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i will leave it for now but if anything comes up for a good price i'm sure i'll end up buying it all the discus will be out of that tank once they are grown up so i will need something else in there

still not sure what else is going in, its pretty empty even with 1 aro, 9 discus, 2 parrot, 2 kissing gourami, 3 BN, 1 silver dollar...i took out the fire eel as it was eating all my BN's eggs the only thing i might want is a giant Gourami or clown knife giant gourami can look abit ugly when they are big and i heard that clown knife and arowana sometimes dont get along also a clown knife is like $180 down here in chch

lol, my one sat in the sun for about 3 weeks before it went into the tank, it was fully dry so lets just hope it doesnt take that long

nope it still have bricks on it.....i wonder how long its going to take

everything is still the same, the arowana can be hand fed now and my BN are breeding also got a pair of red parrots and they started to breed too

i found out why my one were acting so nasty to everyone else i brought them on sunday and they have laid eggs for me already but not expecting them to hatch

i've just bought 2 from the animate buy 1 get one free and i find them very aggressive they bully my discus, kissing Gouramis and even BN, only thing they dont bully is my arowana they tend to chase the fish but since they have a weird mouth they dont do any damage from what i have seen price wise, i've looked around chch and they are about $59.95 for a 8-10cm one

a MH would be nice but have to watch my power bill :-? . I already have a planted 5ft tank so going to keep this tank a different style

thanks for the kind words guys nope i wont be making a lid for it, i find it annoying to feed if i have a hood over the tank since i feed about 4 times a day

MDF is 9mm, i got cut from smiths city it was $15 a sheet, i needed 2 sheets and cutting was $3, so $33 for the MDF and i also got some off cuts too as for the clips the cheapest place was also smith city for $1.25each, other places like place maker and bunning was about $1.50each

here is something i came up with to try and hide my metal stand, you can find the build of my arowana tank here http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/settin ... 16015.html here is what i started with, a metal stand i measured my stand and went down to a hardware shop and got them to cut up some 9mm MDF for me i sanded the board so its smooth and i then painted it with a white undercoat the colour i choose was "mouse ear" by taubmans which i got in satin enamel for hard wearing first coat i painted it with two coats to attach to my metal frame i got some cardboard door catchs i screwed down one part to the metal frame and the other part onto the MDF final product everything went well and i can just pull of the covers and click them back on, so i'm happy with my DIY project

thanks for the comment everyone here is another update i measured my stand and went down to a hardware shop and got them to cut up some 9mm MDF for me i sanded the board so its smooth and i then painted it with a white undercoat the colour i choose was "mouse ear" by taubmans which i got in satin enamel for hard wearing first coat i painted it with two coats to attach to my metal frame i got some cardboard door catchs i screwed down one part to the metal frame and the other part onto the MDF final product everything went well and i can just pull of the covers and click them back on, so i'm happy with my DIY project

i got my sand from a garden shop, its pretty cheap like $5 for a BIG bag make sure you wash it well, it takes abit of time

i got the tank and stand together so not sure how much just the tank is....pm inside oceans on the forum and he will be able to tell you how much just the tank costs discus and aro are cool but will take the discus out to put in fish that can grow to a giant size later

they all grew up together in a 3ft tank so they get along fine my aro doesnt eat anything but pellets, tried shrimps, worms...etc and he doesnt eat them, he got bullyed by the discus when he first went into the tank ....the discus are getting taken out once they are about 10cm i have no idea what kind of catfish it is, maybe a loach cat or something like that...will try and get a pic

fishy are in 1 silver arrowana 1 fire eel 2 ballon kissing gourami 1 silver dollar 3 bristlenose cats (2 females 1 male) 1 unknown cat fish 9 6-7cm discus also i have bought some MDF to cover up the metal stand, will post pic once i have finished

i've put two 300watt heaters in last night at 9pm and its now 6.45pm and the temp is only 21deg, i have noticed both heaters are constantly on but the water temp hasnt gone up much going to put a silver dollar in as my water testing fish...i'm sure he will be fine..

my aro is only about 30cm at the moment, he will look so small in the new tank, not even sure what else i should keep with the aro tim got the stand made for me, it is super heavy duty!!

yeah Tim is awesome, great to deal with

thanks will update once the tank is more settled Caryl: i havent had any problems with my FX5. Ive been using it in my 5ft since about May i think...i might get another one if i come across one cheap

here is my new aro tank and stand which i got Tim from inside Oceans to make for me, its a 6x3x2 which holds about 1000L...THANKS TIM! with Tim's help we moved the tank from his place to my place tank inside the house on a super well braced and soild metal stand i started to add the sand, which took my girlfriend about 6 hours to wash and what a mission it was to clean 3 BIG bags of sand, a BIG thank you to her also i picked up a piece of driftwood, its about 4.5ft long and stands about 1.5ft high during all this poor junior had no one to play with him all the sand added and driftwood in place in goes the water damn driftwood floats so had to sink it down going to use the FX5 from my 5ft tank filled, FX5 in place and the last photo is my aro which i took about 2 weeks ago when i moved his tank to a different part of the room to make way for the 6ft will update this post as i go, But i would like to say a big thank you to TIm for making me this awesome tank

i used to feed white worms in that tank but havent done so in about 2 weeks now they are in a bare bottom tank and i have cleaned it out but there is still a couple of worms swimming around i guess i will just leave it since you guys said they are harmless

hi i found these worms swimming around in my discus tank, they are thin white worms, about 5mm maybe 8mm the biggest one no idea where they came from and dont know if they are harmful? here is a couple of pic i took, one is in the tank and one is one i caught and put into a drink bottle

Pawz where did you get that cool face wall ornament?

how do you guys feed frozen shrimp? i've been told that you need to de-frost, cut in small bits but once its de-frosted it doenst float anymore. Do you guys hand feed?