KrazyGeoff

From the seller? Or the buyers? The current price is in the $150-190 range, if you can find one which I don't think is that hard? The contention has more to do with calling someone out when they say they got them cheaper and basically saying they don't know what they are talking about. A better response may have been to say, "well done, but the ones currently on the market are worth $x" There were a number available for $60.00 a few years ago, and that is just what it is. As we all know, a fish is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it, and not a cent more. The $50.00 postage is slightly entertaining though.

Only an hour to go...... I have just noticed that one of the replies has disappeared. I may have to use the "this is one of a kind" when meaning "auction is for one fish"

They are starting to get really hairy now. Still unsure whether I have both sex's. Cheers

Pretty much everything said by seller is made up.......

They are L142 ?

Nice. How big are they?

Another very good question. The auction will have ended by this time tomorrow, and then apparently, the unanswered questions will also be shown. After that happens then the information in those "questions" will show that there will be some red faces out there in the land of wild opinions........

Technically by only 3 people reported in captivity. L201's are not yet being bred here. L130's unlikely globally

More the Q&A section really, for a couple of reasons. 1: I've not seen an auction go like this. 2: the "information" being provided.

I am interested to see what people think about the information being provided in this auction auction Just interested....

Exactly. This is the explanation that I used for my design, and it is already in English Click Here Cheers

HFF Albany stock a treatment for this. I have used it and it has zero impact on my catfish fry. Talk to Rebecca. Cheers Geoff

He he, good to see you still have your sense of humor Cam. A fish room is never finished...... Oh and you don't need the FX5. Put your HMF filter at one end, say the right end for the purposes of this discussion. At the left end put a small powerhead that blows water from the left back straight accross the middle height of the tank to the left front. Make sure your wood is arranged so that there are clear channels from left to right. What will happen is that the powerhead stops the waste from settling at the far end of the tank and the HMF will suck the waste right through the tank and it will collect at the bottom of the HMF, just waiting for you to vacuume it up. Works on my 100cm and 124cm long tanks.

:rolfl: :rolfl: :rolfl: Welcome to the "my cool new fish room is finished and sh!t I need a new fish room" club. :rolfl: :rolfl: :rolfl: Honey, you know how I said I would get those tanks out of the house once my new fish room was finished? :digH: Well I think that "we" should leave them where they are, cause otherwise there would be a big space in the room, and we can't aford to buy anything to fill that space up.... :digH: See how the new fish room is saving us money already ...... :digH: :digH: I should build a fish room extension..... :digH: :digH: :digH:

I would be keen.

Even though there is only one of the same fish, and you have removed the wheel's from your bin, I see the similarity. :nfs: the both of you

I have a few :bggrn:

You don't have time to sit round reading magazines until you finish your fish room dude :slfg:

It's an awesome mag allright. I've got 17 issues of the electronic version (which I think is all of them?) I went for the electronic version because; I couldn't wait for delivery of the physical one. The electronic one comes in a PDF so doesn't detoriate. Can load it into my kindle app, so it comes to wherever I want to read it. The photos are high def, so I can zoom in. I had no space to store the physical copies. Just for giggles I sent one of the editors our fnzas magazine, the pleco edition, and they thought that was a good mag too....

I'm wondering if the hole will let in too much light? Should be ok if kept in a dark place. I was recommended to buy some potting mix. I got it at bunnings for less than $10.00 for a lifetime supply. :bggrn: Cheers

It might be worth mentioning that in a number of countries the tap water does have a high TDS, like 300+, so often when researching "stuff" the overseas folks will talk a lot about TDS. A lot of the fresh water folks use a lot of RO water so this is why they tend to place more emphasis on TDS IMO. I do happen to monitor it, but like everything else I monitor it is for the purpose of comparison, when good and bad things happen.

L270 - chocolate zebra. There are a couple of ways to tell. A L129 is always a brown fish with yellow ish - white ish fine lines. A L270 could be a white ish - yellow ish fish with irregular brown patterns, or a brown fish with white ish - yellow ish mostly regular lines. The other way is to see if you could reasonably draw the lines thinner. Or you can wait 8 - 12 months and the L270 will be 6-8 cm and dark brown, the L129 will be 4-5 cm and light brown. The following two fish are about the same size and colour. side by side it is pretty obvious what I mean http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/image.php?species=hypancistrus_sp(l270)&image_id=3205 http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/image.php?species=hypancistrus_debilittera&image_id=2989

I have this one: http://www.amazon.com/Hanna-Instruments ... KHNTMFANEK Calibration fluids etc can be purchased from blu lab which is a nz company. http://www.bluelabassist.com/shop/By+Ca ... %3D(direct)%7Cutmcsr%3D(direct)%7Cutmcmd%3D(none)&__utmv=-&__utmk=262338957 It takes about 40 seconds to do a complete suite of readings per tank. (About 3 seconds for TDS) Really easy to calibrate, especially the new generation model. ( the one in the link ) Temp, pH, TDS, conductivity. It also adjusts for temperature variance from 25 degrees. I have used other pH meters and found that this one reacts more quickly than the others. Cheers

Even faster with 8x4 and daily water changes! :bggrn:

Could be a really simple answer........... Sometimes fish just die? Without being rude of course. You have a heap of fish in there You have all the complications and benefits of the plants You have (possibly) the most qualified water dude of any aquarist You change a very specific amount of water (I do a similar thing but in cm's of tank height), personally I would do at least 14 liters in a 54 tank. I would have thought that if you had a problem in the tank then all the baby pandas would have been wiped out in 24 hours. Cheers