alanmin4304
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Nice pics. Is the money plant for sale?
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Try again. A 200 watt flouro would be about 20ft long---at 10 watts/ft.
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And when you put the filter back in the communitytank to keepit "alive" you take the diseases with it. I raise killies to half grown with no filters gravel or airstones and they do alright. I just remove the gunge and change the water frequently.
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Try a few ways then do what works best for you.
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Forget the pills and ointment and go with loopy a & b.
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Ring your local council and they can tell you if there is chlorine in the water supply. If there is you should use water conditioner as it will neutralize the chlorine, monochloramine,dichloramine and trichloramine, all of which are disinfectants and therefore not good for fish. Put stress coat down to experience and try to avoid buying stuff from the pet shop that you don't realy need and you will have more money to spend on good stuff like fish or plants.
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I would go with discusguru. A bare tank is best for quarantine as you want to sterilize it between uses or it only becomes an infection chamber. I wouldn't use a filter either, for the same reason. Siphon the gunge off the bottom with a hose reserved for that tank, scoop out water with a container reserved also and replace with a bucket of water (all while the jug is boiling)
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One of my tanks (1200 x 500 x 500) is in a cabinet and has two 3ft flouros going 17 hours/day on a timer but it also has 2 15 watt incandescants going continuously to provide a bit of light all night so the fish don't get a fright when the flouros come on.
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I use to seperate and condition Nothos for 2-3 weeks then spawn them for 2-3 days. Whatever works best for you is the way to go. I used to set up 10 - 12 trios Friday night and collect the eggs Sunday night and spawn them on sand so as to easily count the eggs, then store them on peat.
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It would be just about as easy to replace the whole panel and have a decent looking tank with less risk.
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Echinodorus tenellus, Sagitaria subulata or microfolia, Hydrocotyle verticulata, glossostigma elatinoides, hair grass or riccia growing through a weighted net.
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Stop teasing them.
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And the pakeha is a strange person who gets around in a sailing ship wearing funny clothes, pearing out through a hollow stick and pointing sticks that go bang and make the person next to you fall over dead. French missionaries add spice to the hangi. Puha is milk thistle (usually eaten with pork bones as the missionaries are now extinct)
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Do they all go red when you cook them? Who's got the puha?
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We have a logburner and when it goes off the temperature drops pretty quickly. The garage is lined with batts and gib but it would be in the very small single digits--wont freeze but very close.
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My living room will be a little cooler than yours at night I suspect. You get the rain and we get the frost.
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I just discovered the same thing but I can only blame myself. I left a plug half in and out but more out than in and this morning I seem to have about one surviver from a couple of dozen nigerianus teenagers. They are in the garage and the temperature would have dropped a bit further than yours I think. Perishable goods---just keep breeding.
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I bought one of mikefish's gadgets but found the fine plastic thread didn't last so I made one from bits in metal from a few different sources. Pm me if you want the details. I siphon out with the garden hose then connect to the kitchen fawcett and (running the hose through the windows) fill it back up with water blended to the same temperature. We are lucky having untreated water in Christchurch.
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Can anyone recommend what heater I should buy?
alanmin4304 replied to heyandrea_'s topic in Beginners Corner
They are not as good as jaeger but a hell of a lot cheaper. I have some in small fry tanks and they are OK. The temperature you get is not what it is set at. -
I think Alan is correct. It is called crypt rot. Take off the dead stuff so it does not increase the nutrient and cause algae problems. It will grow again OK. C. affinis is one of the more hardy Cryptocoryne. Many references suggest cutting the leaves off crypts when relocating them.
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See if new leaves are growing. If they are it wont matter---just remove the dead ones when there are enough leaves to support it. Both swords and crypts may rest a while when transplanted.
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It works for me but it takes a few weeks. What you are trying to do is promote the plant growth in order for that to strip the nutrient from the algae. Others have different ideas but I leave the lights on (or the plants wont grow) and do 50% water changes twice a week to also strip the nutrient. The flourish has an algacidal effect as well.
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Bamweevil -- If you bought them at Organisms they will be golden gardneri (Fundulapanchax gardneri nigerianus) They show blue and gold depending on the light and get bluer with age.
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I have used neguvon at 3% for 3 minutes then treated at 0.5ppm (1ml of 1%/20litres on goldfish without problems.
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DIY breeding tank storage device - comments please
alanmin4304 replied to paul_r's topic in DIY Section
Without adequate air movement you will get considerable layering. Even just a small fan running continuously would do the job.