evil_elmo

there isnt much you can do but try and cover the eggs with a mesh but they might end up eating the fry....its really up to the parents to look after them

how about finding someone that will bring in some A grade for a low grade price

come on dave, spill the beans

i didnt see them eat them but i had about 30tadpoles and 5minnows in the same tank and they all just disappeared no dead bodies or anything

they were adult bell frogs

my frogs ate my tadpoles and minnows, they seem to eat anything

the ground plant is mostly hairgrass with some dwarf sag and glosso which is getting out grown and covered with hairgrass. lighting is just 4x5ft fluro tubes from any placemakers, bunnings...etc nothing fancy....only thing i add to the tank is C02, the fish provides the rest of the fertilizers :lol:

the fishes looks awesome i dont think it matters how you like your tank planted or bare as long as your water is clean and your fish are happy

here is a few different pictures of the same tank....i always rip everything out and start again every 6months or less started with this then this then this and at the moment it looks like this side view

from $30 to $150+ depending on size and quality of the fish

lol caryl

cool, i better keep an eye out for them thanks

i'm wondering if we can get these types of goldfish in nz? bubble eye pearlscale Celestial Eye availability? price?

old pic, took it when i changed the tank around the tank is 6x3x2

well i wish they ate more....the red seems to be eating more since last time i spoke to you Dave

none, i have had a few different silver together they never had any problems, maybe i just have good luck getting very gentle silvers but bad luck with jumping aro's and eatable size aro's red is about 8", the silvers are about 15" lol there was 50+ barbs in that tank, probably still a good 30 and the convicts about 20....the aro's has given up trying to eat them

there are so many fish in that tank its not funny 10+discus(i breed alot of discus, need a place to put some), 30+clown loachers, clown knife, fire eel, tyre track eel, half banded eel, peacock eel, silver dollar, balloon kissing gouramis, couple of royal plecos plus 30+ feeder fish that didnt get eaten, Odessa barb, convict chiclid,lol

lol

i'm not too fuss as about the temp, just annoys me that all 4 of them give me a different reading :roll:

try putting in some lettuce, water should turn green pretty quick in the sun

i forgot to plug in a heater on a tank the other day and found the water pretty cold so i check the thermometer(aqua one in-tank thermometer) and it still read 28deg, so i put in a different thermometer and it read 24deg. this got me thinking and thought i would do some test thermometer used were 1. old school glass one 2. aqua one in-tank 3. aleas? some random thing i got from trademe, in-tank 4. aqua one external with internal probe test one; good trust worthy heater set to 29deg results 1. just under 29deg so 28.9deg 2. 29.2deg 3. 29.7deg 4. 27.7deg test two; outdoor tank, no heater 1. 21.0deg 2. 24.6deg 3. 23.7deg 4. 19.0deg last test; room temp 1. 21.5deg 2. 23.4deg 3. 23.8deg 4. 20.7deg so which one is correct? no way it could of been 23-24deg in the outdoor tank

i have bought about few jager heaters, out of them all only one stopped working after about 2 years took it back to animate where i bought it from, didnt have a receipt. they looked up my shopping history, found the heater and replaced it

another idea is to go a sign writing place and ask them for vinyl sticker, they have tonnes of colours and stick it to the back of the tank...it will be water proof plus its pretty cheap

BIG fish net or a Sack haha catch the fish and spin/twist the net around so the fish is tight and trapped,it stop the fish flipping out and damaging himself