henward

aro on trade me in a small tank rather disturbing

my have fine filterwoodl on top baster and bio media at two bottom basket, i dont bother with course bio media, i go straight to filterwool

i was told by hikari that sinking carnivore and massivore are different. i have noticed better growth with massivore. but perhaps that could be from the density of the food and the fact its bigger than sinking carnivore.

I have a rule if the borneo tiger does not eat pellets or shrimp. i dont buy it training borneo tigers are slightly more difficult than other fish say cichlids. They are picker and tend to be fond of a particular food. you are right, bloodworms are useless food, more of a treat than anything or large masses of it can be good. but expensive. anyway i woulds uggest starve it immediately and feed it prawn and or pellets. OR feel it sinking carnivore pellets. they are small enough to swallow even by small borneo tigers (tiger dats) once you have it in a pellet diet, it will grow fast, and be very active. people say that dats are slow growing but this is false, they are only slow growing when fed low protein food. I got my AT (american dat) to full size in less than 3 years. My indo got to 12 inches in about 2 years. actually, it got massive quickly then tapered in growth as most fish do. i suggest o start feeding it pellets, and stop bloodworms, at the very least, you should get it into UNCOOKED prawns with no shell. Cook prawns may not be good, in my experience and from what i read - prawns meat changes when cooked and can be harder to digest, causing death and blockage. Prawn is easy to train, but if you calculate protein content, nutrient by weight - prawn is the same price as pellets. prawn is only 13% to 16% protein. NO fat, not much vits. Pellets like sinking carnivore or better yet MASSIVORE, (hollywood fish farm stock massivore delight by hikari and will ship) they are even better. I can personally vouch for the massivore.

oh ok the eheim prof series puts the water stright from the top and pump sucks it from the bottom, so water flow is top to bottom and up again, does that make sense?

eheim prof 2, 3 and 3e and classic. the mech is the last one before it goes out. i am seeing that the bio media get flow first before course and mech media. unless im wrong with my flow. i dont reall use eheim. im jsut curious as this is more for curiosity than actual practical use for me.

yeah iput the filterwoodl on top basket and fill two bottom ones with bio media. I find that works well and doesnt clog the bio media as fast or much at all. qwhy would eheim recommend letting dirty water pass through bio media?

i have all my foam before any bio media

never owned eheims before. but the profesional series, the water frmo tank goes from top, then the impeller sucks it from the bottom tot he tank. so in theory, the dirty water should first meet course media or foam. anyone with eheims with feedback?

http://www.eheim.asia/prod_e_media_setup.html here, they have course media, course foam, bio media THEN filter woold doesnt the media get clogged up? i have my fine wool before any bio media. also they have that wet and dry one. does anyone use that? it doesnt have any mechamical filtration. how does that work, doesnt the media get clogged quickly./

any form of shock will killf ish water params a major one. imagine your fish is living int his water for ages and if it suddenly changes, it will cull the weaker less adaptible ones. same as humans if you get someone from the deserts of africa wearing a loin cloth. and throw them into a siberian mountain unconditioned and unprepared, they will die.

my large clown loaches tend to go for larger pellets, when there is nothign there they will take the 1mm nls thera A. all i know is that the best food ever i have used for monster fish are massivore delight. it grows fish good!

eheims can go up to a very high flow. but high price:D i reckon just condtion yourself to forget about the sound:D once i did that with the beeping of my fire alarm.... i could not hear it anymore, but everyone else could, even if i stood under it, i actually could not hear it. weird:D

the filoter will be cycled already. gravel does not contain as much bacteria and also water does not flow as much into gravel as it does bio media in your filter. i say forget about anything else just use the same filter - but, in saying that, ease up on the feeding for 1 maybe2 weeks.... when you put a cycled filter into a new water set up, some bacteria may die from the difference in environment. but i would say a vast majority will still be there and active. no harm in smart start what ever product it is, it will not harm the system and can only be good for it if any effect at all.

for highly meat eating fish, IMO hikari is better. for smaller fish, then i would go nls. for my monsters, hikari is my preferred, I use NLS for my clown loaches AND hikari, both i reckon is better. as each food has its ups and downs i guess. so i ust use both. but c gold is spectacular and growth rates from it is far better. i have used many t ypes of food, but hikari is so good. Discus gio gold is fantastic but expensive, also its good cos they dont reject it and are easily accepted compared to other foods that break apart. I would say hikari is my number one food, then nls. but value for money, you cant beat NLS. its much much more cost effective. but then again some overseas would claim nls is better.....

i dont know if its a female but its a pig! it eats ALOT of food! it eats untill it cannot stuff its mouth anymore, like an oscar

actually just did my morning feed:D its still there! i reckon sh ould be ok in big tank - just block over flow i guess. thats the only thing that could be a danger in that tank right?

hahaha sorry david. really cant get rid of it. thought lfs getting you one? yeah, the black has massive spurts of growth, maybe my imagination but i swear it growns massively in a matter of couple of weeks! got the black onto prawn stuff with massivore, hikari sticks and locusts daily. gets fed twice a day. yeanh the big clown is hungry! only started coming out 2 weeks ago. took that long to settle but now comes out every single time with out fail when i feed. usually i use the small thera a, occasionally i will feed hikari. in conclusion though, from observing feedings, hikari is a preferred food for me when it comes to monster fish. the thera a is great for clowns, but to bulk them up, hikari just does it faster. massivore i swear is the magic food, anything i feed massivore to explodes in growth, finnage is massive and grows further out. the wood in there are manuka tree roots. i have another one, i will add it on the other side to give more cover for clowns, looks natural too, they swim in and out of the root systems. awesome!

semi planted with fake plants, some real plants, lots of wood! lots of clonw loaches. the main guy im filming is the largest clown. enjoy

there is no limit on sump sump enables yout o incrase water volume with out increasing tank dimensions:D youc an have a sump thats same litres as your main tank, that effectively doubles your tank capacity (bar space of course for alrge fish) i wouldsuggest a 100 litres to 150 litres under the tank would be awesome. tower set up - and a good return pump watchout for the over flow of your tank make sure it can handle the turnover you are putting on it,.

what brand of pump do you have? cheaper pumps may be reliable, but noisy in nature. if you wnt quiet you are just gonna have to splash out for eheims

dont do it not worth it even if you breed the discus, youw ill never recover the money. if you are wealthy and just wanan do it for a hobby.... then thats fine. kinda sadistic to me, as the process i hear is very painfull. why wild discus? what do tehy look like anyways?

i guess its "each to their own" Some would claim Red or Gold arowanas fetching 2000 above up to 150,000 dollars are jsut over priced glorified meat eating machines. Some would claim plecos are boring they sit there and do nothing. Some would claim african cichlids are boring too... etc the list goes on. some love neon tetras - while i see them as feeders or not even as they are toosmall. this fish si rare, hard to breed and also very striking, in real ife they are as white and contrasted with the black stripes as tehy are in most photoshopped and touched up photographs you see online. to me, they are too small, the fact theye at meat gets my engine revvin, but too small:D i think they are also a trophy fish. like the banded knife, i never see mine alli know its alive.... but its rare in thsi country so i got it. for some, rarity is novelty:D

only if it grew bigger i would have one lol they are dwarf plecos

i would ensuer its insured:) why buy a tank from so far away - im sure there are suppliers close by?