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If your two external filters were already cycled, you shouldn't have had to cycle again.

Has anyone here had any experience keeping tetras, specifically cardinals, with geophagus altifrons / surinamensis? Did they get eaten?

What kind of tetra is that?

That looks pretty good, where do you get it?

That looks awesome. Are your plants all SA?

So I understand we can't get the extremely cool pistia that Deepsound has in his tanks. What floating plants can we get here, and where do we get them? I don't recall ever seeing any for sale.

Killer tank. Where'd you get the pistia?

Yeah, some corys with that peppered look would blend in pretty nicely with the gravel on sand base I've got, but I went for the brochis splendens because I thought corys would be too delicate to handle the hoplos barging into them all the time like senior drivers...

Alright. I wasn't trying to hijack anything, just showing my experience with an unsupplemented planted tank.

That totally sucks. Wouldn't be ammonia, though; ammonia's a byproduct of organic decay, so overfeeding's not going to give you a spike high enough to immediately kill fishes in a 24 hour period. It'd take days for ammonia to be formed from overfeeding, and then most likely days for the fishes to die after that. What are your parameters now?

The verticals and the big branch lying down are tea tree from my property, the thick bogwood type ones lying down are from Hollywood but they're sold at all the fish shops in Auckland.

Yeah, that's probably it. I like it.

Thanks for the replies. Not much in it at the moment; a dozen rosy tetras, 2 megalechis thoracata (or whatever hoplos are called now) and 8 brochis splendens. The wood is tea tree that I stripped and cleaned to give it kind of a flooded forest feel. The plants are sitting in aquabasis under the sand, but not very much of it as I transferred it and the plants from an old tank about half the size. I was using fertiliser and liquid CO2 back then but haven't bothered to since I moved everything into the new tank 6 or 7 months ago, and I still have to prune pretty regularly to stop it getting completely out of hand. Here's another shot taken today where you can see the mass of floating plants on the right. Not sure what those are or how they got there, either...

Nice tank, antwan. In case anyone's interested, here's a couple of shots of my planted tank which only has about 50w of 'daylight' fluorescent lighting (further reduced by the blackwater treatment and floating plants) and never gets any fertiliser or CO2. These are right after I pruned out about a bucket full of ambulia.

That's pretty awesome, I want some. Do they bother the fish?

Yeah, if you don't mind. This I want to see.

Ah, good job. How many did there turn out to be? You don't think whoever took them might want to sell a few, do you?

No problem, I really just wanted to know whether they have the very deep, typical silver dollar shape or whether they're a little more elongated like the ones in with Helen at Hollywood. Seems like there's a couple of subspecies or something.

Damn, that sucks. Fish and their perpetual deathwish. Do you still have the spotted metynnis? I should have a quarantine tank free in few days. Could you put up some photos of them?

How big do you expect your jurupari to get?

They won't be danios since it's a photo of the amazon. So suggest some.

Can we get any south american eels in NZ?

I'd like cardinals but that's going to depend on whether I get anything else that might eat them, eg. BGK. Can you identify any of the other species in that picture?

Only two suggestions? :dunno:

Heaps of indian almond leaves soaked in boiling water.