F15hguy

best way to keep a pond clear is provide heaps of water movement

the liver would be.

seen cars blown over but never seen one go flying down the road like that. shoulda bought a holden

anyone else see this, now thats an impressive storm, almost as bad as a calm down in wellhttp://youtu.be/F-qn5aPEQyk

feeding african cichlids minced up door to door salespeople is a bad thing suposedly

mmmmmmmmmmmmm hangi... havent had one for ages, landlords dont like me digging holes in the backyard :digH: :facepalm:

yeah, but will last a little while, would use java moss myself but if you dont have it you must make do i guess

they will change their personalities and become less aggressive if you have them in a school of at least 6 (the more the merrier I'd go for a school of 12 or more). they will be happier too. remember they can get quite big too Black widows can be quite fin nippery too, so expect a little bit of it anyways.

congrats :thup:

didn't try, some people claim bumblebee gobies ( know someone with 3 puffers and 5 gobies in a 50L long tank and it works for them. also have heard danios do well as they are too fast for the puffers

doesnt bother me, the mozzies only eat my missus

how are your nitrates at 0ppm???? even with 2 x weekly water changes and a heavily planted tank a 0 reading would be hard to achieve unless you have a ery understocked tank. (someone here is bound to contradict this though) and yes Flourish EXCEL works wonders on BBA, many threads here on how it works, I think most were resolved (hence the end of the discussion), best way imo is to squirt it directly on it with a syringe. nice and simple page http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/algae-control/removing-hair-algae.php

and then you find....

P.bintan from the net I tend to agree, I think I have 3 females :facepalm: none with the extended tail fin. I need to change the tank layout though, they are not colouring up properly with a lighter substrate.

ahhhh yes, I had one of those (present from a rep) it had a small gap by the outlet pipe that had such strong suction it kept sucking in danios and killing them, took me a few days to work out where they were going. the cheap Aqua one ones are one of the better ones (although I cut the sponges in half and add some ceramic noodles) still too much flow for too little filtration in my mind (good for hillstreams and mechanical for big cichlids though)

lol you probably won't see them much, try 5 in a 75L, or even better 3 in a 45L best with around 15L per fish, can have a few more if heavily planted (which you will probably want anyways to help with snails and to keep the tank pretty. don't forget to make a snail farm (read bucket of water full of pond snails) about 2 - 3 weeks before getting them. most will take bloodworm but live snails are the best food by far

shouldn't be noisy, mine are pretty much silent

mosquitos hard?, put a bucket of water in the back yard, net out larvae. hrm might try the blackworms though, think i've got a few growing in a pile of old gravel

you have guppies in your back yard???

many stores don't like getting them as they really need a tank to themselves, being both bite sized and agressive. they normally aint to pricey either

hrmmm compter stutter 12cm (I wish I had a 1.12m catfish)(and a tank to keep it in)

you make it sound hard. easiest would be infurosoria followed by mosquito larvae

try burying small stones in the area they are laying in

probably an evil mutant hybrid :digH: