Sophia

ah yes I forgot about the ambulia. I chopped the tops off and replanted so might take a few weeks

I have been there a few times but to be honest I changed my mind when they tried to sell me coarse gravel for corydora, saying that fine sand irritates their gills. Completely untrue as far as I know so that put me right off. Like Ice says, it's a little shop but if you're going on a tank crawl why not pop in anyway.

Dennis, how much of the surface is covered with floating plant? I will be interested to know how your plants get on with the covering as many of mine are much happier without the riccia and duckweed.

photos taken this week - doesn't look much different really but I'm keeping this as a log anyway. Tomorrow is water change day so I will see what holes in the filter I can plug. I have to say that I'm not sure I like it so much without the floating plants. It seems bare at the top and you don't see many fry until feeding time where they float up and linger about. I might have to get some more duckweed and let them have a corner or something Front shot Front left from above Front right Through the right side Mr Killifish

I don't know.,... smaller fry have hung around over that oxygen hole and not been sucked in. It will remain a mystery forever!!

he didn't fall he was pushed!

I found my missing fish - in the filter. I noted him missing nearly a week ago and he wasn't in the filter on Sunday when I rinsed it out. Hard to know how he got in there as I would have thought he was far too big to get sucked into the intake but there isn't any other way he could have got in. He was in that tube in the middle front. Weird. Shame about that, he was my oldest fry

I will be Officially Fryed

haha Caryl, I didn't see your joke tank looks nice Dennis - is it duckweed and riccia you have? I can see the hanging roots of something. ANd what's the tall wavy plant in the back right corner? It looks like what I need to cover my filter too

those gold ones look awesome, Barrie has one (at least he did when I was there) but they have a reputation for eating things they shouldn't.... :roll:

yes but you would have to give the cories up as it would be a salt water tank 8)

seen this angel tank? http://www.aquahobby.com/tanks/e_tank1010.php I like the photos on this site but it seems to take them forever to update the tank of the month pics

cool, good luck

Depends how big they all are as to which fish would eat the others, but if this is the tank with floating plants then they could be fine. There are some nice ones on youtube too.

I had peppered cory and cardinal tetra, they were good together except when I tried to get live food to the corydora the tetra snapped it up too quickly. To start with I had a bristlenose who was quite pushy with the corydora so I wouldn't have them both together again. I just really like corys though... hehe :oops:

you measured it? hahahaha :lol:

Why do you have to have another sort of fish in there at all? Fish kept with their own species seem to behave far more naturally in my limited experience. A school that big will break into little schools, I think they would provide plenty of entertainment and would look great.

Now then, with having fry of mixed ages, should I just put that they are all 30 days old? that will capture all the ages.

Clowns stay small, like under 2-3cm, and they are top of the tank dwellers. If you do a search on threads by member Deepsound you will see his very nice little clown tank, inspiring pictures.

ok - paid up fish club members only?

OK - do I need a witness ? I read the rules and they were a bit confusing with the changes further down the page.

Mine is a self starting vac quite like this http://www.dtpetsupplies.com/catalog/im ... TT1244.jpg and the end of the pipe is about an inch diameter. Got it off trademe for about $15 but there aren't any there at the moment. You shake it up and down a few times and then it starts sucking the water out itself. I found the smaller tube and hard pipe much easier to work with than the aqua one type vac and you can increase or decrease the flow with the knob at the top. I have a piece of wider hose cable-tied to the side of the bucket so I thread the small pipe through that and then I don't have to hold the end in the bucket while I weave the other end about trying not to suck up fry. To get stuff up without sucking up too much sand I would just stir the wand end about to get the mulm moving and then it would start sucking up.

Whatever it is, it's good stuff. More changes: All the Riccia became populated with the brown mossy algae so combined with a reduced light and fert. programme to convert the tank to more low tech, I removed it so the other plants could have the light. The windelov continues to recover, much to my relief, and all the other plants are doing well. Twisted val I bought recently is a bit floppy and transparent, could be because it was in a darkish corner, so hopefully that will perk up soon. In addition to this, over the last week the dynamics in the tank have changed. There are about 4 fry big enough to eat a small or half a bloodworm so competition has come back to dinner time. This may be the reason, or a getting older and grumpy perhaps, but the female has become as bolshy as the big female I used to have, and now chases the male away and bosses him more than before. He is now as large as the bigger male I had. He can often be found hiding it seems, in among the plants. I can't tell if my eyes are playing tricks on me, but I think that either my big male fry has *gone* or he's reduced his colouring as he's getting older. At one point it seemed that there was an obvious male fry, now I'm not so sure. Also with removing the riccia there are less fry at the top except so the chances of getting all the big ones together are reduced. I have made a small mop of christmas moss that is floating in the ex-riccia corner but it's not big enough for too many of them to hide in. Still plenty of moss attached to the driftwood however. Photos to come.

Definitely have more than 10 fry of various ages now. There are usually 12 in the top layer at feeding time and a few others dotted about in the plants.

eeee! how sweet! I'll vote for you if you put it in POTM