Sophia

may I be the first to :spop: :spop: you?

are you one of those people who can't work until the deadline is looming Liam, it sounds like a lot of work that needed doing in a short time :sage:

ohhhhhh I see it now :thup:

cool. how is it attached to the back of the tank and how does it stay there? :cofn:

golden zebra loaches are very attractive, I would get those if I had a bigger tank !drool:

is it just moss sandwiched between shade cloth of some sort?

:bounce:

one of them died and the other 2 went to live elsewhere. They were cute but deadly! The badis seem to also be less than peaceful at times but they leave the CPDs alone. I don't think I mentioned in this thread that I found the fighter looking sick a week or so ago, rather battered. Could have been a fungal sort of coincidence but I think the badis picked on him as they patrol the bottom as if it's their own and he did like to hang about down there. He's now in his own tank and fully recovered.

going to feed your arowana a frog and then give it mouth to mouth again? :spop:

wow, very pretty please don't enter photo of the month competition at the same time I do :nfs:

thanks, it's Dulux 'Selwyn' shade in the test pots if you want to do it yourself. We did the first tank with a brush and 2 coats, and the second with a roller, just one of those little ones - it dries faster and you get a more even finish but you need another coat or 2. I think the plastic backing you can get on a roll is a similar shade. I used to like the one that faded to dark blue/black at the bottom too.

Starting my new breeding experiment tonight: 2 male CPDs and 4 females in a load of moss in another tank... Leave for a few days, remove them and see how many fry emerge :bounce: Next – some photos of a scarlet badis with mosquito larvae in it’s last stage before turning into a bug. Had never seen the badis go after any of the larger food but this stuff they go nuts for. This one caught the mozzie and swam around with it in his mouth for ages waiting for it to die/be consumed. More entertaining viewing on Fish TV at my house :spop:

Bind cats are pretty smart if they can hear OK, I don't think it should necessarily mean the end of Kitty if you want to nurse it to health and keep it. My dad had a cat that was blind and half deaf and she got around ok, went outside etc. Poor kitty though :tears:

very nice arrangement

I went to the park to check the troughs for bugs, a little slim pickings for what I was looking for but I did get to feed a calf and some bulls who came to see what I was up to. :love: Or rather, I picked them clumps of grass from their own field, that they could already reach and they ate it :rotf:

how big is the tank, you might be able to get bigger ones than dwarf chain loaches, though they are exceedingly cute

just thinking, maybe you should move your twisted val to another tank while you're dosing the excel.... it's so nice and long it would be a shame if it died :smln:

Indeed, I think it was a cunning ploy to reign in my bad behaviour and continual swearing 8) speaking of muffins.... :spop:

My first thought was that watching my loaches they like to zip around horizontally more than up/down (though they will swim about in the current), maybe longer rather than deep would be good for them. Also then you'd get a bigger base footprint for your other bottom dwellers to have more room :dunno:

>>> tiptoes away to lurk and look for something to poke stick at ... ... why are people so polite around here :an!gry

why, because I am on here so often? hahaha yes that's what my husband complains of also :roll:

I am now a Bearer of The Stick :lol:

Nymox, if you pay the wire maintenance fee (check your bill) all fault finding is free up to the point where they work out what the problem is. So you could tryin ringing Residential faults, tell them all about it (tell them you've already spoken to broadband helpdesk and done all they've told you) and see if they will send someone out to check the line. Depending if you are home or not, the tech would test it with their laptop in the house. If you don't pay wire maintenance then you will pay the fees on the link but it shouldn't be what you mentioned as far as I know (I worked there long ago). from here http://www.telecom.co.nz/content/0,8748,205402-1007,00.html

Since the last post I've added a 6th chubby loach. :love: For a couple of weeks earlier one of the rasbora was pale and hiding by the heater, I thought it must be sick as was also quite jumpy and nervous. Over the last couple of weeks I've had the others in and out of the tank for a breeding experiment and found the pale hidey one would come out and swim about when the others were gone. On Sunday I put them all back in and the pale rasbora has stayed out. Funny little guys. I don't think the breeding experiment came to anything, so far no wrigglers but I also made my job hard as the tank was packed full of moss with gravel so it's hard to see anyway. They seem happier back in their tank so I will try that one again another day.