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  1. The Corys and a BN or two would do fine I had a BN in with my group of 20 sterbai corydoras in a 200 L and he would stake out a particular piece of food-- be it novofect, novotab, or algae wafer, he'd always chose something different-- and the corys would just eat around him with whatever flaked off from what he was eating, or go mob a different morsel of food. It's easy enough to tell if they arent getting enough to eat, but I've found its easier to overfeed than underfeed them
  2. JJWooble

    Betta

    New Pupuke Aquarium Centre always has awesome fighters in for really good prices I think he ships too, the facebook page is : https://www.facebook.com/NewPupukeAquariumCentre/?fref=ts My current boy is a marble HMPK from New Pupuke :3 Else there are breeders with some amazing fish about on here
  3. I have commons/cordifolia/melons but think the basic principles of keeping them are similar. I found they grow really well with JBL rootballs and fastest under proper lighting. Be aware that they will eventually all connect up with their root systems, as they are extensive, so moving them round can get messy I tend to allow half the length of the leaf of the sword plants---assuming they're a similar size to begin with, else just choose the biggest-- between each one to give each plant an opportunity to grow.
  4. Sounds like an awesome tank-- just a thought though, Kuhli loaches don't do well alone as they are a very social fish. I have 9 banded and 4 black Kuhlis in my 60 L and they are always all hanging out somewhere together, usually all stuffed in the same tube if you only get one, I imagine that you wouldn't see him very often as they can get quite shy when alone
  5. Bigger the better in the scheme of things seems to work well. African tanks often have high stocking to lower aggression between individuals so the extra litrage would help even if it doesn't give you a much bigger foot print and you would have a bit more flexibility with things if you wanted to change the stocking in some way down the track
  6. JJWooble

    Newbie

    Welcome! You may want to upgrade the shark at some point to a bigger tank as they do get quite large and enjoy the extra swimming space
  7. I'd suggest a male and female if just two my males don't give each other too much trouble but would be good just in case you end up with one that has a bad attitude
  8. With the filtration with aqadvisor, if its a built in filter, I tend to try and find the equivalent in flow rate of which is listed in the input list on aqadvisor. Requires a bit of googling and isn't 100% accurate but it gives a good idea. +1 on the numbers for the otos and with most fish (excluding 'tall' fish like angels) I'd suggest a long a tank as possible over height as it gives more room for gas exchange, lateral swimming and territories (as mentioned by everyone else above). Also welcome to the club on the dwarf honeys, they're an awesome fish If you're feeling confident enough further down the track, you could possibly add more honeys, particularly if they're females I have a breeding group of 6 in my 60L (4 females, 2 males) and they're my favourite tank to watch because of the group interaction
  9. I have some honeys available again! These guys are still quite small so caution should be taken with tank mates but are currently in with their parents so can go in with full sized honey gourami. $8 each, pick up only St Mary's Bay, limited number available. Their mum is my profile picture and what they will look like when full grown (Thank you to Alexyay for the amazing picture of her)
  10. I had a few days at home so decided to spruce up a few of the tanks
  11. JJWooble

    fish room

    Hi there, firstly welcome to the breeding game I'd say the same as more experienced breeders on here have said which is to start small-- discus require big frequent water changes and are expensive as already said on here to get decent ones-- get the less decent ones and you won't move the babies on particularly easily. Thirdly, if you're worried about time - - the hard part isn't usually getting the fish to breed, it's raising the fry. This is sometimes a few months of feeding twice a day on (for some species) live food such as brine shrimp which in itself requires being set up every twelve hrs or something equally finicky. Then there's doing daily water changes, and eventually trying to find homes for the fish. I see you were interested in breeding dwarf honeys-- I have found them to be really rewarding and easy to breed and would suggest them as a really good start and as popular fish that are quite easy to move on once they've reached full size. I've successfully raised two lots so far in a 30 litre with 25% daily water changes and twice daily feedings of the liquid fry food you can buy in hff, then moving them onto Hikari first bites once big enough, which saves time in terms of feeding live food but you'd probably get better numbers surviving if you start them off at least with the first week on baby brine shrimp. If you want any more advice on this feel free to ask me Whatever you choose to breed, good luck and don't burn yourself out on the harder species of fish too early on Edit: just realized you were the one enquiring via pm about my angelfish I have for sale-- sorry I've been on holiday, will respond soon as I can!
  12. Thanks will do! Atm I'm growing out apisto fry (photo attached was them a few days ago) for someone so if he's happy for me to have two then I'll get the feature for the tank from there also growing some anubias, xmas moss and rotala which I may use for the tank too, just still not 100% sure if I want to go rotala or ambulia yet. Its looking like I'll be away a bit in the next few weeks but hopefully this tank will be cycled, scaped and ready for fish by mid Febuary
  13. I found some mosquito larvae in my garden yesterday that you're welcome to have can probably rustle up some earthworms too. More than welcome to take pics of any of my fish as always, have you gotten any of bumblebee gobies yet?
  14. Its possible that whatever nitrates were produced were consumed by the plants-- try feeding a larger amount of fish food for a few days to see what happens?
  15. JJWooble

