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a brackish pond with archers would be very cool.

They're cheap, $10-20 from memory. remember they're brackish fish.

I'm not familiar with that type of algae, but I had a serious problem with black 'tuft', I guess you could call it, algae. It's like little bushes of black algae that grow on everything in the tank, need a knife to cut off pretty much, my plec doesn't touch it, and it's pretty immune to common chemicals used for alge control. I went in and saw graham from the hutt pet centre, and he recommended changing the pH of the tank. He gave me a pond algae block that you just drop into the tank. Over the course of a couple of weeks the block cleared up the black algae, and has visually eliminated green algae. There has been a change in the ph of the tank, but not a huge change. It's pretty much gone from slightly acidic to neutral.

thanks

I've been using the siphon/bucket method for a while. It's a pain in the ass, and I end up spilling a lot of the water on the floor when trying to carry the bucket. I've done a little research, does anyone have experience with using a product like the 'python' automatic water change thing?

It's a shame it closed down. Firstly because it was way more accesible for me, as opposed to going out to animates (which I would prefer not to go to anyway), and secondly because I recieved a gift voucher teh weekend before it disappeared.

yeah, I'd say 6ftx2ft really. Have you seen a fully grown one andyman98? They're massive fish. Pretty ugly too.

//would a giant gourami and or an arowana fit in a 4ft? not for an extended period.

I've been hand feeding my black ghost at night for about 2 years. He/she is only about 20cm long at the moment, the yellow stripe on teh head is looking in good colour. There's no way I'd call them a peaceful fish, I've observed him/her at night chasing other fish.

Hi midas, hopefully I'll start posting again, I haven't had the net for a good part of a year. It's damn hard to sex at a small size, I looked for pointed dorsal and anal fins. I mean, I could be totally wrong and it turns out to be a female. Have you got any pics of your JD, midas? It's a beautiful fish.

I got what I think is a smallish (about 4") male last weeked. I sort of read stuff about them beingreally aggressive without actually believing it. It's true though, even at a small size he seems to be fearless against the much larger fish. My siamese tiger is still definitely the boss of the tank though. Does anyone else have experience keeping the jack dempsey?

Yeah that's true, they've got a giant kokopu in the eel tank.

Really peaceful, I've found them to be really hardy, They love filtering gravel through their gills for food and they pretty much eat anything I give them. A really nice fish overall

You could try some large red devils

you mean pacus? they get damn big