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Can't name and shame as clubs have had AGMs and are supposed to have sent updated details to me by now, so I don't know who is to blame. :roll: I received club heading details from CAPS, DAPS, HBAS, KMAC, MAC, NZKA, SAAWGS, UHAS and WAS Still waiting for AFA, NSAS, WAPS, WAWGS, WBPAPS. Tasman haven't had their AGM yet so have no information as yet and TAPS have gone into recess. If some other club members can help out with the heading details, at least, it would be appreciated. Then ring your club officials and ask them why they have not done their job.

Spawning angels aren't ok with anything :roll: but the serpaes will cope and be able to get out of their way.

Or water conditions.

Tannins are brown. Green water is algae. Possibly triggered by the driftwood (although it has never happened to me) and should clear on its own after a few days. How long has the tank been set up? Something is out of balance and this is common while a tank is still cycling.

Not only me - Jane as well.

Garlic repels vampires

I have never had nippy serpaes either. 8)

You all know the Year Book is supposed to be out with the August Aquarium World. Well, I doubt it will be this year because, AS USUAL, most of your club officers have not pulled their fingers out and sent the club details to me or the capitations and membership lists (plus YB levy) to Jane. WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO TO GET PEOPLE TO DO THEIR JOBS??? :evil: :evil: We don't ask for much. This happens every year and we have to beg to get the information. Do any of you have any idea how long, and hard, a task it is to collate, check, and format the YB?? I will have even more to do this year as membership cards will be attached to individual YBs since too many complain their club secretaries do not pass on the cards when they are sent out to clubs. The only clubs to have sent their stuff to Jane so far are KMAC, MAC, NZKA, UHAS and SAWS. If you belong to any of the other clubs not listed (and there are 11 others) please contact your club officers ASAP and ask why they have not sent the information. I think I will merely print that information which arrives and the rest will be left blank, with an explanation as to why. We will save a lot of moey as the YB will be a lot thinner. :evil:

You only need water conditioner if you have a lot of chlorine in your water supply.

If your room temperature drops significantly it will make a difference to how the heaterstat manages to keep up.

You won't think it such a good price if they now die on you! The 6 danios on their own would have been best but it is too late now so lets see what we can do to get the fish over this without too much stress and death. The bristlenoses are often referred to as plecostomus but are, in fact, Ancistrus sp. They will have nothing to browse on in a new tank so make sure they get the bottom dweller pellets to eat (same goes for the corys). The ancistrus also appreciate wood in their diet to aid digestion so it would be helpful if you have some driftwood in there. I think though that good quality bottom dweller pellets have wood in them for this purpose. The rainbow shark is too big for your tank. It grows up to 15cm and needs room to swim. Please return it. If you insist on keeping it, and it survives, it is omnivorous and likes a vegetable component in its diet, like spirulina. It may also get aggressive and territorial as it ages, especially in a tank the size of yours. The Nitra-Zorb will probably stuff up your test readings so you won't have a true idea of ammonia levels. The water changes you plan to do will be good and you will need to keep them up until the tank has cycled. The Nitra-Zorb may slow down the process. Temperature will vary (try seeing what it is in the middle of the night when the room temperature has dropped a lot) and your variation is nothing to worry about. Anything between 24 - 27 is fine. Most keep their tanks around 26C. Do not add any more fish until your tank has fully cycled - at least 1 month.

But I don't think heyandrea's fish have blocked noses Alan.

Since they will have had their roots disturbed in the move they will need time to recover. Cut away any dead leaves. Once they perk up again they should overwhelm the opportunistic algae. What sort of plants are they?

Welcome to NZ 8)

There shouldn't be any need to use either

Depends on the fish too. Mine never seem to notice the lights turning on or off.

How long has your tank been set up and what sort (and how deep) is your substrate?

It isn't banned, we just try to persuade members to use the word fry instead. If that doesn't work, we send the boys around

It is what you eat with pakeha :lol: Puha and pakeha is a well known dish. The puha is a plant.

Ah yes, the red rotala. Will do One biscuit will be fine (maybe 2) as payment :bounce:

Please Rozski, they are not bubba fish, they are FRY :roll: We had an ongoing thread on this subject somewhere which was very funny :lol: If you are going to keep fish you must learn the correct terminology - like temperature thingie, sucky thing and greeblies

I am sorry to see people now being rude about it. As said, it is large to some people, but size is relative. Perhaps Trademe could divide the section eg. one bit for tanks under 100L, next section for tanks between 100L and 300L then another for big tanks over 300L

If you haven't had these fish in a heated tank before then there is no need to do so now, assuming your house stays realatively warm. Danios will cope down to 18 - 20C but 22C+ is better. I would be getting a pond for the goldfish then adding a heaterstat to the tank and going tropical. I always gathered oxygen weed from the river running through the middle of our town Java fern will grow in an unheated tank. What do you want an air pump for? You don't need one unless you want to have some of those bubble walls or an air stone or something. They are not necessary though.

Thanks Ian. I looked for them in the White Pages but couldn't find them so wondered if they had ceased trading. They are in our FNZAS member discount list.

It is the filter that has the majority of the good bacteria in it, not the water. Think of it as a large water change and run the 2 filters together for a month. You will still have to add new fish slowly so the bacteria can build up to match the fish numbers.