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ive never heard of fish being refused sale but most other pets yes imagine being a parent and your kid comes home with a rat or two much to your dislike possibly :-? then you get angry at the kid and take them back to the pet shop i think its more to avoid this one lps has a note saying if you are under 16 a signed note from your parents must be produced , then it appears to be added afterwards 'with a home phone number" too easy to forge i guess

the i got ....from the 70s 80s and 90s , its like ..................... in a time machine part from stepbrothers

if its sort of a tunnel it mite be hard to get at to clean replace media ect . i have a small external canister filter that the pump is broken on it you are welcome to have it and just use your pump inside the tank to pump water through it i think the pump im using on it at the moment is 200lph a slightly bigger pump would be better perhaps 400lph or 500lph. it would just tidy it up and then you could perhaps have the water trickling down into the tank over yout rock work also all the necessaary pipework could be pre-plumbed into the poly so its hidden , then you would just need to find somewhere to hide the heater!

well with the poly you will probably have to glue sheets together to get the shape that you need ,you can use aquarium silicone to do this i would integrate the background into the land piece and make it as one piece that will make it more natural in the end. to cut poly use a sharp stanley knife carefully with the blade most of the way out to shape it there are many tools you can use a lot of different kitchen utensils work well . you can also use rasps and surforms and if you are careful a heat gun. i have a heat gun you can borrow and i have somewhere a small rasp i found really helpful as one end is curved (it may take me a while to find it in my hgarage though i also have a lot of dark brown acylic house paint and some lighter stuff for dry brushing which i have used on my backgrounds so i know that they are safe to use . you are welcome to use this too. i would suggest hollowing out the poly into a shape to hold soil where you plan to plant your plants , the bigger the better as more soil will mean healthier plants . once carved use paint straight on the poly and when still wet sprinkle sand and gravel in differet areas to add texture this can be painted over again when dry to help hold it in place and use the other colours dry brushed on to add interest and high lights. is the filter you plan on using an internal one? if so you could cut out a gap in the corner of the tank to fit it in and build the side of the poly around it so that it can still be removed but has a removable poly lid or similar

it appears to be missing the clown loaches too or is this a new big tank?

another option would be to do away with the hood completly and use t5 lights that clip to the edge however this would be expensive for the lights and also would do away with the top filter

i like the first one too perhaps rather than using natives use baby house plants these can often be purchased from the warehouse(5 for $10 sometimes) and most will thrive in this kind of enviroment. you would have to either do a bit of research or lots of trial and error to get natives to work in there

it uses pl style tubes i would modify the hood and use a coiple of higher wattage pl tubes but that would depend on your electrical knowledge to wether thats a good idea or not

in other words just in case styrofoam is also called polystyrene

there selleys all clear glass as well its about 10 bucks a tube you will also need a caulking gun thses range from $4 upwards depending on the store . im not 100% sure but i think i may have seen the selleys one in small tubes like a tube of glue but again read the label and make sure it says safe for aquariums

i have friends that have had diversion but i would say its rare you'd need it to be a first offence have a soft judge and be quite young my friends also had a non association order with eath other and other people involved (part of their diversion) it also happened in nelson suprise suprise

13mm or 15mm irragtion tees will work fine with cf1200/1000 piping just remember to buy the lil clamps too i would keep the inlets separate though will help circulate the water better

BNS should be fine i kept some with africans for a while at the moment i have a large red spot plec in there hes fine also i cant say i would be keen to keep more expensive plecs in there just in case though

i use jif but rinse it off well

i brought a infra red heat lamp(50w) for my frog tank im sorry i cant help with your reptiles i brought it primarrily for nocturnal veiwing but found out it wasnt much good as the frogs still didnt do a lot until i turned it off ! now that i have a 15w moonlight tube the bulb is now in a recessed downlight fitting outside on my deck the perfect red light for parties that doesnt attract insects!

hi im wondering if anybody knows where i can find backdated weather forecasts for christchurch im really stuck for ideas as the weather services on the net only show todays and the next week when i really need the casts for the last month which dont have to be terribly detailed any ideas most appreicated

id get a cheap wavemaker off ebay just a plug in and go one its basically a powerhead that moves a large amount of water (although at a slower velocity than a powerhead). they only really make waves as such when used with a controller that pulses them

could possibly cross-breed with a platy but the other options above are far more likely

i would try it without fish in the tank first if something goes wrong it could be disaterous for them

im sure the seller is a forum member perhaps he means toughened glass instead of laminated ? perhaps it could be worthwhile checking

thats a nice looking pump and quite grunty 6000lph is heaps although you will lose some of that due to static head and friction in pipes but im sure it would be suffiecent heres a link about pump head loss

ox heart and earthworms are good food same with cat biscuits if you can get them to sink or dont mind hand feeding them 4ft would be good for fully grown ones but i wouldnt worry too much if you dont have anything that large at the moment. water cold like p44 said less than 17deg is best sometimes they dont like sand as they can slip around on it i used larger stones so they couldnt swallow them and they were easy to clean as they can be messy eaters which comes to my other point regular waterchanges are essential and maybe some decorations or carefully arranged rocks for a bit of cover they dont like bright light so if you are using lighting make sure its dim or cover half the tube to reduce the light output

that was messing with my head so had to google it i wont say the answer but its a tricky one

well mate they dont actually filter the water they just move it how ever you could use it to make your own filter with a bit of research

yep id say a syno or a plec but beware its a bit trial and error it may not work you could even try a bristle-nose ive heard of some people keeping rainbow fish with them as a dither fish but im guessing it would need to be a larger species of rainbow fish