davidb

welcome!

t's allright

ha thats cool. Almost as cool as the Aussie ones aye!

hehe cool

O true. I have a pink Stylophora pistillata frag as well- but its just a single head at the moment. (Cheers Wasp) Grows really slowly too . Can we get orange and green Stylo's in NZ?

i saw that too- i want it

Is the coral I have a Stylophora pistillata or a Pocillopora damicornus ?

here is the best photo I can get of mine :oops:

the Crab

I'm starting up this thread again as i think its informative and helps people check out what fish they want/ like so... Glowlight tetra (Hemigrammus erythrozonus) Grows to 4 cm and is a peaceful community fish. It is a good beginner fish and prefers soft water. The Glowlight tetra originates from Guyana in South America and can be fed live, frozen, flake or pellet food. They are best appreciated in a tank with dark substrate and are generally not as inclined to shoal together as other tetra species (neons for example.)

nice growth- you must be doing something right

i have tried taking a photo of my guy but he lives in a bushy acro so its really hard to get a good shot with my crappy camera. BTW Ben, you know that Lime green Acro in your second pic- how is your growth going with that? I have heard differing reports- my lellow grows really fast but other people say they are slow growers

I have one if you want. Its 4ft by 2 ft I think. Shows big rocks with small ferns growing in the cracks on one side (And a F.W scene you prob wouldn't want on the other) PM me

a 2 ft is almost 3x the size of this one for sale (Assuming 2x1x1)

Is big aye!

I thought whakamolly was Mexican- Made out of Avocados

welcome. The bug is Contagious watch-out

looks like it is growing nicely.

yep that would be good for your tank.

haha, nice pictures btw, I like the last one.

sorry to hear about your losses ilah, a butterfly and a ornate? bummer dude

yeah the problem with crypts is that the sand is really really fine grained and the way i have it now being in rolling hills 6-10 cm thick means its not very stable and i dunno if they will take off in it. I will give it a go though probably. I dunno any other plants i could use.

try http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/tra ... es_nz.html for more info Jim r wrote:

I dunno the name of the sand, I got it from Hollywood fish farm in Mt. Roskill. They normally divvy it out in small 2kg or 5kg bags for 8 bucks or 10 bucks or something but I bought a whole 25kg bag off them for only 20 bucks, I like the look of it. I bought the wood from the same place. Those pieces were really expensive ($40 each) but I got them coz my tank is so deep and smaller, less rooty pieces would have made the top half of the tank look really bare, especially as the tank is not going to be heavily planted. thanks for the compliments guys, suggestions are more than welcome also

sorry couldn't move far enough back to fit the whole tank in the pic. And sorry for the reflections and dirty water- its still clearing up. I hope to start puttling fish in in 2 weeks or so but at least there is something to look at now. Just a recap of what I have done since last post: -Bought Wood -Bought 4 ft T8 dual 20Watt light -Bought Aquaone CF1200 -Plants: Java fern, Java moss Anubias nana. Looking for other plants which will survive in the low water movement, low light sandy tank??? Might add some more driftwood pieces to the sides but want to leave the middle area mostly open. Changed fish list slightly -Elephantnose -School of Neon and Glowlight tetras (30-40 of each) -German blue rams (4-5?) -Corys (15) -6x clown loach Comments? and yes i'm gonna do another big water change today to get rid of the tannins and the last muck from 25kg's of sand.