VinsonMassif

LMAO I set up that tank as a hospital tank for a sick pygmy gourami who got nipped. But I set it up backwards so the mirror glass is at the front. I will turn it around next water change

I use 1W 9-12V Blue LED's, and had them wired onto a plug lying around by a mate who is a sparky.

Was going to post this last night, but alas, it was not to be Here are a couple of pics of my Glass Cats at night plus one short video. When I figure out how to save longer clips as smaller files I will be set. Here is the other pictures of my glass cats, though they are all kinda the same. Plus I can't not plug my kitten again tehehe.

Yes, I read at least a 600mm deep tank. The Khuli swim at the surface and drop their green eggs in and on the plants. They will hatch after 24 hours.

Have you checked out LOL there are a lot of fantastic articles and Loach fanatics. Some threads on peoples successful breeding attempts like the above link. I would try at lest a 4' tank, and about 30 Kuhli. They like to live in a group, even though they are not schooling fish.

I can't help you out. But have to say: Peacock's are beautiful fish!

If you want a fish to breed naturally in an aquarium environment you must provide the typical conditions that would be found in the wild, that will trigger their "biological clock". This includes water chemistry: do they live in a flood zone, a monsoon zone, or tropical zone that gets a wet season. If it does, then during the dry season the water levels drop, the DOC's and TDS levels become high. Then it rains etc. and the pH, temperature and chemistry level changes rapidly in a short space of time. Then there is typical make-up of the river or water course. Do they live in a flowing and/or fast current? Is it full of wood and branches? It is a rocky river bed, or a sandy, silty bed? What types of plants grow in the water? Are they shade plants on the surface, or reedy and grassy plants in the water? Is the water covered by trees and bushes, or is it in the middle of a flood plain under the open sun all day? Then there is food. Do the fish eat bugs and larvae normally? Or are they scavengers? If you want a fish like Kuhli to breed, or regularly, then you have to make a concerted effort to replicate normal conditions, and seasonal conditions to initiate their body cycle. You have to be able to check the boxes, and cover most, if not all of the bases. It is all very well to have fish and want them to breed in an aquarium. But with fish that have been proven to only breed regularly by artificial hormone treatment in an aquarium environment then you have to put one hell of a lot of effort in to get them to breed naturally. These fish have had a long time to evolve successfully in their native region, and relatively few successive generations of life in captivity. That being said, seeing it has happened spontaneously, there is at least a slim chance you can pull if off. Good luck to you if you are going to try!

I hated Opera and will never touch it again.....

I d/l Safari 3.1 for Windows a couple of weeks back. I think I am in love. IMO it beats IE and Firefox hands down. It is quicker than both of the others. It has the exact same functions I used in the others: tabbed browsing, bookmarks bar, pop-up blocker, remembering passwords. With such a noticeable speed difference I can put up with banner ads. Chat pages that uses java script are more responsive in Safari too. There is no sluggishness like I experienced in Firefox. Who else prefers Safari? When I make enough money to support living, fish keeping and have cash leftover - then I guess I will change completely to Mac.....

The left half is Christmas moss, the right half is regular Java moss. The regular stuff grows more evenly and looks more like a lawn. The Xmas moss hasn't taken off fully yet. That, plus the Angels are hell bent on trying to rip all of it off the log.

Mine is not shy at all. He keeps my Angels in line. As long as you provide something that covers its entire body (wood or 4" tube) and plants it will come out during the day too. I hand feed mine. It took two days for it to learn to eat out of my hand. It eats all manner of frozen food except shrimp. It loves live worms and mosquito larvae. It didn't like my gourami and kept chasing it around the tank, so I rehomed the gourami. I do 30% water changes every two days which keeps it pristine. They need at least a 3' tank otherwise they act like they are caged in seeing as they use there electrical sense to navigate and find food. In a small tank they are more likely to die prematurely.

I decided to post a final update thread before my tank is broken down ready for moving. I am quite proud of the results with such little effort really. It is ~60g. It has an Elephantnose, a pair of Platinum White Angelfish, a Royal Twig Cat, 4 Horsefaced Loaches, 24 Kuhli Loaches. It has 2 wpg lighting. I dose 1ml/10g Flourish Excel daily. I dose Nitrates to 15ppm. I add Fl. Iron, and Flourish twice a week. I do 30% water changes every second day (I add calcium and magnesium during pwc). I run a 1200lph canister filter as well as a 300lph powerhead. I did have a 1300lph powerhead but the plants ended up floating in bits so I replaced it again. I guess I will have to work on a back ground in the next house....... October '07 End of March '08

In an acid pH most of the ammonia molecules are turned into ammonium which is less toxic to fish. 1 leaving 99.75% of the ratio ammonium. Which I take as negligible. If in fact your removing of the floss did remove a significant amount of bacteria (unlikely to be significant IMO) then change your floss more regularly thus forcing the bacteria to colonize your media instead. This leaves the floss to be solely mechanical filtration as you intended. Flourish Excel is reported on many forums as not affecting the nitrogen cycle or pH. If your fish are not showing any signs of stress then it appears that the negligible amount of ammonia is not affecting them. As others suggested I would keep up regular water changes. Fresh fish love fresh water. Daily water changes will not do any harm. On a side note over cleaning sometimes initiates a mini-cycle. When too much nitrifying bacteria is destroyed or removed all at once. This can happen if you change the floss, rinse the media and over GV the stones all at once. But it soon returns to normal.

The only thing I can help you out on is WCMM: white cloud mountain minnows

Here we go and

So jealous right now

When I was a kid we used to live in the BOI. We regularly caught baby dogfish and baby hammer heads as well as some BW's sharks in the inner bay. I thought carpet sharks were more of an Australian thing. Are you planning on keeping some? That would be cool.

I had a bunch and used 2 tsp/g salt in the water to eliminate them. No ill effects to the fish either. Same dose as anti-ich treatment. HTH

Yes it is Temple Grandin, Ph.D. She is autistic. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/498153 http://www.autism.org/temple/transition.html I wonder if she eats fish?

Go to Photobucket. > log in > click on Options which is in the centre above the 3 Upload lines in the box that is mid screen. > chose max size 640x480 which is the 4th line down in the next box that appears on the centre of the screen >Click the blue Save tab at the bottom of said box You are now set to go. It doesn't really matter if you resize the image before you upload it. The only thing you will save is the time it takes to upload your images. You can also resize them in Paint if you have no other photo program. But if you have a digital camera if ought to have some with its own software program that you can change all the photo's. HTH

HFF sell 40kg bags of dark gravel for $25. When wet it is very dark brown/charcoal colour.

I got this reply from one of the cichlid guru's on another forum. HTH

Sustainable for now - well anything might happen in the future. There habitat might become compromised so they spawn less. It could become severely polluted. Global climate change may affect the temperature so they breed less. I was merely thinking about possibilities that may come to pass that would mean the current quota etc. will not be viewed as sustainable any longer.

Fair enough Barrie. I have been game fishing twice. The first time I caught a yellowfin tuna which we smoked. Fresh smoked tuna and marlin are the best.

I will eat whitebait. I think that there is a small season on it, it is sustainable, at least for now. I will only eat it if it has been caught recreationally. I don't like the idea of commercially fishing. For example Orange Roughy don't reach sexual maturity for 20-30 years. And they are commercially fished en masse. Personally I am against game fishing if it is catch and release. Putting fish through all that stress for personal gratification. Each to their own though, I don't force my opinion onto others who like fishing for sport.