henward

i tried, mice was too big but ill try again i cant get pinkies or really really little fuzzies, pet shops dont sell and i dont wanna breed my own lol if anyone in auckland has fuzzies, ill pock up quickly, my one didnt go for the mice at all, but thena gain, its usually pretty full

hypothetically if i chuck in a bunch of convicts - 10mm to 100mm in size, do you think a 1 foot jardinii would go for these and eat them? do convicts have defensive poison or spikes? like clown loaches and africn leaf fish and stuff?

no i just looked into them eels are very adaptable eels can survive out of water for hours at times in fact there have been stories eels from nz shipped to japan in a container, frozen slowly and thawed slowly there some of them still alive and well they grow slowly unless fed purely beef and high protein stuff

would mixing this with axolotl be ok? or will it kill the axolotl?

i saw a cheap eel forsale baby eel jsut the river eels you get here are they aggressive? can they mix with a jardinii i know these things are extremely resilient thats not the issue im afraid they will attack my jardinii and albino senegalus any feedback should i get this eel? cos when it gets bigger, it would be cool to have swim around with the jar and bichir

mark, how bout Heating?

yeah it doesnt sound that much i believe for 10grand you can build a massive conrete block and fill it up with water, hook up a solar heater on it with a thermostat liek in swimming pools, all in all, i think the container of water should cost bout 12k plus the filter which would be a giant giant overflow and tricle sump system or a pool filter probalby a giant over flow would be ok just plumb that somewhere in doors, when your spending that much on a giant oversized extravagant set up, you might as well 15k i reckon i can make one, probably close to 10k or more litres, you can probably put in quite alot of monster fish in there, 20 arowanas or 10 pacus, 10 arowanas:D

that tank is expensive tough tanks cant even guess how much and apparently when you get to that size, the construction is a little different to make it safer wish i had one though a tank maker in auckland, they do most of kelly tarltons, do tanks like that. awhile ago, i called them and said if you want a huge cheap tank you can do one outdoors or indoors dependind on space have rear and side walls concrete and the front concrete wiht a window adequte for viewing made out of perpex or really really thick glass thats cheaper than getting a tank tanks gets exccesively expensive when they get over a certain size, glass can only hold so much

if in auckland HFF has some really good aqua one bio rocks really good stuff really porous 12 to 13 dollars i think for a big one that filled up a 1200lph tray

yeah thats always true in alot of cases but the problem is the biggest and best canister is hundreds of dollars, even a small fluval 103 is 200 something dollars aquaone 1200 is 130, thats a good way to go if you want best bang for your buck buy aqua one 1200lph canister on trade me plenty there, only about 120 dolalrs and you really cant beat them value for money

i dont particularly believe that a big filter is needed for rams perhaps a big internal or small external canister would be good add some plants in there would make a nice eco system and add to your bio filtration

i know people:P

i want one:) how much is it gonna cost you? huge huge tank you can put a bunch of mexican midgets in there and they would probalby be happy to live in it

about 5cms snout to tip of tale the white diamond is 7 cms a bit bigger everyone seems to leave him alone and it seems pretty docile itself its like when it gets near anything, things move out of its way strange, the colour maybe?

got myself a red turq, blue turq, snakeskin blu diamond and a white diamond. the red turq, is probalby the smallest, it seems to chase the other discus around when feeding or they get close to its plant in the tank. is this normal? should i put more? discus? pet shop hff say its normal and not harmfull as all of them feeding normally, except for the white diamond, it seems to still wanting to settle down, the rest are freely swimming around and showing off any feedback?

depends on fish community wiht non meat eating fish small canister or two internals is ok if you keeping anything like arowana, cichlids, africans (cichlid not actual africans) and discus i suggest you go for a bgger exter canister, or two. or jst buya big one canister like a fluval 405 or 1 aqua one 1200

im actually more concerned of anyting attacking the jar like the massive menace clown fish :0 so a giant gourami should be ok? wont attack it? if the gourami gets abit of a beating i dont mind that as much sounds cruel but im more concerned for the jar

i have put a grey g gourami and it got beaten up by the jar so i took it out but wondering if i put a golden giant gourami in there would they be ok? i was told the told ones are a lil more aggressive is this true?

pacus

yeah, funny though they look so awekward and stupid im used to fisht hat really fight for their food these guys kinda just cruise around very slowly they are just starting to adjust to the tank, not yet swimming around hope they do do discus usually swim around and explore more of the tank and put on a show for people of nice swimming? or do they usually hide?

strange, im used to animals that just gulp and comsume food like a maniac. discuss is something a lil different, it seems that when they eat they eat and spit some out every time, eventuually you see the belly swell abit but hey dont seem to take large chunks and eat it like other fish. very slow eaters

clown loache, tyre track eels feed the clowns heaps and heaps of meaty food, they will grow really fast! my ones litereally grew 1 m in a couple of weeks,scary, but they jsut keep eating:D youc an put silver aro, they are.......................friendly...enough:P put a muzzle on them:D

i would put my money that your house is sitting comfortably at about 23 degrees during this season anyways. I bet that your heater is hardly being used. Unless your outage is days and days, even then, i probably wont wory tooooo much, canister filter might have dead bacteria or lesser population, some cycle would help after but, realistically, i dont think you should worry, like the dude said, blanket or heat blanket to keep heat in, but your house isnt gonna be freezing im sure. but in the wild, most if not all of these fish experience temp fluctuation. IN the amazon - water ranges from 16 degrees celcius to upwards of 28dpending on where and how the rain and mountain flow is. everywhree in the wild, when its night, temp of water drops heaps! no where is warm all the time - i watch alot of man vs wild and discovery:) example, arowanas in the amazon experience water temps of 18 degrees, they dont die instantly, though would probalby for prolonged periods of time, but generally, they ahve patches of water with different temps

I hvae a jebo filter - canister i have 5 trays on it. the order is that the water comes in and filtration starts from the bottom up. so the toptray gets the dirtiest water first. i put my ceramic noodles and bio media on the first 2, then last three has a sponge on each, wiht bio media also, at the bottom last tray, i put the finest filter wool, only a little bit, you will find that too much isnt neccesary, water crystal clear, water qality fantastic. as long asyou dont fill every tray with wool/sponge, this should be ok, or your water isnt toooo messy, it should be ok, i litereally clean my canisters every few months!! no exagerating, and i feed my fish alot, but water stays ok, so long reglar water changes are done. i wouldnt worry about it. besides, dirty filter means its doing its job and has lots of bacteria to process crap

your driftwood is obviously a new one. tannin is still very much present crbon will clear it up straight away if its very brown, i had this problem, i had 3 pieceso f large wood in a tank, you get chem zorb at a pet shop, will guarantee to clear it cheap way though - water changes, r take out the wood, soak itin hot water and keep change hot or boiling water this will help alot but its good for the fish anyways. some breeders of exotic fish religiously ake their water brown with tannin, from a leaf in asia or wood , claims this helps PREVENT disease and make the fish calm i like the look of slightly brown water personally:D