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see step #3

/me waits for an Ira post with a 10 point method...

rang the guy in question (he is on holiday atm) after the Times left and he said it wasn't him but there are suspicions as to who it is - so it might be a local to Kihikihi.

Had the Waikato times at work today thinking one of my workmates had won the $5.5 mil... I must say that I have't seen them since friday...

Called IBC's, you would have to cut the top out though, they also come in 500 and I think 1200l

Couldn't see any abscess/growths etc, but with no scalpel/pins/board and a microscope that is an antique...

About 3 or 4 weeks ag I noticed that one of the almost 2 year old inanga was developing a lump mid back, this didn't look to be causing any stress to the fish so she was left alone. As the week have gone on the lump has got worse. On the weekend I thought she was going to pass on as she was looking stressed with her head pointing down and tail up, swimming at about 30 deg, and breathing hard. She then vanished and I thought she had gone into the food chain (koura food), then lastnight I saw her for a brief moment before she hid again. She was having real trouble swimming in a straight line and looked to be having spasms in the aria of the lump when she moved the back end of her body. Tonight I caught her and euthanized as she was having an even worse of it. She was a good 130mm long, and you can see the lump: Here you can see she was full of roe: She was the most incredible colours inside, note how small the intestines are to her body mass: I believe the lump was around the pink spot (but couldn't see anything major) and the white is just nerve tissue/spinal column: Roe and eggs: Something I pulled from the cut where the lump was but I think it is just skin that was dragged into the cut: More photos can be found here https://picasaweb.google.com/113298704761943818357/Autopsy#

/me put on his best scolding mother's voice "Don't play with your food..."

that is when you start to use the IRC 'chatroom' (see my sig)

only if you don't polish the scratches and discolouration out of the glass/perspex thus making the water look fouled :digH:

:smot: Your'e right Ira, I think we need to start a petition on here to ban all non-natives from the fishkeeping hobby :sml1:

Please excuse the reflections and algae etc (will never win PoTM)... Tank is 600 high so the sand is nearly 150mm deep at the deepest point, sand is a mostly black iron sand so is finer and denser than silica. Some people insist that sand is bad or needs stirring etc

quick, hide that from Sophia :digH:

Thanks for that Stella, that is why I asked you The next thought is along the lines of what's the min that Gastromyzon scitulus can be kept in? ps got a bucket full of rocks tonight and have placed some in. Photos later when the water clears a bit.

Might just do that when I have the extra rocks in and some good algae growth on them.

I would say so. I measured my cf1200 at 0m head, all the pipe work on and full media. The result was only about 800 - 850l/h

In short no. Filters are measured at no head and no media

Only on my phone atm, but when I get home I'll try and fond an article about their feeding. I think it said somethong like they can filter 1000 l in 24h.

Say the mod with the eye as an avatar

Love the toitoi photo. Again fantastic photo s

Thanks. Caught the two loaches lastnight and placed them in there, seem to have settled in ok Video: One of the loaches: Inlet to pump: Out flow of pump in 20mm pvc, with small (250l/h?) powerhead above it to return water to tank above: In flow to this tank from tank above, black elbows are on the main pump: Out flow from tank above (this tank has WCMM, sterbai cory and the last of the grey mullet) : The plumbing, the air fitting is so I can introduce air into the feed for the pump - makes fantastic micro bubbles:

A few comments about the intended setup fantails and hillstream loaches (borneo sucker) really like quite different flow rates. I just setting up a tank for mine with much more flow - 3200l/h in a 50l tank, see viewtopic.php?f=4&t=59465 Read up on our freshwater mussels as Sophia said in the other thread - they can be very difficult to keep feed. Freshwater shrimp (our native one is Paratya curvirostris) are cool, but often become live food I wouldn't worry about a silica sand substrate, I have a deep sand substrate in one of my tanks that never gets stirred up

Hi and welcome

According to this study my torrentfish might be happy enough in the 21-22 °C that it is sitting at... I wonder if they would get along together :dunno:

try that...