phoenix44

half the price for an fx5 but dollar for dollar, it is a better filter. if its half the price, so long as its half as good or just over half as good, the fluval is the better choice.

wait... no.. the eheim. but why would you spend that much when you can buy an fx5 instead?

fx5

That looks pretty cool! What sort of discus are those? The Crypt looks like it is still in its emersed form, so wait for the real leaves to grow. it is most likely wendtii green.

naah.

yeah. java fern is fine.

yeah, its an awesome tank. looks good too, and you can grow green plants in there. esp java fern.

ha ha you bought ang's tank :lol:

you must come visit! also if HFF has female red eye puffers in stock, and if you are going there I may want one! :lol: if not, no worries, im sure i can get them another way quite easily.

see i can't draw a straight line without mucking it up. but when it comes to numbers and learning stuff, my lecturers are bazoombled by the way i work. for eg. i had to solve this finance question that was about 2 pages long with calculations. we were given 5 options to what the answers could be - each option was likely to be the answer depending on what variable was used in the equation, but only one was correct. everyone in the class started solving the q to get the answer, and as is the norm we got 5 different answers from the class. I on the other hand, started with the answers, worked backward, until I got the same numbers that were in the Q. eliminated the "wrong" answers on that basis, and i was right. every one was highly confused, but my working made perfect sense to the lecturer... eventually. he was rather upset that someone had cracked the code to multi choice questions. :lol: then for wordy stuff, i learn colours and position on the page. I don't have to learn the words, but if i know (and i do learn this way) where the green ink on the page is and green ink is what i used to write the basel II convention for eg. I can actually visualise the writing, and write it down without thinking at all. then i have to read what i have written to see if it makes any sense. when someone says something and i have to remember it, i make up a joke in my head, or associate an unforgettable word with that chain of thought and then when im in an exam hall i remember the joke i made up or that "unforgettable" word, and the rest of the idea that was verbally expressed immediately comes into mind like watching a movie. i actually day dream about what exactly i saw, the time, the sounds around me, and what was being said -just like a movie - and i can write everything down. Then more of then than not, while im thinking along one chain of thought, i suddenly write something else down, or move to another question that is totally unrelated, and just come back to the q that I had left before.. the worst part is when im in my "daze" and the examiner taps me on the shoulder and says "you should be writing, not day dreaming" :evil: they know to leave me alone now haha. but when i write, its at blitz kreig speed, and neat as ever. if its not neat, i have to start over until it is neat.

CS4 purchased, will set you back about $1300+

I have CS4. you could email the pics to me and I can make attempts at correcting the levels if that helps / hAlps.

nymox you probably, like me, have dyscalculai.. luckily i was young when i got diagnosed with dyslexia, slightly older when i got told I had dyscalculai, and now i have none. well.. that's not entirely true, i read and write things normally but its different to how most people would read, write, and learn stuff off by heart.

the cannister and diffuser.

sure you got enough bubbles? looks really nice though. i like the substrate.

how can it be too much when all i mentioned was the conc of the fluid and not the amount i added to the water? the final conc. of the soln added to the tank was no more than 4%

amen to that hahaha. :lol:

ah... grasshopper :lol: but carbon has a very very fascinating micro structure. it has the ability to absorb those small particles, and that's how it polishes the water. the structure also enables it to attract metal ions and store them.

That's what carbon does.

I am growing some in a box that is in another box. just to make sure they do not get out. they are usually filled with mud so if i am feeling up to it, I cut them wash the mud out (slips right out) and chuck it in the tank for the discus (other tank). these guys just get a whole worm and they demolish it. they are ugly as sin, I want more, but missed out cause the puffers are not on the list any more. have to wait for another batch.

28th of this month yeah? I'm keen too.

all of it was sold after that. now to re grow what I have The puffers are doing so much better now; although they love earthworms, they do not seem overly interested in the snails in the tank.

can you see any reason for it not to work?

it wasn't supposed to have killed the fish... in fact, from research online, it was safe, as long as I didn't over dose, which I didn't. well at least all my eggs were not in the same basket, so i have some replacements coming down in a few weeks time. I'm totally gutted though. not happy at all. it would have been better (but not easier) for me to bin and replace the plants, but since the gravel was embedded with the algae, and the glass had it growing too, same with the filters, pipes, rocks etc, it had to be the tank that got treated.

Ok so for those of you struggling with this algae - H2O2 works brilliantly. Bleach, flourish and algae treatments didn't work for me. here's the catch - my mortality list over the last 48 hours 2 red whiptails 2 royal whiptails 2 lancelota whiptails 2/3+ spotty bn 2 clown pleco (panaque) 4 red flamingo guppies 2 cobra green guppies 6 brochis splendis, AKA emerald/green cory 4 albino bn 4 albino bn "white" 3 normal bn 2 Clown Loaches 1 ancistrus ranunculus male :evil: Least to say I am not very happy, but can seek happiness in the fact that the fancy plecos were not harmed and the discus could not care less about the carnage over the last 2 days. So let this be a learning curve for any one with the same alage. Use H2O2 to get rid of it, but remove your plants and add the h2o2 to a bucket, dip the plants in and play the waiting game. Catfish in particular (clearly) are sensitive to Hydrogen Peroxide. So now not only do I need more fish, I need more plants. Great. :evil: