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ok, now before I do the shopping....do you want cheesecake or tiramisu? can do cheesecake for 50 easily

the tank is 4000 litres and I want to get a heater that size for water changes only, yes its overkill but I would rather have an oversized heater for cold to warm heating than an undersized one.

I dont use a bucket unless I really have to, the big tanks are changed via the pool pump and a pool vaccum brush, dont lose fish and can scrub the tank at the same time due to some imaginative plumbing I can adjust the flow rate accordingly. I fill it with the hose in incremements over 2 days. Before winter I will need to look at buying something like a 2000w heater though....$151 retail at the hydroponic suppliers. The smaller tanks I use a hose connected to the laundry taps and another hose to syphon out with some fiddling you can match the flow rates.

$20 even better Have been meaning to join for the past year, and it has ended up as a rountuit thing

oh definitely, if it turns to crud out there the pool is sheltered and bbq in the main fish room if people can handle the clutter

you have my address Cat QE Park is about 10 minutes from us.

shall I come bearing $25?

goldfish, maybe guppies if you have solar heating.

min of 5ftx2ft for one fish and thats pushing the minimum realistically. You could keep on in a 4 footer on its own though but thats cruel

do you need somewhere for them to go? I can spare some tank space

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what I have with my oscars giant gourami severums firemouth cichlids btw I have discovered that you can keep guppies with severums, they will leave adult guppies alone but will eat the fry. Hence instant live food and perfect for breeding.

mine are only really hungry when they start trying to jump to the dry food can sitting on, otherwise they are like a cat and a fridge, ie try to look hungry everytime you go near their tank. I hand feed all the big fish once a day, it allows several things, lets me inspect each one individually, lets the smaller fish, (yup I keep small cichlids in with the oscars)get a feed in peace. I keep adult firemouths and severums in the tank from time to time to stop them from breeding. It also seems to to stop the female gold severums from getting beaten up by the single female green as they are so busy schooling to think about pairing up. The oscars are reasonably peaceful and I add freshwater shrimp in the tank every now and then for some extra interest.

dont worry Ira I have plenty to share around, bring a big net and I will put the crystal away.

I suffered from green water in one tank persistently until a fortnight ago, I found something that actually worked. Odd thing is this tank would go from clean water change to flourescent green overnight without lighting or food, even dropped the temp in case that was making it worse. Nothing worked. Green X barely put a dent in it, algae scrubbers were like expensive water. Found something called Laguna Pond Clear, it bound the algae and effectively starves it IT WORKED. Tank hasnt shown any signs of algae since in one dose. Since this tank gets fed every 2 days or so and most of the fish are handfed the pollution rate was low, no one could figure this one out.

STEP BACK FROM THE FLUVAL, DO NOT APPROACH, OBJECT IS INJURIOUS TO MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH

SNIFFING???? This sis what I did.....ok it looks like a firemouth, but different.........its definitely a cichlid..............its not a firemouth...........wonder if its south american......looks familiar........search cichlid.........refine south american..........refine gallery. BINGO

got the 2nd ones http://www.aquariacentral.com/species/db.cgi?db=fresh&uid=default&ID=0309&picture3_page_view=1

WELL.........The top one is a gold severum, male I think, well my nmales are the only ones coloured up with the worm-like markings. Dont have a clue on the bottom ones.

ok so far I have found fishy stuff REALLY CHEAP http://www.gurugardener.co.nz/products.htm http://www.professionalhydroponics.co.nz/Services.shtml http://www.hydroponics.co.nz/ http://www.agcon.co.nz/Products/Products_Main.htm http://www.agcon.co.nz/Products/Products_Main.htm http://www.eplants.co.nz/search.php

OK I have a design underway will do it tomorrow with visio and then post it here, spent most of the day online at work in the lulls looking at hydroponic mediums, some of the stuff looks really promising as a root medium. Got the design figured ..even found some reasonably priced pumps and some really cool general equipment all of us could use on the nzhydroponic supplies website...anyone care for a 2000w heater for 151?

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Wish I could, if I do a demo on salt water flyfishing can you organise a sponsor???????????

I am going through the design process of something like that for my oscar tank, the plan is to have a 'bio filter' of sorts upstairs, small kidney pond in a frame fill with plants upstairs. Basically the flow back to the tank will be a surface skimmer and a pool pump pushing water into the pond, therefore theoretically removing the threat of overflowing and emptying the tank, I worked out that to do this buying a new poolpump and a new sand filter is actually cheaper than buying the sorely needed extra filter. If I add in a spa pool heater to the equation ( I have a spa bath heater which has a range of 20C -30C) I can also remove any heater worries. We can have a water garden in the lounge (cutsey) and a clean healthy tank in the downstairs lounge (which is currently strategically placed close enough to be vaccumed with the pool pump)

Just had a look at what I have some really nice pieces there, that could be adjusted without losing the essence of the wood, very very dry though,..and rock hard. but some really nice wood. have done a partial change in the big tank, just as well I found a couple of baby hedgehogs stuck in the drain.

ah to have the money to have a knife fish to be rich enough to afford the rest