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I'm looking to add a couple of yoyo loaches to my tank. I already have three in there but would like to have five. Does anyone have any that they would like to sell?

That't one tough GK. Love it! What a survivalist.

Love it, I got some new plants yesterday. Will be getting some of this fertiliser today and off we go Thanks @Fishluva

Would this one work? Looks like a good option and cheap as well. Asking cause I'm looking for fertiliser tabs myself https://www.bunnings.co.nz/daltons-premium-planter-tabs-250g_p00305851

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Sounds like a successful mission! Well done. Glad to hear it's over and now you can enjoy your fishies in peace.

Beautiful! It'll look so nice with the Geos in there. I'm jealous

I am looking at creating a DIY reactor for my tank, want to use either activated carbon or more filtration media. I'll be using a plastic water bottle of some sort and adding some filter foam on top and bottom to hold the media in place. Question I have is, I am on the lookout for a submersible pump that has at most 200L/h flow but can't find anything on trademe. Anyone got an old pump they are willing to part with for a small compensation? Thanks!

In regards to the light, you could look at shooting in RAW format and then play around with lighting up the dark image in Lightroom or something similar like that.

Looking good, but the photos are quite small. Maybe you can post them at a higher resolution next time?

Those look very good. I'm amazed at the number of fish you have in each, how often do you do water changes to keep on top of nitrates?

I often get a zap from my water as well, but I think it has something to do with my couch or some clothing I wear because it happens in particular situations, not every time. Glad you found the source though.

DIY win!

I'd go for any Sony camera, to me their point and shoot cameras are the best of any you'd find out there. They incorporate a lot of the parts from their mirror less range into the point and shoot range so you get a more than decent camera and lens at a lower price point. Good luck shopping for cameras, and share some photos once you've got the camera.

That's a great idea Caryl!

Thanks camtang, yeah I do trim regularly and replant. The plants were doing really well for quite some time and I had grown heaps. I think Shilo is right about the lights though, I might go and get 2 new tubes and see if that helps. Then next step will be fertilizer.

Thanks for the replies so far. Shilo, I think you are right, I probably need to get some new tubes, that might be part of the problem. Well the blue one is fairly new, but the other two probably need replacing. And Ira, my plants are hygrophilia, but yeah and I got them from Hollywood Fish Farm.

Looks really really good!

Oh that's right, I forgot to mention. I've used Fluorish Excel and it hasn't really helped. In regards to fish, I've got various, it's a tropical community. And lighting I have AquaOne AR980 so I've for three tubes, one is white, one pink and one blue. The pink one is the small one, the white and blue are the longer ones, not sure on Wattage.

What a nightmare that must be. Good luck with the process and let us know how it goes!

Lovely driftwood and planting. Does that glass vase have too much weight on top of it with the driftwood and the stone on there?

Hi all, I'm struggling with a few things in my fish tank and I am unsure what the right move is so I thought I'd ask for some help in making my decision. First of all, I've got a lot of snails in my fish tank. I did manage to get their numbers down by syphoning them out when doing water changes as well as getting a few yoyo loaches, but I think only one of them is big enough to eat the snails at this stage at least. So this is my problem number one. It's a problem because these snails eat my plants and my fish tank has half eaten leaves floating to the surface. Next thing is, not quite sure if the snails are the reason for this, but my plants seem to have really died down. A few months ago they were nice and lush, with great colours etc. Nowadays they look really shrivelled and weak. The leaves are a third of the size they used to be and they just start rotting in the bottom of the stem and then eventually die off or cut off and float to the surface. I am guessing the reason for this might be that I don't use any plant tabs in the soil/gravel, but when I started the tank more than a year ago I put a layer of soil (the Manado product) and then put the gravel on top. The plants were doing really well for more than 9 months. Do you think there is not enough nutrients in the soil anymore? I thought the poo from the fish produce a natural nutrient. Given I don't ever vacuum the gravel, I thought this would provide enough nutrients for the plants. Any suggestions are appreciated? So I've got a couple of options: - Live with the snails and keep syphoning them and wait until the other two loaches grow up a bit more and hopefully they will take care of the rest. Also, buy some plant tabs and put them in the soil so the plants perk up a bit, or even go to the extend of buying new plants and plant tabs and grow a new under water garden. Any suggestions on plants that don't get eaten by snails (as leaves with holes on them don't look very attractive)? - Second option is quite extreme, try to sell off or give away all the fish (or if someone is helpful and is able to house my fish for me while I sort the tank out this would be even better!), buy the copper product that kills off snails and run the aquarium with this product for a month or so to kill off everything in it. Rip out all the plants from the tank.Thoroughly clean the filter (as there is snails in there as well). Dry out the tank completely perhaps (do water snails survive in dry conditions???) Once (hopefully!) all the snails are gone and all the plants are out of the tank, start from the beginning again... I'm not too keen on either of these options, but it seems like I only have these two. Anyone have any other ideas or suggestions? Thanks for the help!

Nicely done!

Looking good so far.

They're looking nice!