Sophia

ohhhhhh nice he will want that as his desktop wallpaper :gigl:

I regretted having 2 sparkling gourami. They were pretty interesting little fish but I would have had much more CPD fry if they hadn't been chomping on the eggs. Other than that I think I'm happy with all my fish choices, even if some were a little short lived.

I vote we post some new avatars for Liam. Let me start with something I know he'll love ....

does your Uni have an Engineering Faculty? Might one of the students make you something for a project? Would cost you less than if a professional made it, if it's a young engineer you might even be able to pay him (or her!) in beer

:rotf:

ewwwwwww

looks good

Liam, your new avatar makes me :sick:

it will be good when it grows in, a nice hidey hole for fry

looks really nice what's the circular thingy with the moss growing on it?

Congratulations Grandma Caper :happy2:

cats can be quite horrible to each other, however we are the ones that get upset

:smot: says the Queen of OffTopicland

oh dear, he looks rather forlorn :rotf:

he did make and sell his furniture for a short time but now he only does it under sufferance as it's not a task he enjoys anymore. Luckily I managed to get him to make almost a whole house worth of furniture before he said no more :roey:

:bounce: thanks I love black and white cats

well done did you get the brine shrimp going in the end? I want to start one but lack the gusto

what's a shimp?

haha we are addicts!

blackworms are easy.... Put worms in tank with gravel, airstone and heater. Feed worms. Harvest worms. Clean them out now and again.

if you see the picture of the top of the filter box, the inlets are under the outlet pipe. So the front inlets are blocked with filter media, the back right corner is taken up with the heater (there aren't any inlets anyone could get to on that side unless they jumped over the top... possible) but the side inlets are largely unblocked on the inside as that is where it sucks in the main water to go through the pump. Anyone in there would get sucked into the pump and become a FishJuice

observed my smallest female harassing the bigger one today, so I think she is a he.... will go to HFF and get another female so I have 3 of each :slfg:

What I know so far: It's going to be low tech in that it won't have c02, lights on probably 4-6 hours a day as there is a lot of natural light in the room already. The filter washes the water anticlockwise along the back and there is a sort of dead spot in front of the filter. I'm trying to arrange the layout so that it takes this into account rather than make something that fills up with plants and then gets gunky or cyano in the corners as my other 2 tanks have done. I'm thinking something like a raised island in the middle with stones and plants, gravel built up at the back so there is a bit of height and depth, and some pockets of sand either between the stones or along the front somewhere, or maybe a little path down the middle. It will either be a blob of island or a longish island. I want to stick plants to some rocks, and have some rocks bare to show their interesting markings or eventually get algae on. There is a bucket of dark grey gravel too. Either a tall plant like crypt balansae somewhere, or a piece of driftwood with java fern that sticks up. I have bought 2 small barthii sword plants so far to go somewhere. Filter inlets are 2-3mm wide so I'm a bit worried about fish getting stuck in there so I'm thinking of covering them with mesh. The inlets on the front of the box are blocked by the filter noodle bag so it would be hard to get something in there. Going to try this one with no background since the wall behind is plain cream. Sand will be light beige/grey beach sand or silica in contrast to the rocks. What I want to do is put the loaches in here with the 3 corydora and maybe get a new dither fish that I don't have. Either that or some other loaches that don't get too big. Or a bigger school of loaches. Or I leave the corydora in their current tank and get a bigger school of different corydora or something else (that is my long short list). There are too many fish choices yet. Since I started fishkeeping I've wanted to create a tank with current where the fish swim around and play, especially with corydora and loaches so as much as I can I am aiming for this. I think that's about all so far. :nilly:

if I had decided on that, I would have said so by now :sml2:

I thought so haha cool