Adrienne

Liquid? Do you know whats in it? I am going to say fish meal will be one ingredient.

Partially sighted maybe so only sees if the movement is at the right time, If you take a pic and its okay I will post it on one of the fighter forums I belong to and see what they think about him.

My tank is 5ft. I have two x 2 T5HO 54watt on my tank and 2 T8 - they are 48 inches long and fit well. I have 3 arcadia plant pro bulbs in them and one sunlight. The T8 are one tropical and one sunlight. My tank is 60cm deep. As long as I don't allow the taller plants to shadow the substrate I can grow glosso quite well. Personally I wouldn't go 36 inches as in my tank the light wouldn't penetrate enough.

If they are fighting but you don't know who is doing it and can't sex them, jar the one with the tattered fins. For sure, it will be the one who picked the fight and will very likely be a male. Mine used to fight any time from 9 weeks on. You know how to tell the sexes apart in adults without looking at the length of tail?

oh thats right. I have just lodged a request to have it put back on. May take a few days The membership form is on the facebook page as well I believe and may be in the clubs section on this forum.

Welcome, sounds like you have been in the hobby for quite a while. Is this the first marine?

Welcome. Great to see another person from overseas on here. Most of the fish available in the northern hemisphere we can only dream about owning due to our very very tight bio-security laws. We would love to hear about your fish keeping experiences.

If you want to have red plants and your tank is less 30cm deep you might get away with good quality T8 light fittings with plant specific bulbs in them. If your tank is 40 - 60 cm deep you will need to go for T5 light fittings - again with plant bulbs in them. If your tank is more than 60 you will need Halogen lights. Red Plants require high lighting to get them to turn red and keep them red. For a good planted tank you will need as many bulbs on it as you can fit. Price for these lights is relative. You can get cheap light fittings but they are not necessarily high quality and may not last or you may not be able to get replacement bulbs to fit.

There are quite a number of ChCh fishkeepers on this forum, someone might be willing to 'babysit' your fish if they have a spare tank that is set up. How long till you go away? Do you have a photo of the fish that is clear enough for us to see the damage and the red area. If so you can use something like photobucket to post it on here or you could email it to me [email protected] and I can post it for you.

How high is your tank - the depth of the tank has a lot to do with the type and amount of lighting you require. What are the plants you have?

Does anyone know if this tank shown here http://www.livingreef.co.nz/c/35/reef-aquariums is the Aqua One 400 Reef Tank or is it a different brand? Thanks

No, no air con. I am thinking a chiller just in case but was told it shouldn't be needed. Our house does get pretty hot most summers. this summer is not so bad.

Is a chiller a necessity on a tank with corals and fish in Auckland?

To a certain extent it depends on how you set your tank up. I have a 450 litre tank, heavily planted with large driftwood and run an FX5, sun sun rated 1400lph and a power head which are all required to keep water movement going around the tank. Those 2200 are good filters, I rate mine as good as or maybe slightly better than the FX5.

Where do you live?

The trouble is that selling off bulk lower quality unwanted sees them then bred from and so the story continues. There are no high quality halfmoon on TM currently - the ones that are there are nice looking but a halfmoon has a D shape to the tail and these all have rounded edges. You would need a spectacular female and several generations to get the true halfmoon tail shape.

You need to separate it from the angel fish. If the frayed area has increased I would expect that a bacterial infection has set in. If its bacterial salt will help but probably not cure it and you will need to make sure the water quality is top rate.

The only person I can think of who will have the quality tail types you want to start a project is Trilobite from this forum. To my knowledge there are no other fighter breeders out there who participate on here with high enough quality stock, particularly females. CT will be particularly hard to find. You could start with a PK female and line breed by crossing with good quality imported CT males until you get the good quality female CT. Thats what I used to do, took about 3 generations before they become good quality. Does require a lot of culling though. Have you tried New Pupuke Aquarium Centre. The owner is a reknowned fighter breeder - discus guru.

How long has it been like that? I have no doubt the angels are responsible for the damage.

The above is all good advice. A huge amount of information is contained within this website and also the forum. Don't restrict your reading just to the posts but go to the home page as well. Google is also a good source of information. You are better to read through everything and then ask specific questions related to what you have read. That way people are more likely to give you reasonable answers than a general comment like you have put on this thread.. My tip for fishkeeping - Research before you even purchase a single item otherwise you will end up buying something you do not need.

You can double the flourish excel for a few days and then go back to the normal daily dose but this does depend on the type of fish and plants you have in the tank. Fish ie discus don't tolerate double dosing, Plants i.e. val don't appreciate excel and will not tolerate the double dose. You can also use a syringe (from chemist or lfs) and squirt excel directly on to the worst affected areas which also helps eradicate the worst areas until the normal dosing takes effect. SAE aka blackline flying fox do eat the new growth as you have heard. I personally would be tempted to try the syringe - you can cover a reasonable area with a small amount this way and it is a concentrated dose.

Depends on what type of snails. My chain loaches either can't or don't eat malaysian trumpet snails but my clown loaches cleaned my tank of them.

I also don't think it is 'illegal' but whats the point of putting possible diseases etc in to the waterways. Yes I know the sewerage process is supposed to purify water but fish are found living in the sewerage ponds in NZ having supposedly arrived there through being flushed. If the fish is dead, bury it for fertiliser and put it in a plastic bag for the rubbish collection.

I replied in your previous thread. Its a good idea to only post once on a single topic and post each different thing under a relevant heading - something like 'Does anyone know' is not likely to reach the people who might know. With the thread about Bream Farming, post that with a separate heading ie Does anyone know about Marine Fish Farming in NZ - in the Saltwater section or here but not both. At the moment you have it under the heading to do with guppies and ancistrus.

I think you may need a licence to operate this sort of fish farm. No-one on this forum, to my knowledge farms marine fish.