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1. Move all the fish to a new home (i.e., bucket) 2. Empty the water of the 35L tank to as little as possible 3. Move the substrate & plants, and attach filter 4. Move the old tank from its current perch, and move the new tank there 5. Fill new tank with a bit of the old water 6. add dechlorinator 7. Top off with new water 8. And then reintroduce fish The changes I'd make, but more or less the same. "I was also thinking of adding a piece of driftwood into the tank - how do you guys prepare this?" Pick it off the beach/river and throw it in tank, maybe wash the sand/dirt off

Had you searched on TM for fighters then? If so then that would be their source. Cookies shouldn't be readable by another site, but if you had searched on TM they may well store that in cookies or even on their DB attached to your account - the latter is most likely

diversifying the freeze dried range?

The redfin don't seem to be eating dried food yet, although I seen them pick and spit it out, so there is some hope. at a guess from reading papers I would say the redfin that I caught would have been 2 or maybe 3 week old about 5 mm for the smallest and maybe 7 mm for the biggest - so they would have been past the hardest stage. They were caught in water that was between 10mm and 50mm on a blacksand beach about 1 to 1.5m above the high water mark where a small stream flowed along the back of the beach before wandering to the sea. The areas would have been very rich in small food. I have found young, sub-adult, redfin to be very picky eaters anyway.

the 4 redfin I have are doing well, not eating dry food yet though. I'm not positive that they had gone to sea either, although they may have

I sure I had a common female spawn with a Cran's male last year. Definitely a Cran's male and one of the large female commons was that cream colour of spawning and the eggs were much smaller than the the other Cran's spawning I've had. The eggs didn't last more than two days with the no. of fish in the tank so couldn't tell if they were fertilised

Talking of pseudoscorpions, I saw one today, too quick to find the camera on the phone

I have one of those, and it seems to be within .5 to 1 deg of the more expensive ones that I have. It does seen to wander a little bit in its difference, where all 4 of the other ones I have are all with in .2 of each other This is subjective as none of them have been tested against a calibrated thermometer

at a guess, the average sized one that were in the petshops could beas old as 20-50 years old... yes they can be that slow growing. have a search in the forum for some of the other threads to learn why we wont recommend keeping them.

Very good write up. This is something that I have done accidentally and had one fry survive in my community tank of natives - how it managed to survive all the mouths I'll never know. I have tried twice from eggs but I think the containers I used were too small and had large numbers die off very quickly and had none survive the second week. I'll have to give this another try at some time with my Cran's, and if that works with common and redfin. This year I caught 4 bully fry, redfin by the looks, at a stream mouth as it flowed across the beach. The fry were only about 4 to 6mm. These were placed in a shallow setup that I was playing with that was full of fry sized food - greenwater, daphnia etc. They have all survived and are now about 25mm. So it is possible to raise redfin fry in an aquarium, the first week or two might be interesting...

and if not a competent sparky could install a controller that has both functions I would think that in this day and age there should be chillers that could both heat and cool like modern house inverters???

is that a lump of coral in the back? that will push up the pH

Not on the allowed list from mpi.

to separate the glass I used thin braided fishing line

what was the pH. Ph is not normally an issue as long as it is not changing too fast.

Add a little sugar of couse

just make sure to tick the box, I had one that somehow the tick got unticked - no one else even bidded

I don't believe that any were found in waterways, only in some fram troughs

Boil it up with ginger and make a nice ginger jam, don't waste it on the fish :facepalm:

That first pdf is the one you want The hose bit just sits in place then press the leaver down to lock into place

I have lost fish to chlorine once, and nearly did a second time with about 60-70% water change.

Boil it, it will then sink - most of the time Moss/Fissidens also loves pumice

I have a 160L ish tank the is against a window, ie the sun shines right through it from when it rises till it gets quite high maybe 10 or 11 oclock. No algae problems. Just one adult BN to eat the stuff, there was a small goldspot but it is in another tank now

if you haven't used a dechlorinator already (be fore the bio media and Nutrafin "Cycle") then you have probably killed any bacteria that you have added If you had of treated the water before adding the media and bacteria then I would say start adding plants and fish straight away otherwise the bacteria will have nothing to live on

+1 for the vinegar