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4300K is pretty useless. Infact you're wasting your time with anything under 6500K. can mix 6500K with 10000K for a nice effect.

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That would only encourage corruption of the system. Any smuggled animal should be sent back courtesy the smuggler. All fees included.

yeah, that and if you never ever do water changes to removed the dissolved lead seriously... mountain out of an ant hill problem here.

almost all. Plus you can buy lead free soldering stuff.

define long term :lol: we use..what lead 202? that's a half life of 53000 years? All heavy metals carry the risk of poisoning because they don't leave the organic bodies and finally can cause cancers, tumours etc etc. The risk of your fish tank fish being negatively affected by a stable form of lead, not by ingestion of the metal but because it some how misbehaved and dissolved in water is NIL in my opinion. especially with all the water changes that we tend to do.

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horseface loach? They often look alike.

No effects long term. None at all.

wao. I like those designs! REALLY like the tui one too. My best friend would love a black tee with that on it! she would go crazy!

some sort of rainbow fish?

Yes definitely an advantage to have them. Gives you more room for error, and there is a LOT of room for error in this hobby

I could live in that easy! It truly is nice work.

he is in france, not here.

yeah, some of the leaves on the mother plant have leaves. they come and go as the light changes and the leaf matures.

So its been about a month now. That same flower bud, flowered, and i kept it emmersed and now there is a plantlet! it will obviously be a clone to the mother plant that I think is an Ozelot x Red Rose. Another new flower spike emerged 2 days ago too. Will update with pics in a while.

I like the scape. I think it is very practical in the long run.

mouth is upwards? guppy?

DAltons costs $12 a bag up here

I would like to know whose bright idea it was to use MDF for fish tank stands - the odds of water damage are pretty darn high even for someone who is really careful. I mean its like $600-$800 for one of those stands! I thought it would have been wood, or at least the structural elements would have been solid wood.

Well a while ago I noticed that the stand on my big tank was bowing slightly. So i found out where the water was dripping on it from, and I immediately rectified the problem. (The wallpaper was letting drops of water trickle down the back). I put the dehumidifier on for a long time, but have been meaning to move the tank to see how the carpet was doing. Finally today I arranged to move the tank out the room, which is not hard and just involved pushing the tank along the carpet out the room, once i removed most of the water. But then when stuart and I lifted the tank slightly, the base (or what we thought was the base!) stayed put but the rest of the stand lifted up. That scared me because it meant the entire tank could have just collapsed and fallen right over! So finally we figured out that the base, was not actually the base, but just sort of sat there and looked pretty and the real base is 4 MDF supports that had also collapsed. So finally after much planning, analysing and more planning we slowly managed to get the tank and the stand off the cruddy MDF supports and straight on to the floor. bear in mind the tank is still on the stand, but because the stand is 100% MDF it is resting on a rectangular platform. Went to the kitchen and laid down 5, 4x2s. finally after aages we (joe - sandra's partner, stuart, flatmate - hugh, and I) managed to get the tank and stand on the 4x2s. The "base" of the stand - what it originally sits on is ruined. just peeled it off. so now the tank's stand sits on the rectangular bit that sits on 4x2s instead of rubbish MDF. The carpet is ruined. It has been eaten away and I'm hoping that it can be repaired. they will need to do that patch work stuff to it, and its a dark carpet so that helps. But the house is new and modern, and that's always a worry. It took the best of 4 or 5 hours to move the tank from my room to the kitchen. Fish stayed in the tank and there were no problems with that. I just keep coming back to the thought that I'm 22, don't know if im going to live in Palmerston next year, let alone the same house; or what my plans are. I mean I could be in palmy, but I could also be in TGA, or CHCH! - I really don't know. Having a tank as large as that just doesn't make sense. Then I thought about breaking the tank down and selling off everything, bar the equipment; and I realised I just couldn't do it! It has taken me years and years of collecting to get the CL's I have, and then there are the fancy plecos. Then the discus were a gift from Ron, and then there are all those plants that its taken so long, and so much effort into growing.

Mate, after the day I've had today I just want to chuck all the tanks out. I really do not know what I would do if it were not for Sandra and Stuart. I really don't.

sorry. i have been really stressed and busy all day. use plain old white spot cure. Now the best temp to keep them at is 25 drg, but increase the temp very slowly over then next few days to 28. i wouldn't push it further than that as i do not know how they will be at 30C. no need to half the dose or any thing. just use it as the bottle says - however could you post a pic of the fish and the spots please?