Joe

I used to have a lovely golden angelfish (although it outgrew the tank I had it in) and it had a wonderful personlality. I hand-fed it almost every day with various dry food and whiteworms, and it knew when I was coming to the tank and it would always come up to the surface wanting food. I've also found that dwarf cichlids and emperor tetras have excellent personalities. Edit: Bristlenoses have great characters too :thup: I miss mine - they just randomly died

Oh wow that is so awesome Josh !drool: :love: I did my ICAS English test today. I'm pretty sure I didn't get any questions wrong, although I might have made some mistakes. Hopefully I'll get distiction though

Simply...Amazing! !drool: Very natural looking. Man am I jelous lol!

What are the dimensions of the tank?

Awesome - great work Josh! Post some pics when you have fry :bounce:

It's about time I got some more stuff for my nano tank project. I still need the CO2 cylinder and tap, pH controller for the CO2, the tank, stand, filter and media, and the glass CO2 equipment and the thermostat. Already have the CO2 regulator and the glass filter pipes and drop checker.

Even that grows huge - have you seen the stuff phoenix44 had in his tank? It was like 30cm or something. Some good species of lilaeopsis for the foreground are L. novae-zealandae and L. brasiliensis. And a couple of larger species are also availible - L. mauritiana and L. ruthiana. HTH.

Aww it's so cute!!!!! :love: That sucks about your female Apisto I used to have three females but one just randomly dissapeared and I never saw it again

I watched my macmasteris spwaning last night. It was very cool! Hopefully this lot will hatch. Between the two females I have, they've probably spawned 8-10 times so far sine I've had them.

Wow I've had trouble finding the bad reviews. There's a lot of good ones now. Very intersting. Most people just say to get a new ballast and new bulbs. This thread here is quite helpful; http://www.3reef.com/forums/metal-halide-aquarium-lighting/30-odyssea-metal-halide-system-380w-review-60610.html

I just read a whole heap of various random reviews on the net and most of them weren't very good. I can try and find some for you.

I was looking at these because they are quite cheap and http://www.deepblueaquarium.co.nz/ has them so they are availible in NZ. I had a look on the net at reviews and apparently the unit isn't very good, the bulbs suck and the ballasts suck. So it is probably best to stay away from them.

Rats are so cute though! Who could possibly hate a big, cuddly rat?

Don't like any of those lol. I'm very picky when it comes to aquascapes :facepalm: :lol: This is my all-time favourite; Read this thread - http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/aquascaping/56945-90-45-45-a.html :thup:

Actually I do. The berteroi died off but is starting to come back, and the other day when I was cleaning my tank out I found little pieces of ridigulus growing.

I have an Aqua One that is 6,700K I think... It said 'Sunlight' on the box anyway. I also have an Atman 8,000K and a Hagen AquaGlo. Personally I don't actually like the Sunlight bulb - it's to sharp. I really like the 8,000K with the AquaGlo. Also the 8,000K doesn't seem as sharp as the Sunlight bulb.

I was given those for free from a friend who had bred them and had a few spare. I really need to try and breed them myself.

Don't think so :lol:

Fissidens berteroi will survive in heated water, although it needs quite good water flow and decent lighting and it is quite slow-growing. I also have F. ridigulus and that has similar requirements although it is much more slow-growing and it dies off at first when put in heated water but it will bounce back.

I've actually been neglecting my plants a bit. The only ones that are doing well are my Crypts, Windelov and moss because they don't need high light levels. But my H. polysperma 'Rosanervig' is half dead, and I chucked the last of my stargrass out yesterday because it was all black and alage infested, and my Ludwigia isn't doing too well either. I really need to change the light tubes because they are a couple of years old (not kidding) but I just can't afford it because I need to get this nano tank going so I can record the changes etc so I can have it ready for the school science fair next year. Cause if I do a good job of it I can win $1,000 and that will pay for about 1/3 of the big high-tech tank that I want.

They get fed mainly on livefood. They also get micro granules and spirulina flake :thup:

Oh I haven't got the tank yet, and I'm not actually getting an 'ADA' tank, it's just going to be ADA-style Although I'll probably get their nano hang-on-glass CO2 diffuser and the light. The tank and stand will be custom-made And for the filter equipment I'm using CAL Aqua glass pipes, and I'll try and get hold of an Eheim Classic 2211 filter. Anyway, here's the current pics of my 150L; Male Emperor Tetra Female Mac Cryptocoryne willisii Super-healthy Windelov (currently my favourite plant in this tank) Full-tank shot

Well I had heaps of algae so I had a huge clean-out and did a 50% waterchange. I have a bit of cyanobacter alage so I'm keeping an eye on that. I've decided to ditch the plants on getting a bigger tank with a T5HO lumenaire, because I am currently focusing on my ADA nano tank so all my funds are going towards that. However I could always sell my current lighting and get a Hagen Glo dual 39w T5HO ballast with reflectors and a couple of PowerGlos, it will be much better than what I've got now anyway and it would use less electricity and put out more light. I'll take some photos shortly

Well compared to my tank yours is definately !drool: worthy, not kidding! Check out my ugly tank and you'll see what I mean: http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=50082

Wow very nice tank and such beautiful fish !drool: I totally love those little loaches, they are so cute :love: