lmsmith

The warehouse sells 10L containers with a TDS of 0. It's really cheap, and comes it easy to carry containers.

Bunnings have them, in the plumbing aisle with bite pipe and PVC pipe and fittings. Actually, it's everthing you might need for an overflow pipe.

Already have, I can get a tank in thicker glass, same size delivered for less that port nicholsons.

Bordem, I think. My puffers did that until I put more things in their tank.

Can someone please PM me the contact details for tanks2u?

I'm waiting for lawnmowers to come on the allowed list too. I don't liek that MAF doesn't allow them, but I'm sure they have a reason (even if it is arbitrary and somewhat odd).

Say that you're future proofing. That's how I've convinced my significant other to let me get a 5ft tank. I made it seem like his idea, and then suggested that we could got for 6ft. He said 5, I agreed, and now I have a new tank on the way. He even offered to make the stand.

I have a fully planted tank with about 200 baby BN and a gazillion guppies, and I feed them once every 2 weeks, sometimes more, sometimes less.

I got quoted $310 for 1500x600x500. $490 including packing and delivery. That's in 12mm glass from tanks2u. Don't know how he does it so cheap!

Congrats! They'll take about a week to start coming out and about.

3-4cm is too little. You might see some tiny buds around the side of their face that small, but that's about it. Usually there will be nothing, then suddenly they'll have reasonably big ones, seemingly overnight! Once they are about 2mm long, they start to slow down again, but do go through bursts of growth.

That's an odd sized tank. If I was you, I'd make it deeper and shallower. They look funny skinny and tall.

I have some about 4cm that are starting to get bristles, but some are late bloomers.

I like the idea of having the return on the bottom. I don't really want to drill too many holes in it though, and also want to avoid leaking as much as possible. The plan is to have the least intrusive return possible, I think I might do something like you have craig, with a single return just on water level. No risk of a back-syphon, and it's pretty unobtrusive.

I know they're a pest, but I couldn't in good conscience let the poor thing die - especially not in the pool! I know the reality is the hedgehog will probably go out there and eat some bird eggs, but I feel much better about indirectly being responsible for an animal's death than I do being directly responsible.

Went out and in the filter of my pool was a big, fat hedgehog. The pool was lower than usual; if it was full, he would have drowned because he wouldn't have been able to stand up anyway. I coaxed him out, picked him up in a towel and dried off his tummy. He was nearly 15cm long, and about 10cm wide; a very very big boy. I sat him near the bushes (far from the pool) in the towel, and went inside to get a box to put him in so I could keep him warm for a night or 2 then release him, but when I came back out, he had scuttled off into the bushes. I'm very happy that I managed to save him, and have installed a ramp in the pool so they can get out if any fall in!

My two are looking pretty fat also, but I think I might have 2 males. I reciently moved them into a much bigger tank, and they've been through a big growth spurt in the last few weeks.

This is the trade me one that we had a massive thread about like a year ago, right? I remember people saying they were quite good.

Drains the colour of the fish? That's a new one.

Hah, that'll teach you; never sell fish stuff, you'll always need it again!

I never used to be able to build things, but I have a very handy partner who has 'helped' me. The trick is having a plan, drawing it up, checking the measurements, checking them again, checking the plan, checking the measurements, cutting, checking the measurements, screwing it together, and yes, checking it again....keep checking and measuring and make sure things are square and level.

I don't necessarily agree that you need a skimmer, there are plenty of marine (tropical and cold) tanks out there that run without skimmers. However, you do need some method of nutrient/waste export.

What about some Africans? I have lumpheads and dems, and was going to get some electric yellows, yellows and dems look great together, don't get too big, and they're nice and bright so maybe the wife will approve.

Looks like a girl to me, but it really depends on the size of it. If it's only 5cm long, you can't really tell.

For those of you who have sumps, how have you plumbed your return? I'm looking at different ways I can do the plumbing, the less noticable the better.