smidey
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i used chilly bins to transport the fish & when I arrived at the new house i added air stones & heaters to them so i had plenty of time to set up the tanks. Fortunately I own a 100L chilly bin which makes a substantial holding tank, if you have or can borrow one it will be worth it. just keep in mind something that size will be very heavy.
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River Monsters,TV1 today @ 5pm. Africas Rift Valley
smidey replied to MarkLB's topic in The Off Topic Fishroom
thanks for that, i probably would have missed it otherwise. -
at this rate he will be 90 before he has children :slfg:
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it sounds like people are going to conference to chat on the forum :slfg:
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as the fry grow they take up too much room inside the bucal cavity & either get spat out or eaten, i usually strip at 16 days or less & put the fry with egg sacks into a net for a week.
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you'll get less fry if you do it at that many days, i have found 17 to 19 days is best.
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very nice, you must be pleased.
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that is going to be soo cool when up & running. I can amagine it with larger rocks in areas with some sand with small plants replicating lake tanganyika to.
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hi & welcome. with the fish you already have the new tank could only be african cichlids but i would say that :sml2:
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it's alot better than our glass ones. that tank is epic, just needs a few details & time IMO.
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hello & welcome. I am not sure about the other fish you have but the clowns will need a much larger tank as time goes on. they will need a minimum 300L tank in the near future, what size are they now?
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i thought the jager manuals show them to be used vertically, it doesn't make sense to me but they do work just as well vertically as horizontally. my 300w is horizontal as the tank isn't tall enough for it to be vertical.
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i put a large triton shell in my tank a while ago & most of the snails made their into so I pulled it out & rinsed them off.
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maybe i got ripped or your bits were offcuts or something. not sure either way but even at around $400 for a 9mm sheet it is nasty.
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sweet, that means nine months of free use.
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perspex is very expensive, i used some in a joinery job i did & a 2400x1200x9mm was arund $900 per sheet. As for a material for a tank, it is soft & flexible so won't shatter like glass but the softness means it will scratch & become opaque very easily. You can use scrubbers on glass as they are softer than it, my money is on a cleaner scratching it easily. you only need to look at an older style boat with perspex windows so see how bad they can get.
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nice progress, will be great when it has fish in it. just in case you haven't realised, there is a minimum water level for the heaters & the water level in the pic doesn't look high enough. perhaps you have filled it more or pushed them down but just in case you haven't.
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nice work, if only I was increasing tank numbers
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The Eternal Quest for a Low Maintenance Aquarium Begins...
smidey replied to Lazy_Loach's topic in Beginners Corner
any africans will be an easy care tank if you have plenty of filtration. my 2.0m tang tank only takes 30 mins out of my week for maintenance & i have plants to. i feed in the morning & night & do a 30% water change once a week. Once a month to 6 weeks I clean out the filters as I feed heavily which takes around 30 mins & all is well. -
welcome
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i buy the NLS in 600 grams, very god price per gram in that size.
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i had a piece in a tank for a couple of years without issue. it was out of the swamp though
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not possible, only negative points for naming your fish. giving it a girls name is extra negatives 8)