phoenix44

too small. Oscars need a lot of space. 4ft is no where near long enough.

you got it . I also used moss to trap all the extra particulate matter and they hid in that. When they hatched and lost the egg sac they were far too small to eat brine shrimp, so for the first couple of weeks I put a few drops of liquifry in a syringe and added water. then it became a cloudy solution and i squirted that on the fry and they ate it. once they were big enough, i did the same thing - only using decap BS and leaving it to soak in the syringe for 20 mins or so.

I AM NOT A WOMAN!!! so what if it takes me 10 minutes to make my hair proper

Maybe people don't want to be under constant scrutiny? Maybe its safer for them to keep shut and not let anyone know what they have. :roll: There are loads of tards out there...

Oh. I only just read that! It is quite hard to do a planted tank that is 2ft high - mainly because the lights will be your primary limitation. The whole beauty of the tank was the depth perception - so if you can find the space in the house to have the tank wider than it is high I wouldn't change its current dimensions.

yeah, she will come out to eat. then feed her. dont disturb the tank too much, but definitely kick the tetras out.

yep. take the male out. give it 2-3 days and you might find that she is bringing the wrigglers out for an outing. I didn't know I had eggs in the tank until I saw the babies. Only saw the male staying away the second time, and the first male hidden near the heater. +1 to what Bilbo just said.

on the extreme left? like in here - http://i403.photobucket.com/albums/pp11 ... 0Small.png that's stricta and what I can send you when i hack on sunday.

best I could do at this time of the night. i put the lights on and the cardinals looked all wonky. they had turned their lights out hahah :lol: Braces under the top of the tank- central brace - central brace underwater- And the reason you fill it up all the way - central brace stops any water movement at the surface on the LHS. The RHS clearly has a lot of water movement, just like a wavemaker.

THE L46 was also bred in NZ at 1998, and again in 2000 - but the 2000 entry is not in the fnzas database as it was not registered.

If you are bracing the top;use a cross brace it like this - http://www.austinglass.com.au/aquariums.html Do not let them ruin your tank by putting braces on top of the rim, because then you will have to have the water level lower than the rim to allow for adequate surface agitation for gas exchange. I can take some pics of how my tank is - if that helps; but bear in mind it was machine built not hand built. The cross braces will take a few days to fix and then cure, but are well worth it in the long run.

OMG! its rimless! ok so here is what you HAVE to do :lol: Background - paint it black or dark blue and have a wall of ambullia along the back. Then have tufts of rotala macrandra, rotundifolia, and ludwigia repens and glandulosa - Those are red plants. If you want a lighter red - try red pine. For light green - hygro. polysperma. and for something like a sword plant get hygro. corymbosa stricta - I can even send you cuttings if you handle the postage side of things. you cannot forget stargrass - but then keep the tank at 26C. Then you need texture at the front - try pygmy chain sword - any variety. microfolia will look out of proportion in a tank that is shallow. That piece of driftwood is amazing, and will look great nestled in the plants. Fill the tank all the way to the top and get a surface skimmer attachment for any cannister filter that you have, and if it's possible suspend lighting over the tank, and have nothing touching the rim. It WILL look epic. Those are the exact dimensions of a tank that I have planned in the future, only I want mine to be a tad wider. Most important thing - let your plants grow and mature, replant cuttings as and when you can for the first 4 months at least.

hmph. still not that convinced :lol: I guess I can get some dry ferts now. Can't believe someone is telling me to ADD nitrate and phosphate to a tank :lol: All this time I was so proud of having none. I know staghorn does not like CO2, and H2O2

2 can play this game KP :lol:

just is. 50% water change weekly and a LOT of filtration. I'm not talking about a few JBL balls either, more like 40-50 spread throughout the substrate. 10mL of comprehensive in a 200L tank every week after a WC. No carbon in the filter. must be a magic tank

my plants starving? they have root tabs, jbl balls and comprehensive. how can they starve with that?

welcome to the real world. :lol: I'll take you to one of my 3 day sessions. you'll treasure every minute of work, thanking your lucky stars that you are at work.

I have 0 phosphate and 0 Nitrate and still get a little stagorn. :evil:

Have you ever done a uni level exam? :lol: They are not fun and drain you mentally. I'd rather do a full shift at the bank than give 2 consecutive exams. I challenge you to do it. I can easily write 18 pages in 3 hours and do about 12 pages of calculations included. It's not easy and that's why we aren't allowed to have 2 exams in one day for some majors.

Night exams? Stuff that. Couldn't miss shorty for that hahahhaha :lol:

Plants usually will continue to photosynthesise with stored energy reserves and once those are depleted / run low; the new growth will be light green. The other possible reason is that the light green plant is the mother plant. If that's the case, cut of the connecting runners as they are getting her nutrients. Either way I'd add JBL balls under the roots and in the gravel and that should help. Don't use excel with val. twisted val is more forgiving, but the straight stuff will melt away. Flourish comprehensive is a good source of nutrients as well. you can inject it into the gravel / where the roots are too.

wait, your tank was like 20L yea?

lack of light. possibly etiolation. could be a nutrient deficiency too, but ill stick with etiolation.

pearls occasionally. :lol: Just very pretty when it does so. Oh I get the darn hair algae too. I just use a syphon pipe to suck it out the tank. Doesn't bother me too much; hopefully it'll be gone soon.

hmm.. I can recommend glosso The mother would force the babies to hide under the glosso 'canopy'. But any thing that provides cover really. Im going to try again - but this time in a tank with crypts. Remember that plants and gravel make them a pain to feed, and the excess food rots and makes algae grow. but i suffer from couldncarelessatisis :lol: so it didn't bother me. The mother did a great job taking care of the babies. she would clean them, help them get unstuck and take them to and from cover. No way I could do that. She was like a little shepherd and they were her sheep Hopefully one day, they will make good parents too.