Adrienne

how big are the discus?

You are best to look up the white/yellow pages or google to find local suppliers in your area. Cylinders are something that are not easily shipped. You will also find that if you go to user control panel and put your location in your profile people are more likely to respond. People often don't bother to trawl through posts to see if the location may be somewhere in a thread, or not

This morning I emailed to all Clubs Secretaries information on the FNZAS Breeding Scheme. This information should be either emailed out to all financial club members or passed on at your next club meeting. After the results of the survey - the link of which was emailed out to all financial members and posted widely on Facebook and on these forums - were reviewed, some changes have been made to scheme in order to make it easier for those wishing to register breedings to do so. I look forward to receiving your Breeding Registrations for this coming year. Adrienne Dodge Breeding Coordinator.

Love the colour How big is it atm and how much/what is it being fed?

How annoying! Good experience for you though in learning how to do it.

Two more discus

It all started with a bare looking scape a piece of hardwood from East Cape, one piece of spider wood, my red tiger lotus, a few unknown crypts and some madgalensis chain sword. My discus tank has been taking back seat to the marine tank for the last eight or so months so it was do something with it or sell it time. Sooo… four more pieces of spiderwood later - three on the right stacked and twisted together and one more added to the existing piece on the left, held in place by a stainless steel screw, LED strips instead of my T5HO, five species of anubias, two sword plants and two new crypt species later and I then added these guys today My tank and some of its occupants -

Sounds like a good project. We all love plenty of photos

Are you intending to grow them on for sale or are you intending to sell the ones you take, therefore taking more than you need - for financial gain?

Some did go southwards. There are still some in the shop

Its not difficult and works well. I used to clean all my fighter tanks and equipment - the jars - weekly using bleach. For the tank pour about 1/4 cup bleach in and fill with water, leave it 2 or so hours and then rinse out really well. If you can smell bleach rinse until you can not.

You mean stop it from growing? People love to have this stuff - sell it Goldfish find it very tasty.

Bleach dip would work on java fern. Best to bleach everything including filters hoses sponges nets - absolutely everything. Once bleached rinse until you can no longer smell the bleach and leave out in the sun to dry.

Wow, love your previous tank. That's amazing.

If you own the house put solar panels on the roof. We have 36 panels, I have a 450 and a 215 litre tropical tank and a 250 litre marine and we return 2/3rd of the power from the panels to the grid. This year we have a power credit every month. Why does it need to be in the garage?

I'm in Auckland with a marine tank in my house however I have used my garage in the past for tropical tanks. Garage internal access,concrete block, uninsulated and during the summer my heaters rarely came on. At the moment I am hatching brine shrimp out there and once again the heater is not often on. I would think that with the summer heat in an insulated garage you will need a chiller. I have one and in the summer it runs on and off for around 10-12hrs a day. A heat pump might be the way to go.

ah hahahaha Ron. This is a post that was dragged up from February when you were away, and I wasn't sure what yours ate I couldn't ask you so asked on here. Ira was his usual self

It takes ages to get through these stages, and then for a while you are going to wish the rock had stayed white

Sorry to hear - my picasso female jumped out while I was waterchanging. Didn't notice until late that evening and then found her on the floor dead. My replacement female has twice jumped over into the sump area at the back and lived.

I'd be more worried about the fighter fry nipping at the cory than vice versa. I had young fighter fry (1cm or less) take out my young 2cm gba by constantly nipping them.

Plecos are notorious poo machines More filtration would help. An external cannister filter on your tank would work. Basically, if you don't want to syphon it out then you need high enough filtration and movement in your tank to flush the waste into the filter strainer so it ends up in the filter. The filter you have is minimal size for your tank as recommended is 4 - 8 times turnover per hour and the rating is generally done when there is no media or sponges in the filter. Do you have the intake strainer as low in the tank as it will go? If it is near the bottom you could try putting a power head in to blow the waste towards it. Removing the bn will stop that source of waste of but then you are removing a very good way of keeping algae out of your tank.

First, Why on earth would you want your tank at 33 degrees to start with? 33 is too hot for all tropicals to consistently live in. Discus do well in temperatures between 28 -30 degrees (during the day the lights in the tank can easily heat it up to 32) Secondly, have you calibrated your heaters? Eheim Jaegar need to be calibrated to the correct temperature. Third, how big is your tank? Recommended is 1.5 watts per litre of water. Generally with two heaters one is a back up ie in my tank my jaegar heater is set to 30 degrees - my Aqua one which I use as a back up is set to 28. Fourth, what are you using to measure your tank temperature? The most accurate thermometers are the glass ones which float inside the tank. Temperature strips on the outside of the tank tend to pick up the room temperature. Digital are not very accurate unless you are paying a lot for one and even then a glass back up is a good idea.

Looking nice

Your T5 lighting will heat the tank during the day so your heaters are unlikely to come on. If they are accurate they would be on in the morning when the tank temp has dropped. Turn them up a bit. Eheims are pretty accurate as long as you calibrate them properly.

You are very correct that it is illegal to return or release anything in to the waterways. The fundamental rule here is that if you don't know what you are doing because you haven't done your research then don't touch or take anything.