Luke*
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Heatpump would be the most economical way I would say, the problem you may have is keeping it cool over Summer.
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Rotorua is technically BOP
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One more...
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So after 2 months my alpha-male pair (so I call them) finally decided to lay. Must be the spring season aye? These lil discus went free swimming on Saturday, I'm sure they will grow up to be just like their Dad
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get that outta my sight!
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Nice tank what kinda gourami is that in that pic? 150w is great.
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Awesome... neat to just sit and appreciate a wonder of nature. One question, who innoculated it with mollies instead of discus?
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Apparently they only breed between 18-22 degress celsious, I see mine spawning when the sunlight hits the water in a warm morning (had 6 of them inside in a large bucket)
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Sweet man, love that yellow one with orange fringe and bluish looking fins
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Fighters can mistake guppies colourful tails for an enemy male, and try to destroy them
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Wow! ... Crosby has his own strain of gouramies? Man this guy is awesome. He's unstoppable http://whatdoyouliketoplay.ytmnd.com/
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Feel your pain, I get this too, I guess it's worse if your balance of nutrients is wrong, if it's all finely tuned the plants will outcompete the algae for the nutrients. Scrubbing weekly will keep them from getting so set.
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You can either add it in a stocking floating in the tank, or boil it up in a pot or similar and once cool strain it straight in to the tank. It doesn't colour the water that much to really affect the light levels. I'd recommend a couple of handfuls. A stocking peat bomb will last a month.
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The natural elements in peat make it ideal to use in a discus tank, as well as for many south american species. It's properties calm the fish and can also make them so randy they'll spawn. Peat does reduce the pH and the hardness in the water making it also more ideal for these species. Peat also darkens the water making it more like the natural habitat of these great fish. We should all try to do what we can to make it as homelike as possible.
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Beautiful pond mate! best I've seen. Add a heater and some fancy plecs and you'll be set. Cool/weird snakehead sirkus
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Goldfish Bowl
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Silly LFS not making provisions for killies :roll:
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gold nugget pleco
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Beautiful mate... stunning fish. Just one suggestion is a slightly brighter light
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That's an ouch story... was it a heated bath or are these cold water fish? Pity there wasn't some mesh over the plug hole. I lost a rummynose tetra once stupidly by tipping some water in a plastic fish bag down the drain, realised a few minutes too late that there was a rummy in it, such a waste aye.
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Wow great to hear a survival story... if you'd been away even 10mins longer might've been a tragedy story
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I've got a theory that the warmer the water is the higher the metabolism will be and the faster the fish will grow, this also may mean they will die sooner than otherwise. Live fast die young?
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btw they mean farenheit, not celsious. I'd aim for 78-80 F, 25-27 degrees C. Yea you put the heater and top part of the cord in the tank, there should be a diagram showing how to do it. It would be a good idea to now and then check your pH in case it's swinging or going really low or really high from something or other.
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You know your algae problem is getting out of hand when...
Luke* replied to Zev's topic in Freshwater
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I think he meant tropical fish shops not deep fried fish/chicken/duck/potatoes etc. lol anyone else see a theme in Wok's post? With ya on the hot chick.... those deep fried potatoes? heaven