hovmoller

Is your google broken? http://www.dfs-pet-blog.com/2010/04/ozonizer/

Well said

Female Geo of mine got a beating like that once too.. then had a massive fungal/bacterial infection in the tail and completely lost the tail. I put her in a separate tank with lots of wunder tonic and TLC and the infection/fungus disappeared and to my complete amazement she regrew her entire tail!!

Agree it looks really good and great work! and also agree that stand definitely need some form of lateral bracing or it might very easily fall over sideways when filled with water.

Yes they go well together. I used to keep Discus and Kribs together. Discus would get the occasional feed of Krib babies though but with dense vegetation some will survive. Interesting thing with Kribs is that the sex of the babies are pH related. So if you have slightly acidic water like you say you do then you might end up with either all male or all female fry. (can't remember which does what)

Would be interesting to hear Hollywoods Albany's take on this?

He looks like he ate all the icecream! :sml1:

You don't need to open the windows if you either drill through the wall or floor (suspended floor) :slfg: I had a 25mm line from sump going down through the floor, then split into 4 x 15m of 13mm garden irrigation pipe, then back in a 25mm line up through the floor again and back in the sump. The 4 x 15m line was not burried (lots of clay = too difficult) but was under the house when it is quite cool. I used a 5000L/hr pump for this and water was shooting out the end so a smaller pump could do it as well. This system was absolutely great at keeping my local marine tank (inside a warm house) cold for around 75% of the year but during summer I had to switch it off and use a chiller instead. The idea being that I would save lots of power during 75% of the year. Edit: Also important to mention here is that my tank and sump was insulated with 25mm poly on 3 sides (and under)

You could dig down say 50m of PE pipe into your garden and pump water through it.. would help quite a lot.

+1 Gotta figure out another way to keep your tank cool. Say you put in a 2L bottle of frozen water. I reckon that would lower the temp in your 50L tank by around 1degree and you would have to do that repeatedly throughout the day to keep it down... And the fan you have there says on the box can only do max 4 degrees (depending on circumstances, humidity, temperature, etc.) So, it won't be enough for middle of summer in auckland. Gotta get a chiller.

Inlet behind foam and then outlet/spraybar in the tank as usual. Water from tank sucked through poret, then through canister and back into tank.

Yeah sure, you really just have to move water from behind the filter to the tank so why not do that with a canister.

What a beautiful little fish :nfs:

Not just children, crayfish do that too! :sml1:

May I ask why do these animals need rescuing?

I would also put affected fish in a small tank say 20L and do furan treatment in there. I you were to treat a full 200L tank it would take quite a lot of furan 2 and would therefore be quite expensive.. You could also euthanise the sick fish and buy new ones for the money that the furan 2 would have cost you. Sounds a bit cold hearted but if melafix didn't work and it is indeed an internal infection then nursing your fish back to health with furan 2 seems like a long shot anyway. IMO.

Looks great! I love how the duckweed is only a few specks in the first photo but a blanket in the last. Oh Duckweed... :love:

If you already know now that you want to breed them then just get a pair like you say. If you get more now then the others will just be in the way when a pair starts breeding (unless you wanna do the whole move to a separate tank thing)

I'm pretty sure aquarium heaters don't over draw on start ups. It's just a heating element

I've used it for my discus as well... more of a preventive measure but I have also read good things about it. Are your thin fish eating but not gaining weight?

:nfs: I mean... reptile

Looks good! Now imagine it with a bed of leaf litter on the bottom and tea coloured water... :love:

Carpet insulates barely diddely squat so you might as well leave it out. Especially when there are such obvious advantages of not having carpet in a fish room. A relatively small percentage of heat loss in a room goes through the floor. Much more important to do ceiling and walls and you are sweet there from what I can see. Do poly under concrete slab in your next life.

Carpet won't do much and being a fish room I would definitely prefer to leave a hard surface for spills etc. Ideally you would have insulation under the concrete slab but that is obviously out of the question. Nothing much you can do unless you want to build another timber floor on top but that would be quite extreme.

Good score! I would use them all