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Did you end up finding any? I have 2 available.

True Cree LEDs are worth purchasing from a reputable supplier you can almost guarantee that a "CREE LED" that only cost $2 off ebay is not a true Cree. Even just get yourself some cheap HO 3w epistar or bridgelux leds off ebay to mess around with, they are only about 10% over all less lumen output than a cree model anyways.

Don't get an API test kit - it can be off by +/- 5 which means you may as well not even test it. Salifert is reasonably priced and pretty good. Ive got a spare brand new refrac, case, dropper, adjuster that I can calibrate for you for $30 - $5 postage. Id say 100% in 40l that it would be a smart idea to get a HOB filter remove all the media and just put carbon and purigen in the back - maybe a fine mesh polishing pad that you clean weekly. I love nano's! can be awesome if done right.

Yes, Acrylic is more expensive and so is the solvent compared to standard silicon.

Axolotls are cheap and don't require heating and a medium sized one would be happy as Larry in 120ltr setup for quite some time. The cold water slows the guppies down as well. Its how I've disposed of my ugly guppies and deformed fish for a while now.

Stu (caserole) isnt breeding CPD's. I am breeding a similar fish - Pygmy Emerald Rasbora. If anyone knows where i can get my hands on 6-12 CPDs ill start breeding them too.

Geez ummm over a decade at least I think.

They respond better to root feed but foliar feeding is okay. I'd look into slow release root tabs if i were you..

Would there be any pros/cons to using custom clear acrylic instead of black egg crate?

Now that is insanely cool!

Ive got blonde and grey males and females and im not sure which ones i like more tbh - on the grey the blue is dark on the blondes the blue is light. Cool contrast.

So i came home this afternoon from work to find my entire colony of leopard fish dead - a couple still wriggling - but all have ultimately died. Now im no stranger to death when it comes to fish it can sometime be a bit of a numbers game and when you have ALOT of fish you tend to see it a little more frequently as the generations come through but not usually in these numbers. So this tank is a well cultured tank - its housed wcmm and leopards for about four months now of various sizes - but previously housed guppys for 9 months - mostly well grown fish. its a 300l and had about 100 leopards mostly well grown adults and 20 or so wcmm. Its gets water changes twice a week and i feed live food - has alot of moss and a thick layer of riccia and brazilian pennywort. Its strange because all of the wcmm are uneffected but not a single leopard remains standing, also strange because this morning at 7am (as i run my fishroom backwards to my daytime) when i put them to bed, everything was good! infact i had noticed a few day old fry. Some of these girls id had for 4 years or so, so were probably on their way out anyways - but another weird thing is about 50% of the lush green riccia that usually floats on the surface had turned brown grey and kinda slimy. This is only about 7 hours after id left them this morning. Ive pulled it all out and done a 90% water change, taken all the dead bodies out and left the wcmm as they seem fine but im wondering if anyone could figure out what may have occurred? foul play? I've not ever really had a mass extinction event accept when i was 13 with my first tropical fish tank and boiled it because there were no thermometers on those heaters then. Let me know if you've got some idea's Cheers

I'd defs get some super thin fishing wire and tie a little of that moss to the driftwood lower down and it will grow toward the light and give really great patterns - also think that the drift wood sticking out of the water is always a really great look, very impressed man! I really liked your little glosso wcmm trough outside too and am doing something similar at home - are you sure the plant you have on the PTAE wouldn't go well in that tank? a little red would maybe look awesome. Regardless well done!

Are any of your p82 fry not blonde?

That is a bugger! ive not bothered with the golden australe yet but i do see some fry in their tank, got around 30 chocs tho - always liked them abit better - some of the males are starting to colour which is neat. Ive now found FOUR striatum fry - so SURELY one will be male, two fat females doing nothing atm. Killing me cause they are literally my fav out of the 6 specie i have. Apparently there is a fulla down south with nothobranchius rachovii - offered $100 just for a pair but nothing. bugger.

Had another hatch this morning of 170 eggs - around 80 fry, so not too bad. A few more should hatch over the next few hours.

bugger - i lost both the male striatum and only have 2 or 3 fry - so here's hoping. Just hatched out another 170 eggs of the p82's - very prolific.

Yeah not going half bad! Matt do you still want to trade some nigeranus for clown? have 4 fat females and they are spawning but obviously no eggs are being fertilised as yet.

Nothos are 10 weeks old now and ready to breed, going to separate out males and females next week and start feeding them up. My second hatch of p82 - first hatch got 18 fry - this time around 60 and have 250 eggs to hatch over the next two weeks

Nice job - are they australe or p82?

Ive noticed in the australe tanks quite a few fry ranging in different sizes, has anyone had much success with leaving them in planted tanks to spawn and live with their parents if kept well fed?

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hmmm - not sure i can justify to the misses ANOTHER shipment of fish hahah, spent quite a bit lately. On the bright side the wet peat storage method for the non annuals is quite successful - put a tray to water from the first 3 days they arrived and this morning there was a bunch of little fry swimming around - not bad considering i've only had them 18 days, will give them their first feed a bit later tonight when the egg sacks are completely gone. Should be big enough to photograph off my phone in a week or two. Downside - seems the clown eggs are unfertilised, but thats OKAY! one thing at a time - still have 4 guppy strains keeping me busy and getting around 20 eggs a day off the p82's - can anyone tell me if the p82 is a gardneri or nigerianus? They look a heck of a lot like Fundulopanchax gardneri/nigerianus - I never had them in my fishroom when they got imported like 10+ years ago, so i never took note of their origins.

HUNDREDS of dollars worth of anubias in that tank!

Yeah im getting eggs from their mop - no signs of a male though.