evilknieval69

No way!! **Not that i like them, i think they are hideous, but because it is in NZ, and you are probably the only person with one, i shall hail you ** /me still doesnt know for sure that you do have one/it .... You could easily take a photo from somewhere else couldnt you......... The only way to know for sure is for my own two eyes to see it.....

They are probably old enough to be sent to new homes now... at 2cm they are a nice size, and from the pic they look old enough. Well done

well its good to hear that then.... Hell yes im feeling good about it, it has all happened so fast, just cant wait to get some sort of life in the tank, like snails and crabs P.S. i would like to see that thread 8) anybody know where it is :lol:

damn , this is the part i left out on purpose :oops: :oops: I had the air line....going into the wrong place.... I didnt have a clue on where it was meant to go, to be honest, i didnt even know it needed it... I put it onto the outlet part of the pump, where there is a little bit sticking out it goes on to. I finaly realised it went on the inlet one, and it worked a treat :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: I didnt have the slightest clue in the whole wide world how a skimmer works anyway, and have never seen one work so i thought i did pretty good to figure it out and have it running nicely right now.... Rogan :oops: :lol: :oops:

I saw three of these in animal antics in the mount today... advertised and blue faced apistos.... I agree with amazonian that they are A. Inconspicua IMO EDIT: forgot to add, they were all male by the looks of them....

ohk sweet as, thanks suphew

HOLY CRAP thats alot of bettas

NO WAY!!! :lol: Now i just need to sort the microbubbles out, and wait till the tank is cycled, then i will have to get some inverts or something This is soooo exciting!! EDIT: I soooooo want to post some pics, but dont have a camera i can use.... monday night at the latest!!! :roll:

IT WORKS!!! I fiddled around more and more and it finally is working!!!! Now i just need to work out how to stop the microbubbles going into the tank.... Any ideas?? i was thinking of making a little perspex box around it with baffles or something..?? Thanks for all your help shaneo and everyone else

Sweet as, looking good

i wont get started on what i think about products like that, you cant beat waiting a cycle out.... But thats a totaly different matter, you do it how you like it.... my mate had a BIG tin foil barb in with his turtles up untill a few weeks ago, when it became food Sorry i cant help you with anything else...

I bought one of these regulators last night from toolsonline, so will see how it goes once it arrives. I have everything setup, just need to plug the regulator into the air line, and screw it onto the bottle.... Will report back my progress.... P.S. I have a needle valve to control its flow aswel

Hes in ireland bro, there arent any left in NZ i dont believe....

LOL shaneo, you crack me up. I will try a few more things and see what i can do, surely im just doing something wrong....

well it seems you did everything right.... maybe you should of cleaned the filter out though...... EDIT: You say you added 'good bacteria'... How did you do that? did you add that 'cycle' product or something?

specs?? looks nice BTW

so you used tap water, added de-chlorinator then chucked all the neons in?? was the tank cycled?? Are you using the same filter as you where when the turtles were in there? I cant see anything that would make the fish die that has been left by the turtles.... maybe a bit more info on if you used the same filters etc. might help....

hmm, when i start the pump and let it run, no air is sucked in the venturi pipe at all, just water blowing out, so thats why i put the air pump on it... But maybe it is too much air, cos that would then work like an UGF or air powered filter by lifting the water up with the bubbles wouldnt it... I might have to have a try again with the air pump, but have the hose kinked so not so much air gets in..

yea it is a very nice plant. You got a tincy little bit for free aye lorenceo??

ok, i have just spent 20 minutes turning the skimmer pump on and off, emptying the cup, adjusting everything.... ad i still have no skimmer going.... I do everything im meant to, and the water still pours over the top, and the cup fills up... I even attached an air pump to the venturi pipe to get more air in but it didnt change anything.... I know it has to settle in and build up crap on the inside, but i can see that never happening/changing what it is doind, the water just pours over the top so fast and hard, there is no way it will ever change unless a not so grunty pump is on there, or the water flowing back into the tank, has a bigger gap to escape from, so more water gets released and let gets pushed up into the cone... Im just guna wait untill someone is around who knows what they are doing and can set it up for me... until then, i will do lots of water changes :lol: Something else i did this morning though, is i went over to bunnings and bought three 45 degree bends, 6 hose clamps and 15 metres of black irrigation pipe (all things just like steve-s' stuff on his nano) and it all cost $8.80.... i needed about half a metre of the pipe, but they only sold it in bundles..... I made up a cool little system and now have the 1200LPH pump, in behind the rock in the corner, with a pipe coming straight up from it, across the top of the tank, then blowing down toward the other end.... its quite nice, as the pump is now not visiable....... Pics to come!!!

sweet thanks for the info on the pipe guys... Tank is looking good.... but is that still a piece of calupera (sp?) i can see in there :lol:

The reason i have heard, and why i do it, is because the temperature gauge part (the part of the heater that tells itself to turn off because the water is hot enough) is on the top of the heater, so if it is straight up and down, the water that has just been heated by the bottom part of the heat, goes straight up and the part at the top tells itself to turn off because the water is warm enough, where actualy the only part of the water that is warm enough is the part just around the heater... Does that make sence ??