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Ok, I confess. I'm a killer. My fishroom runs with a water circulation system, trickle filter, sump etc. Being the smart guy I am I decided to put an overflow in the sump, connected to the drain. For a water change all I need to do is connect a hose to the tap, run it to the sump and turn the tap on. After about 5-10 minutes I calculated I should have changed about 10-20%. Works great! One Monday not too long ago my wife complained about hearing water running and that had been liked that since Saturday.(She could have told me earlier :roll: ). You guessed it. I forgot to turn the tap off and was 'too busy' to check all weekend. Tanks where all about 10 oC with a full dose of chlorine and a lot off dead fish. :-( This was worse than the flooding caused by a similar mistake a few years ago.

From the FNZAS plant survey WATER LETTUCE A NOXIOUS PLANT. Please destroy if found

If you can read Dutch you can borrow my copy.

brown algea -> bristlenose. I could use some ;-)

A couple of close-ups would be nice.

If it's green hair algae (and you'll know because it looks like 'green hair' and isn't as slimy as the blue-green 'algae') try to get as much out of the tank by taking e.g. a pencil and wrapping the long hairs around it by rolling the pencil. (Hope this makes sense). Just keep removing it when it gets bad. Add some more fast growing plants to compete with it (sounds like you already have). Perhaps cut down your fertilizer (flourish excel) a little. Fwiw The best green hair algae remover I ever had was a male dwarf gourami. He would pick up the stuff and build a bubble nest with it. Every night I would remove the nest. Next day he was at it again. Took about 2 weeks and after that all those long threads of green algae were gone.

I believe this is the original publication describing 'poor man's dupla drops' later also called 'poor man's dosing drops' http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Fertilize ... onlin.html search google for pmdd + conlin + sears

search google for 'zealand aquatic plants' here are just a few I found the fnzas plant survey http://www.fnzas.org.nz/plant-survey.0.html NIWA http://www.niwa.co.nz/rc/prog/aquaticplants/species/ new zealand natives on 'the krib' http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Plants/NZ/

great. Keep them coming. If you get a really clear, good photo of the actual flower (if there is any) I'd like to include in the plant survey. btw I fixed the link in the first post in this topic.

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?t=3880 please

try hydroponics shop. Lower North Island try Otaki Hydroponics Supplies. I bought chemicals from them. couriered http://www.acourt.co.nz/Acourts/acWeb.n ... LIES%20LTD

Stan Shubels book is in the Upper Hutt Library. This site has chart - in german http://www.guppyzucht.com/hochzuchtstandards.htm This site has chart in English but be warned. Several popup advertising http://hem.passagen.se/mikeno/english/texter/estand.htm

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/clubs.0.html

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?t=3880 please.

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/glassthickness.0.html

Just a suggestion. Use freshwater, marine or general as start of the topic title. Stay on topic :-)

no, it doesn't. read this http://www.fnzas.org.nz/forum-images.0.html Some if not all of the imagehosts mentioned there work. After Xmas this site will have image hosting for members :-)

What do you want me to do now? You confuse me. One moment you make valuable contributions to this site, the next moment there is a lot of sarcasm in what you write. Why? What is the problem? fwiw, and apologies to posters in this topic in advance. When I find a moment this topic will be moderated and most if not all if it removed. Same will be true for other topics in this forum and the rest of the fishroom. http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?p=39677 Cees

use another image host. the nz.msnusers.com you link to asks me to 'sign in' ... yuck...

The canon pixma iP4000 arrived today. One happy chappy great value, great photos. (thanks caryl) Cees

Where can I get one these days. How much are they?

yeah, most of them are eating newly hatched brineshrimp now. Sure growing fast.

Is that A4 sheets or 4x6 ? I've seen 4x6 canon photopaper @ $19 for 50 sheets. It's the convenience of having printer at home that is important as well. I've looked at the Canon Pixma ip4000. That, or one of the newer ones (5000, 6000? ) is one of the models under consideration.

Thanks for all the responses. Noise, speed etc don't matter. I've seen a few Canon and Epson printers with 4 or even 6 coloyr cartridges. Like that idea. Only replace the one that is empty. Any model suggestions ?