Caryl

He's not a hedgehog plucker he's the hedgehog pluckers son

Ditto 8)

Otherwise it is probably a faulty ballast. A new light fitting would probably be cheaper than fixing an old ballast but should be considered anyway as they are far more efficient and don't get hot like the older ballast types. The older ones, when the tube ages, can get very hot.

Did you get a new camera for Christmas? :lol: Lovely pics and lovely fish. 8)

I love Peer Gynt. That bit is "In the Hall of the Mountain King"

Very nice!

Goldfish are very messy and produce a lot of waste. I suspect water quality as the culprit. What size is the tank? How long, and how, did you cycle it? I do not understand as you say you had 2 goldfish, cycled the tank, then you say you brought one fish home. I am assuming you did not use these 2 fish to cycle the tank? :-?

I have not kept kribs but wonder about adding anything to a 60L that has a pair of kribs in it. If they start to breed they will rip into any other fish I would imagine :-?

So obviously if we have a legal problem we need to go straight to a nice lady in a high court! :bounce:

What sort of cichlids?

What makes you so sure he is right and you weren't?

Why is the box filter at the front? Would it not be better hidden in the other back corner?

A friend of ours was given the opportunity to get (for free) a very large sheet of glass out of a building being demolished. He was going to use it to build a 6ft tank. Loaded it onto a trailer but did not tie securely enough. Going around a corner it slid off. The glass went a loooong way and took him ages to clean up! :roll:

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Pepper can't - yet. It can glide about 3m but downwards only. Has no lift but I am sure that will come as the feathers grow out. :roll:

Don't want to take it into the shower as we shower at night and it wouldn't have time to dry out properly. I would worry about bird flu or chills as a result. Cam yes he does go outside and goes to work with Grant when possible. We will have to figure out when it is time to trim his feathers though or we will lose him :-? We fed the pond fish together today but I kept an eye out for the neighbouring cats. Grant looks like a drug addict with marks on both arms from where Pepper hung on for dear life as they travelled in the 4WD over a very rough road! :lol:

Err how can you tell he is happy bd? :-?

Not really, it is just they die and we do not know the cause without an autopsy and microscopic examination. There is always a reason for a fish death but, unless it is obvious, we do not know the cause

It might be a bite mark, we have both been nibbles a couple of times. Nothing too terrible though and understandable with a beak this size. He has taken to plucking out Grant's beard and hanging off it :lol: I don't know if it is keeping down the dust or if my allergy is to something else as I have been fine this week. Pepper has been on my shoulder most of today and I am still fine :bounce:

Are they proof that smoking stunts your growth?

We have taken to bathing Pepper in the sink as water doesn't go quite so far (only halfway over the kitchen and up the window). He loves ducking under, and drinking from, the tap. As soon as the bath is finished, it's up onto your shoulder to shake like a dog while water drips off the end of the tail :roll:

Grant needs a 4WD for work and we found great difficulty in finding a good one at a reasonable price. They were either old, with many miles on the clock, or fairly new and therefore out of our price range. Were you looking at a 4WD just for size or do you go off-road? If not, keep to a people mover. I have no idea what the car is you are buying but we have a Honda Odyssey and it goes really well. We have never had a problem with it and have only had to replace the tyres. Get an AA check or similar. They will be able to tell you if it is worth the price.

One of your kids has been drawing on it! Hard to see in that pic. Fish do get tumours or it could be a parasite about to burst through the scales :-?

I put it down to over-excitement and removed the repeats

Very nice! :bounce: