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haven't had much time to work on it, and its sloow when i do with two little people helping. but its nearly finished none the less. inside of the back and two sides are filled in with 40mm poly, think there's enough left for under the tanks too. Back and one side have seratone (plastic coated hardboard) for the outside cover (taken off the bathroom when i decided to renovate it, must finish that...) Cut the piece for the other side, but have to slide in the longest tank through the end before i screw it on. Top has seratone too. Doors for the front are made, timber frames with seratone inside, then poly, then plywood outside, will open from the middle. Still to make a little door for the bottom part, will open down to the floor, for storage space. Tomorrow just have to slide the tank in, screw on the side, screw on the doors, make the bottom door, stick in the airlines and taps, line up the beam in the wall to bolt it to at the top, then it should be done and i can add the other tanks. Can't wait Think it will be insulated enough to just have heaters in the bottom tanks?

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2350 then i got stuck inside my tail

i have 5, 250l, 90l, 35l, 30l, 15l when i get off the net and finish the stand i'll have an extra 2ft and 4x 1ft.

kiwiplymouth are they easy to crush up for small fish too?

there's a number on the pest fish page here for people to contact about it?

wow thanks for that, now i can tell people what it is

Lol yup its good quality carpet, i've got it covering my whole house. When I first moved in I hated it, but now i've got used to how bright it is I like it. Good thick nz wool for the -5 nights, and it hides the fur from two huge dogs and 4 cats

And furthermore, its straight and square and strong looking. /Me is pleased I did have some help drilling the screws in though, would have taken me too long to balance the bits of wood and do it by myself. Bottom is just storage, i hate low to the ground tanks, first shelf up will be two 2ft tanks, second shelf four 1ft tanks, top shelf hatching baby killies maybe? Not sure yet. Its hard to see against the white wall, but the back is filled in with poly, and the ceiling, will do all the sides and the shelves tomorrow, then cover the outside with plywood over the poly. Then have to make doors to close on it at night, and get the power man to put a plug on the wall above where it will go. Hopeing it will be insulated enough to run two heaters on the bottom shelf and heat the tanks above, and economic.

isn't it something to do with it being more productive in times of plenty to have girl babies to pass on your genes, and when there's not much food to have boys, or the other way round? i don't remember. Point being certain levels of nutrients in the blood, and stress levels etc, are supposed to affect which sex baby a woman can carry, so that her genes have the best chance of being passed on to grandchildren. There's some smarter biology people here who can probably explain it better.

the extent of my knowledge is.. if the heater was 400w and ran 24/7, and your power is 12c/unit, as mine is, it would cost 34.50 per month to run the heater however the heater wouldn't be on 24/7, so it would be less than that. If you have a tank in the same room this one would go in, you could try to make note of how much time the heater spends on and off, or get a gadget to do it for you, then work it out exactly. If it were me i'd assume the heater would be on 1/2 the time, so $17/month I'm sure someone will correct me if i'm wrong

he's onto his second hole now, my nice planted tank is looking awful :evil: but have come up with the solution, he gets his own tank all to himself next week, and will put some nice diggable substrate in it

yep they would have needed i permit for the koi but its a spring which comes out of the ground, and goes into the sea less than 1km away, so there's not really anywhere they could go. still lots of people must have pinched them for their ponds. There's some lovely big koi in the zoo there too, worth a look

i have black gravel and glass in one of my tanks, looks great and brings out the fishes colour really well. I'll be getting black substrate for my next tank too

if thats all the test is, what a rip and why all the excitement over it when the means have been available for years? I guess the ph thing must be some new discovery

just let it come back up slowly, so it doesn't stress them out any more, and cross your fingers for the floaters good luck

have ordered the wood for tomorrow will post a pic when i'm done i'll fill one tank and leave it a few days to make sure its holding up

oh and glass is 6mm

I'll be putting poly underneath the tanks, so i don't see them being banged from underneath. I could put beams on the short sides as well, but don't want to if its not necessary. At the moment i'm planning on putting them on the ends anyway so they'll be supported on 3 sides really

I've seen alot of tank racks like this, but i'm rather dubious about it. I want to build a rack to hold 2x 600mm long tanks, 300wide, with the long sides sitting on 5x10mm woods, and the short sides on air, no floor to the shelf so its just the front and back wood. From what i can find on google it seems common, but i worry the bottom will fall out of the tanks. Has anyone got their tanks like that or do they cave in?

hope you got bonus credits for the fishy

just get some stress coat with aloe vera, its supposed to "repair the slime coating with natural healing power" and is cheap enough

he's never done it before, it was like he went into a digging frenzy in the corner. He does sometimes pick up peices of gravel and put them in his house, but only one at a time, not digging into it.

yep he gets sinking tablets and a bit of flake food, doesn't usually eat the whole tablets so i don't think he's hungry

Also he's about 12cm long i think