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and let us remember this thread is about kid goats!

There are too many factors affecting growth to have an accurate chart I would think. Feed little and often, keep up the water changes, and don't overcrowd. This will ensure your fry grow quickly and well.

Quite possibly, depending on the species and size of the tank (and other inhabitants). Males will often do this to show who is boss.

Diving and snorkelling will keep you happily amused with no need for other activities Underwater camera cases are expensive. I believe Canon do a goodie.

You should see what a duck can do hitting a windscreen at 100kph (the car was going 100kph, I don't think the duck was)! You could see all the veins etc from its feet indented in the glass.

We could never convince my grandmother that electricity didn't dribble out of the switch if it was left switched on with nothing plugged into the outlet :roll: Tanks will drop their heat quite slowly. Make sure the filter media stays wet and throw a duvet or similar over the tank and all should be fine. Or, if you have a wood burner, keep it going to keep the room warm.

Only animal here with a name (apart from Grant) is Bud the wonder budgie. Called Bud because it is a short version of Budgie and because bud is also a nickname for friend.

I realise you are all proud of your war wounds but please do not post the pictures here as it will upset many. Just give a link to it instead.

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It seems to depend on conditions and the type of snail as to how many you end up with. Watch the apple snails though. There are 2 types and one of them eats plants!

Bottom feeders need food in their own right. They are not there just to scavenge others' leftovers. Some are better at it than others and many don't eat algae at all. They certainly do help keep the bottom of the tank clean. It is always good to have top, middle and bottom feeders in an aquarium. Snails often produce more waste than they eat and are prolific breeders! Most small bottom feeders will not bother a Siamese fighter at all. Corydoras, bristlenoses and small loaches will be fine.

Moved. White clouds are easy to breed. Add a group to the tank with water and fine leaved plants like cabomba, ambulia or Indian fern etc then leave them to do their thing.

I never add any chemicals to my tank if I can help it.

Hi and welcome. Adding your location to your profile would be good too This is done through the user control panel at the top left.

Cryophytum (ice plants) cascade in a variety of bright colours. I think they are banned to sell now but plenty of people have them in their gardens to get some Arctotis - wide variety of colours, pretty gray leaves aubretia (aka aubrieta or aubrecia) - trailing evergreen with pink or purple flowers lobelia - upright and cascade in variety of colours begonias - flower profusely portulaca (sun plant & drought tolerant) variety of colours. Die off and then self seed everywhere alyssum - hardy white and pink. Self seed like portulaca pansies violets Celosia (cockscomb) - look like flames in red, yellow, orange and pink look through plants in nurseries or Warehouse as labels will tell you what conditions they require. Look for the mass blocks rather than individual plants.

If given the choice I would rather do water changes

Hi and welcome. Thank you for rescuing Coby

I would have thought those flavours would sort of clash with the banana though. I react badly to passionfruit

It isn't natural growth in many cases - it is silicon. Oh sorry, I was thinking of the blondes. My mistake :oops: :lol:

People can charge more if they say they are fancy guppies Same goes if you give them a fancy name :roll: Fancy, as far as I can tell but I don't keep guppies, usually refers to the longer and/or different shaped tails. A common guppy has a spade or rounded tail.

What flavour icing do you put on banana cake? We always used banana essence and the icing was white but these days the preference seems to be for chocolate icing. As far as I am concerned, chocolate icing on banana cake is only acceptable if the cake is split in half with banana slices then whipped cream added to the centre.

If you are doing a thorough clean of the substrate you will probably end up doing 50% anyway by the time you have finished siphoning It doesn't really matter since your filter is already cycled (and that is where the majority of the good bacteria are) and new fish are being added straight away (I assume).

OK, if I have read your post correctly, you have a 2ft cold water you want to convert to tropicals? I would do a thorough substrate vacuum (just to clean it up as goldfish are messy) then add the heater. No need for a complete water change. When I set up my African tank I cycled it using goldfish then threw them out in the pond and added the heater to the tank. Once it was up to temperature the Africans went in. Leave the algae for the BN. If it doesn't like your particular algae, you will have to clean it off but, if you're lucky, the BN will do it for you.

Ah but now we know we have to get through security gates, past guards, and take something to distract the guard dogs Anyone know where the master switch is for the floodlights? :lol:

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