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Its fairly simple - smoking is very bad for an individual's health and society in general. There are no positive aspects of smoking, unless you count 'looking cool', which was the image tobacco companies sold to the weak-minded. It should be banned, completely, everywhere - and for those current smokers - tough luck - time to grow up and actually be cool instead of believing holding a cigarette does that for you.

I'm about to shutdown my hotrodded Hailea (it now has 48watts of blue actinic light cf the original 16 watts) - interested?

Meh - how many crocs have been hunted / shot for fun - at least crocs only eat people for food, not fun. I score I back for the croc.

They couldn't have been much worse. Apparently the new 130 litre RSM has 17 different new parts - including a new tank moulding, which means that not all parts are retrofittable, so us poor suckers with the first version won't be able to do a full upgrade to the new spec anyway

Be careful with Animates too - they often sell other fish that look like SAE labeled as SAE

Chocolate bunnies?

Where's your sense of humour today?

What about selling some autographed vials of Calicivirus?

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Flourish Excell might get rid of it in the short(ish) term, but the only way to get rid of it permanently is to maintain better (cleaner) water. It will only become established in water with relatively high levels of disolved organic compounds (Nitrates). I'd physically remove as much as possible, hoover the tank etc., and make sure your lighting is able to support good plant growth, then do some big water changes over the next few weeks, before bothering with Flourish Excel.

Rumour has it that the Asian ones die rather prematurely.

Furan2 is pretty effective - why not try that first?

I've posted one, more than once. Yes, there should be a sticky.

If it has taps, open them so air can get in

:lol: Ouch!

Do a big water change and check your filter, heater etc are working.

Something else to consider - plumb it for waste water so you can drain tanks easily, and if you are feeling extravagent fit it with its own hot water cylinder, and a COMFY COUCH!

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I'd say its a little white limpit / crustacean.

People are probably talking about skimate bubbling out of the skimmer - its pretty smelly stuff! Better quality skimmers generally don't allow skimate to escape the collection chamber, but cheaper ones do - the lids simply bubble off. As far as sumps and pumps go, it is generally the kind of plumbing feeding them that causes problems - particularly syphons. Well designed sumps use an overflow return instead - if the pump stops, the water level never rises sufficiently in the main tank to return water via the overflow. Better quality tanks also use secondary 'emergency' overflows in case the primary one get s blocked.

28 is the bare minimum for keeping healthy Discus, let alone breeding them. Raise the temperature to 29 and put some dark gravel in the bottom of the spawning tank. You also have to make sure that you do plenty of large water changes and give them a good diet - basically, keep them happy and healthy, and be patient Incidentally mine would spawn much more regularly in autumn and winter, less so over summer.

Mine used to spawn in a 300litre planted tank. I used to see the fry picking at plants and the glass after a week or 10 days, and suspect they were eating tiny animals. When the fry were about 3-4 weeks old I would transfer them to a BB tank to grow them out.

I do nothing in particular, they eat a mixture of flake, cichlid and pleco pellets, and they spawn every 3 weeks like clockwork. I very much doubt brine shrimp are needed for the fry - mine just eat algae etc off the plants and glass and I'd be suprised if they could actually catch BBS in the water column.

They are actually dried blood worms (red mosquito larvae) - my (Silver) hatchets behave similarly and have a strong preference for any small dried insect, and love wingless fruitflies.