phoenix44

alto calvus?

also masked julii if they have not already been mentioned. are those shell dwellers tang cichlids?

It is dying I think. 1 bottle of algae rid, 1 big bag of phoszorb and another big bag of nitra zorb. lots of flourish excel, a new co2 diffusor - and its finally going I think. gah.

Any one travelling from Masterton to Palmy?

the egg is only one half of the equation. if the temperature theory is correct for this species, a fertilised egg will develop over time into a male or female. No. it does not work that way at all. if your dna says you are a male, then you are a male. its not possible to trick those chromosomes into being another sex. there are exceptions for animals that can change sex at will / due to an environmental factor. I remember learning about embryonic develoopment in animals - the terms gastrula (makes the body structure i think) and bastula come to mind. google them and see what comes up. Again, I do not know if this holds true for WD's, but im pretty sure someone else on here does. and when temp determines the sex - it does so over a period of time when the eggs are being incubated, so that egg may develop into a male or female. it is not an instant thing, and freshly hatched eggs are not animals, they have no sex and have not developed.

noo! A fuznut is that brown cute fuzzy velvet like bug and a bumbletron is a particularly fat bumble bee who visited us everyday. :lol:

not really an insect either are they? :lol: they are sooo cool though. do you have any fuznuts and bumbletrons?

did you pay to have the dog kept separately? and would you expect to pay if your dog was the one that got attacked? just wondering..

hey, first I must say you have a great attitude to deal with constructive criticism, and need to be commended for that. If you were in NZ I would even buy you a beer to show how genuine that is, however i do not drink beer as it tastes ghastly, so you would have to drink it all alone, and that's depressing...but that is another story. :lol: The calculator needs to account for the size of the fish, the food they are being fed (what goes in comes out), the filtration - but more importantly the media - take me for example. 2x fluval 405s and 1 eheim 2028 with more than 3L of eheim substrat pro media means 450sqm of surface area per Litre of media. that's place for the bacteria to live - and that's a lot of good bacteria in the tank in a tank that probably holds less that 200L of water after accounting for all the volume that the plants, substrate and items in the tank account for. The same amount of filtration would be near useless without any media. perhaps the algorithm of the calculator could include a data input variable where users could choose to enter the size of the fish in question. eg. a 4cm royal panaque will not produce as much waste as a 12" + royal, and is ok in a smaller tank, but needs a larger tank as it grows. the calculator also does not account for plants in the tank. more plants of the right sort = lower nitrates, and a more stable environment. It would be near impossible to account for all the variables and make everyone happy, but you are on the right track.

get rid of the ammonia in the water. what sort of gold fish and in what size tank?

OMG. hold on. Did not see this was the saltwater section. Gah. I only read nicks post about cyano. before you dose with that, are your phosphate levels normal? and for that stringy stuff, test your nitrate/ite levels.

if it is cyanobacteria you need to dose with an antibiotic like furan.

he is prob hyperventilating. stress of 100+ kids & a nagging wife is he in different water to what he was before? (I would have in totally different water, as long as the pH was the same - and then see if he is the same).

dwarf chain loaches too CL's would be my choice of fish though.

I love bulldogs!

are they the half and half's?

depends on which tubes you have in the 620/T. if you have the T8's then yes. there is a standard size for it that will fit.

powerglo. 18000K. they are the brightest and great for plants.

perhaps something about washing your hands after touching them, salmonella etc.

:lol: I like those twigs in the tank. it looks cool.

i feed mine hikari cichlid gold, aro pellets, spirulina flakes and what ever else I have.

lookie lookie who it is you should post more often :lol:

naah. don't do finches sorry.

maybe firenzenz can shed some light on the matter too.