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hmmmmm good point,90% of it will be ok there are a couple of things il move its not gona stay exactly like that, just waiting for these shakes to stop, had like 10 in the last 24hrs, 1 big enough to slosh water onto ground an move a tank slightly still gota add water an plants an re organise it to look cool getting new external soon my 150L with stood the 7.1 quake an only a couple rocks fell down, fish tend to goto surface when it shakes

well I put the sand in last night, an arranged the rocks for it to, looks mighty cool! to bad I can't fill it right now because of the dodge earthquakes we just had quite a big one pic

I am setting it up now poly based in the end just jammed in some spare bits i had in the gaps lol pics to come when i get my external

killies are awesome!

Well its 300kg, the size isn't* massive but its big... the glass is a thick glass like at least 8mm maybe bigger, it has no bracing either which im concerned about pics up, soz about quality its a cell phone

Hi all, merry xmas happy holidays an all that- I've got this huge 120cmX45X45 tank an Its on a nice bench thats just 1cm to short! I was thinking it would be best to put a slab of wood under it so it didn't "sink" into the cabinet an also so it had no overhang. its a 300kg tank filled so I want it to be strong an hopefully with stand any earthquakes we have again(chch) I was looking around the house an couldn't find any wood (dam) and was wondering if carpet underlay would be ok? the over hang is probably ok with it being on 5mm on each side but im worried the tank will sink an damage the antique cabinet I have... What you reckon? will a 300kg tank be ok with a 5mm overhang an will carpet underlay be ok to stop it sinking into the wood? Cheers Sam

I like it everything minus the pots(to bad they only come in orange aye!) even with the pots it looks good though cause the plants are big an bushy well done!

haha this is very cool. take it to the beach an youtube your findings

easy patch to do ,a thin *SHARP* blade will save you frustration, mineral turps to clean off excess silicone/might be worth putting some strong tape on the outside corner to give it abit more strength but probably not necessary... also stuff i got from the past 120x45x45 10mm for 89$ an the person gave me about 140$ worth of stuff,heaters,filters,ramps,feeders,food , tank ornments ect ect 90x45x45 with light an filter for 100 90x45x38 -50$ 70x38x38 -free 60x30x30 -10$

you should just get 7 loach which can take care of the bottom feeding an then 3-4 "XXX" fish for the top feeding (my loach is at least 7cm now an he struggles to fit under some of the small decorations in the tank(60x30x30) you are going to be overstocked when these fish grow out abit, waste will start to increase an possibly your enthusiasm to clean will decrease an you'll end up with a filthy ugly tank that you don't want to clean an your olds will dislike it every time they walk past it. keep it really low tech for now see how it plays out, a tank will be much more enjoyable if its easy to maintain an the fish are all happy an confident p.s I would really like to see a loach eat from a hand you should try get yours confident enough to do so!

go lower numbers if you can.(which is why i recommended a pair of dwarf cichlids) any bad filtration can be easily resolved with a good weekly water change an gravel vacuum. but I think you should go for just 1 or 2 species of fish.unless you can go to a 90x45x45 tank (cost you almost the same power wise) can pick them up for about 50$ 2nd hand 8)

well hey its your tank an get what you like still you should look into a pair of dwarf cichlids, you can keep with them mostly anything an they have quite alota personality compared to something like a tetra

I would get like 1pair of fish you like to breed an the just some cleaner fish keep it small an planted for best looks I have 2x 60x30x30 an got dwarf cichlids in them makes a nice tank for a pair or 2 of some sorta cichlid

I wouldn't feed them bees until they are quite big, but my 4months old frogs used to eat them, generally the bee will fly around get tired an then start drowning before the frogs get them. but I have had an old whistling that used to catch them mid jump was pretty cool.If you can stomach removing the stinger that would be best

definitely post up some pics !!!! pics rule! regarding spiders, frogs won't get hurt by 99% of the spiders in NZ, they have natural immunities to that stuff I think? I've feed mine bumble bees an huge spiders there whole lives never had any issues at all.... a spider would also not be able to bite through a frogs tummy lining either honestly without those spiders mine probably wouldn't have grown much. It works really well because you can dangle them in front of the frogs face so they can get a few easy meals for a good kick start into hunting for there food

whistling will eat those I listed but it will take a while to build there confidence up (obviously you want the smaller sized feeders an locusts will be to big for a while)

been through this before myself. brown frogs take abit to get comfortable with eating, you need to put as much as you can in there for them. I found the ideal food was small spiders, we had a bush with 100's of them an I would just grab the webs an dangle them in front of frogs an it works really well if you can spare 5$ go buy some crickets,mealworms or something off trademe they will come in handy. mealworms are good if you can afford to buy say 20$ worth, then they breed there own stocks an you have good choices of size to... crickets are delicate an hard to handfeed but small an easy prey locusts are really good as well easy to feed but need big frogs my old frogs I could get 3 full grown locusts into one of them an he was only about 6months old

get some catfish an chuck them in there that will kick start cycling, could also get some plants as they seem to help alot. you wana look into any fish you are considering getting, alot can handle a cycling tank but there are some which wont. I would just get ph an ammonia test kit an do 4 buckets every couple of days for about 3 weeks just make sure the ammonia an ph dont fluctuate to much an you'll be fine

how about something like this always wanted to do something similar with a frog setup but never got around to it

like that pic is it a Siamese algae eater? will look into flourish excel am going to pet shop soon what is fert dosing? just giving it daily ferts?

im going to clean it up today a good re arrange an scrape an will add a 2nd filter for more flow at the same time... its a 80L tank with 8 growing kribensis in it I don't use any ferts lighting is on a timer 8hours a day an its sitting next to my baby raising tank which has no algae at all http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa3 ... 010511.jpg

Well I have 3 tanks running atm they all get around 30% weekly changed sometimes a full cleanout at the same time anyways the heavily planted tank with kribensis in it has got hairy green algae in it an all over the top of the tall plants and on the heater. I put some plecos in there but they didn't go near it How do I get rid of this stuff? its not in any of my other tanks just seems to be thriving in the krib tank >.<

im also wanting something like this You could try west coast iron sand ?

Like the tank its very cool