Scarletmonuka
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I have a friend that used to make his own bio fuel from it and the "calf fatteners" have pushed the price that high he has given up. They own the irrigation water and the fishy chippy oil as well now.
We fatten calves on milk, meal and when they are weaned grass. I've never heard of using cooking oil. Can't imagine it's all that good for the calves. I certainly wouldn't think dairy heifer replacements would be "fattened" on it. Don't know what goes on in cantabury though :dunno:
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Did it survive. Have found that seachem prime works good in conjunction with water change for high nitrate
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We call them fronts too
Ours do well on new life spectrum (off trademe) and home made food, previously fed omega one supercolor which worked well too
What's your home made?
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Frontosa then :facepalm:
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Hey the wife wants to know what people out there are feeding there fronts
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the dem yellow mix is really popular it seems. If I were you id be getting them young as I think its more rewarding watching them grow. got to have a big mob of Dems (10 as a minimum) as they are aggressive towards each other. I don't know how much filtration the standard stock filter will have but I would think you'd want to get an external canister filter as well as the more filtration the betting and the more fish you can keep.
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Would u send them?
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Wow . Your build is looking so much better then mine. Would be great to own my own place to be able to do something like that. Can't wait. To see the fish in there.
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I am not sure how good that freshly cut would will be.. I don't usually do wood in tanks but it is generally not recommend to use fresh stuff..
Regarding stocking you could add all sorts to that tank it depends on what you like really, you could chuck some dems/yellows in there, I would be wary of adding too many of the bigger haps because your tank isn't huge but you could get away with it. I also have some nice brown hap fry growing out if you need some of them in the future.
Hi Ryan
How long will it be till the brown haps will be available for sale and how much would you want for them? Also do you have any of those albino zebras growing out that I have seen you selling on trademe?
Thanks
Ian
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My electric blue jack dempsys have given me my 1st batch of fry at the moment they are wrigglers and have been for two days now. But momma is eating them can i put them in their own tank and grow them up my self or should i just put them in a breeding trap in the main tank. Also what's the best way to catch these guys they are spread out in my substrate
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You may have problems with the male peacocks crossbreeding with the fryeri females ( i'm assumin you mean a breeding group of fryeri). Also if you water is already at a low kh won't the wood make it even lower, sure i read somewhere that wood lowers ph
If I want to breed properly I'd seperate out the fish i want to breed. If there is cross breeding in this tank it would just be live food. I'm more intersted in a display tak ATM as aposed to breeding them
Yes about the wood. The ph sits at seven ATM with the wood and I am currently doing a 50% water change once a week to try and combat the tanning being leaked by the wood. I hope what it do to raise the kh will combat the wood and we will find some happy medium.
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The wood was cut in June and spent 5 months outside on the porch drying out the was put in a outside bath for a month. I figured by finishing the sinking process in the tank it would give the syno some good hiding spots.
As for stocking I have always had a thing for fryier. The red anal fin ones. Yes I will get in touch with you Ryan about the brown haps, I was also thinking of getting some of the albino zebras i see you have for sale every now and then on trademe. I see there are some sulphur heads on trademe to. I will be doing some research on them. I was also thinking some Jacob males and (if I can find some) some red shoulder peacock males.
If I do get a cf 2400 as well as the cf 2700 roughly how many fish would I be able to have comfortably in this tank?
I agree with Ryan regarding the fresh cut wood.Becafuly with some of the sharper rocks, you may want to dig the edges in the the substrate, other then that good plans.
I have sand paper and will be spending some time sanding the edges of rocks :thup:
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Pull em out and vent them.
that's the only way to know for sure
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as far as I know males have more black on the anal fin and the fin running along there back. dominant male can have a dirty looking face as well. all proper electric yellows should have fully yellow bodies should they not?
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The two bigger pieces are part of a toatra (I can't spell) root that I cut in june. they spent about a month in a bath outside.
the bigger smaller piece is just wood from a pet store that was used in a reptile tank so it needs to water log again. and the other two are just mac. they were the first two pieces I ever did so I have had them in every tank attempt.
on another note heres the limestone and other rocks I have at the moment
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Hey guys time to start this off on here.
Tank is 2060 L by 525 H by 425 D
Currently it's housing 2 zebra loaches, one small gold spot pleco, one small Syndontis Decorus and one decent size gold Severum. The Severum is my wife's and will be moving to another tank when she sorts one for it.
Here is a shot of the tank as it stands now
I currently have 3000 litres an hour in filtration in the for of two internal filters and one canister filter. I do plan on getting rid of the internal filters and will be getting a 2700 litre an hour aqua one canister filter. I am uh decided weather or not to ungraded the 1000 litre an hour canister to a 2400 litre an hour one due to the length of the tank.
Our boar water kh is really quite low here so my darling wife is getting me a 25kg bag of agronite substrate for Xmas and I have collected a small amount of lime stone from one of the local quarries. I have been told to go back in the new year when they are not so busy to get som more. Hoping this should sort this issue out.
Right stocking. I believe I want to base this tank around electric blue fryier and brown haps. Biggest problem is getting a good range of high quality fish down here in southland so most will have to be sent to me so you breeders out there expect to find some pms from me in the near future. I want to grow them all from fry/juvies as well.
Any ideas on what I could add to my stocking list?
Ok I have more photo's to put up later on but for now this is it.
Cheers.
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he had a wee bit of trouble coming out so he's in neonatal for a couple of days just under precaution. Pics will be taken when he is home which should hopefully be tomorrow
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Samson Gabriel Collie. Born 7:56 am on the 8th of December weighing 6 pound 15
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:spop: will be starting my 480 litre build after xmas
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I'd say the pH staying stable would be a minor added bonus of having a higher KH, having the KH closer to what your fish naturally experience would be more beneficial than the more stable pH [provided it wasn't crashing extremely low]. KH has far more effect on the fish and how they osmoregulate than pH. This a long but fairly good read on the subject, once you get your head around it!
Wow that is a mouthful of a article. I think I'll have a go at reading it when I'm not starting work at 4 am. Thanks
And nudge our tap water is low kh but the water in the tank seems to stay round 7
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Is the only reason we monitor kh in an African cichlid tank is so that the ph stays stable? Or is there another reason the like a high kh? If so will a lower kh be much of a problem when ph stays stable?
Cheers
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Introduction:
This is my cute little all-in-one AquaOne nano i am planning on turning marine i will be giving it a good wash out today and getting it ready to full up and mix with the salt mix.then I'll wait a week and do a small water change I'm hoping to get some live rock by the weekend and add it to help cycle.
System Objectives: Ideally, I want a little clown fish haven with some basic corals
System Type: nano beginner corals with LR and some fish
Display System:
Strike up Date: November 2013
Display Tank: AR-380 curved glass aquarium, 38x25x46cms, 34L
Display Lighting: factory bulb
Hood: Built-in AR380 hood
Sump: None.
Refugium: none.
Support systems:
System Water: Salt water mix
Display Water circulation: Power head says 440L/h,
Return Pump: none.
Skimmer: none
Evaporation Top Up: Manual topup
Chemical Support:
Calcium Addition: none as yet, manual if needed
Alkilinity Addition: as above
Other Chemical Maintenance: as above
Thanks for looking and if anyone has any suggestions, comments or questions, please let me know!i will upload pics as they come
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Would salvini's fit in this mix? Love the look of them know nothing about them though
Michaels Garage Build
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Would love to be able to just order a couple or 5 tanks. :lar: looks awesome