Sophia

very cool

psychology

jam? :dunno:

obviously he BULLIED his way in :lol: :lol:

yep those! In some ways it's a shame I don't have a glass Bug-quarium anymore, I can't see all the smaller critters.

valentine

Heavily planted in the top region or will the fry hang out further down where the cover is? I do have plants that reach the surface and a few tendrils of twisted val that lay on the top but it's not like having good old duckweed. I am not going back to having floating plants either, my plants look too good now and my tank-fans would kill me :lol: :lol:

Grey Lynn glass are OK - I had a lid cut for a 60cm tank and it was about $18, the edges buffed so not sharp.

are those the same little greeblies you found that retracted when you poked them in the other thread we had going a few months ago, or something new?

angel

I haven't made my mind up yet. I want a fish that has good colour from a little way away, and one that won't eat all it's fry. I have heard the Striatum are not peaceful community dwellers and also eat eggs???? :nilly: the ones I really want are amieti or gold australe. Clowns would be nice. Noone has what I want, or wants to pass them on if they do

When we had a noisy filter we used to have it on a timer to switch off at about 9 at night and on again at about 6 in the morning. The water chemistry was always fine, back then I used to test a few times a week. Not to say it's the best thing to do as it depends on tank loading but it worked for me at the time.

I have a small house and have 2 of the smallest kind going in the lounge and sleep in the room next door with the door open. You can hear a light hum if there is no outside noise from wind etc but you can still hear the fridge over the top of that. One of the filters is noisier than the other, not sure if the impellor is faulty in some way but if I take it out and give it a good rinse then it rattles a little for about 2 weeks. It's not irritating enough to do anything about it. They might vibrate on the lid glass if I don't get the wires sitting properly but it's still quiet. My first filter was an old HOB and that was audible in the next room with both doors closed. Then I had a Eheim pickup 2010 and it was practically silent compared. Also have an aquaone air pump down in the garage and that is noisier than all of them put together. All in all I find the Eheims are worth the outlay. The only thing I've done is stop up intake holes so fry don't get sucked in, and filed off part of the catch at the top so I can slide the sponge housing out easier. P44 bought my 2010 pickup so he might have some feedback as to how that's doing after a year or so that it's been.

mad

Eheim pick up are quiet, I have 2 small ones. They don't make a noise that is louder than the fridge, a quiet hum is just about all you can hear most of the time.

All females now gone, 7 males remaining.

ill

dark

All my outdoor buckets are aerated naturally in the breeze and are always fresh. The only one that went stagnant is the one that started with pureed peas to get the green water started.

thanks, I might go have a look

hmmmmm was it fine or gritty? river sand or sea sand?

how coarse was it and what name were they selling it under? I rang Central landscaping supplies at Swanson and they had a black sea sand - is that where you went?

this weekend I have started squashing my snails and the loaches come out and guzzle them almost straight away

I think I had those. I also had ostracods 'riding' backswimmers before I realised it was the backswimmer swimming along eating the ostracod :lol:

there are scarlet red badi at HFF - males only but they are cool fish. About $14 each last I saw.