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  1. I think there may be some confusion around the pricing? They appear to be retailing >$100 at the moment from my experience?

    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.

  2. Are the any L130 in NZ?

    They are not something I have heard of being here.

    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........

  3. Hi guys,

    Sorry to disappoint you - but your filters have nothing to do with the original HMF except using a mat.

    His whole concept is based around a very strict balance between the required water flow, the size of the tank and the circulation per hour. These three points define the size of the pump, the dimensions of the mat and what PPI. If you bend the mat, the flow will change which needs adjusting.

    Here are some links to calculators:

    Size of mat - Click

    Size of pump - Click

    Flow rate - Click

    Bend mat? - Click

    Only if you design your HMF after these rules you will get all the benefits. If not - it's just another mechanical filter.

    Cheers,

    JaSa

    Exactly.

    This is the explanation that I used for my design, and it is already in English

    Click Here

    Cheers

  4. Beers on completion of the job!

    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.

  5. I now officially have more tanks running in the fish room than in the house. Sadly I have now realised I need more tank space and I am out of room for all of my fish.

    :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:

  6. Very nice! I saw the top half of the pic and had to do a double take, looks remarkably similar to my pic from the other weekend!

    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

  7. 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....

  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. I'd put money on it that my Panaques will be growing faster with an 8x4' footprint and weekly water changes than they would be with a 5x2' footprint and daily changes.

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

  12. 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

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