Welcome. You do get strange looks from people who are not fish oriented :roll:
I myself don't understand why some carry on about their dogs or cats. I like them as animals but they are not little furry people!
Mine get resized to 640 x 480 then saved as medium which makes them about 80kb, give or take 20 or so kb. That is a good size.
Yours looks like you have made them too small, pixel-wise.
What sort of filter have you got and how often do you clean it and do water changes? Don't forget your fish will have grown since the tank was set up so the load on the filter increases over time.
I just cleaned out my Jebo 819 after about 12 months running. Got 3/4 of a 2L ice cream container full of gunk out of it. Water flow had still been good. I was just curious to see how gunky the filter was. Didn't over clean it though as that would destroy too much of the beneficial bacteria living in the gunk.
Grant started to download Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory once. Luckliy it hadn't got far when he had a quick look to check the quality. Lots of willies but no chocolate in it!! :roll: :lol:
Our meeting tomorrow will be at 2pm at Joe's house, 173 Scott St. Blenheim.
Topic for discussion - Why Fish Die
Drinks and food on offer! 8)
All welcome :bounce:
Biscuits! Huh, at our meeting tomorrow we are getting freshly made carrot cake (those at conference will remember that recipe - if they were lucky enough to grab a slice before it was all gone) :lol:
Lovely sunny day here in Blenheim 8) ...NOT
Cold and overcast but no wind or rain. Only got to 6C :-?
Manged to get 3 loads of washing hung out and dried.
The God of us Pastafarians
You have not heard of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster??
http://www.venganza.org/
Can't say any more as religion is not to be discussed in these forums :lol:
It is sudden changes in pH that cause more problems rather than "incorrect" pH. Many fish these days are captive bred and have no idea they are supposed to be living in a different pH! 8)
My Africans were all born and raised in 7.2pH as that was what the ChCh water was where the breeder lived. When I got them home they lived in 7.0 as that is what my tap water was. Again, they bred in this and seemed very happy.
I have never had a problem with aggressive males. Are you able to increase the number? This should help. They are a shoaling fish so the more you have the better behaved they will be.
ChCh is ideal for fish keeping generally.
pH is altered by driftwood and peat (lowers), fish (bigger fish will tend to lower pH) and some rocks, like limestone, and shells (raise pH).
Eventual adult size is mostly determined by how much they were fed as they were growing. If the fry were not fed enough it will permanently make them smaller, not matter what they eat as adults.
I think some of the fancier goldfish can be permanently damaged and always have trouble swimming up the right way. Since the fish was otherwise healthy and was not in pain (as far as anyone could tell) the owner decided the cork was a compromise - and it worked.