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Sorry :oops:The goldfish pics look blurry but the inside of the glass is a bit filmy and due for a clean again (it's only been a week since I last cleaned it)!! I've kept the pics small I'm putting several on but you can click on them for a bigger view. This is Ed peeking at me from the side of the tank (the bigger fish) Ed's bum and his 3 little tankmates Not the best photo but shows some more of his colours. And Wilson this is a pic of the tank that the leopardfish are in. I tried to get a decent picture of them but they wouldn't co-operate and all I got were blurs.. I'll try again another time. It's a bit bare still. The plants have along way to grow yet before they can hide the heater. Heater has only been in there for a couple weeks. I have it turned on very low.. just enough to encourge slightly faster growth on the plants. I'm going to get some borneo suckers and I'll add driftwood and rocks then. In the meantime they would just get covered in algae while the tank is still maturing (it's only about 2 months since setup). Ed's future home:

Call Redwood and Organism... from what I've seen even with their 2 for 3 deal at animates they're still more expensive than elsewhere!!!

How big are the fish?

So much for fundraising!! Maybe you should have called it ice cream raising !!

The leopardfish are doing great I haven't found any more fry but the plants in there are still sparse so there isn't aren't a lot of hiding spots. I added my own white clouds and the jordanellas when I got janelles fish. The white clouds seem much happier in the bigger group now (9). The leopardfish seem to like hanging out with the jordanellas from time to time.. the male leopardfish have been eyeing up the jordenellas too!!! Silly buggers! Once the goldfish are out of my small tank I'll use it as a breeding tank. I was going to buy a male jordanella but I've decided to try to breed the others first since the jordanellas are not bothering anyone in the bigger tank like I was afraid they might. I'll tell them you asked about them Maybe I'll put up a pic when I put Edward's picture up.

Killies? (I'm so tempted to buy some myself I can't help suggesting them!!)

Definitely addictive. I'm laughing picturing one of your wee borneo suckers wrapped around a pellet! Ed seems to have gotten over it though. He only gets one at every feeding now. He gets it first which give the little guys a chance to find some of smaller food while he 'chews' the pellet. I dropped one into my other tank just to see if anyone would eat it. Now in this tank I swear the fish couldn't be any less interested in food usually.. the leopard fish eat algae or nibble on he spirulina flakes I put in there, the white clouds nibble a tiny bit but really.. feeding is a non event.. WELL.. dropped in one of those pellets.. and holy cow the frenzy! Every fish in the tank stopped what it was doing and gathered around to see what I'd just put in there. Ok.. so it went straight past them as it seems they had never eaten off the bottom but the reaction was huge! (they found it eventually and there were several fish crowded around 'sharing' it.) Anyway.. I took some pics but can't find the cable to connect my camera to the PC and my card reader is at work. I'll put some up on Monday. Good news is that when he runs out of stuff on the bottom he is now coming back up to the top for the flakes I put there. Oh... and he's getting on with his new little mates like they've known each other forever !! I'm having a small spike in the tank though so obviously he's more bio- load than the fish that were in there before. I'm watching it closely and I'm testing it daily and changing some water every other day (It's not a huge spike and the fish are not showing any signs of stress at all) Nitrite is higher than the ammonia so I'm hoping it'll be short lived (ie: the ammonia is dropping already).

The yellow algae eater you're talking about.. do you mean a GBA? Umm..which I think is golden black eyed ancistrus? Like this: http://www.mikesaquatics.co.nz/shopcont ... ?type=L144

Double dose or regular dose?

So you worked out I meant bushier and not busier! My typing has been shocking lately! I think I've seen then selling the emersed form as a pond plant. I'm always keen on plants that can do double duty!! Right now the only 'plant' in my tank doing very well is string algae

Does anyone use tank dividers in situations like that? keep the fry on one side and the parents on the other? Actually was it Billaney who put up a pic once that was basically a very large 'fry basket' that was in his tank (Like a supersize breeder net? You'd either move the mops into the safe area before stuff hatched or catch what fry you could when you spot them?

Thanks for posting that Alan So it gets slightly busier if you trim it like most others huh.. Nice rounded leaf actually.

The banner is excellent nice work Mr+Mrs Loopy

That's great. Thanks for the info. It certainly does seem like a good food so I'm happy to know it's just me :oops: Actually, I've just moved these fish around and they're still getting the hang of where the food goes and I'm getting the hang of how much they want. I'll just do some extra water changes. Water parameters are all good thankfully so I haven't polluted things too badly yet. Will do a couple more changes to try to clear it.

Was it plugged into an rcd?

I have some of this food and I think it's clouding my water. Has anyone else encountered this?

Don't worry about all the questions, I think apart from a few experts here we're all pretty much clueless when it comes to diseases. It's a terrible feeling too (How did those pond fish get on by the way?)

ick! Eels really creep me out!

Doh!! Doesn't everything/everyone get curious when they're pithed?

I'm chuckling out loud Haven't heard that in ages Alan! When lobelia is grown submersed does it send out flower shoots out of curiosity?

Most hardware store can sell you shade cloth by the metre.

Hi all I'm off to the farm store again tomorrow cause they've got some more Droncit. Please see the ad in the private trade and exchange for details. I need to know by tonight if you want some.

How about a craft/sewing type shop? Umm....Spotlight comes to mind. There may be others.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/VM061

I'm sure she will. I'll just feed a pellet every few days to make sure she's getting enough but will make her work for some stuff at the surface in between. The white clouds worked it out. I think she may still have been a bit sulky and trying to extract something better from me! Obviously it's worked though since I'll be out to buy her pellets tomorrow. Little sod :lol: !!