cleadus1

im looking at getting some different fish to breed, i want something that is interesting but that i can also sell, not looking to make huge $ just sick of having lots of fish that are hard to sell... like kribensis. dont mind spending a bit on a breeding pair, cant have anything too huge my tank is around 3ft. im thinking of discus but is there any other species that anyone thinks would be good?

yea i thought they might leak a bit, anyone know any epoxy/resin/polyurethane that is polystyrene/fish friendly?

im looking and geting some more grow out tanks but was thinking is it possable to use polystyrene boxes for tanks? there way cheeper and would keep the heat in really well so wuld reduce the heating cost? there just grow out tanks so wouldnt be too worried about not seeing into them...

thanx for the help guys, but it actually seems to have fixed its self :lol:

i just got home from work and was looking at my two clowns in my nano tank and noticed that my male clown has a big swolen eye (almost like one of those ugly bubble eye goldfish) and in the center over the black par of the eye it is kind of white can anyone help? is there ant kind of treatment? i dont think it would be white spot on its eye would it...

heres a pic of it sheading its skin if anyone is interested...

imagine the power bill, spose if u can afford to set sumthn like that up u could probably afford the power bill.

cool, thanks for the info. i might move it to a higher flow area because i dont think its getting enough flow at the mo to. i will post some pics when it decides to show off a bit.

haha too fast for me, how long did yours take?

cool,how long do they usually take to start poppin out? its been in my tank for about 4hours now? (they werent out in the shop eithr).

i brought this 2day, does this have polyps (if thats what there called) which extend from the top? sorry about the bad photo!.

o well lesson learnt, but it looks kinda nice, i might just keep it for a bit and see if it starts spreadn bad, if it does it wont be too bad because its only in a nano and should be easy (ish) to get rid of... good immiation BTA tho!! has really good bubble tips!.

trust me to buy a pest!

are they considered a pest? i read somewhere that they are... should i be worried about this one in my nano?

i brought this today does anyone know what sort of bta it is? its about the size of a $2 coin and the guy said they only grow to this size...

whot shops in tauranga have marine stock? also is there inyone in tauranga that may want to sellsome soft corl? reason i ask is i may be goin there tomorow.

heres sum updated photos... heres the tube at the back to hold the two pumps and heater this it where it is in the tank tank without rock tank with rock and light installed

also does anyone in rotorua (or not too far away) have any soft coral frags they wanna sell (or just get rid of )?

if i put coral rock in the tank do i need 2 wait for it to cycle before i can put livestock in? my sand has cured and stuff but i was thinking in a smal tank would the rock curing in the tank upset the levels?

how long would a leather coral be alright in a bag for?

cool thanks, why would you not recomend silicon?

well its all coming together now, the pumps and heater are inside a rectangle tube that runs up one side of the tank (was too big to put in the center) now what i want to do is cover the perspex tube with live rock but need to stick the rock together somehow... would silicon stick two wet rocks together??. im not going to glue it to perspex because will make it easyer to remove if i ever need to, so im going to stack the rocks and glue them together infront of the tube. (would be good to if it could cure underwater)

does anyone have a pair of breading bettas that i could buy?

my dad had local (coldwater tanks) in the mid 80's when i was just a young'in and we had all sorts of things frm octopus to snapper and crays had no problems with tanks eithr everything went well with them and the fish lived very long healthy lives, we live in rotorua so couldnt do too many water changes and we had tanks over 6ft long, he helpd get the guys from wonderworld into saltwater years ago.

wel iv finished the wood base just got to oil it now and have cut out the old filter which was a overflow thing on the top. but now iv got a lil problem, i want to get my 2 little powerheads and 55w heater into the something in the center of the tank that i can cover in LR and i want to be able to remove the powerheads and heater 2 service, i was thinking about the pvc pipe in the pic (having the bottom under the undergravel filter and the top caped off) but hav discovered its a tad too small and dont know how the pump outlets will line up with holes/outlets in the pipe, does anyone have any ideas?