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Where are the elephant noses in that video? That's a cool looking fish nonetheless.

What an awesome looking tank, I particularly like all the plants in it, and the ENFs are looking great - especially in a group!

Welcome to the forum. Enjoy

Thanks for sharing that zombieworm. I already replaced the blue light with a white one and have replaced all my dying plants. My aquarium is now as vibrant as ever and I'm loving it!!! I chose different types of plants as well so I am liking the variety as well. I'll definitely have a look at the LED tubes and hope they get to NZ soon (or at least in 5 months time when I'll need to replace all my current tubes) Also a question... How do you guys dispose of the T8 tubes? I have no idea where to throw them.

Niceeee! Yeah, I never even considered them before because when they are young they are not as flashy and people just don't look at them at the LFS because of that. But they are a really good addition to any community tank as they are peaceful, however quite active so you'd need to make sure they are not in a tank with some fish that don't like that much activity in the tank. I've got 5 yoyo loaches and will get 5 of the boesmani rainbows, that will be one manic fish tank Glad I could provide some other options for you

I've heard people buy a barrel and leave it outside to collect rain water then use that. But I haven't done this myself and not sure if rain water has any materials we don't want in the aquarium.

Can't wait for these to come to the LFS. Let me know when this happens!

Looks good. Do you have any new pics? Especially of the stand with the ply doors and the hood?

They were German Blue rams. I'd still be cautious about putting the rams in with the gourami and would remove them if they get too aggressive. I've got a 215L tank and had only one pair of gourami and one pair of rams, so quite enough space for them all. Also have some angelfish, so the rams were on the quiet side cause the angels were a lot bigger and bossier.

They did actually. I think the reason was that the Honey gourami were one of the first two fish I added to the tank, so they had established themselves in there by the time I added rams. Unfortunately the rams didn't last very long though, they both died after 6-7 months from unexplained reasons...

Welcome to the forum! African Cichlids are amazing, very beautiful colours. Good luck with the tank!

They are very entertaining to watch, the rams that is. Especially when they have a duel against each other. I had some rams with my glowlights, yoyo loaches, angelfish and honey gourami. They were all good

Beautiful shots!

Yeah, I've got 5 yoyo loaches now, they're doing really well! They have started cleaning up some of the snails as well I think. The snails I have are very small though so I am not sure they can eat them when they're that small. I don't think they are MTS. In regards to the lights, I did change the blue light back to a white one this weekend and replaced the dead plants with new ones a few weeks ago so the tank is looking nice and active again!!!

This is the biggest one I found at the warehouse: http://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/red/catalog/product/Taurus-Rolling-Organiser-112L?SKU=1778852

What about Trademe? Have you tried there?

Where do you get Geos from? I've never seen them at a LFS

Unfortunately not. I was planning on getting some from a local fish shop this weekend. Haven't been down to Hawkes Bay much at all and don't really think I'll be going any time soon unfortunately otherwise I'd love to help you out with rehoming them. Hope you have some luck with someone else from the forum in your area that can take them.

Thanks for the tips zombieworm and Fishluva, I think you are right about the blue light, I only got it cause I liked the reflection it gave to some of the fish but it's no good for the plants so I will have to change it back to a white one soon. In regards to the snails, the yoyo loaches are starting to clean them up now so here's hoping they quiet down soon. I'm starting to see fewer and fewer of them. A novotab doesn't work cause my fish would eat it all lol. I'm wanting to add another 2 or 3 loaches and that should further help with cleaning them up as well.

Hmmm I still have the discus that someone needs to pick up first then I might get in touch to get it if it's still available.

Fun light!

Have you sold the firemouth cichlid yet?

Will get in touch

Hi all, I've got one turquoise discus by itself in my fish tank and I've noticed it deteriorating. I used to have a couple of them, but one of them died and being a fish that feels happier in groups, the turq has become very sad after the death of its friend and I think it is not going to end well for it in my aquarium. It looks like it is in poor health at the moment and I am not sure if anything can be done to help revive it. I don't have a separate quarantine tank so I wanted to ask if there is anyone that would like to take it for free and see if they can revive it and then add it to their group of discus? I feel really sad as this is one of my favourite fish and I would really like to save it even if that means going to someone else's tank. Thanks in advance.

I'm thinking of adding some rainbowfish in my tank and they seem to be a really good size and have a variety of different colours, plus they are mid level and very active fish. Makes them easily noticeable from across the room. Also, if you have good lighting, some of these rainbowfish show different colours depending on the side from which the light hits them, so they'll change colour as they swim around the tank. I haven't done all the homework researching about these, but from what I've read it looks like a lot of people disregard these fish cause they don't have all the vibrant colours when they are young (and in the fish shop), however they get lots of colour once they reach adulthood.