VinsonMassif

Awesome pics Mystic, thanks.

Hello. My name is Bob, and I'm a retard. on a side note I put on my shirt today and felt a tickling on my neck. I tucked the tag in and drove into town. Then the tickling happened again so I got a friend to rip out the tag. I went up to the counter at a cafe and the girl screamed. The tickling had been a nursery web spider which had crawled out onto my shoulder. It was at least 5cm diameter. just as well we don't have common poisonous biters in our country! Nursery Web Spider

Thanks guys. That CL really only has 3 1/2 stripes because on the other side it is not a stripe, its a little bump.

Red Sword

Khuli Loach

Juvie Clown Loach

Horsefaced Loach peeking out of the sand

Angelfish

Rosy Barbs

Apple Snail

Just a thought, but the big hardware places like mitre10 mega sell those 600l portable gutterwitch tanks which are food grade....

Dude seriously they are stunners!

IME Khuli's only fully bury themselves in the sand when they are very stressed or threatened. They don't live under the sand. Khuli's need cover most of all to feel comfortable in the tank. Remember they are hardwired to need cover as protection because they are a scale-less worm-like bottom-dwelling small fish which inevitably is preyed upon. If you are not going to provide a fine sand substrate then you need to provide either some upside down pots or raised flat rocks for the Khuli to hide under. You will know when you have provided the right decor and environment for the Khuli when they spend a lot of their time out and about during the daytime. Because until you have that they will hide and be mostly nocturnal.

I love that tank.

And I had to wait until almost 3pm for mine. Tear. lol

-Yes I have sand in all of my tanks. The çleanness depends on what you stock. plant plants in the sand or run your fingers through it occasionally. you would need a hell of a lot for this i would think. ........ You can use play sand, clean fine builders sand, or beach sand. West coast is inert, east coast is more shelly. Yes. Just make sure your filter inlet is high enough above the sand so as to not suck it up in the current flow. Use a gravel vac on a 45* angle. Will regular siphoning near the surface of the sand be sufficient? It depends on how much your fish mess around in the sand. Have a good cleaning plan and carry it out regularly. If you use clean sand to start with and clean the bio-waste from teh top then you won't get gas pockets. Most rooting tropical plants. It depends more on your lighting and nutrients in your water column. edit suphew: to fix quotes

Perhaps separating that male from any females would be a good start...

Thanks Caper. The substrate is 1x bag aquatic mix, 2kg aragonite sand, and 20L bucket of fine west coast beach sand. The sand creates such a soft effect and the plants colonize it well. Plus my loaches love it. Glad you will get good use from the wood Alan

Thanks. Dixon that I bought that plant in the middle as Echinodorus uruguayensis. D&A I got that piece of drift wood from the local beach

Here is my 80g tank. It has only been re-scaped a week ago so still looks new.

Here is my 60g tank with the plants starting to tank off. And my new babies in QT - albino angelfish (thanks Sean) and clown loaches (thanks Steph)

Thanks for your input. I went scrolling through planet catfish cory page. There are hundreds of them.

I am going to get a school of Cory's for my 3' tank but don't know which species. I am tending toward Skunk Cory's for their aesthetics, or Sterbai's. So I am after your opinion's on your favourite Cory. What is your favourite Cory species? and Why is it your favourite?

I'm sorry you lost your fish. I learned the hard way. It is times like this that re-emphasize the need for QT for all new fish.

Sweet as. Thanks.