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well, at the very least I want to be able to put the plants, gravel and filter media in water. It would appear I may have found a 200 litre drum, so will see how I go Thank you everyone.

This move is somewhat unexpected. I believe I am going through a break up with my girlfriend of 2 years, and that is why I need to move this tank. I don't at this stage have any money to out towards moving, hence why I turn to the forums for help... thanks for the idea though.

Hi guys, I am in urgent need of containers that will allow me to move my 500 litre planted tank tomorrow. I would like to save as much of the water as I can, at least 50% of it if possible. Does anyone have containers I can borrow? I would be eternally grateful for your help! Thanks all!

Hahah yeah I really should

Hmm, I will check them out ^^ I am kinda leaning towards getting boesemani Rainbows though... maybe 6 of them or so. They should do ok in this tank right?

Will tetras that small be ok with the Angelfish? They already ate a huge amount of my neons >_

Hi guys, So yesterday I decided to rip 60% of the plants out of my tank because they grew faster than I could be bothered trimming them (which is odd for a low tech tank, haha), and because I wanted to change the scenery in the tank a bit, focussing on large broad leaf plants. This is what it looked like after finishing the replanting last night (the tank is 500 litres btw): Anyway, as you can see from that photo, the tank looks rather... empty now. Here's what I have in there at the moment: 6 x red phantom Tetras 4 x Angel Fish 2 x yellow Gourami 1 x Pearl Gourami 1 x Opaline Gourami 4 x Bristlenose Pleco's 1 x Siamese Algae Eater I had some neon tetra's, but the Angel's thought they were a nice snack so I got rid of them. All the other fish in the tank get along very well, and I have even had the red phantoms breed in there before. The angels sometimes have a go at each other, but they never attack or chase anything else. So, what I want to do now is add more fish to the tank and make it look more alive and fill the empty space. So far I know for sure that I want to add another Pearl Gourami, another Opaline Gourami and some more Red Phantoms, but what I really want to do is add some more variety as well. So, question time: Can anyone recommend some fish that could do well in my tank? Specifically I am after fish that aren't yellow or red-ish in colour, as I already have a lot of those. I would love something with some blue hue's. Thank you!

I found my big piece of driftwood at Lake Pupuke on the Shore... It fills 2/3 of my 490 litre tank:

I'll take a handful or two if you still have some left haha

Yeah pretty stoked that it survived, especially with all the gourami's and other bigger fish around that would happily make a snack of it. Definitely considering setting up a breeding tank now. I have two males and five females at the moment

Today I spotted a little Red Phantom Tetra swimming around the back of my tank! Not sure how old it is, but it's about 1cm long and is showing similar colours to a female. Here's a photo Now I'm wondering how to go about trying to breed some more. This happened in my 490 litre community planted tank. I have a net breeder I can set up, but I hear they don't like light when they're small. Still, pretty cool to have my first ever baby fish

OMG I just discovered a baby Red Phantom Tetra in the tank! They must have laid eggs without me noticing and looks like one survived

Man tha't s a beautiful setup. Hope I can get mine looking this good too!

So update again: The Angels seem to have calmed down, the chasing and nipping has pretty much stopped. Also, I managed to lure one of my pleco's out of hiding long enough to finally get a photo of it: This is the bigger one of the three I have

That's what I do as well.