Caryl

Thank you both. Coming from an experienced fishkeeper as yourself Bill I take that as the highest compliment :oops: Phollz I hope you leave the AWs casually scattered around the cafe for customers to read too

Hi Mark and welcome. The bigger the tank the easier it is to maintain and keep the water parameters stable. Puffers and electric yellows will not be compatible with the other fish you have, nor with each other. Can't help you with the Aqua One tanks as I have no experience with them.

People like Alan have fishrooms for their 200 tanks and the room is heated, not the tanks, so he doesn't need 200 heaters. You can also set up a single filtration system for all of them as well if you want to. Still, the power bill does go up a bit

Cardinals are a little bigger than neons. You can tell the difference between the two by looking at the red. Neons have a red stripe that stops halfway down the body but in cardinals the red stripe goes right along the whole length of the body. 78F (25.5C) is nothing to worry about. In fact most people keep their tanks at anything from 72F (22C) - 80F (27C).

Welcome morgie and I hope you enjoy it here.

They will always do it to a certain extent.

By 'themselves' he means just discus, not other species. Not a single fish on its own.

Yes they gave me permission to reprint one of their articles in the AW too

As they settle into the tank they will start vying for the top position. This is normal. Usually not too serious in neons I don't think.

Hi and welcome muerk. Quite a few others have goldfish as well. I like the comets but do not like the fancy goldfish so much.

Is he in with the new jaguar cichlid then? :lol:

It is him Shelley :lol: . You can't miss him can you? :lol:

After a bit of in-house fighting, one of my Africans was really bad. So bad in fact I thought it was dead until I went to net it out and it moved slightly. To put it out of its misery I put it in a plastic bag (white so I couldn't actually see the fish), swung it around a couple of times and whacked it on the concrete as quickly as possible. It then went in the rubbish.

Very nice Ball.

The May Aquarium World will be posted on Monday. Please do not get confused as the index page still has February on it and so do the bottom of the pages :roll: . The cover says May! :lol: Unfortunately there was a printing problem in the last of the print runs which I did not see so my apologies for the poor quality print on some of the pages for those of you in the South Island at least. They get wrapped in order from the top of the North Island down to Kelly in Invercargill and without unwrapping some, I have no idea when it started. I know Marlborough's have the problem as do all south of there. The centre page (which is the one I was looking at as they finished each print run) looked OK so I only picked up the problem by accident but we have had trouble with a lack of red so the pictures of the National Aquatic Pest Task Force, which should have been red, are a yucky orange and streaky. It also means the pics in Paul's article aren't the best in the faulty copies either. I do not have the time or money to reprint the poor copies I'm sorry. If anyone is looking at buying a colour laser, I personally would not recommend Kyocera. When they go properly, their print quality and economy is excellent. When they go wrong we have trouble getting help. The man in Auckland keeps trying to tell us it is excess humidity. We keep trying to tell him that the rest of the country is not like Auckland and excess humidity is not something we have to contend with in the middle of droughts! :evil:

I think the reasoning behind not flushing fish was referring more to live fish. People would flush unwanted or sick live fish down the loo which was cruel to the fish.

If the water in the bucket stays the same it suggests to me something in your tank is raising the pH. Most likely the gravel. Do the same test with some water and gravelin a bucket. Do you have anything else in the tank?

I always fed my goldfish live earthworms.

I have never noticed much of a pH drop using driftwood. I plant to use some when I get the new 6ft tank built but it is on hold at the moment with unexpected medical bills to pay first

Caper I don't know of any NZ site specifically (never looked them up) but I can direct you to http://photobucket.com/albums/v144/carylnz/ This is my web album. There is one album there called New Zealand, which will show you what my country looks like. Feel free to look in the other albums as well, particularly the Karamea trip we did recently.

MAC - Marlborough Aquarium Club :lol:

I assume you know how big they grow?

Hi and welcome ormali. Did you have all those fish in the little tank or did you go out and buy them all at once once the big tank was set up? I think this might be your problem. Have you tested the water for ammonia, nitrites and nitrates?

That first one is obviously a pregnant male :lol: Are they fish fingers in the background?

I would need to see both tanks up close and 'live' before deciding. If anyone would like to give me the money I am happy to travel over and personally check them out for you. :lol: