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go into your LFS and ask...

:facepalm: ok so i feel obliged to confess something. after much further investigating into the smell i found a kinda big wet patch on the carpet under my bed.. soaked through to the old underlay and that's what was causing the smell. i must have spilled water while setting the tank up and moving the fish in and not noticed it, then put my bed back over it. dried it out and now my room is back to smelling like it usually does - which isn't really that nice, but it's better. sorry about that! :facepalm: :sml1:

good choice of fish for the tank. and i reckon i got a fair idea who sold them to you.. :gigl: those 4 will definitely keep the oscar very busy (and probably super frustrated at not being able to catch them) oh and don't forget a pleco. you gotta have a pleco... good stuff, show us some pics when you can 8)

hey josh. i found the lights you speak of on TM - thanks, it seems like it will be a much cheaper way to go. so did you or samh also make any sort of enclosure/mount for the lights, or any waterproofing..? basically i just wanna know what other adjustments you made, aside from wiring. cheers.

albino tiger oscar albino red oscar

maybe they just got the taste for blood and turned rabid? lol.. they ate the inside out of a freshwater mussel i had in there too.. i used to drop a piece of lettuce in there daily from my burger and they'd eat that too. they grew quickly, i got them at marble size and after a year they were golf ball size. actually i kinda miss them now. aww. my little flesh eating snails

i've had fish disappear too, but not like this! i was looking into the tank several times every day and never saw any dying or even slightly unhealthy fish, plus it was a small tank with bugger all substrate and nothing else, and a tight lid. i don't know where the fish would have gone! i'm just saying, i'm only convinced it was the snails because if there was another explanation for it, i would have found it. do apple/mystery snails have teeth? (serious question lol)

badass.

i have two oscars that eat pretty much anything but they won't touch slugs. try it, if they like them, cool. if they don't, cool.

red belly pacu are not suitable for any aquarium. they shouldn't be sold to anyone! completely illogical, ridiculously large, idiotic, ugly, troublesome and just unnecessary fish. in fact, i just bought two of them... :sml2: good thread bro, i just bought a tank exactly the same size, i had my eye on the one you bought but went for one with a metal stand.. 800 or so kilograms on a stand next to my bed kinda makes me nervous lol you should get one or two oscars. they are great fish, they grow fast, have character, and your tank would be perfect size for two of them. then you can get a pleco and some other small american cichlids for the oscars to chase around hahha. i have 2 med/large oscars, 1 large dempsey, 1 pleco, and small convict, angel, jewel, dempsey, gold severum (cool fish) and about to add two baby pacu (which will be removed once they get too big) and i am super happy with my little community! don't get an aro, well, at least not yet....

i can vouch for snails eating fish. i had a small tank with two golf ball sized apple snails, and two slightly smaller blue mystery snails. i added twenty neon tetras, bought as feeder fish, to the tank. after a week i noticed some of the neons disappeared, practically into thin air (or thin water?) and that got me wondering if the snails had eaten some. because as ridiculous as i thought it sounded, it seemed the only explanation for the disappearing fish. when fish go cannibal, they generally leave a bony carcass. so i decided to see if my suspicions were correct. i left the neons in there, (rather than feed them to my oscars) and over 6 weeks, one by one, all the neons disappeared. twenty gone in six weeks! i cleaned out the tank, no carcasses, no bones, nothing stuck in the filter, no nothing, just four fat snails. although i never saw anything, i'm 100% convinced that my snails ate all those tetras. but what got me really wondering is, how on earth did the slow moving snails manage to catch the quick tetras?!?

i would be keen on buying some midas babies but will have to wait until they are around 5cm so my oscars don't turn them into a quick snack!

yeah i bought an old dehumidifier from trade me for $20, and then went to mitre ten and bought a carbon filter (usually for range hoods), and cellotaped it to the air intake on the dehumidifier. im hoping this will help a bit..

