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are you taking the rocks out each clean and leaving them out?, they probably full of lots of dead bacteria. leave them in, move them around a bit they are a part of your filtration system, probably not the food as i've never heard it linked to green water before except in cases of over feeding. how many hours is your light on for? how much and how often do you feed? try cutting back the feeding, even down to 3-4 times per week and see if that helps, if it doesn't then food may not be the issue. also btw your blue fish is a hybrid based on a ice blue red top, probably crossed with an "electric blue" zebra type thing. another good Idea would be to blakc out the 3 sides, you don't veiw from. btw at this time of the year the sun is lower in angle so it would more likely get more direct sunlight than during summer also get a full water test done, nitrates and phosphates especially but i'd be interested in the pH as well, africans colour up best in high pH.

Respect

hello pictures?????

its a lot easier, cheaper and safer to get a new tank, most tank makers won't do it for liability reasons, resealing yourself is possible but you run the risk of missing one tiny bit of old silicone and then you have to start again.

ok... just found this from http://www.clearwatercrayfish.co.nz/koura.html anyone got one???

yeah noticed that last night :facepalm: , diagonal facial stripes. got a nice big (6cm) male last night showing full colour and a couple of smaller females (??) plus a small koura (2-3cm) do small koura have tiny little claws?, kinda like shrimp claws? hrmmm..... now I think i see why Dean wants Giants for the tank... meany :evil:

i've only seen that in extremely slow flowing areas with HEAPS of rotting detritus.

you could always go see a vet and ask for a prescription for erythromycin, kills it but is expensive. best to sort out the causes first and use it once your sure you can prevent it coming back easier than pulling apart your tank

lol, that was a poor little pacu that was being seriously abused, sold them a big Pleco to go in with it, had to spend half an hour acclimating it as they had no idea what to do with it. it ended up in a turtle tank then dead from what I heard

same tank same position, was my mudflat tank, had to shut it down as the heat started to kill the clams in it and so on and so on..... the garage is abnormally hot compared to the house so i'll bring it in when it starts to heat up. (plus all the extra options, 20L is quite easy to cool down with a bit of ingenuity. those ice wraps fit perfectly across the back of the tank and last all day. (kinda look pretty too in a gooey bluey way)

auckland is saving up for a good boom, just waiting till it gets enough people before it goes

atm it is around 10-12 degrees (no thermo atm, but thats what it was last I looked, possibly colder atm ) last summer it climbed to 24 degrees maximum. its cold enough atm that the leopard fish have slowed their breeding down. and that my hand aches when im working in it.

update: added 2 Inanga and 3 common bullies. all settled in nicely then got 3 Banded kokopu which promptly ate the inanga :facepalm: the I removed 2 of the bullies (could not catch the 3rd) and took them home and set them up in a 20L tank I had cycled and waiting for something else. they are now settled in with their Leopard fish tank mates and posing for pictures. (they will go back once they put on a bit more weight, if I don't fall in love too much til then :love: ) since then I have noticed that the Banded tend to ignore the bully except when he's literally on top of them, then they give a small chase then ignore him (he is around 3-4cm they are 12-15cm) off tonight to search for Giant Bullies and Redfins. p.s. Tank looks exactly the same except the long bit of wood has sunken, will post pics when I get some decent backing and lights attached. plus the pile of driftwood I have sinking atm.

+1 on sodium hydroxide. they actually have testing on water daily (or sometimes hourly), just they only do reports every few months. the water treatment plants are normally quite open about what they do, just walk into the reception at the treatment plant and ask, they normally have someone around that can talk to you for a few minutes.

lol probably. can't blame him as he didn't know. still surprised to hear one was found though, unless it got woken early by a warm day? see lots of them around summer, just go spotlighting in pohutakawa's (that are not possum or cat ravaged)

to get metro you will need a prescription from a Vet, contact your local vet and tell them exactly what is hapening, they might need to come out and see before prescribing though.

Cute little pest animals...... :love:

To keep natives you need a Permit from DOC, To collect from the wild however you almost need to be God Release it now if you still have it asap.

just buy the bulk sea sand. same stuff just needs a wash

well played sir.

too true... maybe that's why it keeps coming back =P

don't forget the dissection!!!!

my method (and it works ) is to place the wood out of the water and positioned so the tail of the BN is touching the water, they will eventually wriggle out. when they start to dry a bit. if your impatient (and dont mind the risk of hurting the BN) get a zip tie and slide it up under it, they normally let go when something hits their mouths. (p.s. this is from countless times doing this on a commercial level, don't like doing the second option unless I have to though)

just goto a landscape supply shop, if there ain't any in tga Carine is on the way from Katikati and is a fish shop as well.

so how many have you been able to pass on for sale so far???