alanmin4304

Rainwater is generally acid because it leaches the sulphur dioxide from the air as it falls. As stated it is good for some fish and I use it along with added peat to encourage some fish to spawn. The easiest thing to do would be to keep fish that like those conditions and stay away from fish that like hard alkaline water. Once you start chemically adjusting the water you will be at it forever.

I am not familiar with gill rollback but if I remember correctly furan needs to be dosed twice.

The water in a 0ne metre high tank (without the weight of the tank and stand ) would be five times the design floor load for a domestic dwelling. I am not sure if your insurance company would be a happy little bunch of boys and girls.

It sounds like you may have an ammonia spike through not cycling the tank slowly enough. This can burn the gills on the fish

Many plants will actually grow very well with a lot of natural light but there will be a lot less problems if the light is from the top rather than the side.

If you like how it looks you could obtain the same look by using different colours of gravel in layers but it would not be a good idea with large cichlids as they would soon rearrange it all when they get the urge to breed.

Formalin is formaldehyde gas in solution and can be pretty severe but effective. You need to be careful with old stock as it can form a precipitate that is even more toxic so don't shake the bottle before you use it.

It is usually a layer of material good for plant growth then a more inert layer of gravel to hold the media down and stop the water going cloudy

Great looking tank. Everthing looks pretty happy

You had the sodium right. Will you be taking your malachite to the butchers? I did after I bought mince to feed a baby magpie, the butcher assured me he had no preservative in the mince and maggie chucked all over the floor.

I used a one bar heater with the fan rewired so it went all the time but the heater went on and off with the thermostat. this decreases the thermal layering, which was what I wanted. Others may prefer to have a temperature variation.

I get mine from the local hardware store by asking for the cover sheets the last two have been 2400 x 1200 x50 and cost $10 and $5 depending on who was having a good day.

When I had access to heaps of daphnia I used them successfully by loading in more than the fish can eat. You have to be careful about the bio load from dead ones and excrement though. The idea of putting some into a net so the fish can't eat them is a great idea as they can filter a lot of water provided they don't get eaten.

It is in your water ager solutions and is used in sample bottles when taking samples of chlorinated water for bacterial testing (it neutralizes the chlorine so the bugs don't get killed on the way to the lab). Sodium metabisulphite is used in home brewing ( and commercially) It produces sulphur dioxide which kills bugs and unwanted yeasts. Also used as a preservative for meat (reacts with the blood to form oxyhaemaglobin which makes the meat look nice and red). The quick test to see if the butcher has put it on meat that should not contain it is malachite green (goes clear) so it is good to get the green dye off your hands after playing with malachite green. Butchers can use it on processed meat like sausages but some naughty butchers put it on minced meat to make it red after it has gone grey from adding too much mutton and the end of roasts etc (naughty, naughty)

I can see how that would work (it also neutralizes chlorine).

How would hydrogen peroxide be an antidote when they are both strong oxidizing agents?

The "pp" will probably kill more than the planaria (it is a very srong oxidizing agent and indiscriminate about what it oxidizes).

Join the club. Sounds like planaria or flat worms (comes in on plant or live food) Harmless as far as I know but if someone comes up with a cure I will also be keen. Can tell you that massive doses of copper only get them annoyed and eurethromycen doesn't do them any harm.

It is only a matter of personal preference but I put the top straps right around and about 10 mm down from the top then use a polycarb lid as it does less damage if you drop it and the lid fits flush with the top. I also leave a small gap between the back and end straps to allow access for air hoses / wires etc. Only personal preference, great tank. Try putting mirrors around the back and ends and then put in lots of plants---it will look like the botanical gardens.

They sure can produce. The biggest spawning I raised was 1226 in the days when I could not afford tanks and was raising them in damaged plastic baths. The best part is they will probably want to go again a couple of weeks after you seperate them. Buy lots of angels people. The fish in the pic looks like it has a gold gene. If both parents are the same have they thrown any golds?

There is probably more than one reason and we all could be right.

I will retain my bet on the fact that the leaves are drowning because they were grown emersed and the new growth will be fine as the pic shows for both corymbosa and roseafolia

You normally need to dose again 2-3 days later.

Given time the snails and pleco will give up eating the plant and the new growth will be fine. Time cures all they say.

It is an antibiotic and kills susceptable bacteria including blue green algae