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On coming home from the beach the house was at over 30deg and the tank at 24deg. 5L of ice and a 30% water change and the temp is down to 21.7, should cool off much more tonight with the windows open and the fan still running.

The mrs asked about a saltwater tank today, where the TV is and ditch the TV, for seahorses etc. Once setup how much more work are they than a cold freshwater native setup?

I would think the silver ones would kill the bacterium in the tank/filter. ie bad.

Well at the moment it doesn't It is just a dehumidifier, dimantled, so the chiller side can hang down into the tank.

When dismantling the dehumidifier I put crease in the thin copper where it joins the cooling radiator. in use it decided to split, blowing bubbles in the tank

I see your high tech incubator and raise you a high tech (all be it broken) cooler http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=50228&p=547325#p547325

Catch your own, adds to the fun and excitement, and you never know what you will come back with Currently in my native tank I have ~15 smelt - just love the way they school and the iridescent colours that they reflect when the light catches them ~8 inanga - still waiting to catch some other galaxiid, a Banded Kokopu or two would be nice ~8 common/Crain's bullies 2 red fin bullies 2 koura 1 torrent fish all caught within 100m except the two red fins

well no dead fish this morning :bounce: I'll just have to hope that the fan will be enough while I'm away...

Do fish like freon? My DIY refrigeration/chiller just decided to start blowing bubbles in my tank, and upon removal it was hissing at me :tears: I hope that just the fan will be enough cooling for my natives as I wont be around to keep an eye on them as I'm off to enjoy the summer sun on the east coast. Edit: offending cooler

It will also depend on where the colour chart came from - ie a photo or the manufacture's own PDF/PS files

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Bullies and (freshwater) shrimps would be good starters I would think. I would think that the AR126s would be too small for any of the galaxiid.

the first bully is either a red fin female or a common the second is a common bully

according to "The New Zealand Native Freshwater Aquarium" by a Stella McQueen common bullies normally grow to about 110mm and upto 150mm and giant bullies often reach 150mm and have been recorded to 250mm Where was this, near the coast?

Merry Christmas everyone.

piranha?

Tank is now installed with ~220 l of water in it, waiting for it to clear. Might get fish in there tomorrow, can't think of anything that might clash with doing that :happy2: Oh I put the cf1200 in the 50l tank with the bullies and torrent fish, they all loved the high flow. The bullies dating in and out, almost looking like they wanted to be the one that could swim all the way up the in-flow to the tank, and the torrent fish more or less just kept plonking it's self in the middle of the flow and sitting there

Keep up with the shrimps, 2 of the six that went into by bug tank have survived, moved out of the way of the inanga who decided they liked to kill them bur not eat them :an!gry

Just been gluing polystyrene together and finding rimu for the light bracket... Need another large bit of driftwood I think.

sushi is made of whale meat? :tears:

I have now decided to scrap the whole idea as it taking up too much of my time and is proving too difficult to get the terra scaping how I want it and how the fish (read Stella) would like it. FS one 432L 4' tank and new cf1200, offers.

Must be something in the air today there are 3 dobsonfly larvae out :-? leeches, looked like this one: http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/AbtCit/ei/EcoWtr/macroinv/images/Leech2.jpg If they were not feeding they were defiantly slowing the poor things down, two on one and 3 on the other. Edit, got another one: Any way back to Sophie’s problem, you have pics on the critters Sophie?

"Do a search on diving beetle larvae" I have caught a few of them out at mums pond (and some adult diving beetles yesterday*) they have become fish food Oh I just spotted one of my dobsonfly larvae in the main tank, man it is getting big - bigger than most of the bullies * they were both covered with our native leeches a quick salt bath sorted the leeches out and the 2 beetles seem to be recovering well and not as lethargic as yesterday Sorry Sophia for the off topic-ness

My cf1200 arrived this morning, all setup and running in a 80L plastic rubbish bin to de-chlorinate some water for when I set up my new tank Do I grab a bit of foam from the current setup and place it in the bottom of the cf1200, after some of the chlorine has dissipated, and just run it in the rubbish bin with a bit of fish food to do a fish-less cycle? or Do I take all the media from the current setup, place in the bottom of the cf1200 and run that in the current ~50L tank (I guess the torrent fish will like that)? I don't think I'll be able to set up the new tank until the new year, but when I do get to set it up I want to be able to get it running as fast as possible. When the new tank is setup there will be the same amount of fish (for at least a little while) in about 8x the volume.

I wouldn't have thought their population would explode :dunno: My daphnia population has crashed in the last few days, much less light with all the rain and two large diving beetles turned up in the main tank about 3 or 4 nights ago, cool that they just arrived :happy2:. They got moved to the bug tank as I didn't want the inanga to eat them like they have with all my shrimp. Oh and shrimps do grow out of their 'skins'