Sophia

My very first fry turned up in a tank where I didn't know there had been breeding and all the other fish would have eaten it. It must have lived among the gravel and plant bases for at least 6 weeks before I saw it. I thought it was a guppy for ages until I was kindly informed it was a swordtail.

don't tell your parents or they will give you chores

:slfg:

today is my husband's birthday. In keeping with all birthday celebrations everything revolves around food. At the moment he is cooking breakfast of corn bread, baked beans, fried eggs. Later we are going out for a picnic with lots of tasty things to eat. For dinner I'm making roast beef. Somewhere in there no doubt he will want a cake or milkshake. If I live through today without popping, I will be back on here tomorrow

I've used West Coast black sand, East Coast play sand (both from Landscape Supplies shops and about $10 for more kilos than I can lift) and silica sand (from petshops) and they were all fine for my purposes. Of gravel I've got midnight fine gravel in one tank and have used brightwater and autumn harvest type gravels previously. Petshops are the easiest for small pea sized gravels as the landscape supplies shops tend to only go as small as about $2 coin sized.

water buttercup if you can find any out and about, the flower is out of the water

:spop:

at Ti Point reptile park there was a lot of duckweed in the ponds and the turtles would float about in it with only their eyes sticking out :slfg:

Welcome back Dennis :bounce:

There is a mix of experience and opinion on this subject. I have a tank of each and find both fine for my purposes. I have also had a tank that had gravel on one side with a divider and sand on the other for the corydora. A little sand got swept over into the gravel but I didn't find it an issue. If you do a search on phoenix44 you will find he has a 3 foot tank that was heavily planted into gravel and then he rescaped it to have a river of sand in the middle and then went a bit further with it. Joe made a tank with sand lately also. I think Deepsound has also made some biotope type tanks with sand too. Since you describe a situation where there aren't any bottom feeders I wouldn't think it mattered too much, it's up to your preference for the look you are trying to create or the plants you plan to grow (or not). People who want to grow hair grass or fine small plants will probably say sand is easier to plant the little stuff into.

troublemakers

that is not a real picture of Ira, of that I am reasonably sure

ganache

fish poop :happy2:

:rotf:

rind

I love those photos :love: so in these indoor frog-quariums do they croak or is that something they do more when outdoors? could you keep a frog and a fire bellied newt together?

POTM :spop:

spa pooooollll !drool: Also I need another photo of the furry supervisor please :spop: what's that cage in the grass - is that for when you are a naughty Ira?

the other day I did put the sponge filter on it's side and dropped the water level in CPD tank 1 further still no eggs, at least not that I can see, and have just swapped out another pair. This time I swapped their moss clump too in case of eggs hiding in there. Not likely but :dunno:

sticky

Bowie

:sml2: :smot:

i hope that last photo isn't a close up of the bugs in your moustache :digH:

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