GZ_Loach

You can put masking tape along the edge where you don't want silicon and then asap scrape the silicon into a nice even shape with your finger or a bit ice cream container plastic (cut to shape). Little trick is to wet your finger or spit on it so the silicon doesn't stick

candy

issue

Looks almost identical to the drospy photo, except not so fat around the belly

How long does it tank for the fish to die if it does have dropsy?

bookworm

centrifugal

How much should a basic unit cost? I've seen a few shops selling them and they seem pretty expensive, do you need to get a controll thing to keep the ph stable?

poke

useless

When i was interested in getting the tank i asked the seller who made the tank and he/she said greg, i assume he fixed aswell tho. Kinda hard to understand when the seller has bad english. What is a fist tank? lol

The person mentioned was only listed as making the tank, i haven't mentioned anyone and directly abused their work

Rule of thumb is to put about a drinking straw thickness bead of silicon around the edge and smooth it off with your finger, if its load bearing you can add more but it won't necessarily make it any stronger as the silicon between the two sheets of glass is the structural part of it, not so much the outside edges. Let it cure for atleast 3 days and make sure the surface is bone dry and clean before application (no dust etc) *Just re read your post and I'm not 100% sure what you mean, if you want to join two pieces of glasss there should be silicon the whole way along the pieces that are to be joined

There seems to be a few tanks out there that are 900mm high and only made from 10 or 12mm glass, someone somewhere doesn't have a clue about safe tanks...

So the fish could be swimming around normally and pop all of a sudden? Or does it die and then pop? I don't have a spare tank at the moment so i don't have anywhere to put him/her and i really don't want the fish to burst and make my other fishes sick aswell Is there a nice way to cull a fish?

Ohwell, I'll see how "it" goes. Apart from looking odd its swimming around quite well.

one of my filament barbs looks like its swollen up from head to fin (looks fat all over) and has gone a little dull, still swims around but doesn't follow the school and like i said, looks very fat. From a front on veiw the scales look like there buldging out a little, had a quick look on google and it looks like it could be dropsy? kidney infection and says to use anit fungal medication. Does that sound right?

Yep you sure did, its looking good. I like the sand too

To be honest I haven't got a c02 unit becuase unless I buy a brand new unit with all the control gear etc I wouldn't have a clue on how to use it lol, so if I bought a good 2nd hand unit I wouldn't know where to start with setting it up :facepalm: Heres my holding tank:

A school of torpedo barbs would look quite nice. The old 700L tank i bought was from a guy in the waikato who kept a large group of torpedo barbs, but most of them died when his c02 system reset during a power cut. Where abouts can you go to get nice decorative rocks and bod wood?

I'll take a few photos of my 350L tommorow so everyone can see the fish i have at the moment

Before I start I must say it has been a long long time since i have been on here, must have been about 2-3 years since my last post (I forgot my account information and what not). Anyway. Back in November I setup a 720L tank i picked up awhile ago and had it running very well and looking good when it decided it wanted to shatter one morning while i was asleep in the room next door!!! It sounded like the roof had been lifted off the house and a storm was passing over, its not something you can really imagine unless you have witnessed a large tank exploding yourself. Here is what it looked like when it was setup and running for 2-3days, it looked alot better when the plants had grown out but i didn't get another photo of it before it exploded. I managed to save most of the plants but ended up losing a few fish, including 3 Red Torpedo Barbs I had only bought the day before!!!!! there goes $120. (I did save one of the four tho) After the insurance work was sorted out I decided to build a brand spanking new custom tank + stand to fit in with the yet to be renovated room, Dimensions of the tank are 12mm thick 200cm Long x 90cm Wide x 60cm High (1080 Liters) with a powder coated metal stand to match at 75cm High. The tank has been completed but isn't ready to collect/setup as of yet becuase the room it will be going in hasn't been finished yet. The filtration is going to be an Eheim Pro 3 2080 What I haven't decided on is the layout i.e plants, bog wood, rocks and fish. So any ideas and help is more than welcome. At the moment I have a 350L tank with 5 Filament Barbs, 6 Clown Loaches, 7 Cardinals, 3 BN,2 German Blue Rams, 1 Siamese Algae Eater, 1 Red Tail Black Shark and 1 Red Torpedo Barb. This tank will still be running when the big tank is finally set up so not all of these fish have to go into it. Depending on the fish i would really like a moderate plant set up, at the moment I have a 4 foot twin tube t5 HO light fitting that I can use on the new tank but I'll need to get another fitting due to having such a large gap to cover (900mm) so any recommendations for T5's or MH's under $500 would be awesome. What I have thought about is a small group of Bala Sharks or something similar as I really like the look of the Barbs species and other related species, but I'm not sure it would be very practical having large fish as that rules out having small decorative fish like cardinals etc. If someone in Hamilton can help me out with plants that would be great becuase the petshops I've been to don't have a very big range, Still working on the co2 system so no big hurry. I will upload some photos as i find them. P.s in case anyone is wondering, the tank broke due to the floor being uneven, has now been leveled out so I won't have this issue again.

I have seen a fish tank on trademe made by greg and it was listed as "repaired" when i read the tank dimensions and saw the glass thickness i literally bowed my head down in shame. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =340167342 I would double check everything before you go ahead with making this tank, make sure you get it made properly and how you want it

thanks for all the info

Theirs a power cut on in my region from 9am-6pm. will my fish cope?? i can do a water change the night before and get some oxy shells but else can i do?