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Is it possible to remove the pipe? If so just take it off and run hot water through it. Hot water will kill the algae. You can also buy a special brush for cleaning the inside of filter hoses.

I dose daily with both Excel and Flourish and my 'solo' Discus still smiles at me... saying feed me, feed me now. I dose a little over the recommended dosage for Excel and 1/7 of what ever the recommended weekly dosage of Flourish is. Hope that helps.

Or if you manage to train them really well to eat BBA, they will be worth a lot to other keepers as well. :bggrn:

Apparently, Black Mollies do....

And by their grins, they appear to be very happy too. :cophot: :nfs:

The spider wood takes about 2 months to sink. Or at least mine did. Unlike the other bog wood they sell, that sinks straight away.

Even better, get a Playstation 3. Then you can watch DVD's, Blu-Ray's and also play games. And if you connect it to your internet router with a cable or the built in wireless, you can watch TV on demand with it too. :thup:

Inside measurement is exactly 540mm (W) x 262mm (D) x 679mm (H) :bggrn:

Looks good enough to eat. !drool: But would ya? :dunno: Fantastic fun cake regardless.

It's a HP Action Cam ac200w. I got it to use on my motorbike.

Cool, automatic fish feeders that don't need batteries. :gpo2:

I got a new outdoor action camera and it comes with a water proof case. So in the tank it went. :nilly: Of course it would be much better if it had a macro lens and not that stupid wide angle thing. So the quality is not that great, but you get the idea. Now I know what my fish see.... http://youtu.be/z6Wc76h74q4

If you are at all worried just do more frequent water changes.

you can put your first fish in as soon as the water is the correct temp, which yours should well and truly be by now. Just start off with the cheaper fish so it's not too expensive if you lose any of them. But to be honest, sounds like you are doing a lot of research and it is now time to just bite the bullet and put some fish in. 5-6 Neon's are always a good start if that's the type of fish you are wanting. Live bearers are also good, but they can overpopulate quite quickly if you are unlucky. So just go for it. You will be fine. :thup:

WOW! Your going to be rich if you manage to get them all up to saleable size. :thup:

I wanna get some goats now... :bggrn:

It hasn't been mentioned yet but I take it you are filling up the 'holding bucket' with water from your existing tank, then you can obviously just plop your fish straight into the bucket. Then once you have your new tank filled with the remaining old water and new water you can acclimatise the fish in the bucket with the new tank water. You can do this by as easily and just take a jug from the new into the bucket and then a jug from the bucket back to the tank and repeat a suitable amount of times (over a suitable time period) till the water is fairly evenly mixed. And if you left enough space in the new tank you can put the rest of the bucket water in there too once the fish have been moved. As for using fluorite, I have only fluorite in my tanks and both the SAE and the Dwarf Chain loaches dig through it with no damage to their barbells. If anything, they grow. I don't think the fluorite is quite as sharp as it looks.

Dude, that's one very small car eh! How are you going to transport fish tanks in that. :facepalm: just kidding... very nice. Great colour too. :thup:

:cophot: :nfs: I just love looking at new tanks and this one is very nice. Very well done. I can tell you have put a lot of thought into it. Great job.

I found stargrass grows too fast and the dwarf sag not fast enough. BUT, I prefer the dwarf sag. The stargrass tends to grow upwards as well, but you can pinch off the tips and replant them every couple of weeks it grows so fast. You will have plenty of cover quite quickly. The dwarf sag will take significantly longer to get a decent cover, but once grown it's pretty much care free. The dwarf sag is much better in my opinion, but you can still use the stargrass as well, as a temporary measure to fill in the gaps till the dwarf sag has taken hold properly.

Sounds like you have the perfect excuse to get a new and 'larger' tank now. :thup:

Couldn't resist grabbing these machines the other day. I have put them into my 'empty' 19L to just to see what they look like. Planning on using them to do something a bit different with my 'mini fish' tank. I'm now looking for about 20 tiny Hi-Vis vests for my little Ember Tetras to wear. The Triffid is not part of the plan. It's proving quite hard to kill though.

2 Oto's are fine in my experience. I have one small tank with 2 and they seem to follow each other around. I have a larger tank with 8 of them, and I've never seen any more than two at a time anyhow, so that's why I reckon 2 is fine and that shouldn't overload your system. They are only small after all. Just keep up with the water changes, and keep checking your Nitrate levels. By checking the Nitrate levels you will be able to figure out by trial and error how much water to change and how often. ie; if you change 25% water once a week and your nitrate level keeps building up, you can try changing the water twice a week to see if that helps. My guess why the advisor says the tank is too small for the phantoms is probably more because they are fast and like lots of space to swim freely. I wouldn't worry to much about it though until they get bigger.

Nothing wrong with that tank. Nice clear water that's for sure. Looks great. :cophot:

Don't think that's eggs dude.... I had a few look like that a few days before I found them dead. (not all at once, but over the course of a couple of weeks) I was curious, so cut one open to see what it was and it was filled with a really smelly brown liquid. So I'd say more likely constipated. But then I'm no expert. Hope yours gets better soon.