Carlos & Siran

We got two eheim 2215s with our big tank and one was really really noisy, almost sounded like it was stripping gears. Turned out to be the impeller and the last owner had replaced the shaft with a piece of wire so it was rattling around in there. Maybe the shaft on yours is worn?

here's an update, in order to settle the shark down we decided to change things completely, so I raided the water fall again and have gone for a more rock themed setup (we've hidden a nice piece of wood round the back for the pleco) The moss was all over the rocks at the waterfall so we decided to leave it on and just see whether it will adjust to the temp change, cause it looks so cool.

I would go for a ride on my bike but I can't figure out how to plug my Xbox into it

thanx for the info, amazingly enough the shark seems the have settled down, he usually camps out on the right hand side of the tank where he has a wee cave all to himself, the GAE has stayed on the left and is being left alone, though we're still going to have a move around and make sure there's lots of caves for everyone

Hola, the missus bought a gold algae eater to help our leopard sailfin pleco in our new tank, but the resident redtail black is just not giving him a break, nipping his tail and chasing him relentlessly. The girl at lps said it would be fine. Will the AE sort him out do you think? or have we made a booboo?. Was thinking of having a move around in there as the redtail black has had the tank pretty much to himself for the last 5 weeks and sees the tank as his I guess. Waddaya reckon?

Siran found our fulla dead the other morning, he had been acting odd the last week or so, reclusive, and floating near the top of the tank(though not gulping), just seemed lethargic and not himself.

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very cool, that bully looks exactly like the one I caught the other night except it had a much blunter nose.

No giant bullies today, but two Koura and 3 common bullies, quite easily found. I need to get a small tank to take photos

Not sure about the shower, but we got a fitting from the plumber that hooks up to our kitchen tap. I just get the temp right, plug in a garden hose and away you go, way better than lugging buckets around, can't take the credit though, was lyndyloo's idea :bounce:

I didn't sorry, I intend to go out again this weekend sometime, I'll be sure to take better pics.... :roll: We're at least fifteen or twenty kms from the sea here, it may be possible for it to have swam up I guess, fair hike though.

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Hi, sorry I'm late, my weekend off so I've been flat out organizing everything for relief milker. Here's the pics, they really are terrible, especially the side on one, waste of time really, hopefully you can get an idea from the top view. It was quite a solid little fish, green with motley brown and gold through, and uuuugly, but really cool......

yeah sure, that'd be great....though I'll be a little embarrassed for you to see our not so pretty creeks, the ones around the cow shed in particular :oops: I'll upload the pics in the morning during breakfast. Night all

You guys have piqued my curiosity about natives so I decided to take a stroll tonight before it got too dark. I chose the closest stream to the house and quickly discovered my gummies have holes in them, but, undeterred I lifted a rock and scooped with my net. Success!, a couple little bullies and after a few moments realized I'd also gotten a small dead crayfish. Egged on by my instant success I moved up the stream and scooped again...nothing.....nothing again, half an hour later I'd still found nothing else except for copious amounts of insect larvae (which I've since found out means we have a healthy creek) and was beginning to think I wasn't any good at this fishing malarkey after all, By then it was getting dark and I thought "one more and then home" I found a likely rock, quickly lifted and scooped and BINGO, a fish, and quite a big one too!, about 10cm or so. I gently put it in my bucket and brought it home for photos, which unfortunately came out horribly smeared and yuck. After I took it back I looked up a NZ native site to look for it and I think it must have been a giant Bully and according to said site it may have been a female as it had a very blunt square jaw. Any who, that was what I got up to tonight, I think perhaps I discovered a new hobby.....TTFN

congratulations guys. make the most of it, it don't last :lol:

used to catch herrings with bread as a kid

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A bit of careful observation and a few questions on wikipedia and we discovered we had both water boatman and back swimmers, according to Wiki water boatman are usually non predatory but back swimmers are predatory and not a good idea to pop in your tank, so we got rid of them and just stuck the blood worms in, that was fun.