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I made a home made trap out of an old container that is like a very small plant pot, It came from the bottom of one of the plants that I bought when I was setting up a planted tank. It is about 50mm high and about 30mm in diameter, and has cut outs for the plant roots about 10mm square. I found an old lid that from a sauce bottle that sort of pressed on, put in a bit of cucumber and left it in the bottom of the tank over night. Next morning I just removed it shook it in the kitchen tidy, rebaited the trap and put it back in again. Over the space of about a week I must have trapped about a thousand of the annoying little suckers!!! Cheap and effective I reckon.

Sorry Gerald, Can't remember how to post a link!! I did a "Google" search on "How to calculate the glass thickness of a fish tank" and there are pages of URL's one below if you wan't to check it out, or do a search yourself. Cheers, http://www.fnzas.org.nz/articles/techni ... thickness/ P.S. Good grief it worked!!!!

No, Gone without a trace! Thought if it was the cat I might have found a tell "tail", pardon the pun. It is a real mystery!

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No straw, nobody drinks malt whisky with a straw!!! up or down?

I seem to have misplaced one of my Golden Algae Eaters! He was last seen two days ago, in the guppy tank, energetically cleaning the bottom, as he is want to do! But this morning he's gone! Has he left home? Has he become just another "fishy" meal for "Tequila" the cat? He hasn't appeared as a skeleton when I vacuumed the tank today! So I don't think he is deceased! If he turns up at your place, can you let me know via this forum, and I will come and get him! He really should be home, there's a lot of cleaning still to be done!

Rifle Single shot or semi-automatic?

Pardon my ignorance, but, what are you using the LED's for? :bow:

Yellow Man or Wife

I am going away for about 9 days, I don't have a problem having my tanks fed, have trained geriatric father, and he does not overfeed, My question is, will my community tanks be o.k. for an extended period, without water changes? I used to test every week, and had Nitrite readings of zero, and nitrate readings of around 20, after seven days, so now I don't bother testing! Tanks are established, and with 25% water changes on a weekly basis, all is cool. I am thinking of doing a 50% water change on each tank, the day before I go, in the hope that this will tide them through until I get back, what do you collective guys and guyesses think?

Tsarmina, What sort of algae? I had a serious brush algae problem in one of my tanks, used single dose of "excell" for about a week, introduced a young "Flying fox", algae gone in just over a week. Still don't know if it was the "excell" or the algae eater, or a combination of both!!!

Thanks Hazara, I also have a Canon, Eos 350D though, I haven't tried it with tank photos yet, I was using an Olympus FE-170 in Macro mode, but I might charge the batteries for my Sony Cybershot, as I have had good success with other subjects in the past. It's just a case of getting around to it though!!!! I am due for a bit of glass scrubbing and water changing myself over the weekend, so will maybe give it another try, a couple of hours after the maintenance.

Digging deep here!!! but the ballast is to provide the voltage to ionise the gas in the tube, when the starter switch(electronic or electromechanical) opens. If the combined wattage of the tubes is less than the rated wattage of the ballast you should be o.k. Also, some fluoro's have the tube heater elements wired in series, so if one of the heater elements in the tubes open circuits, then you will lose the operation of the other tubes. A good idea is to replace any tubes that look like they are becoming discoloured on the ends, or when they "flick" for a long time before starting.

Wish I could take a photo as clear as this!!! What type of camera and lens are you using? I have tried to take photos of my tanks, but so far none are good enough to put on this site!

Hi from Whangarei also, welcome!!!

got to agree with Antwan, SAE got rid of my Black Bearded algae in less than a week, and it had a good hold on the plants. :lol: Haven't seen any ottos up our way, anyone know where I can find a picture?

Just got back from my Saturday morning ritual of visiting the local markets, breakfast on the quay, and a quck squiz at my LFS's, walked in the door at home to find a dead Penguin tetra about 1 1/2 meters away from his tank! Tank hasn't got a lid, but then I have never had the need of one before. Anyone know if these fish are prone to high/long jumping? Tank is only about 45 litres so he wouldn't have had much of a run at it! I'd fed them at about 6 a.m. and left about 6.45, but hadn't heard any splashing up till then! Thought that the cat might have taken up fishing, but this tank is in a place that she can't normally get to, so I don't really think it was her!

Where are the bracings? Both ends and centre?

Just gave a home to a couple of orphan Angel Fish, one is silver with black stripes, the unusual thing is that it has red eyes and the pigment of the stripe continues through the eye. Is this a common thing with these types? Tried adding photos but too hard!!!!

Hi David, I am in Whangarei, I may be off over Xmas week, but I am not going far, if I can help please PM me, I might be able to check on your fish and feed them if you are not too far away!!!

What you are thinking sounds good to me, its a lovely piece of driftwood, GO FOR IT !!!!

Hi js, You can pick up a Ph test kit for a few bucks, and test your water yourself, I assure you its not rocket science!, most kits come with clear instructions. You will then know exactly what the Ph of your water is. Generally if it is around 7+/- for the goldfish will be fine. It may be prudent to ask the person that tested your water, what exactly he tested it for. Ph is only one of the parameters tha may affect your fish.

I have had a male Beta in a community tank for the last three months with a female beta, two angels, two pearl and two three spot blue gourami, eight tetra, four platys, a red finned shark and a golden algae eater and they are all getting alonf just fine, no problems so far.

Can't really see from your second photo MiNcIE, but what you may need to do is get the correct fitting for the PVC pipe that you can glue on, with say a male or female screwed end, get another fitting that suits the polythene pipe, with either a male or female thread (obviously the opposite to the fitting on the PVC pipe) and screw them together, before making off onto the polythene pipe, or you can get a "MAC" union and make off a fitting on the PVC pipe with a male thread on the end, make off the fitting on the polythene pipe also with a male thread on the end, screw each half of the MAC onto your pipes, and then do up the Mac union.

I have a couple of tank ornaments that I need to repaint, before putting them in a cold water tank that I am going to set up for my grand daughter for Christmas. Does anybody know what type of paint is "Fish Friendly"? I don't want any long or short term contamination of the water. Thanks!