TimTam22

Yea I just found another one dead ( the one i got off you paws and I will flick you a PM now too as i really like mollies) Nope I have 2 wild mollies left 2 died from the trip and two the day i put them into the tank (I think from stress) but the final two are still going strong. They are so friendly they come right up to my hand when doing gravel vac's I could probably catch them with my hands. I haven't got any pic's of the wild ones but I will post some photos of the ones i lost below (sorry bout the crapy photo's but you get the idea) I was thinking about not getting him to feed them but then thought he may try by himself to feed them if i didn't ask :oops: and exactly sharn coz they look hungry

Yea exactly!!! But i was going to a wedding so i couldn't get out of it since my b/f was best man!!!

Yea thats what i did for my turtle tank but I thought too many glad bags would confuse him, and that clearly writen instuctions and labled containers would be fine but looks like I have learnt my lesson on asking others to feed fish!!! :oops: whats BL??

I went away last wednesday and arrived back on sunday night to find that one of my tanks had 2x dead GBA's 3x dead mollies and 3x dead plattys Always has to be the best looking bigest ones in the tank although it could have been worst if any of my big fish had died in my other tank :evil: I think its all due to over feeding, the flat mate that was feeding them i didn't see till today that was mean't to be following my instructions i typed out and put on the fridge on feeding them, he recon's he only put in 1 cube of food but theres about 6 or 7 blocks missing not counting 6 blocks of blood worms too (hopefully some went into my other tank) and I only asked for them to be feed twice. After a 40% water change the other fishies are looking better so hopefully no more deaths :oops:

Haha thats so funny!! :lol: :lol: If anyone else has got any forsale my tank would love some

lol and the little kid hehe, I would like to see that :lol:

try get him to put up a buy now, good luck!!!

yay I think I've found what i'm going to be mucking around with for the rest of the night lol

You have beautiful photos of very nice setups!!! how many tanks do you have??

I'm a bit stumped on how I get it all to actually to stay on the wood or rock etc.... Would the ricca die if i got a flat river rock and put silicon on it and then sprinkled the ricca on top then gently pushed it down just enough to get it to stick??

I'm not too sure how new you are but I'm quite new to it all. I have had my set up for about 1 month its 170ltrs + sump see below. I brought it as a complete set up off trademe for $150 with a dottyback which died a few days after the big move Since the photo I have added 6 coral frags thanks to suphew who has also helped me out with ALL my anoying questions plus testing my water, gave me a 20ltr water container and lent me his containers for the move and heaps and heaps of other stuff. Actually I would have been in a right mess without all his help I plan on painting the back of the tank blue in the next week so you can't see the pipes etc and yes unfortunately the skimmer is about 5cm's too tall to fit in my sump :-? My test have all come back good so I am currently sorting out some wee fishies, 2 clowns and a bi- coloured blenny to go into the tank to start with and then in a few months time I want to get one or two others depending on how things go!! And it was a great idea to start this thread good thinking!!!! It would be cool to see all the newbee's tanks and to hear how everything is going.

also depends on what part of NZ you are to what price you will get

and some of the platties had fin rot and most were clamping there fins and didn't look good at all. So i brought plants instead.

What type of fish do you have?? I give my fish alot of live food and frozen bloodworms etc as well as lots of dried foods. I try to give them something different every night I have - frozen blood worms frozen daphnia (sp?) frozen brine shrimp two different types of flakes colour bits novo bits freeze dried tubifex worms freeze dried blood worms freeze dried daphnia zucchini for the bottem feeders and spiralina tablets too I think thats about it ??? Oh and live white worms Microworms and live daphnia when I have it and they would apreciate a variety of food i'm sure, mine sure do

good to see something different, but if it was mine i don't think i would like all the brown. GOOD work though

all my fish love dried tubifex especially my 20cm pleco, he comes to the top and trys to get them :lol: suceeds most of the time if the turtles don't beat him to it

Haha ok it doesn't scare me as much now :lol: :lol: :lol:

they kinda scare me has it got an eye??

It can't be that small i'm sure you could find a place for it if worst came to worst you could always relocate :lol:

you can pick up white spot treatment from your lfs, bumb up the temp a bit depending on what fish you have and remember after the cysts drop off to do a good gravel vac or 3. what size tank and what type of fish are in there. white spot is usually caused by stress so you will need to find out what caused it too. I currently too have white spot on a couple plattys, we did a tank move and then the tank did a mini cycle after and i ran out of stress coat so lost a couple fishies from my carelessness (sp?)

the overflow is the pipe on the right hand side, and sump is nicely tucked in the stand, unfortunately the skimmer is too tall to fit in the sump so you have to see it :-? I will be painting the back of the tank blue in the next week or so before i get anymore fish so you can't see the pipes. Steve did you find some tanks to go and visit?? any plans yet??

nope they don't then

what brand of tank is that I really really want one!!! You have made it look awesome, well done!!!

I use stress coat, I don't have enough room or containers to leave water sitting out.

Oh so thats why my eheim out side didn't have any baskets in it That had me wondering what happened to them