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glosso (Glossostigma elatinoides) is very nice and forms a low dense mat, but from what i understand, it needs a lot of light to get it to grow well. Hairgrass and dwarf sagittaria need less light and i think they both look quite effective, however they dont quite stay as low to the substrate as glosso, but can still grow quite dense

to feel comfortable I my experience khulis need lots of low growing plants to create shelter. With that in mind I would not reccommend going bare bottom with them

if you read the full topic at the link you can see the finished tank and it is absolutely amazing

No I examined the fish and they looked fairly normal just clouded in the body and eyes. I haved one a quick scan on the other fish and they look fine, I am suprised that what ever it was has only affected the cories and not the neons.

The substrate is sand, which I have collected from the local beach, it is pretty fine. I have kept corydoras before and have not had problems with their barbels on it The smell from the tank is now gone, so maybe it was a spike in something olike nirite or nitrate or perhaps even distrubing some anerobic bacteria in the sand The corydoras are active and feeding again I will get a test kit once i get paid methinks

The tank has been going about five or six weeks now. The neons were to used to cycle the tank for about two weeks before cory's were added I currently do not have a test kit, the water changes have been weekly when I am busy or half weekly if I can fit it in.

This morning I woke up to find one of my cory's was dead, It had been out and about earlier in the week but did not come out to feed yesterday. It is part of a group of four corydoras trilineatus I have had for about three of four weeks now. They are in my 100 litre tank with twelve neons. The dead cory was bent to one side and was missing its barbels/whiskers around its mouth. I decided to carry out a waterchange his morning, probably about thirty percent and added some liquid ferts and a slight overdose of flourish excell Now about two hours later another corydoras has started swimming around erratically, it is up the top of the tank and spinning trying with no success to swim downwards. it seems to have lost its ability to sink. At first I thought it may have been the excess flourish excell because the other corys were lethargic and one was sitting up on a piece of driftwood not near the top of the tank. The neons are fine at the moment. I have since done another waterchange and added a half dose of meth blue to the tank to help the flailing cory. My guess is that it has a swim bladder infection/injury of some kind. I have the injured cory in a floating plastic container and it is lying on its side trying to get upright every so often The only other odd thing about the tank is that it smells a bit like cyano bacteria algae. I found a small amount of this out of sight among some plants when doing the intial waterchange. Does anyone have any thoughts on what may be causing this? If you think there is anything else I could do to help the fish recover? All help would be appreciated Thanks

I do think animates has taken a few steps towards cleaning up their fish department however they still have along was to go. I does annoy me how they misinform their customers, I have listened to the sales assistants while looking in the tanks, they never mention acceptable stocking levels or about adding fish at regular intervals to the tank. I think that it may be partially to drive sales but I think it is mainly because they dont know aquaria very well themselves or have been misinformed by other staff. When I went down to Christchurch a few years ago I went into Redwood and was asking questions about the Birchirs they were selling. The staff member went to the counter and pulled out a couple of books and did some quick reading before comming back to me. If only they did this at Animates.

My jobs are all to do with boxes 1)I unpack boxes at one job 2)and pack them up at the other. 3)I also have have another casual job which once involved 120 boxes which each had another 12 boxes in them which each had 24 little boxes in them which all needed pricing then to be reboxed. This was all in a warehouse full of boxes up to the ceiling. If i could i would be a pilot but ide hope they would need never use the little black box Thats me, im off now to see whats on the box

flyer is a bus that goes throught town out to the hutt from the airport. timetable for that will be on the metlink website do a google search. That there is a facility that takes your car away as mentioned i think it is called koro or koru

Bristlenoses are great fish for most tanks active and playful just remember they generally need to be fed. Cucumber and zuchinni are great as they have high water content so they breakdown without polluting the tank much. Otherwise spirulina tabs/wafers are good too. I found if you feed them they grow faster.

i dont think very many people have bred clownloaches in home aquaria. Loaches in genreal from what i hear are reasonably difficult to breed. I have heard that khulis will spawn in a densely planted tall tank with limited light Maybe yoyos or similar are easier

I lost an angel like that about a month after i brought it. How long have you had it?

Yea this plant has been discussed before. Riccia may be along the same lines as glosso

I have exactly the same problem with rams they lasts about 3 months then went belly up Maybe should look out for some nice homebred ones

those ingwami style tanks are so cool that they dont even need fish

i found the last unseen text quite hard I think i did ok just two more for me, physics and maths :-?

thats ambulia it does get algae on it quite easily. more frequent water changes may help to keep phosphate under control. might need to look at over stocking it becomes quite prolific under the right conditions

Well I was thinking I know we have the list and no new species were allowed into new zealand for the last how many years. So why were galaxy rasboras allowed in, as far as i can remember they were only discovered early this year or late last. Did someone have to pay for the rights to get them cleared for importation?

Heya everyone I am considering redoing my tank and changing it for something new. I really like malawi cichlids. could i have a 3 foot tank with a few malawis in it. Or if i really wanted would i be better going for tanganyikans as they are smaller. Thanks

I think what most do is have the water in a bucket add the conditioner and then siphon it into the tank. I think that is the issue trying to be combatted

I think Khuli loaches help too i noticed the snails decline in numbers once i started squishing them to show the fish it was food

Congrats Man

occasionally mine have a spaz when i turn on the lights. I think this is a normal reaction to the change in lighting levels. They like shelter so maybe the quarantine tank isnt best for them.

tanksman makes big tanks, might be worth popping him a pm