    One of my

    Yay! Such beautiful angelfish too
  16. I will once I buy/can afford to buy some atm just have the spawn and grow. Was wondering about whether solient green would be good? Edited because my phone is a ning nong
  17. I got this wee red whiptail a while ago and have noticed that he seems distinctly unimpressed by the dried food on offer- namely, novofect, wardley shrimp pellets, novotab and hikari algae wafers. However, as you can tell by the photo, he seems to love scallopini, among other vegetables so I was wondering what everyone feeds their catfish in terms of dried food?
  18. I'm by no means an expert on tropical marine (still researching, yet to have my own setup) so others will jump in here probably and correct me With sand I think common practice is not to add it until the tank is fully established? I've seen a lot of barebottom set ups around too, so sometimes people don't add it at all. Re: live rock, the fastest way to start the cycle in your tank is to add some from another person yes, but you can always start it off just from scratch with dead coral rock, it just takes a lot longer and from what I heard works sort of like with freshwater, where you provide a food source on a regular basis. Apart from private aquarium owners other places to get live rock could be shops that have marine tanks, as I /think/ they sell some, so may be worth checking your local, although it can be worth starting the cycle from dead rock as occasionally live rock will pass along pest organisms --- apistasia or something, among other things-- that you wouldn't get otherwise. Sounds like a cool project, don't forget to post photos as it develops
  19. $5 ea. For sale are three baby angelfish from my silver angelfish pair (pictured in first photograph). Second photo is of two of the three for sale. They are currently around 3 months old, quite small still so will need to be grown out before being added to a tank with adults/larger fish. Please also note that two of them have slightly wonky ventral fins but are otherwise very healthy, active and growing well. Pick up only St Mary's Bay.
  20. Interesting- my honeys do a similar thing with the females sorting out a heirarchy/fighting the most when a new member is added with the males chilling out in opposite corners of the tank as their territories (which the girls just drift through whenever they like)
  21. Hi all I have been told by my mother that she wants me to set up a tank for her kitchen. She was attempting to convince me to give up the tank in the photograph for this purpose, but as it is my favourite tank I have promised to make her one that is similar, riparium plants and all. That tank has a compartment sectioned off for the filtration completely along the back of the tank so the plan would be either to buy a 50-60 L glass tank and then get some plastic cut, drilled and siliconed in for the back section, have a tank custom made with this back compartment, or go with the 'next best' option of a HOB with baskets along the back for the riparium plants. Suggestions on who to go for to get the tank custom made is appreciated. It would need to have holes at one end for the intake of the water, then room for a heater, sponges, media and a pump, then a hole for the pump outlet to go through. Thoughts on stock list: 2x Steel Blue Apistos 15x Cardinal tetra (mum loves them) and then a bunch of cories-- either my group of 9 pygmy cories or a group of ~10 panda corys or both (would this work ok?) Plants/scape: I would try to replicate the 'feel' of my favourite tank but with different plants. Using a similar type of rock and driftwood, but perhaps substituting the twisted val for ambulia and adding in a ground cover plant such as chain swords, dwarf sag or dwarf hairgrass depending on what I could find. Riparium plants would most likely be parlour palm and syngonium as they seem to be the ones that do well in my other tanks. I would also create cave structures for the apistos. The lighting would most likely be a LED unit of some description. Any input, particularly regarding whether the two groups of cory would go ok together (my pygmys currently reside alongside a large group of kuhli loaches and seem to compete well) and what kind of ground cover plant to go for is much appreciated.
  22. Schooling fish-- 20-30 of a single species sounds like an awesome plan, I am doing the same thing with my 200 litre and its really cool to see such a large group of fish swim accross the tank. Personally, I'd say go with the harlequins. From what I've seen in stores, they're cheaper than emerald eyes, more colourful than xrays, are very active, confident and school well together even when in low numbers (even as a group of 6 mine were very active and confident). I have a group of 21, will eventually top them up to 30, and absolutely love them. Second best would probs be the emerald eyes-- I have noticed mine (group of 11) are more shy than the harlequins but they may be more confident in a larger group. Would be good if you wanted the bettas to be the absolute centre of attention of the tank. Very cute, and their eyes are absolutely stunning. They school reasonably well as a group as well. X-rays... I haven't kept, but from what I've seen they don't have the same activity level or colour as the other two fish you've mentioned. If you were going to go for a tetra, I'd suggest rummy noses as they are adorable, but would suggest the rasbora over tetra Corys-- Sterbais are awesome I have a group of 20 or so. They tend to hide in my scape even though in high numbers when people come to visit, but put a morsel of food in there and suddenly they all come rushing out. Not sure how they will interact with loaches, other people may have more experience on this. In terms of dwarf cichlids, I've always found German Blue Rams very cool, only concern I would have is how aggressive they would be in 'spawning mode' towards the bettas-- haven't kept them before though so I'm not sure if this would be an issue. What does BNC stand for?
  23. Not often...Horses bite me occasionally which leaves bruises and one of my cats wakes me up by chewing on my toes. If stings count as "bites" then there is also the times I've accidentally swum into jellyfish... Takes ages to heal and hurts really badly, particularly if you don't get the stingers out at first. **edit- oh, and my chickens peck me. Colourful nail polish or shiny jewellery tends to look like food to them and they have never taken kindly to being fed their worming tablets. One of my older girls (now passed) used to like pecking people's teeth and eyes if she was able to get near. Thankfully nobody else has ever decided to do that.
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