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My guess is yellow eyed mullet Aldrichetta forsteri as well, but as a second possibility I'd say the grey mullet Mugil cephalus. I've got yellow eyed mullet in my pond (with inanga and bullies), they eat algae with a shaking-head movement, (typical head banging westie fish :lol: ) . Sometimes they'll eat bloodworms and tubifex. They won't live in freshwater permanently so I'll have to release them where they came from one day.

I've had that problem with a 2400. It was due to an unbalanced impellor. You could feel the vibration when you took the impellor out and spun it by hand on the shaft. I took it back to the shop where I bought it from and they organised a replacement free of charge. I've since replaced it with an FX5 and I now use the 2400 outside on my pond.

It's a normal coloured male. You can also get cobalt blue and royal red variants which interbreed to give the normal colouration.

Yes the strain is a yellow blonde with blue tails. But the strain that I'm interested is from a platinum blonde female crossed with a snakeskin, yellow blonde, blue tailed male. Fortunately the platinum fry are all in another tank.

For quite a while I've the occasional guppy go through a slow wasting disease which eventually lead to death . I found that the best thing to do was immediately isolate any suspected guppies to prevent infecting the others and euthanase any confirmed sick ones . After all they're only guppies right :-? ? The disease would disappear for several months then suddenly it would appear again :evil: . Well I recently decided to spend the money to get a post mortem on one (and a pre mortem on another ) because after 3 years of breeding I'm getting close to a unique strain that I'm happy with. It showed the presence of Henneguya which normally needs an invertebrate intermediate host but all I have beside fish is a tiny flat pest snail :evil: . The treatment is Malachite Green (4%) dosed at 0.5ml per 200l every 3 days for 3 doses. The smallest bottle I could buy was 100ml. But it should be the end of the sick guppies .

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/drontal-droncit-praziquantel-adtape-amp-gill-flukes-vp260591.html The vet I go to actually knows a lot about fish. He's at the Lynfield Vetinary Clinic.

Like the subject says can you give me some suggestions for a reed type plant? It is for the corner of my pond that gets shade all year round. And just to confuse things more. I've set up three pots as a vege-filter, one of which is at surface level and one of which is 3cm below surface level so that the first may get the surface exposed as the pond evaporates but the other's surface will always be under water. My pond has inanga, yellow eye mullet, bullies, fresh water shrimp and fresh water mussels. I'm hoping to create a corner where the inanga can spawn.

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Why?

Greg made my 2.4m tank, my 1.9m tank and my 5ft. I highly recommend him to everyone for big tanks.

Use a Fluval FX5

could be a dead fish

Wow it sounds like you had an amazing time. Wish I could have come. Hopefully I won't be working on the next one. But I went fresh water fishing with my 7 year old son and we caught inanga, fresh water shrimp and yellow eyed mullet for his 1m x 2m x 0.5m pond. (It used to be his sand pit and sometimes it's our pond ).

Hi Stella, because the peat is acidic the nitrogen cycle won't be the same as a 'normal' tank. One of my first tanks didn't have any ammonia or nitrite peaks as it cycled and in the end (after much investigation) I was told that the bog wood that I had would be affecting the cycle. (I was lucky as I had also overstocked the tank )

Yes, could be trying to breed. Have a look at "Loaches On Line" and look for breeding behaviour articles.

Anyone remember that guy on Sesame St that would try to sell Ernie an "E"?

I'd certainly been interested (depending on work etc). Saturday night would be best - down on Sat, back on Sun.

http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/AbtCit/ei/EcoWtr/FrshWtrFsh/frshwater-fish.asp Under each fish page is a pdf of locations that the fish has been observed within Waitakere City. Please don't use this info to pillage the fish populations. It's amazing to think that there are native fish only a few minutes walk from my suburban home in a creek that my son passes over every day on his way to school.

Their main food is microscopic crustaceans in the algae.

I've noticed that Borneo Suckers can change colour depending on substrate. But they will also fade if they are stressed which could be due to ammonia. They come from highly oxygenated streams that have very little ammonia/nitrite/nitrate. Any sudden ammonia spike that I've had has been due to an unnoticed dead fish (especially guppy fry in the filter).

get another tank

Anyone remember: "the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection"? Basically if you are standing at an angle rather than straight on, your reflection won't be in the picture. And then you can use a flash.

I'm in charge of everything outside the big boxes. (Oh yeah, and I stop planes from crashing into the boxes and the people who deal with all the boxes).

I would have kept the tank, ditched the mega tv, and bought more fish :lol: .

Another cause of diatoms blooming (brown algae) can be not enough light.