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I'm sorry I can't give further advise to whats been given other than GOOD LUCK!! I hope you work it out a your flappy friends start eating. I dream of a mudskipper tank but they are so uncommon in NZ...one day maybe... a vid for inspiration

Hey LivingArt! Same family but my searching got me to this http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2003/9/inverts and got me interested (P.S. The Fig8 puff I got of you is happy healthy and fat! and has a buddy to keep him company too now)

Hi, How easy is it / where can we get Nerite Snails from in NZ? My brief research on them this far suggests that they are brackish tolerable? Thanks for your replies

its coral rock. My partner has a marine setup so stole a bit from that

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54181265@N ... 891684505/ currently at war with string algae...

I know this thread is pretty old now but thought I'd update things. The tank I set up was fairly successful. The windelov and java fern are now in my brackish tank and are doing ok. Nothing spectacular but they are still alive. The ambulia went brown and mushy, its since been turfed. I even ended up with brackish tolerable snails, but as soon as they went into the main brack tank, the puffers ate em! :o

not worried about the community anymore, will donate the tetras to someone. GBA's will be alright with them? just want something a bit different

or... viewtopic.php?f=11&t=47699&p=526603#p526603 I do like my puffers...

world of water (hamilton) have an elephant nose... thoughts?

I agree!!! where do I get one??!!

that was how I had it and yeah it looked really cool with a big school of rummy's, still got a few. yeah rocking on the cichlid fence at the moment...

They are pretty nice looking, will do a bit of reading on them... Whats their compatibility status..?

Thanks for the compliments guys - its taken a while to get here but am very proud of how it looks now. Looks awesome at night with all the plants releasing oxygen bubbles.

Trying to decide "where to next" with this tank... http://www.flickr.com/photos/54181265@N05/5016379247/ Its had a variety of incarnations in its time, the latest being a home for a community of tetras (rummy's, phantoms,) and 2 GBA. Wanting to explore something more exotic, but something that wont destroy my plants. Suggestions please Currently contemplating rams but....want something different... Was thinking about severums or parrots but tank is only 160L and apparently severum are fairly destructive?

Interested in hearing peoples experiences with regard to converting plants to become brackish tolerable. I've set up a trial tank with (currently) java fern, windelov, and ambulia and intend to slowly raise the salinity via the regular water changes. My goal is to have established brackish tolerable plants to move into my puffer/fig8 tank sitting at SG of 1.010. (Also intend to add to the list of plants e.g. crypts, valisneria, etc..) Various websites list brackish capable plants but none I've found to date discuss the specifics around conversion from FW to BW nor do many of them talk about SG levels. Additionally, assuming plants survive at BW levels, is the upkeep/maintenance of them the same as FW? Do you use the same nutrients? CO2? Iron? I'm far from being a chemist, but would assume the salinity would cause a complete different chemical "structure" than that of FW....? Thanks for your thoughts/comments.