Joe

Haha I got the intended reaction out of somebody

Fantastic :thup: You've done a great job of this aquarium !drool:

Pimples are easy to get rid of. I just use the hands that God gave me - works a treat, and no need to spend money on stuff :thup:

Any closer and clearer photos? :bounce:

Wow that's expensive They're much cheaper in the shops here, which is a bit of a suprise. Join a forum in America and post an ad that you're looking for plants and you're in Canada etc. You will get them much cheaper through hobbyists, and usually they will be much nicer too

Those look wicked !drool:

Wow sounds great! We need a photo of the setup :thup:

Sounds like the prawn did just that - enter the mantis. After a little while he complete the journey and exit the mantis.

Wow sounds great Sophia :happy2: :bounce: :happy1:

Awww :love:

Put a whole lot of Indian fern in. This is probably the easiest plant in the hobby to care for! It grows like crazy and will feed on the ammonia in your tank And you don't have to plant it - it can grow submerged, but it can also grow emersed as well so you can just let it float.

That's so cool!

Cool thanks guys, huge help! :thup:

Yeah CrunchBang said they were good. I have a yahoo and so that's what I'm worried about. So should I delete it and get a gmail... :dunno: I don't know much about online email thingies as I've always just used my dad's one on his PC so any more advice would be greatly appreciated :thup:

My email is a yahoo.co.nz one. Other options are yahoo.com, ymail.com and rocketmail.com... Are these any safer? They would still allow me to have Flickr.

Damn should I delete it then and make a gmail? I don't want spam. I wanted my own email and chose yahoo so I could get flickr because its cool :facepalm: :lol: Maybe not such a good idea?

Just got a new Yahoo! email and a Flikr account :bounce:

I assume they would just be normal kribs. The wild ones are much more red like this;

That looks scary

Wow your Aussie layout is awesome! You should post a thread about it with more photos and all the details about plants and ferts etc Have you considered growing Nymphaea lotus 'Red' and Myriophyllum sp. in your tank? Personally I think that those plants will look awesome in your tank and I think you should give them a go We have some very cool native Myriophyllums in NZ - M. propinquum, M. robustum and a couple of others. Also we have some really cool Fissidens - F. berteroi (which looks like the F. fontanus overseas) and F. ridigulus and probably others. I had some of each at one stage but I failed to keep them successfully as I don't have the equipment to grow plants properly so I just have a few species which are easy to care for.

It would say on the lable on the tank if they were a wild strain :facepalm: The wild ones are a lot redder too from photos that I have seen. If it just said 'Kribensis' and they were just basic looking kribs, then you can be pretty sure that they will be standard tank-bred fish.

Kribs will be fine. BTW we're talking about the standard Pelvicachromis pulcher. Kribs are suited for standard community setups. Apistogramma prefer loads of plants with natural wood and substrate, or a biotope aquarium with dead leaves, wood, and tannin-rich soft acidic water. They are easy to care for, but only if you are prepared to meet their needs. If you just chuck them in a standard community tank they are not going to thrive. Whereas P. pulcher are pretty much bomb-proof, and are a great beginner's fish as they don't really have special requirements except for a couple of retreats and decent water quality. Just make sure you get a good tank-bred strain though, because in America there might be wild strains for sale and they need to be treated just the same as Apistos.

Kribs are a great idea. Very hardy too They were my first cichlid and I had them in a tank with swordtails and platies when I first started keeping fish. They spawned a couple of times but I never got any fry off of them, but they were heaps of fun to watch

Apistos need either a biotope aquarium or a densely planted aquarium with lots of retreats and wood. They also need a natural substrate like sand or dark gravel. From your other thread it seems you are going for a tank setup with gaudy, colourful fish, little or no plants and some ornaments. IMO Apistos aren't a wise choice for your tank. Maybe try gouramis is you want something colourful. Flame dwarfs would be ideal for you sort of setup, as long as there isn't too much flow as gouramis like still water.

Mmm looks yummy Caryl !drool: