Cricketman

Nice, healthy and strong coloured parents! Offspring hopefully will have that strong colouration too. But like said before, don't be disappointed if they don't make it, you just keep at it and they will get better at looking after them hopefully...

HAH! had the same thing when I had a massive Mohawk (~40cm tall, which doesn't sound much, but when it hair sticking off your head, it looks HUGE). Add that to the fact I'm not exactly a small bloke, and it had older people crossing the street... but, like you, I'm probably one of the nicer people around (at least, I like to think so...) Anyway, I used to play Reps for Gauteng, South Africa. Not that I'm chirpy... well... that too... but yea, Cricket the sport more than the Insect...

progress report?

Spam has to be cooked proper... I like it "minced up" (you chop it up in the pan while your cooking this way), cooked in a pan with chutney, you have to leave it to caramelise, then chip it off the bottom with the spatula and let it cook/caramelise again. Stir through rice. (fried rice is nicer) Serve with more chutney. V.Good "bush-food" Can weighs near nothing, heaps of protein, and carbos from the rice, quick as to cook up too :thup:

I have eaten rediculous amounts of various southern african game bucks, usually as biltong, but some in stews/roasted. Warthog, giraffe, both as stew. Guinea fowl, roasted on a fire like chicken, tasted very much like chicken. Hippopotamus done the same way, though was quite young and didn't appreciate it as much as i probably would have if i was older. Various insects, termites, Mupane worms. Etc... Yeah, used to make a habit of trying as many odd foods as possible, have slowed down lately, but I still won't say no to damn near anything... There's probably more that I've forgotten...

:thup: Go W/C's, go! yea, angels can be little pains when it gets to "that time" of the season... just make sure that you have plenty of plants and hiding spaces, anything that will partially block "line of sight" will help ease aggression. Which is why I have a man-cave, same concept works with SWMBO :rotf:

Yea, I didn't think I saw any of that go in... But i couldn't read the writing, and had this fella in my head from ages ago...

The workmanship in that is amazing! However, I wish I could speak/read Spanish? is it? or Portugese? lol can't tell if its just running on compressed air or if it is actually an internal combustion? I'm leaning toward compressed air, but still, amazing!

Reason behind the inverted bottle is the conical shape means that you dont get "dead-spots". Light isn't neccessary, but! put a light to the side/bottom/wherever you want em, and the Artemia will follow it, leaving the rest of teh bottle unpopulated, and egg-casing removal a sinch... Easiest way that I found, cut holes slightly smaller than diameter of the bottle in some core-flute (real-estate signs), fold to a box shape, give yourself room underneath to play around with, also means that you can drip-feed through your air-line when you are not using it for air...

I would say swim bladder too, but lets get test results first...

!drool: I think we need a dedicated "Food thread"... lol

They taste alright,can be a bit "muddy", but the flesh is delicate, and tastes pretty damn good on the BBQ flapping around in some butter... god dammit, I'm hungry... :slfg:

3V "battery" airpump... What voltage are the little solar garden light units? could hack a couple of those up....

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+ regular W/C's...

Where's the dedication, Ira! :slfg: As above, Water-changes are the best thing ever for most problems, and frequent small changes are the best thing you can do for your tank to prevent disease and keep healthiest fish... though not always practical... And tonic salt, a natural solution to most mild infections, and some parasites... Scrubbing a tank with a salt paste is a good way to sanitise without "chemicals"... :thup:

That, and they could be in-bred till the cows come home... :dunno:

feed the dog and the fish... lol

must just be weak fish... :dunno:

Why these flights of fantasy? Foam: be careful that some foams are not aquarium safe, they are all petroleum based compunds, and you'd have no idea if they leech into the water... Powerhead: Graham, that link you posted shows how to use with a power-head. Also, I'm interested as to how much experience you have with these things to be suggesting them to newbies... Seriously... Water changes, + other filter, save for a bigger unit...

Some fish are more sensitive than others to specific things and Depends on what it is that is doing the damage... like I said before, you want a broad spectrum range of tests to try find what exactly is going on...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper Section 3... Maybe if we had a defined set of things that are un-acceptable. From the community that is, not just what the Mods want...

No. If the tank spikes after you clean the filter, and is otherwise fine, then aviod cleaningthe filter until you have to, and do some extra waterchanges for a couple weeks after the clean to combat the "spikes" until your levels even out. A bigger filter will not reduce spikes. The filter will help remove free-floating food and bits (mechanical filtration, which is where the turnover/hour comes in), provide extra surface area for your bacteria (biological filtration) though they will grow everywhere and anywhere... You could slap a FX5 on there and it would still have to cycle, with associated spikes, after a clean-out. Minimising disturbance will help, so cleaning a tray at a time like Graham suggests might help MINIMISE the spike, but will not cancel it out completely. Seriously, get a good water change regime, and do extras after you change the setup/stocking of your tank.

It will cope fine, the bacteria grow everywhere in the tank, no just in the filter. like I said, you are on the bottom end of the scale, but I wouldn't stress about it just right now, do what you can with what you have... Add that extra filter, get some more plants, keep up the waterchanges, do some extra ones when you can remember, and just don't add any more fish till you get it all into balance again.

Weather outside is bloody crap... Nice hot chicken Tikka would go a treat right now...