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Who's got some? :happy2:

Thanks very much for the offer Supasi, but unfortunately I don't know anyone out your way

It's only in that corner of the tank, and only that tank so is not excess food. It's starts in the corner and creeps up the glass if not cleaned out. Yes, it's fluffyish. That corner gets the most sun so might be some sort of algae? :dunno:

I don't know, only seems to accumulate in one corner - some sort of fungus?

Thanks everyone, I wanted to be sure before bidding on an auction on TM but someone snapped them up - some juvies, and said they wanted the lot so guess I'll have to wait until more are for sale in my area

and how do I get rid of it please?

I'm looking at getting some but don't know much about them, I hear they're peaceful for cichlids so my question is, how do they fare with discus, guppies, tetras, clown loaches, blue rams and cories?

I'd be willing to look at international sites at this stage cos clearly there's nummuch in NZ- can anyone recommend any please?

Thanks Jim, set of 3 what? Can you describe them to me please?

I have a large tank that doesn't have a hood light and it's designed that it would be impractical to use one so would like to buy some sort of internal lighting. I had some led lights which were fab, until it turned out they wern't waterproof after all. Does anyone sell submersible tank lighting in NZ? I've checked my LFS and there's nothing in Wgtn area.

What is the coolest temperature discus can tolerate? My tank is currently 24-25 degrees.

I think it is the cories too, as I understand khulies are very hard to breed anyway. The first time the heater died so the water went quite cold before I realised and replaced it, which triggered their first spawning :oops: This time was a water change but the water is quite brown for some reason.

Definitely not the angels as they've laid eggs before and none are behaving like parents. I also have bronze cories and khuli loaches. The khulis were behaving oddly - swimming up and down (moon dancing I think it's called) against the glass on one side in particular (where most of the eggs are). They've been laid in batches here and there - mostly in corners, behind the filter, top of the glass etc. This is the 2nd batch in 3 weeks. The first lot was all eaten/didn't survive so don't think these will either but am curious to know who/what is laying them and maybe I should try to remove the eggs, put them elsewhere to give them a chance?

I used to use baking soda to raise PH but it's been so long that I completely forgot about it as Upper Hutt water is good so PH is always about right. I checked my other tanks and my other community tank was also very low so dosed that one too. Now I find that the first tank (with the angels) has brown water (whereas the other I dosed is fine). No algae anywhere in the angel tank (actually a community tank) as that tank never grows it, but the water is now brown - any suggestions on what it could be? The fish seem ok, including the poorly angel but will know for sure at feeding time - damn bronze cories won't stop laying - I see a new batch of eggs in the tank now too :-?

That's it! :bounce: I knew there was something that replaced PH Up that was a cheaper alternative. Thank you si

Well maybe the water in Upper Hutt is too acetic to allow the drop. To be honest I haven't checked it in a while and as the angel was looking poorly, decided to check and it's way down (tested yellow). No plants in the tank and I don't over-feed. I just need something to get the level up until I can purchase some PH Up tomorrow. Any suggestions?

One of my angels was looking a bit off after a water change yesterday and turns out the pH level is way down (tested yellow), I'm out of PH up, so is there anything else I can use in the meantime until I can buy some more tomorrow?

Shipping is expensive, it can cost more to ship than the purchase of the fish.

Thanks for the advice. I've decided to go with Plan C: wait until 4x juvies are a bit bigger before I can introduce them to the community tank, then move pink convict into their tank and completely empty and clean her's out. She'll be in a 20 litre tank for a day or two but I'm sure she'll cope

If they're fairly placid, unless breeding - how would she go in a very large community tank with 2x blue rams, 2x clown loaches, 7 neon tetras and handful of guppies? I thought about trying her out but was hesitant in case she did get aggressive, as she's damn fast and hard to catch, especially in a large tank.

I have a female pink convict in a small tank by herself. The tank is suffering from green dust and I've tried everything to get rid of it, as a last resort I thought I'd add a pleco but wonder if the close proximity to each other might be a problem so the convict attacks the pleco.

I guess if Paul hasn't checked in for a while he's having a break from the fishy business. Thanks for the offers of other Long-finned golds, but you're not local to me All the best fish and fish shops seem to be in Auckland

I remember he sold some on TM a while ago and was hoping he had more to sell :bounce:

I don't really name mine anymore as I have too many, but I do have a female pink convict in a tank by herself that I call "Missy" and a tank of male guppies known as "the lads".

I know green algae is normal, but this tank is more prolific than any others and the algae is different - this algae is like a soft powder over the glass and it's covered it completely in days. I've used this tank before with other fish and I've never had this algae before, it's very weird. I added some java fern but it hasn't helped (convict wasn't interested in the plant) so will add another plant but it doesn't seem to help anyway.