phoenix44

I think it looks wonderful! Definitely going down the Dutch route well!

It will be so stressed in a 40L tank it will never eat any thing. They are not machines that are programmed to work in a fixed way.

Yuh. Don't bother adding any thing.

Don't bother with additives then. Were there fish in that tank?

I have never used the TLC product, but I've heard it works instantly?

Like all other antibiotics, Erythromycin is prescription only. Furan II is also an antibiotic, but is an OTC medicine and does not need a prescription. They are both broad spectrum antibiotics, but you wouldn't use furan on human beings :nilly:

You guys should listen to my theories on everything......

Depends. I get all of mine through animates. Might have something to do with me ordering them in. I will buy some selected plants off here, and rarely on TM. A lot of us also just send each other PMs and emails and give each other plants as and when we have them. Just like a little secret society that I have just exposed. Not really haha. Some people trade on here, or get some plants off others and then give some back or pass it on depending on what the plant is. A fair few on sale here though.

Shop assistant dude is right. Technically you have new gravel and new water. No bacteria that are of any good to you will be living in the gravel. Your filter is where the magic happens. I tell people at work this all the time and no one listens to me. You can run a tank for 10 years and it won't cycle if you don't have fish or something living in there. Even if you fishless cycle a tank and then don't add fish you will just revert to uncycled filters.

Jeepers! Look Joe; you like my tank right? Even that was no where near $400! You do not need 10mm glass for a tank that size and nor do you need starphire glass. We have massive glass walls at home (about 20 sqft) that are 18-21mm thick and those are starphire glass simply because the difference in clarity at that range was visible! It will make no difference to a tank of any normal proportions! To me the glass is not the important factor. It's the silicone job that can make or break a tank as far as I'm concerned. You'd be amazed at how many scratches my precious tank has on it now.

Culling simply means - removal from the gene pool. Culling may manifest itself in different ways. If you have an animal with an undesirable trait, culling it could either mean you kill it - thus ensure it's genes are not passed on to future generations; or you could simply give it away to someone that doesn't breed it or you could just remove it from your breeding program. Some people will kill them because they do not want to pass them onto someone else who might accidentally breed the animal and introduce said unwanted trait into the general gene pool - or at least that is the idea. I personally think that some people over cull fish in fear of said unwanted / undesired trait (s) and without greater understanding of how genes really work.

Ha ha I think you guys are giving me a little more credit than I am due! Matt- The fluval CO2 units are not that bad. They are actually quite good. They are however horrendously expensive for what they are, and I can guarantee the same results on a suitable sized tank with DIY CO2. I explored the option of putting a sodastream CO2 bottle on the Fluval units, but the thread size is completely different and that won't work. If you look at ordering a professional unit, keep me in the loop. I might want one too, but it's not the regulators that are expensive, it's the CO2 bottles. Why do you have sticky messes with DIY? I use them on almost all my tanks, and It's clean as. I do go through a lot of sugar though, but that doesn't really hurt haha.

Yeah.. that's what I meant to say haha Thanks. They are not altum! Not even close, but still very pretty. No wholesaler has these particular ones. They have short fin ones.

Actually, we are having a central fishkeepers meeting this weekend on sunday. It's a BBQ at a club members house. You are welcome to join us in palmy north. We have some local Wellington members as well!

Don't buy it! You are 10 times better off DIYing it. Actually more like 56.876 times better off DIYing it. And I hate almost all DIY things.

Those angels are very pretty, I'll give him that. Their fins are beautiful; and given the right setting those particular fish would make a great feature fish. They are not the true scalare, but peru altum comes close enough I think.

I knew they looked familiar! I've got them on my other monitor! Look at them everyday and I was wondering why they looked so darn familiar?

I like them!

It is a round coral. The fragments themselves are like the edge of a serrated knife, so rounding them off won't really be a long term solution. If you have an African tank, you might want to put them in the filter or sump.

26 is plenty tropical.

:lol: Dedication. Hands down win.

That coral can be horrendously sharp, so be careful. If a fish rubs against it, it could easily take an eye out.

What Animates was this? (you can add your location via the user control panel). Apart from that, do some water changes. Don't add any water additives that will attempt to alter your pH.

I use cichlid gold and aro pellets too. They are very good. Especially the aro pellets!

Ha ha my bad. I used to have a couple of white convicts back in the day, and compared to my normal ones they were like little angels. It is a good idea not to apply a trend to what could have been a one off though.