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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.

Hi and welcome Mekhaela. Did you know there is an aquarium club in Napier? Semd a message to Bruce in here or Warren if you are interested. They are both members.

:lol: :lol: :lol: Snap off the affected leaves and throw them out too.

Welcome to the fishroom squirrelfish and good luck teaching the kids that housework is fun :lol:

Hi Lorenzo and welcome to NZ scalare is a member here and, although he currently lives in NZ, he is also from the Netherlands. Would love to see some photos of your tank and fish once you have it set up.

That's guppy talk for wife swapping :lol: Good luck with the fry.

Yes they will. Why did you catch some? Cos you don't want them all in the tank, or you want to grow them on for sale? I have always just left mine. When you feed them peas make sure you remove the shell first. Mine are happily munching on cucumber slices today.

Have to keep the kids interested! :lol: Love the fish on strings. At least they won't die or get whitespot More plants would make the fish feel more secure - especially as they can be approached from both sides. There are very few places to hide in that tank at the moment. Keep an eye out for whitespot developing over the next couple of weeks.

I was thinking the same thing!

I assumed they were all in a tropical tank mystic.

Some male gouramis can get quite dominant. It seems to be a matter of luck with more success if they have been raised together.

I currently have 15 Malawis in a 280L tank (about to upgrade from 4ft to 6ft). The majority are around 8cm in length.

You have contradicted yourself Shae. When he first mentioned clamped fins you recommended Melafix. Now you are saying if you see clamped fins do not medicate! It appears a number of people are experiencing similar problems every so often Shiuh. In your case it seems to be just females but others are saying they have had both sexes affected. You didn't tell us the results of your water tests either.

Personally I would move the fish to the new tank. They are cramped where they are anyway so a bigger tank must be better even if it hasn't cycled. You still have the old filter to use and a lot of the bacteria survived the disaster hopefully. Any bacteria from this are better than nothing. Keep the old filter running along with the new one (if one came with the tank. Since you said it has a built in base I assume it is one of the new "everything you need built in" types but may be wrong :roll: ) If I have read it right you have also used the old substrate and what water was left from the cracked tank to the new. All this will help. Keep a close eye on the fish for signs of stress as they may get white spot as a result of all this. White spot looks like salt has been sprinkled over the fish. There are various medications available to treat this with instructions on the container. Don't know what they have in Switzerland so won't name brands. Not a good way to get a new tank is it? - but very convenient :lol:

Hi and welcome Anthony. I don't think much has changed in the past 6 years in the fish keeping world. Different filtration systems come and go and I like to think product quality improves. Maybe see you in chat sometime.

I suggest you get a tank that size built by professionals. Go to your local glass merchants and ask advice from them.