oO SKIPPY Oo

sorry only just seen these replies now - thats gotta be hard applying for 300 jobs - but doesnt help when the reference hes been getting from the last boss havent been so great - over the xmas period there was nothing out there for me - but it started to pickup in the last week or so - i think i start on tuesday - got the contract to sign today so i guess i take that all into them on monday and get a swipe card etc to start

THE WIFE IS GOING TO KILL ME !!! I got a BGK its hidey hole is 2 rocks leaning towards each other to make a small cave - seems to like it there as it hasnt come out much after finding it

sweet - thanks for that - will take a look at animates if i head down that way today

Phil - there is a very very slight amount of snakeskin pattern around the gill plate but its very faint and hard to see so going by the colors on my fish would you say male or female ? and would it be safe to assume its a rotkeil ? neither of my 2 green severums have this coloring around the shoulder or face. i "rescued" this fish so i dont know how old it is really - one of my others is slightly smaller than this one and is over a year old so i would say maybe 2 years ?

if i get one i might look at getting some old guttering and cover that with sand etc so it blends in to the tank and then it could also use that now where to find one in wlg.

thanks will give that a go after trying the algaefix to see if that helps at all

no logs but i have put some rocks together to form some small caves - that should be ok aye ?

yeah i guess thats the biggest issue - i have seen Phil Collis' rotkeil female but i cant remember for the life of my the colouring to know if they are similar

cool - thanks for clearing that up

ok will do - i thought the golden algae eaters liked the brown stuff ? they seem to be keeping the glass clean

this one use to be really unstable with her colors - when in the tank by herself she was so dark you couldnt see any color (she was almost black) but since being here with her friends the colors are stable and she looks like that all the time

are siamese algae eaters the same as golden algae eaters ?

thanks mel - have you got a pic of you rotkeil ?

dunno if i should take offence to that or not hehe - but the coloring of the fish in the photo is pretty much how it looks in person maybe slightly darker (im experimenting with / learning my new camera) - before i got her she would hide ALL the time i.e. you walk in the room and she would hide, go near the tank and she would hide, she use to be in a 200 + L tank all by herself and i think thats why she would hide all the time - when i got her i put it in quarantine for 3 weeks in a 40L cause thats all i had and it still tried to hide behind the filter - stupid fish - now that she is in my 200L with other severums etc its out front all the time and could be the boss of the tank so i assume its a happy fish now.... so you reckon it could be a rotkeil - anyone else got an opinion on it ?

hmmm - no small fish in the tank - all over 8 cm (including tails) - i like the look of the bgk but just want to make sure the temprament of them will go ok with the others

would a BGK go well in my 200L tank with my other south american fish ? i read they can get up to 49cm but how long will that take ?

heres a picture of the same fish taken today to confirm the holes are disappearing

as per the subject - is this a rotkeil severum ? or a standard green severum ? and is it a boy or a girl ?

I ended up getting the KH and GH tests and my readings were quite low - thats when i used the aquadur to up the levels - its been about 5 weeks since i started with the aquadur and im fairly sure the biggest hole that was behind the eye of my Severum has started healing up as its not as noticable as it has been and of the 3 that were on the face only 1 is left. i upped the GH and KH by 1 or 2 degrees and that so far has helped

have you got any pictures ? in another thread i posted with my severums it looks like he has hole in the head - and slowly it appears to be disappearing i have been using AquaDur found on the website http://www.petmart.co.nz it increases the hardness of the water and from what i can tell maybe 2 or 3 of the holes shown in the below thread are going if not gone already http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=42239&hilit=hole+in+the+head

i have that algae fix already so i might give that a try - i think in the past i had used this but not measured correctly and it killed fish so im going to under dose for now to make sure i dont kill anything - if this doesnt clear up the algae i will try the flourish excel which i should be getting in a couple of days.

that wont kill my fish will it

Hi Cricketman did you put the algaefix directly on the affected area or just mix it straight into the tank water ? Cheers Skip

are you sure its not turquoise

does anyone have any ideas on how i can get rid of black and brown algae on my plants ? i have a golden algae eater and 3 bristlenoses in this tank so i think they keep the glass nice and clean - im not sure if you can see from the pics below but the tips of almost all of my plants are brown - on the glass i have only seen hard green spots and what looks like black beard that i scrub off when doing my water changes. I do weekly water changes of about 30% - granted my tank is overstocked but im looking and flogging off some of the swordtails on TM or they are going to be fed to some hungry severums and chocolate cichlids. i have my diy co2 working and bought a glass diffuser from ebay with a nice constant stream of micro bubbles. i am also getting some Flourish Excel to try and kill the blackbeard - does that get rid of brown algae or is that too much light or not enough light causing this ? this plant has what looks like furry black algae but doesnt look like that black beard stuff which is growing on the glass and my heater :evil: