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ooohhhhh very cool, thank you Zev how do you make the sponger filter have a cut down air flow? I'm going to buy one today and is there a heater in there?

if that green thing is hydra, what are the white ones I've got then? Mine has a tiny dot in the middle of the star but yours doesn't appear to have that. Mine look like a tiny multi tentacled star fish on a stalk. Do your hydra appear green to the naked eye just looking at the tank normally? edit..... both of ours seem to be hydra - green or white. Mine look exactly like the one second from the left on the top line http://tinyurl.com/292s8br on another site I found suggestion that the green ones have eaten algae I will keep looking for your other thing

He is too sweet. Is it just the photo or is that kitteh a little bit cross eyed like Clarence the Lion?

I want to know what the cheapest smallest but best LCD/LED is. We live off a 14 inch CRT and want to keep the next model about that big so it fits on the cabinet. Yes, we like our cabinet. Plus it's a small house so it can't be a big TV anyway.

I get a number that comes up as 1800 something on the caller display and when I pick up it's just a beep but not like a fax. Can't be a 1800 number as they don't exist as phone numbers on the network as far as I know. Thankfully don't get those other spammers mentioned above as our details are confidential. We tend to get the random market researchers who get all embarrassed and hang up quickly when I say they've rung a confidential number :lol:

talk to the paw

I see Sooty and I want her/him. I :love: silky black cats I see you also painted your room a useful colour that means you don't need a tank background

these are the main critters that were caught today - I think ostracods and daphnia? These are what i thought were daphnia but now I think they resemble a pod of some sort. These crawl about on surfaces like beetles but they appear to have only the 2 legs out the front propelling them and do swim about as well. I took this so you could see the movements - excuse the quality and yes it should be rotated so they move up and down I think these are daphnia and there are 2 sizes. They seem to use their 'arms' to swim up and up a few times and then sink back down. A bit like the breaststroke. In the top circle there is a pod as well

oh then I am one of those myself ra ha ha ha

the plants look healthy and there are some interesting things in there. I like your duvet cover

:bounce: please do now got 3 shrimps in here

The shrimps got moved to the killie tank instead as that is I believe closer to the conditions they need than what the other tank was giving. Have since restocked on bugs instead so will see how that goes. In other news, I have 2 other ideas of what to do in this tank if this all goes to pot 8) and whats a SWMBO?

haha I've just updated the other thread - what my tank lacks is a definite purpose at the moment. If I hadn't brought the shrimps home I would have made things easier for myself. At this stage I'm not adding chemicals but I will see if the addition of more bugs is a success or if they disappear as well. If they die I will start again, or turn the tank into something else I have more knowledge in. Who would have thought making a puddle would be so complicated. (I did gather fallen leaves - anyway they are all gone so never mind. And the oil slick isn't gone, I just didn't see it haha. The mystery of the slick remains ) and now off to the park

I have found a 7W clip on light on TM that looks useful. There isn't as much light getting to it as I thought there would be. Next thing - should I get a bubble stone or a little sponge filter? I know we discussed earlier on that a filter wasn't needed but after the shrimps died maybe it needed something after all? I have just found another shrimp dying - it would dart up a little and then fall back to the bottom. He is now out of his misery I think the problem is that I have deviated from my original plan of it just being a bugs tank and since catching the shrimps I felt obliged to keep them alive. I must admit it's turned out less satisfying than I'd hoped it would be. :-?

Joe is going to fly them over on a flock of finches :happy1:

You could post me a photo for my christmas present

I don't think so but Striatum is available and the male has similar colouring I have only got one tank, you don't need lots of tanks. Everyone has angels but killes are rare and don't hang about hauntingly like daddy long legs

wake me up when you have decided Mr or Mrs Kuhli loach :lol:

what's with the solitary egg in the corner? did it not hatch?

there are some FAT larvae in some of the troughs at Cornwall Park if anyone in the area wanted to know where the mozzies come from - it's there :sick:

Are tubifex worms harmful to the other critters do you think? Re the dechlorinator chemicals, the first tank fill was solely rainwater off from the roof that I caught from the downpipe. Yesterday's water change was a third dechlorinated water and there are still pods swimming about. Also I still have the original shrimp that was to become killie dinner still living apparently happily in there where it's only dechlorinated tap water. Maybe it's only some chemicals, or maybe I have found a hardy shrimp!! I don't have a cover on but I do think the oil slick is from the decaying matter - those leaves I had in there were mostly fruit trees and were thick plasticy leaves, full of life giving sap no doubt. Also there were a few pohutukawa which was the same wood that I had in one of my older threads and there was a big oil slick while that was rotting away too. I don't know if anyone else has noticed this. Today is also More-Pod day for me, am going back to the trough to get more bugs and see how these guys do. Yesterday my husband tried to take me for a walk around the park and I spent half the time running about looking in sheep troughs instead of being attentive :roll:

the anemone worm things are waving about of their own accord - there is no current pushing them. This morning the oil slick is gone, the hydra (?) is back in the moss and the other worm/anemones have reappeared. No new shrimp casualties apparently

how about creating the interesting ground work with rocks - takes less time and can be rearranged later

anyone care to join me ? this one is going to be interesting