benlee

you could try to mix the cement with the small pebbles and set it around something like a plastic coke bottle. I once made some pots by digging a hole in the ground and filling it a little way with cement. I then put a plastic pot into the hole and filled the sides with cement. The dirt hole gave the outside of my concrete pot a cool texture and the plastic gave a place to put a plant. You could adapt the idea to have a thinish layer of concrete/pebbles on the outside of the empty plastic bottle. you wouldnt need to completley cover the bottle if you had the uncovered side buried in the gravel. You could even go one step further by removing the bottle to make a cave. Hope you find that useful. Oh yeah use quick drying cement.

http://www.fishdoc.co.uk/disease/whitespot.htm http://www.fishforever.co.uk/ich.html Here are some links to a few places i looked at when i had my whitespot troubles.

I had a clown loach that took about 3 weeks to get cured of white spot. It used to hang out in a cave all the time and i guess the water flow through the cave was not very great. The other fish got cured but he got pretty badly covered in spots. I had to put him in a 2L glad container and dose him. I then let the container float in the tank to keep warm. It took 2 weeks of being constantly dosed in the container for him to heal. I guess the moral of the story is take out any places the medicated water wont flow to so that one fish does not reinfect the rest.

I have big corys with little corys and no probs The only fish i have ever seen a cory eat is baby siamese fighters.

I have a female who helps the male build a bubble nest before spawning, i have not seen her make one on her own however

Yeah, nitrates were fine too, Melafix appears to be doing the trick, Tails opening back up with only one casualty so far. Who knows what was going on, the only other thing i did was lower the lever of the tank by half so i did not have to use up so much of the medication. All appear to be on the mend now at any rate.

Got water checked today and it all come back fine. The white spot has cleared up but the tails are still clamped down. I am trying a course of Melafix now. Not sure what else to do.

The temprature is fine, however im am unable to test the pH ect.. Have had carbon in filter untill i dosed it for the whitespot. Can the testing kits be bought inexpensivly? or will pet shops test it for you? Any one know of a place on the North Shore?

Has anyone ever had a problem with guppies and their tails narrowing down??? There is also the very beggining of White Spot in the tank. (Being treated now) The strange change in the tails is what made me look at the fish a bit closer this morning and also when i noticed the white spot. Some of the worse cases the tail actually narrows right down to a tip like the end of a sharpened pencil. The worst affected guppies seem to congregate in the same place on the surface which is also where the current seems to take them. I have Glass Cats, Bristlenose, Siamese Fighters and Clown Loaches in the tank as well. None seem to be suffering the effects of White Spot or the mysterious shrinking tail. I have just had another look and, of the guppies that have the shrinking tail, about 1/4 of them have white spot also, so i guess from that the two are unrelated. Any advice or help is appreciated. Thanks

Has anyone tried breeding Glass Catfish before. I think you need to trick them into thinking that they are in a river during the rainy season by having a strong current and lowering the level of the tank before slowly raising it again. Can anyone add to this theory before i venture out and start buying things. I dont have to work for the next 6 days so need something to occupy myself with.

I have an army of 7 Baby Brisltenoses keeping my 620T clean and it gets direct sunlight from lunchtime to dark. There is not a spot of algae on the glass, or anywhere else for that matter. Be interesting to see if it stays that way as they get older however. I think Siamese algea eaters will eat that brown algae too.

So if i have 11 branches forming a full circle then i have Ambulia, Excellant. Thank you However now i need to find another reason for the Ambulia that i have to be turning brownish, could it be nutrition issuue??? I read someplace that Ambulia needs alot of iron to grow well, is the brownishness a symptom of lacking iron?

Thanks for the replys Am i correct in thinking that Ambulia and Cambomba are similar but very different all at the same time? I have a few bunches of one of them but not sure which, is there an easy way to tell?

Can anyone out there suggest some plants that grow well or at least survive well in fairly strong currents. It would be great if the plants were good for live born young to hide in. And extra great if they were strong/thick enough to create calmer spots in the water. Thanks for taking the time to read this even if you cant offer any advice.

how do you tell the differance between a male and female tetra? or is it different for each type of tetra? i was thinking about trying to breed emerald eyed tetras.

does anyone in between; Dunedin and Queenstown or Dunedin and Christchurch or Anywhere around Auckland have or know where to get any Killies, i currently have none and would like some. Thanks BEN

i got theese fish in dunedin. they both have the same markings so wether they are male or female, they are both the same. im not sure where the fish shop got them from, they came out of a tank the shop was selling on behalf of sombody. thanks for everyones help. BENLEE

have you ever bred them? do you know what it takes to breed them? thnaks for the pics

how many fish are you thinking of transporting? are you going too? i regularly transport fish from dunedin to auckland in plastic bags inside a chilly bin, just put the chilly bin in your checked luggage. havent had a casualty yet. the largest fish ive moved was a full sized female sword tho

they wouldent be bigger that your average house key in length. If you are right how big will they get? do you have any photos of yours or something similar?

hey can anyone tell me what kind of fish this is, i havent got the time to work out how to host a pictire with my isp so i made this crappy geocities web site so youll have to click on the link, sorry. http://www.geocities.com/bigbenlee/Fish.html any thoughts would really be appreciated.

thanks, that link was really helpful.

do siamese flying fox fish eat anything other than algae? are they god community fish? does any one know anything about them? i dont

i think native frogs to NZ dont have a tadpole stage so any frog that goes through a tadpole stage is introduced and considered by DOC to be a pest. Not 100% sure though, and i dont think there are any frog police out there checking up! not that it matters if the dude is in another country.