Sophia

peppered and bronze or green cories seem to be about the cheapest I've seen so far

as this page is for aquarium related sales only, I'm moving this to Off-Topic

I never boiled my oak leaves, just put them in and they sunk and started colouring the water maybe a week later. If you don't see any colour you might need to put more in as boiling might have taken the colour out. I also think I cooked the peat in the oven first before soaking it. When I put the peat in the water went dark immediately and then got steadily clearer and lighter until I took it out for other reasons. Actually I do remember it was cloudy but cloudy with dark particles that disappeared eventually. If you want to get to know what happens you could test daily and then if no significant changes drop it back to once a week till you see a pattern or stop worrying about it.

I got it wrong as was assuming the maritime rules of Motor gives way to sail and thought it was probably safer to give way to a slow moving bike anyway 8)

I put the peat in and then fine gravel over the top. Bits still escaped and floated though it wasn't cloudy at all. Can't remember how much I washed it first. Once it was in I didn't vacuum it and there were no plants, it was the very beginning of my bugs/cory/loach tank, the only other stuff on the bottom was leaves. If you let it soak till the floaters stop coming out then you can use it without gravel on the top.

the rule at roundabouts near me is 'every car for itself' and 'quick! dodge into that gap before someone beats you by 0.3 of a second!' I got the last one wrong but the rest right

I used it as a substrate and it was fine but there were bits that floated to the top - would be good in a little bag like a stocking or something. You will of course get brown coloured water too

lots of twisted val, a few rocks or wood, something in the foreground and a big school of cherry barbs or glowlight danios black sand on the bottom and corydora snuffling about

mini fish! imagine the panorama of plants and room they'd have to swim :happy1:

:sml1: and with such a straight face he played hahahaha I wonder if he did it because he loves cats and or because he hates them and enjoyed squeezing their guts :sml2:

how short is it?

what fish?

Wok is but a ghost.......

It was in good nick, like new almost and the wreckers always guarantee for at least 6 months which suited us fine at the time. if this ones goes at least we know what to do now :digH:

Yes we did thanks - in the end we got a second hand hose from Cascade Car Wreckers who couriered it to us and though it came from a same age car it was newer than the one we took off. All seems to be good now :thup:

!drool:

have you tried those expensive 3M sticky hooks that come off again without hurting the paper? There are also some cheaper versions about, some work and some don't

I can't make it sorry.

thanks, have sent an email

is that teeth I see in the male's mouth? :nfs:

How much is it to just attend on Sunday? The information refers to tickets for both days with dinner and tank crawl additional so I presume it's $30 for Sunday + tank crawl + dinner? I tried to register my interest for a day pass but I can't submit it without saying which bit I've paid for... but I haven't paid for any of it because I'd like confirmation of the price first. thanks

they are both good, you're asking us to compare apples to apples the left side is more cohesive because it's all bits that match and the plant layout suits the wood the right side is more creative and natural looking and I personally like it better. You could move the round blob plant to the back corner behind the rock also Squirt's idea is the best so far :smln:

danios erythromicron and margaritatus milling about thinking they are going to be fed..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvgk11jOUnQ the little grey ones are the original fry still growing up you can see the erythromicron from time to time with an eye at the end of their tail. They are coming out of hiding more and more now but still quite nervous.

Simon, here is our container garden - tomatoes and some courgettes, blueberries and the empty troughs are waiting for winter crops. We had 3 courgette plants through summer that kept us in too many courgettes. Tomatoes haven't ripened yet thanks to the rubbish summer but we have had lots of cherry tomatoes from the edge-garden. My husband's goal was to make the cheapest garden using the best bit of sun - these troughs are made of tarpaulin sewn together with little wooden sticks to hold up the corners. The potting mix is a mixture of mostly compost he made out of garden waste, and some bagged stuff from Bunnings. The garden furniture was also made by him out of fence palings. He has donated me a trough in the middle where I've planted lettuce, spinach, thai basil and some marigold seeds. *why have my photos flipped up the wrong way, they are saved correctly in photobucket and in my PC :-? * From outside From inside Far right – passionfruit growing. Trough is for shallots Hard to garden garden – too much shade, now only suitable for leafy greens and some herbs

i love him