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My apologies also thanks

IME it is not normal. Java fern is a fairly hardy plant. Have your water parameters changed radically over the last week? Have you been dosing ferts, supplements, carbon?

If you are going to utilize torrents and peer to peer sharing then make sure you have security on your computer. There are a ton of fakes files and opportunistic computers out there ready to attack your computer and steal your data and corrupt your system. Also, Big Brother is ALWAYS watching.

Test the town water, then test the tank water. And gradually acclimatize your fish like they were new Most fish will adjust to a wide range of water parameters.

Yeah I am of no help what so ever There are options for HDD DVD recorder, PC etc, cameras, the home cinema, one is to assume PS and XBox too, also projector systems. Using the screen to browse the web is pretty cool!

I'm not exactly in to it. But we have one in our house. The woofer is fantastic. Makes the floor shake and the windows rattle

Taking out each piece of decor and scrubbing it off. Siphoning it out. I wouldn't put potassium permanganate in a tank with fish. It doesn't generally harm plants unless it is a significant dose.

I don't know of any *legal* music download sites to mention in the open forum.

It depends on how high the stand is. If the stand is low and the top of the tank is at armpit height then you can reach the bottom without a step up.

I successfully did this a few months ago. I put fish into 50L bins with clip on lids. Put canister media in with fish. Bins were about 1/3 filled with water. Bins covered in feather down duvets. Stayed @ a mates overnight. Used bottled spring water for water change. Ran filters and heaters overnight. Setup when I got down here. Was in transit for ~40 hours. MAKE SURE YOU TEST YOUR WATER AT YOUR NEW PLACE. The only deaths I had were from copper in the hot water at the new house. I was using hot and cold to match tank temperature. Good luck.

They love sand substrate. In a VERY short space of time you will be experiencing Undulating Substrate Syndrome

You can put some fish food in a coke bottle without the lid, or with a hole in the lid smaller than your fish. Weight it down on the bottom. Snails go in, then you pick out the bottle and wash the snails away. Repeat. Also you can siphon them out using a 1/2" or 1" tube into a bucket each water change. There are not really any loaches suitable for a 60L tank which is already stocked.

Aren't the mutants with their adaptations one of the mainstays in the theory of evolution? If they are able to breed then clearly they are natural. They may not be aesthetic, or even popular. I know fish are far from being close to humans when it comes to comparing genes. But humans breed interracially and there is supposedly 0.02% difference in genes between races. It can happen and is natural. Our social conscience may not agree with interbreeding but lets face it, interbreeding has been happening in nature for hundreds of millions of years.

Thanks for sharing. The purple wavy, ruffled thing in the middle is a clam right? They are wicked cool.

The adults are about 14cm, and the small ones are 7cms. They are really cool. Their markings camouflage them to the sand. I can spend ages looking for them and won't see them until they move. They only burrow into the sand when they are freaked out. When I first got them they spent their first couple of weeks buried in the sand with only their nose and eyes sticking above the sand. They came out at night to feed. But now they are out and about all day too.

Just young ones. I got the second lot about 6 months after the first lot, they were only about 4cm long.

Yeah what LivingArt said. If there is no mention of storing things in the garage in your contract then they can't stipulate you move your possessions. The contract is binding, not some inspector on a power trip imo.

I was bored today during water changes. Here are some unremarkable snapshots of my fishes. Lambchop Rasbora's Horsefaced Loach Mystery Snail Horsefaced Loach with a young'n Dwarf Chain Loaches Khuli Loach Elephantnose Short video of my Redline Torpedo Barbs

Bad Hangover http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XkCFwVe34IY Mr Creosote http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BlK62rjQWLk

Do you have fish in the tank? If so you shouldn't have lights on for 24 hours. Makeshift DIY is notoriously irregular so do you homework. Flourish Excel is a very reliable source of carbon. I suggest you try this first before bothering with the fuss of DIY CO2

Using Excel, dosing Flourish trace, Flourish Iron, and dosing Nitrogen to 15ppm, with 2wpg lights I have moss growing in plague proportions. One small palm sized bunch of java moss grew enough to cover a 60x30cm tank and was 10-15cms high in only 6 weeks. One thing to remember in growing a wall is that all of the moss needs light. If you only place one light above it, then only the top will grow because the bottom part of the wall will be shaded. For it to look more dense it is a good idea to keep trimming the moss flat, this will encourage the moss to grow more shoots.

That is very definitive. They don't look very green to me.

I think your filter is ok. There is nothing wrong with getting more filtration going though. You mentioned the pads were all gungy and the charcoal was scummy. If they are the sponge pads then they are intended for mechanical filtration. To take out the bits in the water. By rinsing these out thoroughly under water and replacing them when they look worn then it will increase their capacity to clean the water. If the pads are allowed to clog up then the water is forced to go around the pads rather than through them, thus leaving your filter flow less than optimum. The pads are for trapping the particles in the water, the noodles are for the bacteria colonies. The charcoal is great for scrubbing the water the remove residual medications and bind with some of the dissolved solids in the water. But their usefulness is very short term. According to some after 2 or 3 days then their capacity is reached and they should be removed. If you don't remove them they will start to break down and release everything back into your tank. The easiest way to get rid of particles in the tank water is to do a water change. You can do daily water changes. If you are only doing 25% changes per week, start with 25% daily for maybe 3 days, then 50% for a couple of days. Then see how clear your water is. The green spot algae on the glass is a pest and is hard to remove. There are not many fish that are able to clean it for you seeing as it is so hard. I use a scotchbrite Blue sponge pad with a scrubber. It doesn't scratch the glass, or have any cleansers and costs ~$2 from the supermarket. (test it on a small piece of glass to make sure it won't scratch your glass)

Fresh fish love fresh water. The idea of changing water is to get rid of waste and lower the TDS (total dissolved solids) in the water. If your water parameters are steady and not yo-yoing then change more water. 50% changes per week is a good number. This reduces the chance of your tanks getting old tank syndrome when they have only been set up for 6 months. Also you never posted what your nitrate readings are. Nitrate is the end biproduct of the bacteria converting the fish waste in the nitrogen cycle. At low levels it is not harmful. At high levels it will most likely affect your new fish as lethally as raised ammonia or nitrite would. So you should measure it imo.

That really sucks Caryl!