hi friends. i have just put a 650 litre aquarium in my bedroom. it doesn't have a tight fitting lid like my old 220l tank, and now when i get home i'm noticing that my room is starting to smell like fish tank water. i do 30% water changes weekly so it's not an issue with bad water, the smell is 'standard' fish tank water smell, and there are no leaks or spills, the smell is coming off the surface of the water. there are open windows on either side of the tank so air flow is there, but it still smells :-? so im wondering if anyone out there has advise on how to lessen the odour coming from my fish tank... unfortunately i don't have the money to buy a proper lid for it. thanks for reading, any suggestions welcome.

i have an inanga which is shaped like an m.. not sure why, he came like that. i have several bent guppies too, never sucked anything up in a wc.. could these quasimodo fish have anything to do with inbreeding?

mate that's an awesome tank! good to see the veija doing well after it's little venture down the driveway haha :lol:

damn that is a cool name for a fish!

i think that's fair enough if you have tetras or lots of small fish.. i do have a tank full of 50 or so guppies, i named them all bob. can't expect anyone to keep track of the individual names for a big school of fish....

i have.... 4" jack dempsey named fritter (because he acts like one) 2" convict named duncan (named after the guy that gave me my first fish) 3" bristlenose named london (he got his head stuck in a bridge ornament) 1" jack dempsey named dot (smallest fritter) 2" bully called uncle (self explanatory) 10" pleco named barry (because he looks like a barry) 3" goldfish named nemo (my 5yo daughter named that one, how original) 4" fantail named manky (because it is) and my favourite, a 12" oscar named oscar (named after the grouch on sesame st - don't give me stick about naming him after his breed, i didn't actually know he was an oscar fish when i named him!!) i just got myself a 4" tiger oscar who is yet to be named (i will name him once i get a good feel for his personality...) your turn!

i meet many people that keep fish, and i find that some will give each fish their own name, and refer to them by it.. but then there are folks that just keep fish without naming them, referring to them by their breed.. kinda impersonal if you ask me.. what you have named your fish, and what kind of fish are they?

funny ha ha, or funny funny? my real name is mahn. i have been on google earth all morning, scoping out lucas creek. pretty keen to head up there this avo/evening, just do some catchy releasy and have a looksy what's there. anyone that would like to join us then send me a pm.

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keen as to come fishing, i've been around birkenhead and keen as to check out lucas creek. just want some more inanga and maybe a bully if i can find one around 5cm..

very.. verrry early this morning i went back to the local stream i used to play in as a kid. the stream is nothing dramatic, very modest. let's say a dribbling stream with bad breath and a flash haircut. reminded me of.. oh don't worry. with a bit of patience, several energy drinks and a massive mcmuffin, i managed to spot heaps of stuff in the three hours i was there. eels, shrimp, heaps of inanga, banded kokopu plus the usual DIEbusia. i don't believe i saw anything that looked like a bully. before i left i managed to net 2 inanga and one banded kokopu using stellas techniques and have brought them home to join the bully i already have in my 3foot native tank. the inanga are already chomping on bloodworms as eagerly as the bully, but the kokopu is being a bit stubborn so far. i have offered it ox heart and a dried cricket but he doesn't seem interested yet.. maybe he just needs to settle in... needless to say my eyes will be glued to that tank tonight.... also gotta say about this nznative thing, is that it is a pretty hard core effort to keep the temp in 180l below 20 in this muggy auckland weather! but then again i'm just using frozen bottles of water... lots of them..!

people ask you how many fish you have, and you reply with how many tanks you have... you're still in denial when it comes to electricity bills. you do daily water changes but only shower once a week... you charge your flatmates cheap rent because of all the fishtanks. you spend $200 to accommodate a $10 fish. you have a cat called fish. you only ever wash the dishes when you need to make room on the bench for buckets when doing water changes. you name all your fish, address them by their nickname, have favourites, and can give detailed descriptions on all of their personalities. when you put on a wetsuit and get inside your aquarium to clean it! 8)