blueether
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Fantastic tank, missed the building so just read the whole lot.
I'll have to pop in and see it some time.
I wouldn't worry too much about Inanga as Giants are quite lazy and Inanga grow fast
I'd be tempted to get another 1 or 2 giants or banded and ~8 or more Inanga, maybe a koaro or two for the high flow section to go with the torrent fish
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I just turn the tap on and let the automatic overflow take care of the water level. The only issue I had was when I left the tap on too long and lost sone smelt. If you do want to de-chlorinate then I didn't have any issue with killing shrimp or koura when I did use it.
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I'm stripping down the ex-tropical tank and there is a good population of red worms in the coarse sand, what is the best way to harvest them so I can move them into the 430L that is the new tropical (without putting all the sand in there)?
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whoosh
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keep up the O2 and keep it cool. Two pumps will warm up a small tank quite fast.
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Generally not do-able now
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Okay, thanks for that
Well the do care to a point, as long as you dont go silly
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:nfs:
A Harmonic configuration creating a sense of resolution Herb
Congratulations
The other meaning of Sage
Thanks everyone, yes the fun is just begining
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Cadence Sage joined SWMBO and I on the 3/3 @ 8lb 11oz (just under 4kg)
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After 5 years of having this tank set up I've bitten the bullet and closed down the natives. After the pump for the chiller died at the height of summer and the tank hit 27 or 28 deg and losing most of the fish I kept it going with just the eel, 2 mullet, and about 5 bullies.
But with the arrival of our first child I need the room that the 3 tropical tanks were using of have moved all the natives to a SS tank out side (about 300L) and are moving all the tropicals into the 400L.
When We move house and I have the space I'll set up another native setup... One place we looked at would have been perfect with a concrete basement room off the under house garage, it also had a terraced garden that would have turned into a wonderful stream next to the BBQ area but the rooms were just too small...
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One of mine was quite blue, developed with age
viewtopic.php?f=41&t=59348&p=638353&hilit=koura+berry#p638353
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Link to photos of my 400 litre native aquarium, currently filled to 300 litres due to max chiller volume.
Stocking is:
3 Giant Kokopu
3 Inanga
2 Koura
10 Common Bullies
5 Crans bullies
I'd full it right up. Chillers dont care about how much water is in the tank, only the thermal inputs.
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Over the very warm weekend I had a catastrophic tank malfunction on the 430L native.
The powerhead that drives the chiller failed at some stage on friday or maybe thursday night. I didn't notice untill saturday afternoon when the room temp was 30 deg and the tank temp was 26.
Losses:
All the giant kokopu
both the torrent fish
and most of the large bullies including the redfin male and the crans males
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inanga, bullies and koura should be fine. smelt can be very flighty and I've had one or two try and knock them selves out even in a 4ft.
peltier modules can work on a small scale but I'd not use them on a tank...
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well it is a Galaxiid
Going better than mine at the moment, but that is a story for another thread
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Thanks Caryl, I'll try anubias and java fern.
Hygrophila polysperma and Rotala rotundifolia do well in my lowlight guppy tank, along with java moss.
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Oooo is that a flamingo plant behind the spider plant? How well does it tend to do and how far is it submerged?
Is it? It's roots arn't submerged at all, just a small flow through an airline.
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Do you know if the Cran's/Common and the diadromous/landlocked eggs were fertile?
Pass, there are far too many things to eat them in there. I doubt the Cran's cross would be, but can see why the common wouldn't be
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How's the peace lily doing and what method have you used to hold it up?
Doing ok, the spider plant goes mad, and needs another good trim. The Spider plant is in a plastic planter box that runs from the front of the tank to 3/4 of the way back, the lilly is in a clay pot above that with a drip feed off one of the powerheads to keep it watered
Sept 2014
Today (forgive the glass)
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Hi all,
I'm new to the forum and am considering keeping Red-finned bullies or maybe uplands as i know a spot to get uplands where they are in a lake with 1000's of them easily accessed but before i do this i want to make sure i am in a position to look after them properly. Would a chiller be needed/necessary in Christchurch? My room is in a relatively shaded spot, with dappled light through a tree only occurring during the morning hours. Have a good breeze usually with windows + Door open and can be in a spot out of direct sunlight.
Thanks for the advice!
How warm does the room get during the day? ChCh can get quite warm.
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So common bullies breeding isn't unusual..... But I was watching my native fish and I saw two bullies spawning (fourth spawn I know of this year) but the unusual part is that the female is from a tidal stream (caught literally metres from the sea) and the male is a very unusual landlocked common bully (he has six fin rays and actually looks more like a crans bully)
Anyone heard of landlocked and diadromous bullies spawning together?
I'm positive the male is landlocked, there is no connection to the sea from the lake he is from.
Also I unfortunately will not be able to remove the eggs, they are on a three foot peice of wood that supports most of the rockwork in the tank.
EDIT: I just had another look and a second (diadromous) female has started spawning, I would guess that there are now close to a thousand eggs
My diadromous and landlocked common spawn together, and one of the common females even spawned with a male Cran's :fshi:
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1/2hp chiller packed up the other day went from 16c to 22.8 overnight
mine hit 22 the other day when the intake to the pump on the chiller got blocked, at least there was a little flow through it.
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500 wont get you very far on a ~4000L tank
Maybe a good sized school of Dwarf galaxias, upland and bluegill bullies and some torries. High flow with a sloping bottom from ~300 deep to 1m. Water turnover of edit 75,000 to 100,000 l/h should do it. maybe 40 - 50 000 l/h would be ok
If you wanted plants then go the bog/slow stream and have giant kokopu and mudfish. That would open up all the bog plants/sedes/etc. Do a two depth tank again
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sounds like it's cyanobacteria.
vacuum it up, less feeding and less light
New koura tank
in New Zealand Natives
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Pumping out side will work. might take a bit a electronics to keep the temp stable though.
As for other fish: