phoenix44

call up the shop and speak to who ever is in charge. they may be able to help.

for $5 each, ill pick them up ha ha. ill even send you a couple FOC ha ha. just get me past MAF.

ohhhh! not buddy so sorry to hear you can't take the sweet heart with you! he is awesome! but congrats about getting married! ill ask around, i know someone with lots of bunnies, and they are spoilt rotten!

males don't have ovaries (thankfully, I shudder to think of the implications :lol: ), so must have mixed them up

Zev is not a MAN! take that back before you feel the wrath of the pointy stick :lol:

that would be a determining factor, yes :lol: but seriously, I had real problems with my tank when i first got the africans - the soft water only sustained a low pH. when i raised the KH everything sorted itself, and the fish were visually more lively.

I ll buy 200 thanks.

oh no. i knew i was missing something, just call in tomorrow and tell them to put a sign on it saying sold. but honestly, who is going to buy them but us? :lol: you can't buy 300 plants!

gosh. i only know of the cigarette sweet / lollies, and drive ins!

set the tank up with a nice healthy amount of that stuff, and add the water etc and see what happens. its hard to know without knowing how much shell is in the sand, and the kH of the water after adding the shell sand.

yeah man.. always buffer the water and adjust the kH naturally. I hate those pH up, down, proper rubbish products. I hope they get banned! grrr.. lol (clearly im not a supporter ha ha) use shells (bird grit), corals, limestone etc and the fish will be happy as.

yes you are getting three lol. ordered another one that should be in on wed/thu. ps- plants galore, i think i went a little wild this week.

OMG! really? just gets worse doesn't it? well.. ive got a dozen cycle bottles somewhere... hahahaaa. oh no... that's not good at all. thanks for the heads up though. least now i know what to do

there was about a 24 - 36 hour period that they were in cold temp. i presume the temp raised up to 17 during the day as the lounge usually gets bathed in sunlight. thanks for the fish offer, but any thing small will get eaten as there is a syno and 12 clown loaches in there. ive been advised to leave the tank for a bit and grow them out, and then in a month if i can get some more fish i might. again, thanks for the offer.

I was half tempted to re do the tank, but i feared the wrath of a woman. :lol: PS- nandus's will be fine.

I love that ad!!!!!!!!! :bounce:

i will come on msn once my msn starts behaving. ps- can my plants be dug in the gravel? the leaves are going all wonky like :lol:

i like the german ones, cause they are reliable, have a good warranty, and parts are readily available. i got one of my fluvals about 4 years ago now, and its still running strong with no problems. infact a while ago i wanted to get an eheim, and after going over all the options, i landed up buying another fluval 405 :lol: i like the media baskets in the fluvals and the pipes which can never kink, and how easy they are to get started. and they are silent. but wait, there's more :lol: i also like the way you can just stop the water flow and clean the filter without mucking about. can even slow the water flow down if you are feeding the fish something like brineshrimp (live).

i put them in a fish bag with the tiniest amount of water, and then tie up the bag so it has a lot of air in it and is tightly packed. then put it in a box and send it NZ wide for $7.50 you can also send it in a courier bag for $6 but make sure you tie the bag well so it does not come undone and wet the poor courier dude and all his packages.

I thought they liked cold water? and they are a not a frog that can live entirely in water (notice the lack of the webbed feet). HTH sam

they are between 4-6 cms. grew really fast too. :oops:

Thanks tracy. I dont mind paying the going rate for the fish, its just finding them at the moment. I think ill have to wait for a month. they guy I bought them off is real good. he will let me know in a month when he has some more growing. hey ryan - still have like 20 dems but only 5 yellows. 5 yellows are not enough. they are used to being in a large group so hide most of the time unless they are eating. Thanks for all the kind words everyone.

it is a jager 300 W. the heater works brilliantly, its just i plugged in a powerhead to move debris away from the nooks and crannies and when i removed it i think i dislodged the heater plug. the backup heater is a 200W fluval tronic. I managed to measure the bn the other day as he was eating a courgette (a whole thing by him self, that glutton). 18 cm long and 4.5 cm wide at the head I dunno. for a while there i was going to pack it all in, sell the fish, re home the ones i was attached to like the butterfly pleco and the clown loaches. pleco would have gone to some one who could have bred him (least there is one female in the country that i know of). get a couple of axolotls or something like that but then lots of people on here and else where managed to screw my head back on. so a big thank you to them.

Disaster I wasn't going to post this publicly but im hoping this will make others more aware. Tank disaster. I did my normal water change and somehow the heater came lose in the socket. then i ran to work and came back only at night - fed the fish - slept, woke up the next day, chucked some food in the tank as i was in a real hurry to get to work - noticed the fish were hiding but didnt have the time to stay and see what was going on. came back home from work at about 9pm (work doesn't go on till 9) and noticed the fish were still hiding, but all alive. touched the tank, and it was cold as ever. propped up the aquaminder and it said the tank was at 17 degrees. the low temp alert had been reset somehow, or it would have beeped the house down until someone rectified the problem. raised the temp to 25 over the next 10 -11 hours or so (all at night) but the next evening(yesterday, after another day at work (temp now at its normal 27)) i had to fish out 10 big e yellow bodies. and my alpha male demasoni. this morning there is another dead dem, with what looks like potentially another fatality but im not giving up hope on that one. All the plecos and catfish are fine. Bristlenoses are fine and have eaten well. there are 5 yellows left - all happy now. clown loaches are also happy. Least to say this has not been a good couple of days. to add salt to the wound - I have another good 200W heater that i could not put in the tank, set at a lower temp (as a backup in the event of such a disaster) - as the flatmates do not grasp the concept of a thermostat :evil: . it goes with out saying that the other heater is now in the tank and set at 23-24 degrees. so im hoping this will highlight the importance of having a backup heater set a a lower temp - it does not consume more power as the whole point of that heater is never to come on. if it comes on - it means the temp has dropped too much - but it will save your fish. would hate for anyone else to lose fish in this way. Thanks to those who got me to post this here, you know who you are

I have an eheim internal (2012 i think) that is filled with just ordinary cheap filter wool. Initially when i setup my african tank i didn't run it, but since i don't have a substrate in the tank the water seemed to collect a bit of small particulate matter - which it never did in my previous setup as there were lots of plants and gravel. putting filter wool in the externals for some reason did not solve the problem, so i ran the internal with the filter wool and in a couple of days ive gone back to crystal clear water - just like i was used to. but if you are unsure - run an internal if you have one handy and then if it picks up dirt you know its doing a good job and then you can keep in running. HTH