Sophia

Gain

indochina

with 50L you could get away with a big school of little fish, do some suitable plants and let the school be the main focus. I think a smallish tank looks best with small occupants and you can usually get away with a full load of little ones filtering-wise. A black background with lots of green and a big school of ember tetra or dwarf rasbora and some otos. Also you could do another black sand bottom like me and get some dwarf chain loaches, they are such fun little guys to watch, like muppets.

hahaha look at them with sand on their back, they were busy burrowing and must have froze for the photo :slfg:

They showed me those but I got the other thing instead :facepalm: Looks like I am going back tomorrow :sml2:

Then keep the discus you must. They still look stunning anyway.

got room for another tank just for the discus ?

You mean like these? http://www.hollywoodfishfarm.co.nz/detail/view/calcium-vitamin-bites-5pack/m/985/

Today I tested the water and pH is 7.4-7.6 (ie at the end of the normal pH test kit and the bottom of the high range kit), and kH is 4 drops/ppm. I bought a Turtle Tank Neutraliser block, will that do to give the snails what they need to stop their shells going white? If not, what else is recommended? THere is no filter where to put some bird grit etc, so could I put it in a little bag or such like if the turtle block is no good? help and thanks

iphone Elvis or The Fonz?

while I liked the discus, it looks more in proportion or of a better scale without them I think

One of the things I've done with some success is to take the substrate out and bake it in the oven. I've done it to dry it out before storage when changing the scapes but it kills anything living in there too. Then you'd have to scrub the glass and soak the plants in snail rid. That would get just about all of them, you might see some stragglers that managed to escape but nowhere near as much as you would have now. I think your moss wouldn't enjoy the snail rid but worth a try if you are that desperate to get rid of them. If you weren't concerned about the moss being attached to the wood you could pull it off and bake the wood as well to kill the ones in the wood. Also I can swap you an almost full container of snail rid for some more snails too!

COuld have been worse, could have been your parents The tank is insulated so the temp would have only dropped slowly, now they seem back to their usual hidey selves.

haven't tried novotab, will have a look I have to confess to being a bad fishkeeper - on Thursday evening I did a cold water change and forgot to put the heater back on, so when I checked them this morning they were at about 16 degrees :oops: now they are warming up with some breakfast .

see if they make white poops!

Cake frogs legs or snails?

I think this is more Josh's style of scooter - with a roof so he doesn't get his hair wet: This is what he will drive until he's saved up for the other one though

sounds good Dan, will you also do my shopping and drop off my library books?

I have something to add: If you want to lose weight and even enjoy losing it and then be able to keep it off, I found that only when my motivation was fixed could I succeed. I looked in the mirror and didn't like what I saw so I started doing all the usual things. But it was difficult and slow and always a chore. I did OK but it was just always blahhhh. Later I tried again and this time I had the angle of 'this is what I do to take care of myself'. Instead of the motivation being negative or fear-based, when it became positive and about loving myself or looking after myself everything changed. I have lost the weight I wanted to lose and I don't need to lose anymore, but I remember how it was to be heavy and my body just functioned in a crappy way. Aches and pains, slow digestion, no energy till late in the day etc. I think a lot of women have self esteem issues and if you look in the mirror and think ugh and then get on the bike that isn't positive and loving to yourself and it's like stabbing yourself in the foot - it isn't positive reinforcement. You do have to admit there is something to be done, obviously, but instead of pedalling away thinking of yourself in the future as some marvellous being, think of yourself as OK now and that now you are taking care of yourself. Don't do it for your kids or for your husband, do it for yourself. Do it to have energy and to try some new clothes and to treat your body in the way you should, at least as well as you treat your fish. Men seem to need fear to motivate them, I work with a lot of middle aged and older men and most of them will only do something about their puku when the doctor tells them they have diabetes or a heart problem. There must be a better way for men to get their positive motivation going. And no matter what, if you eat only toast and tea or coffee for breakfast , you can wave goodbye to feeling alive until after lunch. You wouldn't feed your fish the cheapest crappiest food and expect them to be active and colourful, so you should also feed yourself nutritiously. I have a thing about good breakfasts! Last comment, I found a lot of good foods that work for me in the Blood Type diet. Since following those principles my weight has been very stable. My type needs no wheat (but I do eat puddingy treats on weekends) and lots of small portions of red meat and fish protein (and sometimes those foods are too expensive). But I do recommend trying it out. But again, you have to see losing weight/doing exercise as looking after yourself and being good to yourself and not a punishment.

I have had some other fish lodging with the corys this week and as they are surface dwellers I hung the java moss from the top of the tank so they'd have somewhere to hide. With the moss out of the way I've been able to spy on the corys more and have been able to see them sucking up their worms like spaghetti, very funny. I think my females are quite big for pygmies, I hope they will breed soon. Still gotta find them a plastic plant, going hunting this weekend.

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and when are you taking visitors .... :spop:

umbongo if the last 2 are too hard it's OK to go back to the last 3 letters

thanks Squirt So where do they get calcium from in my other tanks?

Take her to HFF as they said and if there isn't a water issue they will help you out. You may at least get a replacement fish out of it. They will breed a lot faster for you with 2 girls.