phoenix44

you filleted them? . PS- dollars are tetras or closely related, not cichlids. wait so how many are dead?

You don't need to have lids on the tank if you are running the HO units by GLO/Hagen/Fluval. That depends on how much smaller the lights are. a couple of cm won't make a difference. A couple of feet will. Marginally better. it's not something that should keep you up at night though.

female is with a brood of babies at the moment so im not touching the tank. ill have a look outside in a couple of days and let you know what the moss is looking like there. What holdiays? :roll: you mean the ones that just got over? :evil:

oh very cool! I like the angels and the hoplos.. how big is the tank with the ornate in it?

They won't be making that mistake again. No harm done though.

They're all goldfish. Every single one of them. The multicoloured ones are shubunkins.

well id be inclined to listen to jen about the meds cause she knows about them, but if it were my fish I'd just add more caves, heater guard in your case and salt. maybe 1table spoon per 10L? I don't really do ratios I just put some in, although my tank is currently salt free. you just use normal rock salt. furan is good to have on hand any how, and it certainly won't hurt adding it to the tank as it will keep bacterial infections at bay.

you don't have to buy caves. you can make some very nice ones. go to a landscaping place and buy some schist. then stack some up as you like making caves. In this video at about 00:30 you can see the damage the hypans did to a BN. a couple days later i found a dorsal fin wound on one of the other hypans too. They need their space from each other and are quite territorial.

Very nice!

that chunk missing out of the dorsal fin looks like a typical hypan battle wound. one of my L066 had it once too and a few other hypans get it from time to time. I think you should get a heater guard - like $10 and add some salt to the water. add more caves and more hiding space. There doesn't appear to be a lot of hiding place in your Blue Planet tank. It just doesn't look like a disease, and I'm fairly certain it is not.

ok then if you say so :lol:

oh. bummer. just wait it out. the craze has only mellowed over. it is only july the 10th now.

do you only have the one in the tank?

you get them cheaper in chch though.

Lets call it christmas moss :lol:

Nice! What are you keeping with the blue tang?

yeap. new male, not very interested in breeding - and glosso growing -

looks kinda like heater burn.

you can't crash and burn with a hi tech setup. if you get good lights and less CO2 you will have nothing but algae problems.

my understanding is that glass used to be called a liquid. That was incorrect and it was then said that glass was a fluid which seemed more plausible as it is highly viscous; and did not have the first order phase transition. Physicists now just call it a solid at normal temperatures. others will call it a supercooled liquid and that too is wrong. It is an amorphous solid. The old cathedral window pane story was disproved years ago when scientists realised that glass was not made in perfect flat panes back in the day but was actually blown into the 'flat' shape which wasn't really flat to start off with.

They look pretty goldfish like to me.

From PFK newsletter. It's an informative read. http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/c ... ntent=html

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oh! mmmmmm how do you make said biscuit on the left?