Dave+Amy

you can't bury the rhizome but the roots can be buried and pop a fert ball to make it grow faster

wow you're planing to move to welly?? Who sells them at $13each? I know one petshop that sells Chain Loaches at $26each! which is rediculous....I got my posse of 10 for $14each was regretting the buy until I saw the price of them at that other place

does that sand change the pH at all? Thinking about sand for my Angel tank but worried about the chemistry of it all...and how does that sand hold your plants down? haha I'm guessing Peter built that tank for you my Angel tank is similar but taller

cool I'll buy a few Zucchinis to keep them happy I haven't seen my other male in ages (3/4days) could both of the females dropped simultaneously? And would it matter as one of the females is a direct sister to both the males?

like livingart said and maybe you could make your hood a bit taller too? just to get the metal halide further away?

lol it's alright you can have more! Looking forward to some pics

I'm out of Flourish waiting on some PMDD hopefully!

lol really? at least she's not eating them anymore. Try taking one clutch away from them and raise them on your own, they used to breed once every 2 weeks for me - what do you feed them?

done! work'd up such a sweat lol took 4 tries to register :oops:

and with cardinals they're usually cheaper when you buy in 10's

sorry couldn't help you there but I've seen really cool tanks with their metal halides hanging and no hood - going for the mod/minimum look

did it cost you an arm and a leg?

hmmm...would trying to lower the pH help? more feeding?

no cover as in hood but you could still have glass lids if you hang the light from the top of your ceiling?

how's yours going Cam?

Would I have to feed more veges? (I'm a bad owner..they don't get much greens I have to admit, they're on spirulina discs and bloodworms and discus tucker ) What veges do ppl recommend - preferably ones I can leave in for a while without clouding the water or float. I don't have the time to separate them from the main tank but wouldn't mind some GBAs for my Angel display I'm setting up for algae control..saves me precious pennies from buying some.

I'll have to join first :oops: :oops:

I'm liking the substrate! I want hey petermc - is your substrate just sand?

I have two males and two females in my Discus tank...did my daily waterchange last night and sucked up a big clump of BIG orange eggs which I'm assuming to be from my GBA (?) and saw the male shoot off - probably sacred by the big siphon. What can I do to encourage them to breed again without having to set up a separate tank? I don't know much about them...admittingly

well seeing how there's only one blind cave tetra I'd say it was your ottos....white eggs just mean they're not fertile

I've experimented on my java fern: 1) three big clumps in Discus tank with the glowlux light - been there roughly 3 or 4weeks now, 5 new bright green small leaves. 2) one big clump in unlit soon-to-be Angel display tank (once I've bought a light for the fittings and red/dark substrate) - been there same amount of time as above, no new leaves but plant hasn't deteriorated either. hopefully once I get a light tube it'll progress like the other tank. Is HaNs still on this forum?

problem fixed

I can't see even yours Phoenix

I've stuck one of those fert balls near the roots of my Anubias nanas and it's popping new leaves quite regularly - I've got 7 small anuabias (each with about 7 leaves and proper roots) growing spread throughout my tank pinched from the mother plant (mother plant's only 20cm max but quite wide)

I don't think frozen foods would hold well in autofeeders and I only feed granules once in the morning 'cos I don't want uneaten food to pollute the water, feed either bloodworms or Discus tucker at night