ctsniper86

That really is something cool, could you do it upside down with an upside down cup bit at the top and a small bubble tub downr bottom? Also check out these, it would be quite cool to make on of these too. http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/p ... atid=14686

Tank has been set up for 3 months at least probably more. Will do a 30% water change asap after work, and will get some of the water tested at the LFS when I get a chance.

Help!!!! Came home from work today and found my algae eater and a tiger barb dead, they were all fine when i was home at lunch time. And one of my other tiger barbs has a sort of red lump on one side. What can i do?

My tank used to have a lot of open bottom space, but i rescaped it and made it into a moderately dense planted tank, there is little patches of open gravel between the plant base's. I'm running an UGF on it and am wanting to do a clean to keep things nice and healthy. How would i do a gravel vac without disturbing my plants, or is it not needed?

Would one of these work do you think? Fairly cheap and easy if it does. http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storef ... View/Y1302

Sovled my feeding problem Remembered reading that these guys eat plankton in the wild, so i brought some freeze dried tubiflex worm cubes. I squashed one against the glass next to the filter outlet and let it soften and the softened worms be blown round the tank in the current and the birchardi ate them up awesome.

These are the only birchardi i've seen around here

What would be some confident tank mates for these guys?

Not yet, that memory stick is hiding very well.

awesome they'll be a good addition to my tank

Are the ok in a planted community tank?

Are there any bottom feeders that i can safely put in with these guys? Also they don't seem interested in floating cichlid pellets

Will try get some up as soon as i find a memory stick for flatmate camera.

Ok i see. Keep the strains pure, upon inspection they look like the N Pulcher which is cool. After reading a bit about them they seem like a really cool fish. Quite cool how they form a community.

It goes up and down, sort of like a quarter circle the longest straight part vertical and the short part horizontal. Is this good that they are the old fish?

I'll have a look when i get home from work and let you know.

Grey they look like the one on this site http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_daff.php

Got the pair home and settled into their tank during lunch, they are a pair of Neolamprologus pulcher. Very pretty fish, and upon entering the tank claimed on of the rock piles as there own and preceeded to dig a large hole under it. Can't wait to get home and watch them some more.

I'm not sure but i think they had a couple of birchir at the te awamutu shop when i passed thru last weekend and they had half price on all fish as they were moving shop and didn't want to have to move all the fish. I got 2 huge male kribs for $12 total.

Aftter googleing birchardi they do look like the pictures. Ok thime for a tank makeover. Atm the tank has a course dark sand bottom with three rock piles i made from siliconing rocks together. With one inhabitant, my sole convict. (he's in solitary) So Getting the sand out and putting in fine lime chips sounds like the best idea. Any ideas how to get the sand out of the tank, have syphoned it out with water from a 3 foot tank before but it was one hell of a mission and took the whole day. Any faster/easier suggestions would be great

I'm not sure think I'll start with the pair and maybe in a month or two i might think about adding something else

I've just got a new 4 foot tank and want to set it up as an african tank. At the LFS there is a breeding pair of africans i want to get, can't think of the name off the top of my head, but their tail fins sort of split kinda like a pitch fork. Anyway, I am wanting to know if I am able to use sand with shell chips mixed in to buffer the water? will the pair still dig their hole thing in the sand or do they need gravel of some sort. And if they need gravel of some sort will fine lime chips work as I can buy large bags of this far far cheaper than coral chip. Thanks

Tank is 4 foot, eel is about 15cm. Have managed to get it out, After some large taps on the top of the castle and he slid out and preceeded to hid in another ornament. He's in the new tank now. Finally, now i can turn the holding tank into an african chichlid tank

I suppose i could see if i could maybe jam it in the corner.

There's no room to put the castle into the tank, have got a large piece of driftwood in there now, only had two little ornaments before.