Caryl

Time for an update. I started emptying the pool today. So far I have caught 6 of the original 8 added (but I know the other 2 are zipping around in the pool sniggering at my attempts to catch them) plus 72 fry. These vary in size from 0.5cm up to 2cm and seem to be from 3 different spawnings, judging from size. Tomorrow I hope to finish the job and give a final head count. 8) Here they are (the small ones only) in a bucket...

Do you have someone you could borrow a tank from? Or a friendly lfs with a sapre to borrow, or hire?

You have to be really careful of that trout food as it fouls the water quickly if left.

I didn't know danio's could scream!

Don't know about that one Jude. I think you can freeze it but don't quote me.

The trouble with dry foods is that, once the container is open, it starts losing goodness rapidly. It is better to buy smaller containers which get used before they get too old than big containers which may take many months to get through. Just because the fish will eat a particular food doesn't mean they are getting the right balance or correct nutrition.

When you buy shoaling fish they are most likely all siblings so when they die of old age they do so at pretty much the same time. They get a bit bent, paler, and tatty looking.

Yes either jamb it under a top brace or silicone it to the base, or back, of the tank. I too have used a hot wire.

Anyone's guess :lol: Keep counting Hope you are better soon.

eventually but they are very elastic!! :lol: :roll:

With 34" height and 3ft front to back you will also have to think how you are going to clean it. Also, how are you going to light it? Over 18" depth and light doesn't get through the water too well so the plants will not get enough light.

Hope you can perk that department up a bit scalare and make sure the staff give correct advice!

There are even more than that as well. What about the panda corys, julii, sterbai etc etc etc?

Have you not heard of tank crawls before Chimera? Our club has an annual one. They are great fun and a good way to get ideas and meet fellow enthusiasts.

My kids used to love feeding worms to the goldfish and seeing how far they would stretch with a fish at each end tugging on the worm!

His litres are wrong. He said "My dimensions are three foot length and two foot width with height very much like the two foot and a half"

I have limestone in mine. Helps with the pH. Schist is flat and very stackable, good to silicone together too.

Just hope they breed at one end of the tank and not the middle of it :lol:

It is potting mix, and just get plain garden peat which hasn't had anything added to it in the way of mould inhibitors, weed killers etc. I suspect your problem is more the size and depth of your container. Use something bigger and deeper. Many people keep their whiteworms in 2L ice cream containers

I am sure he would build you one - when he has the time. He is a very busy man and travels a lot with his job. When someone offers to do something like that for you, at no charge, you must be prepared to wait.

I hate to say this Dan but those hours may be there for years if you work from home! Our company has been going over 9 years now. Grant gets up at 7am, the first courier arrives at 7.15am then it is full-on until 11pm at the earliest but more often midnight - 1am. We don't dare advertise as we have too much work purely by word of mouth but not enough to take on another technician. Mind you, people want Grant to fix their computers etc, not someone else or they wouldn't be willing to wait up to a month for him to deal with their problem! :roll:

This plant is fine in gravel. just don't bury the roots in it. It likes its roots exposed. Anchor enough roots to hold it in place to start with and it will do well. I have also seen it attached to glass sides of a tank using a blob of silicone.

Welcome back Dan

I believe you have some great river rocks down that way.

There are posts elswhere about how to set up a natural cold water rockpool tank. I did one using a 3ft tank (cos I had an empty one at the time). My biggest problem was keeping it cool enough over summer. Bought a chiller recently so must set another one up. We just went down the Kaikoura coast and gathered up rocks, sand and all sorts of greeblies and critters we found in the rockpools and dumped them in the tank. Looked good and very interesting to watch. I had an Aquaclear filter on it but nothing else. Every couple of weeks we would get a bit of sea lettuce and more sea water to top up the tank. Never fed the inhabitants much, just the occasional flake food. They seemed to live off the critters that came attached to the sea lettuce. Our tank had chitons, anemones, sea cucumber, shrimps, rockfish, triplefins, starfish, brittlestars, hermit crabs and lots of other un-named critters.