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It is "Rock Salt" I have in the fishy cupboard, about 4kgs so that should do me a little while! Yes I will be particular about the clowns I want, because my previous experience with clowns the skinny ones got skinnier and died. I plan to be at the door of my LPS with a poly box ready to collect them before they even go in a tank! How much salt would I add at a time? Do I mix it with hot water or just put in straight in the tank? Will be sorting out a heating tomorrow, eheim it is.

Well it's bad enough with him spraying on the car/house/plants OUTSIDE! I would deffinatley kick him up the bum if he came inside. - Might go for a stroll round the place with the dogs, make sure he's not sleeping.

Well make a day trip Paul - come shoot this cat and ill make you a cuppa in return :lol:

Oh yeah deffinately! I am not looking at adding the clowns for at least a month, but I am just asking questions to be prepared for when I do get them! If the Oscar hasn't cleared in that time (which I am sure it will) then I will be delayed. I also wan't to give the tank a good gravel vac to first so then no whitespot are hiding!

Its too fast for the dogs and hides in smaller spaces, if it on my property am I aloud to shoot it?

I might start to add some salt, I think I have a bag of the stuff some-where. My water parameters are perfect, and I do 50% water changes maybe fourtnightly, but since adding the Oscar I am doing 1/4 every three days or so, just to make sure my parameters are all good and that the extra bio-load is not affecting the quality, so I will continue to monitor that daily. I do not plan to add any-thing else for a wee while once the clowns are in, but one problem I do have since its winter is maintaining the temperature, it seems to flucuate between 24'c to 29'c, so I may have to invest in a decent heater before adding such sensitive fish, well I know they are hardy but I never seem to have much luck so I have put luck aside and going to beat the odds.

Good news as far as eating goes, I put in three frozen bloodworms and he perked up immediately and charged for them, so I see his appetite has appeared so I am very happy! This is the first fish I have had that has taken so long to settle in. I will watch his "wounds" to make sure they aren't a fungas or the likes.

I haven't seen him since early this morning so I have let my girls outside as they are just going crazy on the windowsills! So I will be keeping a close eye, as I am home today and my girls never leave the property. I will do some research in to cat protection leagues in my area and see what they say. - I understand he may need to be destroyed, as he does look ill, he has what appears to be a swollen eye and it may be infectious so I will see what I can do about catching him.

That is just amazing! Looks so great

I am looking at purchasing a large order or clown loaches to put with my new Oscar, looking at 10 possibly. I will pre-order them through the LPS and pick them up as they arrive. I have decided to buy them in bulk as I do not want to add one, then another, then another because.... last year I lost my whole colony of clown loaches to white spot and some were about 17cm long! So I want to get them all at once, but I would like some suggestions to make sure they do not develop white spot, and if they do I want to be able to treat it immediately. Tank is a 500L with a FX5, so will the bio-load be ok? Tank is a 4yr mature tank!

We feed our own cats inside any-way, and there is no possible food source on our property for the tom cat. Unfortunalty even our dogs' (mastiff and boxer) don't seem to worry him, he just runs over to the paddock next door and hides in the weeds eventually returning with his awful meow. We have a massive water gun that we have been using and we even resulted in pooring a bucket of citrus water on him! Eventually he returns. I do not want to inflict harm on him as this is not in my nature to do so, but I must remove him. The local SPCA has offered to ethunaise him, but I would have to catch him (and he attacks) and pay $45, which I am not quite prepared to do. Will try vinegar though Cricketman!

Ok, so I did months' of research before actually buying a fish that would grow so large. Finally in the weekend I noticed my LPS had a nice range of these guys, so after much admiration I chose one I was happy to keep. He/She is only 8-9cm in size. Get him home and after doing all procedures he is finally in the main tank, he immediately hides - which is fine! The next day I noticed he had developed white spot, so I treated the tank immediately and have been doing waterchanges daily since, he now has maybe three spots left, so I know this treatment was effective. Yesterday he finally came out of hiding and was started to tank an interest in the tank, which is a mature tank and currently holds a large ghost knife, and a pair of lumpheads I aquired a few weeks ago. My problem is, the oscar is not eating and I have noticed "wounds" on his sides, they are small and it only appears to be just a few scales missing, so I am pressuming some-one in the tank was not welcoming, but after many hours of watching I can not point to either the ghost knife or lumpheads, do you have a prefrence to which one is may be? Also I would like to know if Oscars "sleep" laying down, every-morning I turn the lights on I think he's dead, as he lay's on his side but after a few minutes he slowly gets back up right. - Is this common Oscar behaviour? I apologise for all the questions but there is just some thing's googles can't answer! p.s Can some-one give me advice on some good food for an Oscar? i.e any particular pellets?

Since the weekend I noticed a tabby tom cat (unfixed) hanging around our house, at first I thought he was just being curious so I left him to wonder, then noticed he would attack my cats. (Two females, spayed, 4yr & 2yr) He is now attacking them to the point where I have had to lock them up inside. We have not fed him, and he hasn't eaten any-thing while on my property, so I am unsure why he is staying? We have squirted him with water and citrus, tried to frighten him but he won't budge. He will hide then appear. He is also meowing around our property at 2am , neighbours have noted he is not there's therefore I think he is a feral cat. SPCA won't help as he is not "domestic"! Any idea's what I can do to rid him from my property? Otherwise I am worried I might hurt him if I take extreme measures. :evil:

As a kindergarten teacher of a Steiner school, where our philosophy is based on organic living, we recomened cornflour mixed with conditioner, this suffocates them and kills them, then apply a nit comb to loosen off dead eggs.

I wouldn't mind studying this certificate myself! Pitty I work in childcare mainly, can looking after rabbit and frogs count... only joking! If there were places willing to host I would love to jump on this band wagon!

Any-one know? http://forums.waterwolves.com/uploads/p ... 981014.jpg

Thanks for sharing, nice to know there are friendly bunches out there!

Any chance in a picture of this?

[quote="smidey" you have done a huge amount of work to achieve that, well done. My work mate has a RX2 coupe which is pretty cool, i would own one but they are near the bottom of a long list of toys.

Currently pics are away in external hard-drive which is in the shop, but here is a forum it was featured in http://www.jascoautomotive.com/forum/vi ... .php?t=452 have a nosey!

Currently pics are away in external hard-drive which is in the shop, but here is a forum it was featured in http://www.jascoautomotive.com/forum/vi ... .php?t=452 have a nosey!

I assume that's to me, and three years! I'm sure long enough to make fair statements.

As a owner of an award winning rotary, I have to admit my rotor is far more reliable than any other car I have owned (and I have owned plenty). Negativity always comes from spectators who are jelous that they don't own a rotor

Theres always one! :lol: