It works beacause the whole rice paddy acts as a natural filter and the all the water is connected (It sounds dumb .....)
the anabantiods use their labyrinth organ to breathe the atmospheric air
http://www.bubblenest.net/betta_anatomy2.jpg
hehe the siamese fighting pistol shrimp sounds intersting :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
It's fine for fighters, as long as they have large daily water changes(preferably 100%) and exercise though things like flaring they will live in jars happily. people often use even smaller containers that that and still manage to breed some very good and healthy fighters
Have you noticed that most people that breed smaller fish(like killies) don't actually use filters? Water changes are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than a filter
Awesome is there anything in the bottom of the pond/lake? from the first pic it doesn't look like theres anything...
Any chance you could get some pics of the turtles as well
We almost left with a few blue tounges as well!! :roll: lol
tut tut LA, you did not tell me that , although it shouldn't be a problem i'll go chuck some more veges in there for them now, they have already eaten quite a bit of carrot between them lol
Currently Indoors, but eventually out, not sure of their age but still quite young both will snuggle into one hand but the male is a bit larger will have to ask LA about the age (unless he sees this )
Went to the BFRC meeting on Sunday at Living Arts, ended up coming home with two new friends
The boys on the right
Their Colouring
The girl
The boy is called squiggles(King Squiggles the 1st ehrm cough cough) and the girl is called maisy as they are called by my sister as their her christmas prezzie
There also very quiet due to lots of handling and will happily sit in there hand as well due to still being bubbas(/being small)
I have some that could be called these:http://guppywiki.guppies.com/index.php/Golden_Moscow
got them from the pet shop and their yellow bit on their tails seems to come and go as they please
No need for a substrate would just make it harder to get the gunk out
yes about the cats!!!, although some dont seem to do it (1 of our 5 cats seems to like the taste of big orandas )they don't catch comets though only fantails when they start to spawn
you can buy electronic water squirters(senses movement) from petshops kind of expensive though, or you can:
-make a ring of large rocks 10cm+ at the waters edge to stop them getting in
-lots of plants
-a ring of netting around the pond
-or a lower water level
Got some new babys today :bounce: , nowhere near as many (around 30) not sure whats wrong with my fish now lol, seem to do it whenever its going to rain....
they should both be fine, comets seem to like more room to swim around in as the get older and bigger (they can swim very fast when they want to) pom poms would be fine as well, we have some very nice orandas in our pond
goldfish are very messy in regards to pooping a filter would help a little with this and would also keep it from becoming stagnant
try to stick quite a bit of plants in it as well and lightly stock it
for the tank shove lots of plants in it then let them do there thing with weekly Waterchanges
http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=40923&start=15 <-got some pics of them there
and all tihs mtatres at all why?? the biarn deosn't actlluay regnocise the WOHLE!!! wrod, so sellpnig deosn't mttear and you sitll get all the mniaeng wtih out the cmmoas and evythrenig esle.
It also takes forever to type like that