Lucid

I agree with pol lots and lots and lots of photos. I know caryl will have her laptop to check the forum a least once while she's away.

you've hit the nail on the head shae, it is indeed clown loaches that will eat your snails

Welcome bobg, look forward to a chat one night and hopefully you find all the info you need on this site. Quite right Caryl we are becoming quite international B

welcome luke, it's good to see more and more people joining us here. You can find some of us in the chat room most nights from round 8.30 - 9pm, hope to see you there. B

I too couldn't find anywhere to sign my name, so also may be dense

HI Jude :lol: I have always had a custome setup, tight from the start and I have found that if for any reason( like me being too eager) you get the wrong thing i.e the light is too short or filter too powerful then you have an easier time changing it than on an intergrated( where you would have to change the whole setup) With having a custome Ihave external filters that hang on the side and it means I can change the end it sits on to give the fish a bit of change. As for the hoods, holes and cord, you can trail most of them down the back of the tank, and I just have a pre made light fitting that i purchased and it just sits ontop of the tank, so no hassle with custom hoods. hope this helps some. IMHO It also gives you a wider scope for the sizes that you can choose or have made, as you stated above. B

Welcome Alana, As you can see we are a friendly lot. you can find us in the chat room most nights from 8.30pm - 9pm Cheers B

What colours are these generally. I have one that is blue with red fins and is a bueaty of a fish, but only know of it as a Dwarf Neon rainbow, not even sure what sex. Is a dwarf neon the same as a dwarf neon australian?

Finally got some pdate pics taken Not a good picture but the orange is the male and the bronze and black my main breeding female Again not a good picture but these are my 3 female platties.

Welcome robbie good to see enthusiasm for the hobbie and you obviously can match it with the money or contacts to have 8 tanks so quickly lol see you round B by the way you can join us most nights in the chat room from about 9pm onwards these days.

welcome live, even tho we have already met and been in chat many times already.

nice looking fish live, will hopefully have some pics here in the next couple of days.

it's a start and not all of us can afford to do it all at once, i started by getting bits and peices with my first tank and it took a matter of months to get it all setup how i wanted it.

As all know I have platties and will shortly be aquiring some guppies I currently have 3 females and 1 male along with about 30-35 babies bout 3 months old. pics to follow as need to get some better ones.

it's glass with a brownish tinge to it, like you see on the old coffee tables.

I have 3 cory's, 2 chinese algae eaters, a botia striata and a khuli loach which between them all keep the gravel in my tank very clean indeed. hope this helps you jude B

Just wondering if anyone has tried constructing a tank with smoked glass, does this make it too dark to view the inside of the tank and most importantly wil it reduce the amount of algae growth. any comments or thoughts( or personal experiance) would be appreciated before I go and price out the glass.

hi Jude and welcome to the fishroom glad you have found it helpful already, many of us come to this forum for help. you can find us in the chatroom most nights from 9-9.30pm see you there soon B

the lfs here in Tawa, usually swap fish for things like fish food, which they pay stuff all for.

congrats on getting it finished caryl, as am not an official member of the kapi mana club yet what would it cost me to purchase a copy. Cheers B

hi and welcome Gavin, all the best with your goals and keep us posted we all like to see how you go. B

depends on how you do it caryl usually I wrap them in a wet paper towell before putting them in the freezer. Slows the body down gradually. can't be as stressfull as sitting out of water gasping for breath waiting for the killing blow.

the one mentioned in the article was vallis spp and they were also talking about banning oxygen weed aswell.

I saw the afore mentioned article in the local paper and it says that it is not banned in wellington but they are looking in to it at the moment, as it has been dumped in a lake just south of wanganui.

welcome vdoubleyou, hope you find a lot of helpful info to make your fishkeeping pleasant and not stressful, I certainly did B