Newtman

why thats a pleco bill :lol: :lol: no really...i think java/willow moss is the name your after....(well thats what its commonly known as) Newt

i guess you could just improvise with fresh 1s, and see how things go

and aparantly they are fin nippers but i have seen them before with other fish and they were absolutly fine.. :-? i guess ppl jus have different expierences with them... id say give them ago anyway...cos yea they are a real cool fish!!! Newt

for the overflow box/corner piece....i think i remember pies saying that his 1 is laser cut?correct? and i guess it would be made of somthing like arcrylic. would that be expensive....or is it a possibilty to consider....

hey marie-na welcome along....hope you have lotsa fun here :lol: its allways a bit crazy in here or at least it seems that way....lol Newt/Tim

hey that sounds realy easy, i might try and do some for my fish thanks for the info shiuh Newt

hey i hav heard around that some people on here have made skimmers?correct? and i am wondering how did these turn out,how efficant are they, reliabilaty..ect cos im planing on building 1 so that i can go marine and any plans,diagrams, instrustions,pictures would be grate!!! please i can possibly get some 350mm diameter nylon pipe thats abt 30-40 mm thick, that could be used for the main cylinder.... + it needs to be desigened for a 1020 ltr system Cheers Tim

hey anth didnt u say that you were having some circulation pumps in the tank also? or was that just a thought.... your planing looks good....im sorta doing the same thing for the tank in my lounge, with sump in the dining room. looks cool... Newt

oh no!!! geezz, how lucky was that!! you are so lucky that you noticed somethin b4 it all could of turned nasty isnt it amazing what creatitivity lil kids minds have, or is it destructivness lol anyway, glad to hear that it didnt go the other way tho. Newt

hey thats so cool, hope they do well for you paul. i realy like the dwarfs, espically the chocolates and the honeys, and yea this wonderful wainui water works wonders :lol: :lol: :lol: Tim

i hav on it a 30 watt moon tube, which is realy not enough but it will soon have a crisp kinda white fluro on it .the anemones are doind ok from what i can see but yea, the more light for them the better they'd be. Tim

oh, my tank is 390mm high by 915 long by 380 front to back so it holds like 135 liters i think, plus however much is in the filter (external canister). as for livestock i have a whole load of different tripplefins,about three hermit crabs, loads of dirrerent anemones(sp) some blue with 'white tube' tubeworms, a few sea squirts, and a spider like crab that is kinda flat backed. for filtration i only have an external canister, and an air driven skimmer which seems to take a great deal of skum outa the water, which is realy good cos im sure that it has at least some good efect on the healthyness of the tank. oh yea ill try an get some pics for ya soon if you want .. Newt

hey there yup as caryl says, that book is really helpfull for identification or things......i got it out from my local library and as anth/ critter guy says, yes i also have a nz saltie tank....which is doing great if ya want to kno more jus let me kno and i can tell u abt some of my experiences an stuf.. Cheers Newt

yea thats all the lighting i have at the mo, but imm hopefully getting somthing more soon to add to the moon lighting i curently have... the tank seems to be going realy great and even gets up to 26 deg's (which i thought everything would almost die)but i use frozen salt water and it brings itdown to about 21-23deg's ill try an get a pic up soon... Newt..

i set up a nz salt water rockpool tank abt a month ago, and it seems to be going well...so far...lol running on it i have >an ehime extearnal canister filter(with filter wool & crushed shell in a bag as substrate) > >two power heads for circulation > >a wooden air stone driven protien skimmer> > >light - a 'blue moon' fluro and two LED's (striped down $4.99 w-house garden lights) Substrate and rock> >the gravel is just from the baech,and it has a sorta grey+brown mix look to it. >the rock--i collected it from rockpools mainly so that i could get it with groth on it...like the alges an live bugs'n'things. Inhabitants >fish--i currently have a mixture of tripplefins but had a cling fish that came in on a piece of seaweed(to which i was very supprised)+i am on the look out for a crested blenny<-------(cool lil fish) >crustations--in there at the moment there is about three small hermit crabs, and a flat backed spider crab(very interesting)+ a whole load of ghost/glass shrimp. moluscs--a few catseyes and periwinkles,limpets+chittens+a flatworm thing and abt three lil ducks bill sea slugs,and abt three tiny black mussels(jus to see how they go) anomenes-- i have 4 types of them...they are...red with pinkish tenticals,brown,white with orange foot and center,spotted brown...there are also more avalible but they are less comon..or harder to get off sometimes. if you want to find out more abt my trialing of this nz salt, feel free to pm me.. cheers Newtman

HEY!!! welcome to da party......or at least i think it is a party I mean....you could say it gets a bit crazy in here at times...:lol::lol:>>>espiccally in the chatroom...hehe........... you should take a peek into the chat an say hi....im sure you will find heaps to chat about. people usually start comming into the chat room about 9:00pm (nz time) so please feel free to join in. cheers Newt>Tim

hey!! that reminds me....lol i said a while back that i would go and see if they are still in the waiphetu streem.....and yet i still havent....lol but anyway i will go soon and ill let u pps kno if they are there Newt

hey ppls, i am also thinking of setting up a cold salt tank soon and can also dive,but i havent done so much, so collecting specimens should be easy i guess...apart from the catching part :lol: ...... and as for colour on one of my dives i saw alil blue eyed tripplefin!!!! and it looked AWESOME!!!! so its a definate all go for my tank very soon i hope.. i have an old 'kelvinator' fridge cooler i think i can setup under the house an throu the floorto the tank...so yea... anyone kno abt these coolers please....? cheers newt

I think they might be a killi also...if so they are a.normani or lampeyes as they are more comonly known...i have had them before... would it b possible to get a better pic? Newt

cool....ill see you there MA and all you other ppls aswell!! hehe hopfully the weather will be great for us!!! o weather god!!!

Thats real cool ira!!, i could not get as nearly as close up as you have i hav white worms in those quantities aswell but not in a culture ........ in the garden :lol: and all i need to do is place a piece of bread on the surface next to my compost (on the dirt so as i dont get all the fruit an grass clippings an veges n stuff) and sprinkle some soil over the bread to stop the birds seeing it then moisten and wait like two days...........and there i have it..... i peal back the bread, scoop up the whiteworms and the soil and make a ball of them then put it down on a icecream container lid and all the worms go into the center....so after like two min i scrape the outer abt two cm of dirt away and am left with a ball of worms abt the size of two eggs put together. the rest of the dirt gets rinsed away by a series of rinsing. THE END...lol.....i thought this could help ppls anyways.. :lol:

i might hav them if the anser to my question above is yes........

By rotifers and cyclops, do u mean the lil tiny green ball pod like creatures that i have living in my daphnia culturs and other places? Newt

let me know how ya get on if u do decide to try, cos that would be interesting to see some other plants from outa nz... Cheers Newt

if u mean the tops are slightly lighter green by 'yellow' then its probly just new growth, but otherwise it could be a light issue like warren said. and yea, those are cool axolotyls is the dish where u feed them? Cheers Newt