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New shipment is here - I've got 'dibs' on the E. Ancora

It seems fairly easy to displace it if you want to - it definitely has a photo-component, so just optimise light and flow for some plants and it goes pretty quickly.

I've actually got 5-6 different types of blue and bluish /green mushrooms. They all looked the same when I bought them (they were all on one lump of artificial rock and called 'purple'), but since them they have coloured up and revealed different straiations, bumps, and colours. Maybe you fellas should come around and see what you like so I can optimise the growing conditions for the ones you want.

There is one with your name on it

And Squigette has changed her outfit

A couple of crappy mushrooms at the back of the tank have suddenly come to life

Brown algae feeds on silicate, which is leaching from your (new) glass. It will settle down and be replaced / displaced by green algae. I'd recommend you get some lights for your tank and plant a few plants if you wan't to get rid of the brown algae and prevent green algae taking hold

Refugees from someone else's tank that they pulled down. I've got two like that with the yellow stripe, and a plain white one.

You can get a blue-to-black fade that looks quite good for most things - an Asian Arro would look very nice against it.

:lol: Errr... maybe we are missing the point a little here. At a practical level outside of the 7th form geekery, yes, you can use a dehumidifier without any adverse effects on your tank, and it will definitely improve your personal comfort and the health of your house. Go for it.

Hi Dixon 'Green neons', or 'Green Cardinals' or 'False Neons' as they are sometimes called, are physically very similar sized and shape to usual neons, but they have almost no red stripe and the blue one extends right to the base of the tail. They are smaller than cardinals. They are much harder to keep than both ordinary neons and cardinals because thay are caught in a particlar part of a river that has quite a low ph and a lot of tanins in the water. They are also much more prone to disease unless you keep the water parameters right. That said, I have a school that is two years old and they look awesome with Red Turquoise Discus. If you understand water chemistry and are able to maintain it, then they are a great little fish.

8 big ones... plus an RSM

Err... maybe you should have put backing paper on it before everyone left But nice tank!

Yes, there are a couple of live ones - this one is just chilling until nightfall.

Yes and no - you do need to wait for the tank to 'cycle', which can take anywhere between a couple of days to a couple of weeks, depending upon exactly what you do. 'Cycling' refers to the process of certain beneficial bacteria growing in your filter so that fish waste can be broken down before reaching toxic levels (do a google search on 'cycling aquariums' or 'nitrogen cycle' if you want a full explanation. You can speed the process up by adding products such as cycle or filterstart, or by using large amounts of water from an existing tank - all of which introduce the beneficial bacteria and allow it to establish faster. You can also buy test kits for ammonia, nitrate, and nitrate. If you test the water over the next week or to you should notice ammonia rise, then fall as nitrite rises, then the nitrite will fall as nitrate rises. Once ammonia and nitrite levels are zero, you can start slowly adding fish. You do water changes to get rid of the nitrate.

Its looking nicely inflated at the moment. The mysterious muscle that lives underneath it: And finally, a half-decent picture of my namesake;

The Fungia strikes back! Take that, Bristleworm!

Your fish will eat them, so put them somewhere else (like your randon critters tank)

I reckon he should put a plastic scuba diver in it! Classy!

Now due this week, apparently

Nope - he didn't

Yea, that would make me pretty nervous - but only because I'm so obsessive about my tanks :lol:

Welcome fishfever

Yea, I never really notice growth until I look back at old photos. These were taken about 7 months apart: and... You can see in the last shot that the original frag has been killed off by the Acro, but it has spread rightward as a result.

Ahh - that is a candycane - it has gone rediculously green!