brings other complications. I have it in a tank at the moment and I am experimenting with another antibiotic to see if it works.

Probably correct. You will know if it starts lifting the lid off the tank it is osiris.

You don't need CO2, but it can help. You also don't need a seperate tank so long as you don't have plant eating fish.

I have sent over 30 pics and hope to get more as time goes on. There are lots of people out there with a camera and plants I don't have so go for it please. It will be a good resource if we work on it.

To avoid all arguements vote for Al.

Don't know about plecos but birds love it as do humans. Cures constipation I am told so might turn an already loose boweled pleco into an excrement machine.

Like you I bred them just the once for the same reason.

It is also called Canadian water pest but I think it is that wide spread it would be impossible to get rid of. A couple of moons ago I used to sell 300 bunches a week to the shops in Christchurch. There is lots about but not much that is good quality.

The bacteria will multiply to the maximum depending on the conditions. If there is no food (no fish) and no heat , you do not have the conditions that will be erstablished when you are up and running so I would think you will not get much cylcling going on.

Do we have more than one type of Japanese fire bellied newt in NZ? Mine don't have as much red as that, particularly on the tail.

You don't realy mean what you wrote do you?

It is called blue/green algae because it is blue/green you would think. It is actually a bacteria and is sometimes red. It must have originated in Ireland.

The same in the converse is nearer the abslute troot

I had some in with my frogs which went from very healthy to very dead in a short time. Not certain, but suspect it was lack of light.

Keep removeing all you can and do frequent water changes to reduce the nutrient. Or trat it with erethromycin or furan 2.

Because there are so many potential contaminants and you are not able to be specific, analysis would not be cheap.

Ask for the water works dept and tell them what you want

Goldfish generally carry a lot of parasites (particularly gill and skin flukes) which the parents are able to cope with but fry are very small and are moe susceptable. It may be that.

Looks like Echinodorus cordifolius (used to be called radicans). I haven't grown them for a while as they get so big. Marble Queen is a variegated form of it. I think it has large flowers if I recall correctly

They will flower and produce plants at the same time if emersed as that is how they are produced commercially. Some flower under water but not much. It is easier to grow them if they are produced submersed as it can take a while to convert them to submersed again. what species of sword is it? All Echinodorus sp. are swords. The common ones (bleheri and amazonicus) have small flowers as does martii and the others are generally a lot bigger and more spectacular. A bisexual flower with ovaries in the centre ringed by stamens and having 3 white petals

It varies a bit but it is alkali and I would have thought about 7.2. If it is acid the phones melt.

Ring the waterwrks dept at CCC and explain where you live and they should be able to work out which wells your water is probably coming from and therefore the probable pH. Sounds a bit high to me.