Barnacle
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Oh sorry to hear that you are thinking of doing that. But yes if and when that time comes, I would be very interested in seeing what you have available. Really love the rainbows. Thanks!
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I cleaned the filter twice maybe. And possibly 3 50% waterchanges.
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Hi Adrienne, I picked that one up from Ronnie yesterday along with 2 nigrans rainbows. I wouldn't mind finding a second parkinson's to make a couple. This one definitely has plenty of colour.
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Hey Everyone, I havn't been around for quite some time. Been quite a busy year for me. I moved to the Auckland from Warkworth a year ago, but wasn't able to take my tank with me. Thankfully my brother fed my fish, and I occasionally checked up on it.
So basically the tank has been neglected for a year, but now i have moved into a place together with my partner and was finally able to migrate my fish to Auckland :thup:
It took me a day, but i managed to do it with only one hiccup... filling the tank with hot water from the tap. I had the garden hose plumbed into the taps in the laundry. Seems the taps are on the wrong way! Which also explains why my washing used to come out of the machine hot! Anyway...
Here's a few photos of my former Moss factory.
Now I just need to wait and be patient and let the plants settle and grow. Hopefully they dont all die off!
Look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Cheers,
Nick
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Wow, I never even knew these even existed!
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My forum clock changed itself... unless it was wrong all along!
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Difficult to know if you dont have the density of the substrate you want to use. Could always weigh a litre of it and you can work it out from there.
Otherwise, buy too much. then you have plenty for your next tank
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Do you ever see your CPD's? Mine are so shy they hide 110% of the time.
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Hi Sam, Tanks looking nice. Sorry for not reading through every page, but what temperature do you find it is sitting at? I havent run any heaters on my small tanks since about november and they all sit around the low to mid 20's.
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This is a great little project. :gpo2:
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I agree with spoon. Either way will work
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http://www.hollywoodfishfarm.co.nz/deta ... lb/m/1236/
Does it look like that???
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Well im guilty of it. Having my fish some 70-80 km from me, and dads house not having had rain for months now... I've not done a waterchange for about 3-4 months. Only topped up the water once in that time
In saying that, i have only had 2 threadfin rainbows dissapear in that time... I say only as i tested the water today:
PH 6
Kh 0
Gh 8
Nitrates 80-160 (pretty much off the scale)
Changed 50% and the parameters afterwards are as follows. (Note our water tanks have been filled by a truck... probably sourcing it from a bore)
PH 8.4
Kh 5
Gh 4
Nitrates 40-80
The moss has really taken hold in the tank, and id imagine i wouldn't have many fish left if there wasn't plenty of plant mass (ie moss)
No algae has been growing on the glass either in that time, haven't cleaned it once.
Before
After
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i dont know, i pulled the heater out of their tank 2 months ago! room temp? :slfg: I thought it was in the low twenties though.
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'Home' finally after a busy 4weeks in the city starting the new job. The breeding is going well... For the killies at least.
have 3 pretty much mature young ones, 2 males, 1 female. brobably another 10 halfway there. Last night i also fished out about 20 newly hatched killies from the tank with thier parents.
Have to thank my brother for feeding them brine shrimp everyday, ill have to let him keep a couple of the :nfs:
The cpd's i havent had much luck with... seems there was a rogue baby killi in the cpd tank that was get fat... and fast! no eggs or fry to be seen in there.
Heres a photo of one of the young males:
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Ever tried hydrogen peroxide? I had a bad outbreak in a small tank, and i put i think about 1ml per 5l (of the 3% strength stuff) and within a day or 2 its all gone.
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I found them in the cpd tank a few weeks after I transferred some moss to it from the killies tank.
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The regular Garden variety
This fella
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Hi all. I have now go 2 small tanks set up for breeding. A 30cm cube and a 40cm generic size tank.
I am trying to breed my killies... Which I have already managed to do by accident. Will get to that later.
And also have a quartet of CPD's... 3 of which are males as it turns out.
The 30cm cube I am wanting to use as the killing spawning tank, where every other day ill replace the tuff of moss and place the eggy one somewhere else... I have an endless supply of it so that's not a problem. Here's the tank as of this morning:
It has DIY co2 and shares a 50w 6500K led with its neighbour. I know they are guppies in there right now. I gave the tank a full on clean yesterday, so just making sure the water is safe.
The 40cm tank currently houses the CPD's... nothing too it, bare bottom, bubble filter and some LED strips for lighting.
Currently the fish that hatch i have been putting into a breeder floating in on of my brothers... He has a constant supply of brine shrimp so thats the easiest solution for me.
So thats basically it for now... I'm moving out pretty much as of today, so hopefully my bother can keep it going for me! Until of course i'm settled and take a tank or 2 with me.
Anyway, the 5 young killies i have at the moment came from some moss i pulled out of their tank 2 weeks ago and placed in the cpd one. It was overgrowing the killie tank a little. Then yesterday i fished out some young. Fun! Fully didn't expect that!
Lastly, here is my moss factory:
Ill try update as i go or when i get a chance. Im starting a new job in a weeks time about 80km from here... so will do my best.
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They climb when they get short of oxygen. Sometimes putting them in a warm place is enough to make them climb. Or alternatively put a lid over them that has no holes in it. They rise quite quickly
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The rear panel in that tank is a mirror... so he is essentially just posing to himself all day.
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you just need to siphon a little slower then, or have the airline slightly higher in the water column. I do it the same way and dont think i suck up the eggs anymore
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Just because i felt like it... And he looks very festive at the moment :cr7:
camera doesnt really do him justice, but you get the picture :thup:
glue to stick rocks !!
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Do you guys think hot glue would also be suitable to sticking rocks together?