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looks great aaron! must admit that i caught the nano bug last week and decided to set up an AR380 which i'm trying to stock at the moment with some nice plants.. Also bought a female blue ram so i'm looking to stick my male in the tank with her next week and hopefully try my luck at raising some fry. PS what fertlizers are you dosing? and what sort of water change schedule are you on? I need to buy some form of liquid fertilizer but not sure what would be the best

need to be careful with the dog worming pills, you can buy droncit (dont' use drontal as its not pure) as a subsitute for prazi medication but thats not really used for internal parasites, used usually for gill flukes. Try keeping up the daily water changes and vacuuming up any faeces, it can make a big difference. Metro is hard to get... vet only or some ppl on the forum have it

if you quarantine then definitely just shift the one discus, it will be fine by itself, it may even help, i had one discus that seemed to prefer isolation! The spitting makes me think internal parasites and that you may need metro to treat. Without seeing any stringy faeces its hard to say for sure but i had something similar with one of my discus around a year ago, never saw any stringy faeces but the fish would go dark, spit food and turn on its side often clamping one pectoral fin. I treated with metro for around a week and it fixed him up. you can use metro in food or just int he water column but getting it can be the problem often. Even if you can't get the metro i'd try isolating first and giving daily water changes, and keep trying food, but vacuum it out if it isn't eaten

I have a number of juwel tanks including the vision 180, i don't think the internal filter is that great but it depends on what you want to put in there and the stocking numbers. I use a aqua one CF1200 on my vision 300 as well as the internal filter

i think 20mm fittings require 25mm drill bit and 32mm fittings require a 40mm drillbit

from what i remember the 25mm refers to the inside diameter of the hansen fitting and you need to use a 32mm drill bit to drill the correct hole

very true

pathogen contamination of groundwater would also be a concern as well as the nitrates depending on the depth to groundwater

I also don't think it looks like dropsy, easiest way would be to look down top on the fish and see if it has a pinecone look. Usually if a fish has dropsy it doesn't last very long and acts quite depressed, yours sounds like its happy enough so i wouldn't worry too much

you can usually download drivers from the manufacturer's website. Just go to the website of the webcam you've bought and search for the driver under the download section and download it that way

i've had both, personally i prefer the juwels, they seem less plasticy than the aqua ones. I dislike the trickle filters in the aqua one hoods as they can be a bit noise, i'd rather run an external canister filter. You don't have to use the internal filter box in the juwels, you can just leave it out of the tank and instead run the filter externally. lights can be upgraded on the juwel, you can either buy the additional light upgrade or take the top fo the lights off completely and use suspended lighting above the tank (eg Metal halides) which you can't do on the aqua one becuase they are inside the hood.

thanks for the heads up cichlid

very nice fish!

prazi is for gill flukes, furan 2 is for bacterial diseases, i doubt furan would have much of an effect on gill flukes

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well there goes that idea..

hi issfaq, sorry to hear of all your problems, the gel blobs with small dots in them will almost certainly be snail eggs so i wouldn't worry about them. you have probably just noticed them now because either you had a fish that was eating them previously or you've jsut been looking at the tank more. I am wondering if your fish have been infected with neon tetra disease, the pics do look like ones i've seen on the net ( i have not experienced it myself) and other susceptible fish are danios and angelfish which could explain the loss If you look in the link below your fish look a lot like these pics of the disease http://www.aquarium-pond-answers.com/20 ... sease.html

here you go hoody, i have found this site to be helpful it also gives recommended dosing rates for mixing meds with food such as metro. also check out the forum section for more detailed info and help

looks fungal to me i would treat with furan-2. I would isolate and treat in a separate tank especially as with furan you have to run 4 treatments for a course and it can be costly in a large tank

wow you bred the blennies, very cool, did you jsut let htem do your own thing or did you raise them separately?

As i discovered a couple of weeks ago when our power goes off our house alarm signals a long beep every few minutes, enough to wake you up, gives me a bit of peace of mind knowing i'll at leawt wake upt o checko n the fishies in a power cut

made it home all ok with the tank and its inhabitants , those tanks are heavy! especially when its just two ppl. So now the planning for the upgrade begins!

what were the differences you noticed, colour, growth etc? i seem to be getting a lot of brown in my lps but the couple of pieces of sps i have seem ok colourwise weird..

good question, i also need to know, have been looking at the Octopus skimmers, i've been reasonably happy with my old Nw-150 but then again i have nothing to compare it too.., i was wondering about the dnw-200

thanks for the headsup on the eggcrate conch