fulloc

im pretty new to fighters, here is my 100L community tank. so far so good as my male is not very dominant, i have a funny feeling the longer finned cambo 'female' is actually a male. Male was sold as a red/platinum HM but he has a fair bit of fin damage as i have moved house a couple times recently, females are VTs i believe. By fulloc, shot with Canon PowerShot SX100 IS at 2009-10-04 By fulloc, shot with Canon PowerShot SX100 IS at 2009-10-04 By fulloc, shot with Canon PowerShot SX100 IS at 2009-10-04 By fulloc, shot with Canon PowerShot SX100 IS at 2009-10-04 By fulloc, shot with Canon PowerShot SX100 IS at 2009-10-04 By fulloc, shot with Canon PowerShot SX100 IS at 2009-10-04

After getting sick of the colour of my water i made my oscar tank bare bottom, its awesome to keep clean. i have recently added a second filter and now there isnt even a single bit of crud on the bottom after 2 weeks running. tanks been bare bottom for like 6 months and if anything the fish are happier as the water quality is better. Even in my new community fighter/guppy tank im only running a very fine layer of gravel- maybe half the usual amount. lets just say im convinced.

yeah my male is a small community with 6 guppies, 2 loaches and 2 whiptails. he is only young but still the boss at feeding time

very keen on one of those awesome fish

chilli bin my oscar smashed my 4foot with a rock a few months back- 10mins before i was leaving for work. what a mish. he was in time out in the chilli for a week with a 50w heater

yeah im pretty keen to try it but want to wait till everyone else has sorted all the problems out for me :lol:

old glass is brittle and will break easily, its also pretty hard to cut small strips off (ie 50mm or less). Put it on a table with a towel or somethin under it and score along a straight edge pushing until you can feel it scoring/grinding then hold the offcut piece over the edge of the table and give it a firm push. should just go "tink" and break off, if its not scored well it will break funny tho. IME the best cutters are the type with a tiny wheel on the end.

nice ghost dont see big ones too often

more severums/ other fish to spread the harrassment around?

cant see it being a problem, loaches are pretty fast an prefer to feed at night anyway

i spotted some pretty nice ones in rotorua too. at the shop on the way to paradise valley. im not sure of chassis numbers but they seemed well priced :lol: . some of the ones with the tiny white/blueish spots and various yellow/green strains. nice shop and well worth a look.

hell yeah

cool tank HFF roskill is awesome ay

yeah awesome, i love the father!

cool :bounce:

good advice. thats my most sucessful technique

yea the fords are pretty nice, turbo would be fun :lol:

very nice

yeah should have thought of that, its going beautifully

yea all the pipes etc are well cleaned i just couldnt see how to get into the impellor, il have a crack tomorrow when im off work thanks guys. figure it will be all gunged up inside. edit- this guy aint going up any hose :lol:

ive had ph issues with some terracotta but not all.

on a slightly related note, my ehein 2213 is about 1 year old now and it has lost about 70% of its pressure. i regularly take it out and rinse it but im unsure about opening up the powerhead to see if its clogged up. it used to crank but now it just trickles out. it seems to still operate fine otherwise. what would you guys recommend?

s15s probably about the best reliabilty and performance wise. but youre gonna be chucked in the boy racer bracket. audi rs6 is also beautiful and fast and 4door. just off the top of my head

1200. hes happy as pushes his driftwood etc round and cleans a rock with his/her new mate. im over gravel bottoms. i change 60% every week and it keeps it nice and clean like that, otherwise its the colour of tea in a couple days. look how breeders do it. its the only way to have something that big in a tank this size. i will probably upgrade to a 6foot in a few months when i get my own house anyway. also just noticed that i dragged up and old post. sorry.

yea i have two in mine and its pretty cosy but im guessing yours are pretty young. i can only suggest breaking up line of sight in the tank and making several hiding holes. the largest is always going to dominate the smaller, keep them well fed. when i introduced the smaller one to that ^ guy i put the big guy in a chilli bin with a heater for a week at least before the new guy got some backbone. now they are inseparable.