shadowfax

speaking of stingrays, i came across some on some overseas site, what cool little dudes, aparently they only stay small & are great in a tank, i'll have to try & find it again..........

lol, sounds like my place, i dont like spraying because of the frogs & rabbits, the frogs get anything that moves in our yard & i'd hate to lose them!

i put mine on an angle as they seem to get little bubbles underneath & i have burn marks on one of my heaters.

come on now play nice

hopefully it doesnt have a red tail or you may need a bigger tank, a way bigger one!!!

this one?? http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/sp ... ies_id=428

just dont collect the snails from your garden if you use weedkiller, hate for you to lose your fish!

please take some pic's, sounds like heaps of fun!!! its like being a kid again trying to catch little fishes when your out for a swim or in rock pools!

mines a 300L, now i am worried!! ive decide on getting surinamensis, but i can see i will end up with more tanks in the future!

thanks carol, sounds like a good read, back to the oscars, when i first got my tank, did some asking round wanting to know what would be good fish to put in my tank, as its big i didn't want to waste the space & i was told oscars were great to own but the glass thickness need to be xxxx thick ( cant rember) & i measured mine & its only 6mm on 2 sides & 5mm on the other 3, (sound dodgy???) talked to the lady in the fish shop & she said glass on came in 2 thicknesses & i tried saying to her mine where neither of them, didnt end up getting very far with her, ( funny thing is the tank came from that shop!! even tho it was a few years ago) so between thinking my glass is too thin & not being able to buy baby oscars that was that, can anyone shed some light on the glass thickness thing, does it need to be thicker than what i have for oscars or is it a pile of rubbish?

lol, yip but reading your post its not without reason, i guess everyone has their own ideas on what works best, thats why i started this topic, always great to find out more about what others do & you never stop learning!

just reading up on goldfish after the carryone in my pond the other day, interested to read this on a site Carotenes. Besides being tasty and easy to catch, comet goldfish contain carotenoids that bring out the reds and oranges in the fishes that eat them. That’s why oscar keepers buy so many goldfishes, anyone raise comets to feed to their oscars?

after posting it i rembered to give them abit at tea time, if you have more than 1 plec or bn you may need to chop your slice into a few bits, once my plec jumped on it the bn's had to wait they turn, by bedtime they where allowed to have some!

only huka falls springs to mind

yip, thin slices, i rinse under the tap first & then chuck it in, takes them about 30 seconds to find it.

have you tried raw spud for your pleco's? they love it, haven't fed it for a while, i always forget to slice them a thin strip at tea time

i currently feed bloodworms, fish dinner, flake & granules, cichlid pellets & bottom feeder pellets, they have a comb that i change around. so who feeds their fish what & any opinions on different foods being better for example, bring out colours etc?

lol, fair enough but its put me off having more tanks!! my other pets cost way more than my fisheys!

lol, not really, mine went up about $20 a month after i got my 300L tank so i would hate to think what yours is, unless you happen to own the power company!! forgot to say how awesome your tanks look!

so what is your power bill like then???

thanks, i always thought they need to be over 8 cm to breed?

i have 5 gold fish in a little pond ( half wine barrell) & 4 of them are suddenly picking on the biggest fish & have torn a few scales off it, they are chasing it relentlessly, i have them for over a year & they have never done this before. ive just feed them but they wont eat they are to busy chasing the poor fish, any ideas or help would be great thanks, the fish are only about 5cms big.

sirkus, i dont know how big the gold nuggets get, it was only little, maybe 3 inches at the most, hard to see it was at the back of the tank. & my new fishies are geophagus surinamensis

how neat, whats the price like??

im sure there is a gold nugget pleco in the lsf, its awesome $190 bit pricey!!! most interesting fish ive found are surinamensis, got 2 the other day & will get a couple more, cool fish!!