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Poor thing, i don't understand how people can let this happen to their pets They should have passed it on to someone who could care for it before it got that far.

If it had of been anything more than a suggestion you may not have been so lucky :lol:

I'm still in my early 20s so still young 8)

There are so many young people on here, i was never on a computer at your ages, i was always outside running around getting into all sorts of trouble :oops: times a changing

around 4-5cm now, got them from a member on here who breed them. not sure if he has anymore or not. they are hard to keep alive. i had 4 and even in an 8ft tank, they still attacked and killed eachother. im down to 2 which seem to get along fine. I would like to eventually get some more though.

A few more pictures of some fronts (not the best pics)

I'll buy one when they develop them further to pocket size and i can call people on them :lol:

I have added leleupi and alto comps to mine. I wasn't able to feed a proper diet to the other tangs with all of them together in the same tank so had to remove and sell my tropheus. All are doing great now and eating lots. Leleupi are showing good signs of breeding soon. I'm wanting to get more altos though, i think the ones i have are all the same sex, from watching their behavior.

IMO Deep Cove camp was the most boring camp i have ever been on, well to me it was. Doubtful Sound was part of my everyday life growing up. I will find some photos that i have around here somewhere and post them up.

Cool, I like to do big puzzles too. I've got a 5000 piece of the Mona Lisa :oops: that i have never got around to doing (the colours are impossible)

none of my fish are over 10cm so they won't be much bigger than the BGK

Ok, so acclimatise slowly for the pH rise and I'll put in plenty of pipes and pots for it to hide in.

....be ok with cichlids? (frontosa, julies, leleupi) It is about 8cm at the moment. Anyone keep them with them? I have him in my planted tank with tetras and guppies where it is living just fine. But reason i would want to put him in another tank is to give the guppies a chance to breed for a month or two.

ummmmm... I can't actually remember :oops: I can count 15 but I'm sure there is more. I will know for sure when i move their tank.

Frontosa, Frontosa, Frontosa! they were out today so got a few photos, the glass is a bit dirty sorry :oops:

They also love lettuce leaves and cucumber.

the tank feels heaps heavier than 108kgs could be just the awkwardness of it :lol: the tank will be laying across the joists not along them. ok so the stand probably not that heavy. made from 100x50 rough sawn pine. but still heavy. (id rather measure too much than not enough) I'm going to get under the floor and brace it anyway just to be safe.

I have just moved house and Im wanting to set up my tank (2.0m x 0.6m x 0.6m) and i need to know if the current timber flooring will take the weight of the tank and everything else. So i have done a few calculations to try and figure out if it will be ok or not. This is what i have worked out so far. I'm not sure if they are correct but I'm sure someone here will know. Tank-300kg (10mm glass) Water-700kg Stand-200kg Sump-100kg Rocks-100kg Substrate-50kg Total-1450kg (1500kg roughly) these weights are all estimates only Stand-60cm wide by 200cm long = 12000cm^2 base area. 1500/12000 = 0.125 kgf/cm^2 kilograms-force/cm^2 (kgf/cm^2)*98.1 = kPa 0.125*98.1 = 12 kPa of force bearing down on my flooring Floor framing: (this is all i know about it without taking more measurements). T & G floor boards Joists-125x50 @ 450crs, spanning 1500mm Bearers-125x100 @ 1500crs, Spanning 1500mm (span is guesstimated) All the timber framing is rimu and in good condition, no cracks,splits,bowing,twisting,rotting, nothing. not even borer. I was never good a math so this is me trying my best and I am pretty sure I would have gone wrong somewhere. All these calculations are to see how much i will need to brace the floor framing (I have full intentions of doing this if i need to or not.) What I'm wanting to know is... -Have i done the calcs right to find the correct kPa loading of the tank -Just how much force/weight could my flooring take and is there a calculation to find out?

Why not make your own. A length of pvc pipe, drill the holes, cap the end, attach the hose from the filter and clip it in with suction clips. Done Easy as that.

you need to get a longer, wider, bigger tank to fit even more plant in there and make an even better masterpiece

I believe they are apple snail shells being in there with the loaches. That is why they are on the bottom

Wow, thats awesome. I was going to get some of these but its a bit cold down here at the moment to post any so i missed out unfortunately. Hopefully they breed more and have a good survival rate so they can be more available in the future

It could most likely be food and/or stress related. a good varied diet should get rid of the marks eventually if this is the case.