Dr A

Could always buy a 60L plastic container for the warehouse for each goldfish?

Sticking solely with natives for the plants is interesting.

Looks great. By the way the raw .jpgs are: http://image.issuu.com/130821030122-4735777abbfa368fdcb5e32f4631c9fc/jpg/page_1.jpg You can substitute page_1 for page_whateveryou like

Plant the bejezus out of it. Could be a bit expensive with something that size though.

Sure, but that doesn't help people who want to go out and catch some who live in near x, as much as a guide that says where they have been confirmed. Edit; It'll also help to audit their numbers and distribution - just sayin'

This subject is calling out for a sticky, there must be a thousand threads on here about shrimp. Someone ought to make a custom Google maps map with locations tagged that they have found shrimp too. That way Joe new person can just look at the map.

Looks like it's got a finger from a fingered citron. Evolutionary throwback.

So you're best off talking to a logistics company, and there goes any potential savings.

Would you need some sort of Dangerous Goods permit wouldn't you?

I kinda disagree with that statement. Without getting too deep and meaningful - An aquarium is for the most part a closed system, the only external factor that came in was 1 (hypothetically, it could have been more) original snail and whatever food you're inputting. For there to be more snails it stands to reason that they're eating and reproducing matter (energy) that was already present within the system. ahem. I agree that having a population explosion and (and crash?) probably isn't good - but an equilibrium is fine. Moreover, I don't think anyone's done controlled tests about the "bioload" of aquariums with/without snails. The whole thing seems pretty sketchy to me. FWIW My own little 15L tank still has a load of snails in it, seemingly without "food" as there's been no fish and no fish food in there for some time now, and most of the plant matter has been removed. Surely this shows a bit more of a complex food web in action.

Yep, would quite like to try get some of my carnivorous plants in the mix (sundews etc would work) - you couldn't fertilize and would need pretty high light too. I've got plenty of them growing outdoors in my bog garden...

I'm going to give one of these a crack, got the perfect bit of glassware at home for it too.

I'm going to chime in with this. Just a thought.

Pressurized CO2 is an option down the line, not right now though.

Well it was my fault the glass broke - I didn't realize they took so much pressure to actually diffuse bubbles coming out of them - evidently DIY CO2 systems still need a fair bit of pressure to force the gas through the diffusion area, I would have given my self an aneurysm had I tried to blow through it any more... I submerged the whole thing and sucked out all the air beneath the diffuser, but this essentially made a vacuum when I tried to pull off the airline hose later, I had to pull really hard and the glass snapped. I'd be keen to give it another crack though, I like the look of the glass diffusers.

Yep, sounds similar to what I had in mind. 1st job is to get the DIY CO2 going first.

Failure this evening. Purchased a glass CO2 diffuser from tradme (lotofish), and I broke it mucking around trying to get it to work. Not a happy camper.

Best way to learn.

I can put a normal heater into a bit of PVC with some silicone. I mean, I've already got the pump right? Find some clear plastic piping and build a DIY canister filter (ie, more PVC) with the heater in line to that. Don't have to worry about siphoning the tank as it's a closed loop, short of it leaking, I can't see what can go wrong.

HFF actually stock a heating cable (Aqua One iirc) that goes under the substrate, but it requires a external thermostat, which is another probe in tank. I'd pref the glass pipes, maybe w/ an inline heater.

I really want to move the heater and filter out of the tank!

http://imgur.com/a/cv3Hk Please note: 1) I can't get down my hallway as I'm trying to dry washing in there (no laundry!) 2) dodgy camera skills as per from a phone (using it's flash) 3) cabling work isn't final First time using an inert substrate, so we'll see how that goes. Needs a bit of a tidy up, but you can see the general idea. I really want to take the filter and heater OUT of the tank.

Built this on Sunday. I'll get around to uploading some pictars asap. Need to decide on a desk lamp for my lighting too.

Yeah, I've got the smaller one (E 15). Same controls. I haven't gotten around to bypassing the touch controls. BTW, I manually disconnect my lights at night time, I've found the lights had turned on by themselves occasionally in the morning after I turned them off at night.

If you multiply 28 by 27 by 34 you get 25704, that should be a bit of a hint considering it's advertised as a 25 liter tank.