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You have to leave some of the rock bare though as they are striking in themselves and you can't see them once they are totally covered with moss.

Yeah, I should have said the links were good Carlos :oops: A lot of people claim they have never cycled a tank in their life. What they have actually done is cycled it, and done it the right way, without even realising it. All cycling really means is to add fish slowly so the filter bacteria builds up with it to cope with the resulting waste.

Neons are not good to cycle with. The quality of them seems to have deteriorated over the years and they do not cope with a cycle too well. Danios are actually the best bet but no good using them if they are not a fish you wish to keep.

My daughter bred guppies when she was a teen. She had some beautiful colours and they had all been living together happily for 2 years or more with no other fish added. She the found a black male she wanted, in a shop in ChCh. Since the original fish all came from the same shop she didn't quarantine, just added it to the tank. Next morning she woke to find all the fish dead or dying, except the new one. Turned out the new fish had something her fish had not encountered before (a bit like the missionaries spreading measles) and they had no immunity to it. In this case it would not have mattered if she had quarantined the new fish because it was healthy. She was so upset she has never kept fish since!

Ah now you see I would have thought Bolivian rams were too sensitive to use in a cycle but I have no experience with them.

6 tiger barbs will cycle 100L.

There is nothing wrong with your pH so don't fiddle with it. I have only ever given driftwood a scrub and a rinse then added it to the tank. Brown algae is common in a new set-up. It will disappear as the tank matures and the plants grow. Neons are not very hardy these days so aren't a good choice to use when cycling. A tank ought to cycle in about 1 month.

I love those rocks too 8)

squirrel :lol:

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According to their site Powershop is not an option for us here.

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Yes Aquila that is the site I was thinking of.

Doesn't Consumer or someone have a web site where it calculates the cheapest option for you, and with which company? I've never heard of Powershop. We have been with the local company, Trustpower, forever and never had any problems so stay there. Our bills are estimated one month then read the next. Bills arrive online with plenty of time to pay, or dispute the amount, and then the total is magically sucked out on the specified day. On the rare occasion I have rung the helpline with a question, it has been answered promptly and helpfully by someone local who has answered my question efficiently. I'm not actually sure what other options we have here :-?

Can we get those Dario dario here? Or the Badis?

And we both enjoyed it very much! Well worth the quick drive up

Nobody loves those fish as much as Peter I am sure :lol:

It isn't the numbers that is important Jennifer, it is the enthusiasm of those who do attend.

Err, this was over 20 years ago, I can't remember that much detail :-?

We did everything wrong but didn't know any better at the time. We had 2 axolotls in a 2ft tank. UGF and gravel on top. Rarely changed the water, just topped it up when it evaporated. :roll:

Grant says the major reason for caps in this country is lack of capacity between NZ and the rest of the world. If you are in the rest of the world, especially in countries like the USA or UK, a large amount of their data is transferred from within that counrtry, keeping speeds up and costs down so they don't need to put data caps on. Almost all of our data has to come in through our connections to other countries, which causes congestion and makes costs high. Data caps are a way of limiting data downloaded by large users which keeps the price down for lower users. Once we get more fibre connections to the rest of the world, a very expensive thing to do, data caps will eventually disappear because of the increase in capacity. We are a small country with few people to pay for the infrastructure, hence the high costs. We also have very difficult terrain to get the data through.

I will require at least one piece of pumpkin pie (daily) thank you :lol: Grant says he just wants pudding - the stodgier the better :bounce:

I did an article in the latest AW on that very subject Ira! Apparently it is a common allergy.

My daughter uses Xnet I think and has no complaints either.

When my son kept them he only ever fed them earthworms but we didn't have any fungal problems as a result.