Scarletmonuka

or firemouths? the name says it all

:cophot: hes so cute

oh i didn't read that bit.. my bad

So i guess its time to update and add some photo's. i believe i have come up with my final stock list. i have decided to go with 8 tiger barbs instead of 10. am going to put two firemouth cichlids with them an albino rainbow shark and i pictus catfish. i currently have one common plec that is not on trademe (bout 10 cm) that i am debating weather or not to keep. the main reason for not keeping it will just be the size it will get to and having the room to have it with what i want to do with drift wood. does anyone have any sugestions for a smallish pleco that isn't bristle nose that i could have in this 1.2 metre tank? and does anyone else see any problems with the combo i am planning on stocking in here? the electric yellows have been sold and so has the BGK all pending payment. there is a couple of small spare tanks here that can be used to house the common plecs short term once these fish go so i can drain the tank and remove the river rock substrate that katie had in it and get my set up started. i have decided not to plant this tank. rather i am going to use a fine brownish gravel substrate with 2 or 3 big feature pieces of driftwood coming out of. and sever small pieces of rock poking out of it. I already have my pieces of wood selected and in a bath outside waterlogging.. (will a couple of weeks in there be long enough to do the trick?) once they are done in there it will be down to the cow shed with them to soak for a little bit in 80 degree + water to kill any possible bugs on the wood (oh the joys of working on a dairy farm). I am currently waiting on a slow ass photobucket to upload a couple of photos to add to this thread. I think thats about it for now

Black Ghost knife?

or you can use dog biscuits soaked in water until they are soft instead of bread/ cheap homebrand ones work just fine

ok thanks

Yes. but what i mean is instead of adding oxygen in air for to the bag. can i use an oxygen shell put in the water with the fish i am sending thereby allowing myself to add more water to the bag

just a quick question about oxygen shells with shipping fish. is it ok to use them with bigger fish that way you can put more water in the bag so the have more room to move or is it possible to put too much oxygen in this way?

Ok so by providing the funds for my partners new blue tounge lizard (Hagrid) she has given me her 300 Litre Jebo tank and fish (apart from her breeding pair of bristlenoses). I am completely changing her set up and selling the fish in it. It currently holds a breeding colony of Electric yellows (15 fish), a 30 cm BGK and a couple of common Pleco's (sailfin/goldspot/redspot don't know which ones they are). all of which are for sale. I have just done a big tank clean/water change and change around in there today and once the water clears i will get a pic taken as my starting point for this thread. I have to decided to try my hand at a low tech semi planted comminty tank. (No co2 a bit of liquid fert dosing) i know the main group of the tank will be 10 young tiger barbs. i was gonna have some odessa barbs with them but have decided that i will just stick with the tiger barbs that way i can have more of other species. i haven't made up my mind totally as what i want to put with them and am completely open to any sugestions... i do however like the idea of a firemouth cichlid (ofcourse again it will be young so it just doesn't munch on the barbs). i also want a pictus catfish (again young) as a bottom dweller. i don't know what it is about them but ever since i've seen at the LFS i've always wanted one, only trouble is they want $74.50 for one. I think thats about it for the intro to this. cheers Oh and yeah substrate will be this fine brownish gravel that can be got from the LFS

I was going to sugest going to look at a river but then again i guess there isn't really any around the auckland area. I guess this is where someone tells me its against the law.. but i also take it you're not talking about a trailer load. Taking the odd rock from the river (at least IMO) isn't anything bad.

I've always wondered why people do heavily planted tanks as it seems you end up spending more time on the plants then on your fish which kind of defeats the purpose of keeping fish imo. but after reading through this and seeing the progress you've made. i can totally understand why. this is totally awesome. well done

:spop: what type of rocks are you using? looks awesome

hehe though dunedin isn't part of southland aye Caryl.

as godly3vil said its a pretty big place but if you're after lakes you can head te anua way. with lake te anua right on the boarder of fiorland national park there is plenty to do there.. also in that area is lake manipori, and the marvora lakes. (sorry my spelling is crap). but if you can get a really nice day i would suggest heading the opposite direction and getting out to the catlins. absoulutely stunning.

oh its in florida.. haha my bad

why the :an!gry about the link?

not goat island by any chance? :sage: :slfg:

i notice its no longer there did you end up getting it?

haha too true would be great if it could be actually used to do that

http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?s ... 518&type=2 our facebook fan page video page..

hehe been there done that. we had a deputy chief istructor tell us that he used to break coconuts while on the booze as his party trick. once again we start back in feb :nilly: always after new students

Those three are all me.. absolutely love the last photo 5th degree black belt making short work or 4 slabs with iron knuckles iron ridgehand 2 slabs what should be iron palm 4 slabs iron knifehand 3 slabs double step side kick 2 slabs all our kick breaks are power (and tecnique) based. all hand breakings aren't power based

yes i would say so unless you wanna hurt your hand.. interested in coming along mate? we start back in feb

got a heat pump