Casper

Tripod.. one of the best tips i can give you, the other is to have the tank lights on, and the room lights off and i always take them at night, as MarkLB says, you end up taking 25 odd photos and then pick the good ones,

Might be time for a bit of an upgrade

i just didnt think work would be so crazy about me using their power.. but thats fine, ill just flag the idea.

As the title says? What i would like to do is set up a wee 3-4ltr tank on my desk here at work, i know i can get battery lights, but a small battery filter?

WOW! Awesome stuff !! 8)

Sponge bob.... SQUARE PAAAANNNNNTS tootily toot te toot!

this would normally the sort of comment that ira or theconch would make, but would be saying "a net" be toeasy?

im going to have to see this loopy!

ha-ha Trust me if i could afford (and fit somwhere in the house) another tank for these guys i would!

yay! a topic i can relate to! you'll find that they lay their eggs on a nice flat smooth surface thats on a about a 45 deg angle, then within 24/36hrs they will move the eggs down into the substrate, best idea to get them to breed at the other end would be to move what ever they laid their eggs on, in our case it was a peice of drift wood Moving the pair to their own tank could be a problem, as mum and dad are very protective of their young if there is no threat for them to team up against then they may well attack each other, best option for this is to place their tank hard up against another so that they can see the fish in the next tank, that way altho there is no actuall threat mum and dad will see the other fish and team up against the perceived threat Best thing to feed the fry would be Liquid food

Im sure loopy can comment on that! go JuJu

Definatly agree here, whilst we have had no troubles with our jewels i doubt very much that any sort of fry would be safe with them, apart from their own as our wont stop breeding!! (we probably have about 30+ in the main tank now! )

i cant wait!! hehe, then they will have to have their own tank..

Well in our tank, 300ltr, we have 6, it is a comunity tank and we have had no problems at all with our jewels, they ony get nippy when they are about to spwan, and even then they only guard the wee hidy hole that they have in our peice of wood

ok so i have no idea of the names of these guys, but here's the few we have and the plec that lives with them

JAMES Gender: Male Origin: Hebrew Meaning: Supplanter : one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another :oops:

hey Mystic, how come the bit of glass in the middle is rased? how come the water needs to go down then up again, why not just over one sheet?

What about a couple of Long Fin Danios, or even somthing you could do would be to get some baby Angles, then once they start to get bigger move them on (or simply get another tank)

Just out of curiousity... do most people use fake or live plants in their tanks or both? If both what sort of proportions of each are used?

To be honest. that wouldnt suprise me at all!

yip,12V DC.. well thats what it says on the box, and im using a DC adapter and no flicker

or to take out of your account as the case may be!

Any updates loopy? How you getting on?

Nope they dont flicker, im thinking because they take a DC Supply

wouldnt that depend on the size of the tanks? haha! id be doing abit thats 48cm Wide and 30 High