Matthew

Just enough money to buy some more tanks

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That would defy the purpose of the Q tank. I wonder whether your 6.0 tank has some natural buffers in it that has caused your Q tank to drop pH so dramatically. Personally I would be more concerned about the pH changes as opposed to the initial pH being so high (although I would adjust it to suit next time you bring fish home) Good Luck

I'm going to suggest you go with what you prefer. I would imagine that a nice feature plant would look great in the tank - but if you would prefer the open space go with that.

Not entirely sure what your question is but 1)Place a mixture of cooked rolled oats or baby food into a container 2)wait for it to cool then add yeast 3)add culture of microworms 4)wait for the worms to reproduce until they are climbing up the side of your container 5)scrape off and feed to your fish To increase the rate of reproduction put the container on top of the fish tank or light - The warmer temperature will encourage te reproduction but your culture will need to be replaced sooner. For a continuous supply once one culture is ready to be used start a second one. If you don't have any microworms to start your culture with then post a request in the T&E section - someone may be willing to give you some for free.

When shipping fish from the suppliers they are double bagged and placed in a polystryrene box with a heat pack or two. (a bottle of warm water will suffice as a heat pack). This way the fish survive the overnight shipping without any problem. I can't see any difficulty's with using a similar method for a 2-3 hour transport. Good Luck

I never had any luck treating with the hydrogen peroxide, and settled for the flourish excel which has largely removed it from the tank. If you do decide to use hydrogen peroxide it should be safe in the tank - it will break down to water and oxygen before too long. Good luck

So, I'm choking on an ice cube I add boiling water and am no longer choking but am burning. What should I do? I know - suck an ice cube and then I'm choking again. What should I do? I know - OK I will stop there :lol: :lol:

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move her to a different tank and feed her up on plenty of live food - I used to find them ready to spawn again in about two weeks - sometimes earlier. Good Luck for next time

Again thanks for all the advice - I will plan a trip to wellington at some stage to view fishrooms down there, and hopefully there are a few others in Auckland who won't mind me having a look at their set up. Luke - a heat pump is out of the question in my mind - the initial outlay for one would (IMHO) be better spent on insulation to prevent the loss of heat from the room. Besides it does not seem as though well insulated fish rooms require a lot of power. I am assuming based on previous posts that my power bill won't go any higher than it is (half a dozen tanks inside the house - house largely uninsulated) I will keep the heat pump in the house though.

Thanks all for your comments. Good to know I'm on the right track with how I am thinking. It sounds as though the major issues are using the space productively and decreasing the workload of water changes. I am thinking of putting an overflow into my tanks (a bit like Phil Collis has) and then having a drip feed system of water. I was planning on sponge filters for filtration with the occassional HOF filter (similar to the hang on back filter only it hangs on the front :lol: ) I'm not quite sure how that will work with fry but will try to figure that problem out before I get there

Hi all, I am having a garage built at present and intend to put a fishroom within this garage. I am not 100% sure of dimensions but I could probably use up to 4mx4m if required. I intend to heat the room (probably with a fan heater connected to thermostat) and will have it well insulated. My question is to those who have fish rooms or who have had them previously. What are the recommendations you would make if re-setting up the room? I would like to do it right first time and know from past experience once you make something you can always think of ways to improve on it - I'm sure this will still happen but want to avoid making the "easy" mistakes. Cheers

They do eat BBS - my babies used to have a bulging orange belly when I was feeding them. Make sure there are plenty of tight spaces for the whiptail to spawn in. Mine used to spawn in a bamboo tube of around 20-25mm

Bamboo tubes of around an inch diameter are good. Alternatively plastic tubing of about the same size (pressure pipe etc) easy to buy from a hardware store

You could try white worms using a feeder - the worms slowly escape from the holes in the feeder hopefully the hatchets would be aware of this and wait by the feeder

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Decap tends to float initially but will then sink - BN would eat it at that stage. Hatched BS can be lured to the bottom of the tank with light - although I just use to leave the lights off above the tank and they used to fill most of the water column. Personally I would recommend hatching your own brine shrimp as it encourages the fish to hunt it's food - also Killies tend to prefer live food HTH

I have also been told increasing the waterflow at the surface prevents the duckweed from growing as rampantly as it does normally.

If we lived in a society where that was the norm then I guess I would. Fortunately we have cows, sheep, pigs, fish etc so I don't have to try children.

This depends entirely on your perspective. If you were one of the fry it would be mean If you were one of the adults it would be nice

Careful - as William Shakespeare said "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"

Heat pumps do dehumidfy if they are set to do this. I have a Fujitsu at home (so am basing my answer on this) - you can select for it to heat only so it won't dehumidfy. However the dehumidifier function might be an advantage if you had an automatic water top up system :lol: plus you wouldn't need to be too concerned with damage to the room from humidity. Hmmm - maybe a heatpump with auto top up is a good option

Provided I entered the details correctly consumer recommends a heatpump of approx 1kw output - I am not sure that they produce them at such a low rate. (I have assumed insulated room) Uninsulated they recommend 2.2 kw Yes a fan heater would circulate the heat more freely - although you can buy oil heaters with fans, also I would imagine that once the room is heated there would be minimal need to distribute the heat. I am interested in what you decide. My garage is currently being built, and one of the first things I will do is build a fish room and plan to heat this. I am not sure which way I will go with heating, I was thinking that I would heat two large tanks with aquarium heaters and hoped that the room would be insulated enough to maintain heat around 2 degrees lower than the tank heating.

I have seen oil heaters in use with good effect, and also fan heaters. I think that heat pumps would be the most efficient but would be a highly expensive outlay for a fish room - depending on the size. What size is your room?