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OK. You just call me Homer now Wow... What a good cooker you are ! Tell me how you did this ? please please please :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

I'm not sure the airpump is the problem... I got a tank with a sponge filter and a nicely green java moss. Just with natural light from window. So as you said, I don't think it comes from the light too. Is it just the moss turns brown or others plants too ? Could you please tell us the parameters of your water (PH, GH, KH) ?

her son :oops: You know, I'm still learning english and this topic is a real good training for me (I mean it, not kidding You know what ? Before reading your post, I didn't know the meaning of "typo". True :lol: Indeed, thanks to this forum, I'm learning a lot of things. I'm happy cause I begin to think in english and not just translating french to english before writting.

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The right answer was : - You just finish your vegetables. But ok, you got it Your turn Cricketman !

I agree. Could someone explain to me why do we create "new species" during the same time we're destroying some we don't even know the existence, in native forests or oceans for instance ? Can this be an answer ?

Thanks for your comments and informations Today was a rainy day. Heavy rain with thunderstorm. From 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. The roof has got a leak and then, 2 cm of water inside. No damages fortunatly. My ponds have got a heavy water change too. We got our own fiordland down here

Thanks for the link Zev. I'm gonna forward this. I feel blue too when I watch this, David. You heard about BP and Louisiana oil spill. Do you believe that kind of guys are already thinking about how to extract oil from the arctic ocean ? The climate change is not an ecological disaster for them but just a great opportunity to find more oil. This is an insane world...

Two cannibals - a mother and his 8 years old son - are talking. His parents divorced when he was very young. His father remarried his high school sweetheart. The son tells to his mother : - Mum, I don't like my mother in law. What does his mother answer to his son ?

Anyone has seen this movie ? http://endoftheline.com/ There's a screening at the Rialto Cinema, Christchurch (thursday 15 july)

Raul Midon - Recording session Listen to how he plays the trumpet...

Raul Midon - Keep On Hoping (with Jason Mraz)

Yes it is. Very invasive. But they don't resist to below zero temperatures (here, it's -5 / -12 °C during winter). When they are much too numerous, I use them for vegetables, as organic fertilizer by composting. Fishes like those plants because they can hide and eat plankton inside their roots. I often place some pistias from the pond in my tanks. Schrimps and fishes are fond of all the things they're able to find inside. But don't forget I'm in France. If they're not allowed in NZ, you can remplace them by any plants which grow fast. Is the same thing for juncus, carex and cyperus (about biosecurity)? They are very efficients to strip nutrients, heavy metal too.

Sorry Sophia but actually, they are in their 300 L summer camp and I don't have any pics of them yet. But I'll post some for you just before the autumn (end of september here). Those blue eyes are really lovely

The purification station power ! Plants... ... and porous gravel for bacterias (on the right) Black stones and pebbles are also used for heating.

Lilaeopsis cuttings that start to grow. I'm surprised how the water is clear. There's no filter in this pond, just a stream pump.

Hygrophila stricta and oak leaves bed.

That's the only problem of this amazonian stuff lol ! Most of the plants are in pots (furtive thinking to Phoenix, the PotzMaster... ) So I could get them out easily. I also placed some flat stones in order to get in the pond and fish the inhabitants with a landing net. And I'm sure it's gonna be a real headache in september ! :lol: There's another solution : built a tropical greenhouse all around the pond, standing it against the house. Add an amazonian room inside, with a completly covered wall with epiphyte plants like bromelias, orchids, tillandsias, ferns... Hey... That's sounds real good mates. But I am NOT gonna do this lol. I mean... Not now. :lol:

The same, few weeks later. For the scale, the diameter of the pistia, down right is 30 cm.

It's summer down there. So, it's time to give my fishes their summer camp ! :bounce: This year, I had the opportunity to find a mega container for the fishes. I mean a pool. I could have it for 70% off, that is to say about 40 € (eq 70 NZ$). So I didn't hesitate for a long time... I dreamt about that kind of project for years. So, it's a galvanized metal frame and a pvc/polyester liner. 230 x 160 x 45 cm 1200 liters. Here it is (no water inside yet)

Jennifer's right, and especially about this : "That doesn't mean that the same setup will work for everyone though. A large part of Luis Moniz's success is because he is talented and has a lot of experience figuring out what works for him. I am sure he could make an equally beautiful tank no matter what lighting he chose." That's so true. When I started, the advices I could get from people on forums are a huge help for me. I can't imagine how it was before internet So if I could help you Joe, I'm just happy. About Manado, it's a JBL substrate, looks like rounded granulate grains. There are no nutrients in it (that why I add Aquabasis) but it's porous and neutral in water. With plants like cryptos or echinos, which have strong root system, it works well. They say this substrate is like a battery, storing the excess of nutrients. As I could see in my own tanks, it seems right. As it's rounded, it doesn't hurt fishes like corydoras for instance. I remember some people on this forum, use it. So I think you can find it in NZ. And it's not expensive.

Thanks for your explanation Phoenix I am hot but I need fire : could it be the fire of desire ? I am tall but I need to jump : if it's brit slang, means to walk tall ? I am long but I need to stretch : a bit pretentious but... sure (about the stretching). and I am slimy but I need slime : no comment (but sure) I am full but I need fuel : it's a... how to say it ?... a probability. I end in X **x ? [edit] in order to avoid search engine

Could someone explain it to me ? Glass is a liquid ? I didn't get it... :oops:

I should not read this topic... I'm about to go to bed down here but now, I'm hardly hungry... Nice biscuits Zev