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Won't they fry with that black plastic?

Damn. one of the guys from our club has just offered me some T8 Flouro's, so hopefully they will do a much better job.

Sorry, its 1220 long x 500 wide x 500 high

Hi Everyone, I've been looking at getting some lights for my new 4ft tank. Pricing isn't cheap, but I've found a couple on TradeMe that might do the job. If I am limited to a single bulb, what's the best colour to use for growing plants? It's a single T5 Slimline.

It could be the lighting, but my eggs were more yellow than orange. Yours look very different, even the fry. Yours are a sandy colour, whereas mine were dark brown or white by that stage

Seriously, cucumber doesn't work anywhere near as well as zucchini. One slice over night, then remove the skin in the morning. I use Algae wafers for when I don't have zucchini in the fridge. Mostly they just love the driftwood and bamboo (that I use as caves for breeding). During the day most of the young can be seem shredding my indian fern (which seems to grow to match their hunger).

The Aqua One built in filters have done the job just fine for me in the past. I have tried vinegar, baking soda, commercial glass cleaner, all to no avail on my tank. I got told that if i could soak the glass in vinegar it might work, but I had no way of testing that.

Yes, lots of fry, very quickly. Most of mine have been eaten by larger fish (population control - not intended) Once they get to about 2cm they seem to slow down. I only have 4 or 5 that are 3cm, and He's now on his 5th batch of eggs.

oh wow, you have your work cut out for you. best of luck.

4 months... (INSERT TUI ADVERT.) You've seen the photo. How exactly do you plan on boiling that? Soak for 12 months? No. Freaking. Waay.

Not bad. I was thinking Ren and Stimpy, but it's harder than I thought to get a pic of Ren's eyes sticking out of his head. Instead I found this...

Makes me think of a Monarch caterpillar... except for those awesome eyes

If you don't mind the subie

:smot: sorry, couldn't help it.

i5 650 @ 3.2GHz, 4GB RAM, 64bit OS. Win 7. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GT220 1024MB DDR3 graphics card. Windows gives my comp a score of 5.9, out of 7.9, which is taken from my lowest score. My RAM, at 4GB, is low :slfg: and my primary hard drive data transfer rate is too slow. Everything else sits on a score of 7. Paid $2500. The wife got a better model, for half the price. :facepalm:

AVG Scanning Core Module 300K AVG Identity Protection Service 7700K AVG Online Shield Service 1400K AVG Resident Shield Service 400K AVG Tray Monitor 3200K AVG Watchdog Service 7800K Each isn't huge, but on an older system it could be quite hungry. On punchcards? Was it up to date? A lot of people install it and leave it, not realising that it has to be maintained. Keep it up to date, and it will do the job.

AVG used to be less resource hungry. But it now runs all sorts of funny stuff like website protection etc. Long story short, it blocks the threats before they breach the firewall. I've got 4GB of RAM, so the machine can handle it. It all comes down to what you're downloading. Dodgy stuff brings the bugs.

sooo..... how much do we bring?

How much do we bring?

Is this one of the things that I need to book now? not a week before?

We're using the Fellows Mars at work, got it from OfficeMax. It just depends on if you want all the fancy LED screens or just something that will laminate (like ours)

:smot: How do you get them to sit still for a photo?

Awesome I have mine on for 8 hours, but it varies depending on how many plants you have, and how many nutrients are in the tank. This is ok, but a lot of people who are serious on their plants will use CO2. I don't, YET. Algae can use up nutrients faster than the plants, especially if the nutrients are fluctuating. I have Bristlenose to eat the algae, but they eat the plant leaves too, leaving big holes in the leaves. If the algae gets established on the leaves, it can make it harder for the plants to get the nutrients, hence making the plants ill. Is it brown algae? If so, it's likely to be the "new tank algae" and a scrub with your thumb and index finger will generally remove it for good (or at least that worked for me) I find that if it's in good working condition, it should be flowing like a garden hose does when you water the garden - aka quite quick. Most aquatic plants are actually lakeside/riverside plants that have adjusted to living underwater. Your's will get there, they just need time Anytime, hope this helps