ally07

After about a month my triple layer fine filter wool gets so gunked up it takes me 4-5 bucket loads of old tank water to get it "clean".. I can't imagine if I'd left it for a year! :nilly:

Clock

Just go for the 'zen' look. Bare bottom tank. One niiiiice piece of driftwood in the middle. Either a school of small fish (neons maybe?) or one big fish which has personality (an oscar perhaps? I don't know what your dimensions are so I won't recommend anything bigger for now lol). If your filter current is positioned correctly, most or all of the poo and leftover food should be sucked up by the intake. All you need to do is a water change (without vacuuming!) every week and some filter maintenance every month or so and you'll be sorted. I personally feel that anything with plants in it is "high maintenance" because you have to add ferts and you have to trim, which makes it messy, etc. (But that's just me.) This is something I googled, kinda what I meant with the driftwood look:

Frodo

Smelly

Fish are so fickle, they only love us long time when we have the food. Once they're full, they're off to the caves.. Life's like that lol.. :cofn:

Handbag

Queen street

Cinema

Wipe

:rotf: Call Guinness, we just found the world's biggest (and sexiest) goldfish! :happy1:

Choke

lol! Wonder how that was relevant to the video?? But nice looking fish anyway lol.. Gold Xback !drool: !drool: !drool: !drool:

Just search 'henward888' on youtube.. You can see the Beast of a fish in his monstrous tank lol.

Mindy

Too many possibilities for us to speculate I reckon.. Like you mentioned, maybe they got really lucky with a pair that didn't rip each other to shreds? They must have a hell of an eye for sexing arowanas, 'cos I'm not even sure if there are any visible differences between male and female (to my knowledge).. Or, maybe they bought a pair from a breeder? Probably very unlikely, but some people might have means..? People in Asia with big ponds in their backyards probably have the best chance of identifying a pair from juveniles and then removing them to a living room tank to spawn I reckon. But then again, a living room is probably not the best place for a spawning. There's a youtube video in Thailand I think where they have a hidden camera inside the tank and it's really dark because it's a concrete pond, so it always seemed to me that arowanas preferred privacy during their spawning, but I dunno, maybe living rooms work just as well? :dunno:

Hippie(ish)

Very well researched! :thup: :smln:

I-Don't-Care(ish)

lol, maybe they are technically endangered because most of the arowana population is in people's tanks! Don't really see how greens are endangered though.. Aren't they really common in the rivers of Malaysia/ Thailand?

L&P(ish)

Taupo's prawn farm water is heated from the nearby geothermal power station, which they regulate through their own little control room on site, so the water is always constant. Even if there was a large enough market for arowanas in NZ and it was possible to set up a farm, you'd get shut down unless you have PERMISSION to breed them. Don't forget that all the good strains are microchipped. All you could breed would be greens and silvers, maybe blacks (I think?).. Oh, and jars! lol.

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