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I dont know if this has already been brought up but here goes. I want to set up a rain water collection unit. I read a few conflicting opinions on the topic as to wether you live in the city you should not do this because of the pollution. I live in west Auckland so is this area ok for rain water collection? The Waitakere water damns provide some of the water to Auckkland or has this changed ? hmmm If I do decide to create a collection unit what would I construct this out of ? Is rain water from roof run off ok? or does that contain heavy metals and paint particles etc... I have a painted corrugated iron roof. any ideas :roll:

What would be a good way of doing that with the Babies Tears Caryl? I have been growing some for a while in a large glass jar which pretty much acts as a terrarium it grows quite quick but looks a bit leggy there is plenty of water/moisture in the jar...?

Is it true that the ordinary house plant variety of babys tears and peace lilly be grown as aquatic plants .... :-?

what about the glow light tetra they any good?

well I just been up to to check the tank out again and to see what fish I want to keep... It turns out Im going to take them all. neons, x-rays, glowlights and black neons various mollys and platies that I did not intend to take but felt I should when I heard they would end up as bird/fish food, besides I could always trade them at latter date though saying that there were some nice variations that he had bred... two rainbow fish the cichlids I saw actually do have a spot on them and a nice rainbow sheen to them so I definatley want them. a female bristle nose a large banded pleco which I was told is over ten years old and the most valueable fish in the tank apparently... and the other fish I mentioned earlier so I intend to transport the fish,at least 75 litres of water, the canister filter the heaters and other equipment tomorrow evening and set the fish up with a few of the plants in a small tank with the canister filter and heater and keep them somewhere darkish to keep them docile...? then do the big move of the tank and stand on saturday afternoon clean it and the gravel and hopefully have it all set back up on Sunday. I also intend to reinforce my lounge room floor with some nogs/nougs too. There used to be a fireplace where the tank is intended to be so Im sure it should be ok if I dont put any there but I will for my peace of mind. cool.

thanks for that I already have neons so ah yeah... any ideas about the the black phantom tetra? was that purple tetra you mentioned the purple emperor tetra - they sound expensive... diamond tetras - Moenkausia pittieri look pretty 8) ... they also expensive? bleeding hearts sounds like a winner i think. they have got that attractive fin going on thats for sure.

Im interested in peoples experiences with schooling tetras... I have heard/read/seen that the silver tip tetra is good as it schools in a nice tight group. Im thinking of getting a big group of some kind for my new large tank which I also intend to plant out. As I am finding at the moment that a large group of schooling fish and maybe one or two mid sized chichlids would be nice. any ideas? :roll:

thanks for your help every one. I did go and buy a 50L square container (with lid, wheels too) for about twenty bucks form Payless Plastics it can always be used for storage of misc items in the end. I will take that and fill it twice, keep the water in a similar container I have (but no lid) at home I should be doing at least two trips there and back, 100 litres in total ? the tank is 1750x600x600 so what would be a safe amount of water to transport? yes i do intend to keep the fluval external canister filter "live" what would be the best way to do that ? oh and the gravel bed too though he was using an under gravel filter. Will this get completly disrupted in the move if the gravel is totally taken out of the tank ? I hope that was not too many questions at once. :-? At the moment the fish I keep are angels, a pleco, neons, two (not so) golden guramis and a rainbow shark pretty boring ... the fish in the tank that Im about to purchase are - hmmm now let me see, I only saw it for about 20 mins so off the top of my head goes a large pleco, a bristle nose, assorted mollies and tetras, a horse face loach, a golden algae eater,a beta and two cichlids that resemble Jurupari Earth Eater/Geophagus but it had no spot (Im really not sure :oops:) I dont think he knew the name of it either ...

Hi all I have a question regarding 25L plastic jerry cans. I intend to use a few of these for water transport of a new tank that I am about to obtain. The problem is they used to contain chemicals of some description I am guessing that it was gasoline. I am in the process of emptying them numerous times to remove the residues. Is there a solution/chemical that I can use to eradicate this? or is the continual process of filling and emptying enough I need to transport as much of the existing water as possible to seed the tank when it reaches my house then fill with new water as well as water from my own existing tank... hmmm complicated...