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right they are cool wee fish u will be lucky to get them to an inch dont need a huge tank to put this into perspective mine are in a an 80l tank with 6mollies and a figure 8 puffer . i would reccomend keeping mollies with them as the fry are a good source of live food and they also like brackish water . u could probably keep five or six in a jebor331 etc temp 34-28 salinity you can vary it between 1.002 to 1.010 really need live food but will take bloodworms (frozen ) i also feed mine tetra minikrill as they love it . they wont touch flake white worms or daphnia are also a live food option note i feed minikrill so i dont need so much live food ane more questions just ask edit was meant to be a pm !!

ill start post pics of your handiwork for others to see and get ideas

its a move the comercial fishing industry is looking at to catch fish then grow them to a larger size in captivity as "new" methods of fishing(danish anchor seining) permit many fish to be caught still alive and in good health(vs trawling) without the damage to the seabed from bottom trawl rollers and no accidental dolphin catches (happens heaps while trawling) its not sustainable but a lot better than what is currently happening

im very impressed may we need to start a thread just with pictures of different backgrounds call it show us your rockwork lol

cant help but i have to say natureland is very reasonably priced just dont be conned into going on the bump slide nextdoor afterwards!

fox river beach jst noth of punakaiki has these rocks on it im very certain they are limestone based they are easy to carve like oamaru stone. they come in white, pink and black sometimes mixtures

why not use a powerhead or a cheap pond pump for more circulation if u need it ? u could have a spare compartment made just in case you need to use it

and with the heaters they all will cut out when they get too hot not just fluval this is how they all work . they will cut out at the temp that you set them to

it wont cook ur heaters and lol a breeding grond for bad bacteria!! polystyrene has a huge surface area as the water eventually soaks into between the beads if u cycle your tank this will work to your advantage as for the concrete im sure you know it will rise the ph but if you know this im sure you know how to use a ph test kit! ive always used epoxy glue like 5min araldite to glue poly

you dont need to have a heater its can be useful to help breed them or for certain tropical plants u mite want to grow. as far as uv light goes ideally u should have some source(tho not as important as with turtle/reptiles) a cheap alternative is a 20 or 50w halogen globe with the glass in the end removed as this will put out a small amount of UV. the key with UV light is to remember UV doesnt travel well thru glass so if ur light is above a glass lid you may as well not have a UV bulb. for a substrate on the land part of the setup you can use seedraising mix or just garden dirt(if u know its safe) dont use potting mix as it contains fertiliser .

u mite find if the intake section is completely sealed to the glass and is only able to suck from the gravel that the water level in the section mite go down faster than what the gravel allows in but its one of those things you will have to wait and c about. would depend on the size of your gravel also

haha janelle got splashed by an octopus was a great time

in aquarium terminology think it of a blocked filter that has been filtering out pathogens your white blood cells have killed then take some painrelief and turn ur heater up

oderings has it bout $6 a bag

ive met cichlid people thru tradme before i noticed they were on here its always good to have a real life chat bout the forum

haha maybe u can tell i didnt have a computer that year

http://icanhascheezburger.com/page/10/ quite funny hundreds of cat photos with funny captions

bumblebee goby the bulldog of the brackish tank

its more a matter of what you can get away with i used low voc acrylic house paint last time no problems and plenty other people have if ur still really unsure about it , epoxy coat it

come on people you dont have to be a TT member to attend we are all friendly and welcome new faces

i want a tank like this!

well ive got a fish smoker i chuck on the barbie (my brother is a commercial fisherman so get fresh stuff when i see him) a friend has offered to take me flyfishing as i live near a good place to fish . he didnt think i would want to as i keep fish, but i view trout as a pest exotic (things this forum does to you!) so in short yes i mite be smoking some fish but i wont be spending ane money on it

well third day: so far so good, i havent even thought about having a smoke. i have to say its worked for me well something has , even with patches or gum i still had major withdrawal and cravings i dont now and i dont have ane form of nicotine replacement. the guy who does the hypnosis reckons he has a 90% success rate , and like a lot of you have said he also said you have to want to give up 4 it to work. fmxmatt(and others who are interested) i was basically put in a small room comfortably heated with little else other than a lazyboy and aonther chair and a stereo with a set of headphones. he started by asking me why i smoked which lead on to explaining to me how im not gaining anething by smoking and the idea that it helps to relax etc is illusion therefore pointing out im not losing a friend by giving up. (very much like reading alan carrs easyway). he then gave me a card to read out in my head and also aloud basically saying that i was going to be happy to be a nonsmoker and breathe clean air. well after 4 times reading it outloud a kind of euphoric effect came over me (bearing in mind i was quite skeptical and was not actually hypnotised at the time, words are powerful i guess) he told me it was good and that he has had some women break down and cry tears of joy. he then made sure i was comfortable and put on a 45min cd and left the room turning the lights off. the cd was a recording of a "master hypnotist" whose sole job was freeing people from smoking. the cd started off with some basic relaxation (basically what i would call deep square breathing) there were waves crashing in the background and sorta nature noises as well i remember it telling me how cut flowers absorb ink when its but in a vase with the water but it poisons the flower and you can see it in the veins of the petals etc this was related to smoking somehow . i also remember being told about different states of relaxation and being told to close my eyes so tight they felt like they were glued shut (i did try but i couldnt open them! i was also told i may not remember concouisly what was said. (at the time i thought i would remember everything as i felt awake after i had this thought i was being told to wake up and have a stretch so actually i remeber about 5mins of the whole thing! After the 45min cd he played a 4min "condensed" version of what was on the 45min cd which sound like a sped up version but it was meant to be understandble to the unconsies brain(aparently it wouldnt have mattered if i slept throught the whole thing) after that i was congratulated on being a non-smoker and given a cd with an ocen scape (waves crashing and stuff) to listen to at home over the next couple of weeks 30mins long meant to contain subliminal messages to reinforce the change in perception havn't had a smoke since

finally got round to going last night its been 24hours,no cigarettes but also no real cravings . so i guess its going good 8)

pics are great but seeing the real thing today was better!