F15hguy

never heard of salt water grade

nah probably tattooed zebra danios trying to cash in on the glofish name. still, whoever bought them in must have done so illegally (i really dont see our importers playing round with them, or them surviving quarantine) or else someone is tattooing fish here in nz,

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no reason not to run it, but it won't do any where near as much as in fresh water. a deep sand bed might work in it, but I have a feeling the current flow will be way too strong to keep it anaerobic which is the main aim. If you have access to a cooler go for it, every lil bit helps. but im pretty sure a tank in an insulated home will never reach the temps found in summer in those rockpools (we measured one on leasure island at 35 degrees and it still had lifer) but then you would run into problems with dissolved oxygen. its all about learning as you go, cant wait to see the final result

bad zev, you know encouraging MTS in multiple members of the same household is asking for trouble feather fins best kept in groups when younger but become territorial with age, and they can get to 30cm long, so assume a tank of 500 - 600L for 3 of them and best kept with fish larger than their mouths which means BIG things like silver dollars, knife fish, cichlids, big tetras and barbs etc....

oscars are notoriously messy feeders, so I wouldnt be surprised if a large chunk of food has got lodged somewhere. also have you (or your oscar) moved anything around in the tank recently exposing a dead spot in the gravel. btw your 75L tank in your signature is seriously extremely over stocked

DIY???, try building a large plastic sump holding around 200L as your rilter / refugium bringing your total volume up to 235L, lot less water quality issues there, and with a good enough refugium you may even be able to pull off a mandarin fish (maybe a 600L refugium) sumps are part of your total volume and dont have to look pretty, maybe a trickle stack of 3 50L fishbins draining into a partitioned 4th fishbin and a 5th running a couple of lighting tubes to get a algae filter running (5x $9.99 at bunnings plus a tube of silicone and some plastic sheeting plus filter media etc....) it all comes down to how much you want it

feather fin would tend to swallow all your fish, one by one while they slept

Rock pool tanks shouldn't be too hard if you have access to cheap salt water. the fish and invertibrates are generally extremely hardy to water chemistry due to their location (found triplefins in rock pools that were almost pure fresh water after rain, and they were still feeding happily). wouldn't bother too much using a canister system with saltwater (a quick google will find hundreds of people telling you why not), try a sump tank with a deep sand base, easy and cheap if you can source an old tank and a couple of bits of glass. wavemakers are not essential, more for looks. would do 25% weekly and just use regular conditions tap water should be ok with marine salts (just use fresh sea water if you have access), try and set your maintenance schedule so you can measure and record the water changes is the easiest way to work out how much evaporation is going on and then you top it up with fresh water to dilute the salt a bit. to be honest I don't think you will need to worry about chillers either as rock pools tend to heat up considerably during summer. just try and collect your creatures from the higher rock pools as they will tend to be the hardiest. lighting is a matter of preference, try and keep it up for algae growth but not to cause algae problems (get a chiton, they are quite interesting and graze away at algae (but they can scratch acrylic tanks) and there is a lot more than just the common ones from my latest piece of research) anenomes tend to do well just don't try prying them off rocks, and expect them to move their little stinging bums around a fair bit. research what you will find in your area as some fish spend their juvenile stage in rockpools and can get quite large. Triple fins are cool fish but can be aggressive. forget about crabs unless you want just one nasty lil crab running round your tank. careful about touching anything like kina, paua or crays without a collecting permit (if you really want one invest in a chiller and purchase them from the aquaculture people). hrmmm... cant think of anything else....

man you have some weird neons, were they raised by cichlids or something? 5 kuhli's shouldn't be a problem in there as long as you keep the gravel reasonably clean. if you like the gourami's have a look at the dwarf varieties, theres the regular dwarf, cobalt blue and royal red, as well as the red and yellow versions of the honey gourami's. or else try a pair of Blue rams. or you could buy another school of neons that arent mental cases and have your betta in there.

welcome

ok, a bit of grave digging but I have just been offered a breeding group of these (1-2 males 3-4 females) if anyone is interested I'll see if she wants to pass them on

yeah $20 - $25 is about normal

check your iron levels as well, tried everything in my tank until i tested iron and found it to be 0 used flourish iron and suddenly everything is going crazy, the signs of iron defficiency is yellowing and stem plants growing short stems between nodes

go for the smallest of the larger species as the larger ones tend to be a bit clumsy around plants and knock them out/cut them off, i've always found the dwarf species to be a bit shy unless you have 20 or so

cool as, will forward this info on

thought so, but im wondering about api's one

lifespan... dunno read that they will get somewhere around 6-8cm depending on species (don't bother trying, every photo has about 3 different species linked to it) feeds happily on shrimp pellets, discus pellets and chopped mussels/clams also supply fresh kelp every now and then, havent seen the gobies eat it but they might have have 2 are in a 21L tank atm around 4 months so far, highly adaptable to water quality (they have to be in mud pools at low tide) so ok if you want to learn a bit as you go, however the live sand bed has kept my water quality reasonably good as well as lots of water changes (I just use fresh seawater from where i collected them from (avoiding times after rain due to fresh water)) make sure you collect them from ONE puddle only as when I collected a third from a different puddle (less than 1m away) the other 2 ganged up on it and i had to release it soon after. p.s. if you use a marine blue light on your tank you will see the electric blue stripe down their sides really well

with flourish excel or CO2 booster??

yes, the worst kind of pwnage

oto's are even more fun in groups, my group adopted a baby siamese algae eater and used to follow it round, the largest oto kept herding it back to the school even when it was 3 times their size, stupid and cute, gotta luv em

wouldn't be surprised, had an excerpt out of an old fish keeping book that said discus are proving too difficult to keep alive in home aquariums so they should ban the export of them. glad they didn't listen then, but then again just think about how many quality fish died due to ignorance....

the parents came from the same genetics that at least 50% of the countries ramshorns are from (if not all) imo the red is probably a colour mutation similar to albinism. you do not need a hybrid to make different colour genetics, thats like saying blondes are hybrid humans

well i didn't see that and it gone now , my best ever ranting speach ever!!! damnit

no, i mean they are the same... I have had batches of reds and browns mixed together, out of one egg mass