oneeyedfrog

I have got a couple of jebo canisters here 810 and 819. Both leak where the motor meets the body. I have tried a new o ring but no luck. Any one had success with this or should I chuck them?

I have noticed this too. I had a tank on a lower shelf and the fish were very skitterish I moved them to another lower shelf across the room and they settled. Where I first had them there was a window behind me when I was in front of them. I wondered if when I walked past my shadow was above them and freaked them out.

Thanks but I think the shipping wioll probably be a killer. We'll wait till we go down to Ak next I think Cheers

Daughter wants white silica sand in her 3ft tank. Does anyone know if you can buy it anywhere in Whangarei? Thanks

One of my 3 foot planted tanks had an infestation of BBA. I tried the Excel which helped and kept manually removing but the BBA kept coming back and slowly started to take over. It was in the gravel, all over the plants/driftwood and glass. I manually removed alot and added a small internal filter to increase the water flow ( tank has a canister filter) and all the BBA disappeared. I also had two small tanks that get alot of sunlight and just have bubble filters. They were getting cyno. I did the same - added a powerhead in one and a small empty internal filter in the other and the cyno disappeared. Nothing else has changed. It would be interesting to see if it works for anyone else.

We have the same thing going on in our daughters female guppy tank. It started with the odd one every couple of weeks but in the last 2 weeks it's been 1-4 a day. There are a few platy in there- only two of them have died and last wk one of the gba died. The larger females were the first to go. Now the babies are dying too. But it seems not the young males. I had been transfering the male babies into the male guppy tank up until they started dying. The male guppy tank is fine so far but I won't be surprised if they start dying too. I was wondering if I should euth the whole tank to prevent it spreading to any of my other tanks

http://www.thefarm.co.nz/ You can ride a horse/motorbike/ or go kayaking too. Fun place very laid back.

Just wondering what everyone feeds their cory's

Our LFS doesn't stock them. Where's the best place to get them?

yep they are all wild kribs. Do the males sometimes have pink bellies and act like girls? :lol:

One of my kribs is "different" At first I thought it was female as it had a pink belly and acted like a female but it dosen't look like all the other females. None of the other males have pink bellies. Its grown bigger than all the other females but smaller than the males. Its shaped like a male but has paired up with a male. With all the other kribs its obvious what sex they are . It's either a masculine female or a fa'afafine :sml2: What do you guys reckon?

Hatching brine shrimp is quite easy. I have a couple of 2 litre soft drink bottles . I drilled a hole in the lids , put airline thru and put airstones on the end of the airline. I find I get a far better hatch rate with sea water - I change the water about every two weeks. Bought the eggs off TM- much cheaper than LFS. Every 2nd day I drain one of the bottles. If you keep them warmer they will hatch faster but at room temp thats how long mine take. Take the airstone out for a few minutes to let the unhatched eggs settle on the surface then siphon out thru a piece of cloth. Scrape the shrimp off the cloth and either feed straight out or put into a shot glass of water and feed out with a pipette. If I'm in a hurry I won't siphon- just pour straight thru the cloth. You get more unhatched eggs this way but if you scrape them off the cloth into the shot glass the unhatched eggs will float to the surface and you can pipette the hatched ones from bottom. Rinse the bottle ,add back the sea water and more eggs.

One of our cats was doing this. Started pulling his fur out on his tummy , sides and base of tail. Several vet visits later found out he had stones in his bladder.

I wouldn't worry about what the pH is. As long as its stable. Fish seem to adjust really well as long as the changes are slow. So's not to shock new fish I usually acclimatize them slowly by putting them in a bucket with the water they came in . Then slowly dripping in water from the tank they are to go in . I use a piece of air line with a knot in it. Leave them for an hr or two then net them out into the new tank.

I once told Hubby I hope he comes back one day as a pregnant woman ( I had bad morning sickness). He came straight back with " I hope you come back married to one" LOL

Huumm it sez women have a stronger immune response not that their symptoms are less. Isn't fever a immune response - so women feel worse perhaps :spop:

Hahaha Love it Mcrudd!

Cool! How much were the slippers and where can you buy them online?

Is it a narrow one or a wide one? A smaller pipe will have a lower flow than a larger one. You could have a pebble or bit of gunk stuck at the top where the pipe begins- often happens esp if you have a vacuum with a valve there.

I have seen fancy goldfish being bred in an old above ground swimming pool. The parent fish are kept in a cage within the pool.

I have had this happen a number of times on different tanks. It always happens not long after being set up or after I've majorly upset something with filter/substrate changes or large rearranging/ replanting. So I reckon an imbalance -perhaps a small ammonia spike- that starts it off but once its there its very hard to get rid of- kinda like duckweed :slfg: I have found 3 ways to get rid of it: -100% waterchange- can be stressful on fish -adding a number of willow branches ( with the tops poking out the top of the tank) and leaving them for a couple of weeks till they sprout leaves- I guess this is the same theory as adding floating plants - using a uv filter- really easy, clears up in a couple of days. After using any of these methods the green water has gone and not returned in spite of not changing anything else. All but one of my 15 tanks sit near windows and get a lot of light. I haven't had it happen for a while as now I always put in floating plants when I change things.

When I had 8 frogs a few years ago I bred flies in a fly box out in my shed. My friends called me the maggot lady :sml2: This link has heaps of info. http://www.finchsociety.org/cfa/livefood/flies.htm I used an old bedside cabinet with a drawer at the top as a box. Cut a hole in the back and covered it with flyscreen. Turned it upside down and took the drawer out and put in hatch there so I could get into it without opening it right up. I hung a piece of cheese cloth (with a dowl along the bottom) inside the box in front of the hatch so no flies few out when I opened it. Installed a couple of light batons using redundant old appliance cords. I can't remember what wattage bulbs I used but I think they were pretty low. I used damp bran/milk powder mix , jellymeat or liver for them to lay eggs on ( I guess you could use just about anything) . Fed them with sugar, water was a jar lid with a sponge on top to stop drowning. Once I had maggots I took them out of the box and kept them in 1L yogurt pots half filled with oatmeal covered with a piece of cloth held on with a rubber band. Kept these in a fish bin lined with paper. Checked them daily for pupae- often they would crawl out and pupate(sp) in the dark under the paper. I ended up with thousands of pupae. I kept the extra in the fridge where they lasted a couple of weeks - any longer and they wouldn't hatch. Don't forget to put new pupae back into the box as flies don't live long. A dead fish way away from the house is bound to get you some maggots to start. Or the dead mouse behind the fishtank certainly got some last week :sick:

I also found the book " The baby whisperer" by Tracey Hogg and Melinda Blau ( I think it was) had some very helpful advice. I borrowed it from the library. Fingers crossed you get some sleep tonight Also if you get really shattered you can go to the plunket rooms and they will look after baby while you have a sleep.

Poor you - you have my sympathy. I remember sitting up all night with my youngest. The nights seem sooo long. She would only sleep upright- would be fine holding her or in her carseat. I was ready to throw her out the window LOL- easy to smile now -very stressful then. I ended up taking her to an Osteopath (sp) who worked with babies and she was 90% better after 2 visits. Good luck - I hope you find the answer soon

Is this the tank you put pimafix in? Once I treated a tank with pimafix and all the snails ended up at the top. After a couple of days the bristlenose started shooting up out of the water too.