henward

lol yeah fair enough i guess how do i gauge what works best?

Decided. My black aro tank, with clowns, pink tails, and 4 fancy plecs will become a river type set up. Just got myself a tunze power head, and refurbished 2 small via aqua power heads. Just woncdering, opinions please. Should I make it so the flow is going one direction Or should it be mainly one direction and some kinda crossing the other way? Should I put the power heads from one end pointing to the other or maybe going against the glass so the flow kind goes more along the different parts of the tank. I mean face the power head facing a glass panel as opposed to just right to the other end of the tank.

fraser, i got the entier 2 season, roughly 8gb. awesome! jsut wtched one about snakeheads. in the US even in waters that get extremely cold towards canada, they are taking over.

Awesome! river monsters, who has this documentary or seen it?? unbelievable. one episode, he caught a freshwater sting ray from the mekong - and as they were examining it it gave birth to 3 pups!

my tank automatically replenish water and drain. at a rate of approximately 1.1 to 1.2 litres per minute. It turns on 15 mins 24x per day. i can adjust it but thats the average daily cycle. i just noticed that. a runner grew to 1 cm, just barely even a leaf and another running started coming out! i have one plant of twisted val with 4 runners now and another 3! i thin its doing ok. maybe no need to boost it more

hahaha henward the guru :oops: no, just what i have experienced with my dats and MONSTIFYING fish. my new word 8)

I would be weary you have to look at the habitat of that eel. They are usually asian i belive and there are many brackish waterways in asia. but in saying that i treat my tank with salt 3 times a week - reatment is quarter dose 3 times a week to replenish minerals and trace elements. My fish dont mind it wounds heal very quickly. fish are active.

a thick 10 mm lid should do the trick, Acrylic would work too in theory, but i have never had a problem. My aro doent jump much, i blacked out the sides and back. They tend to jump when there is much external movement and get frights. To get moths, that cant be avoiced, but yes, acrynic would stop that. What i would do, is get 10mm glass, if you dont have fluro tubes on top to weight it down, to avoid glass shards fallin in the water and it all breaks apart, you can use tape. Strong packaging selotape, clear.... just do an X and a couple accross on the top of the glass (not the side in the tank of course) and if they do crack it, it will remain intact for you to react and fix it.

cant do liquid ferts, i can only use under gravel solid ferts. water change cycles are too aggressive for water col ferts to stay in system. I like the grass look, i dont want plants over running the top.. i like the grass look. I tried star grass, didnt take wellt o my set up.

as you know i have been tryign to plant my clown loach tank. most of my anubias has been engulfed by black bearded looks ugly. and 705 of my amazons are covered so i removed them and trimmed. My other swords jsut died. Ferts i used were predominantly clay balls. now, i have twisted vals - growing very well and i acn see one plant is now 3... shooters underneath has started to expand. I want my tank to be over run by plants! i want it to look like a junger:d to a certain extent, so there is some substrate to be seen but i want the plants to expand more. faster. What ferts is best to use in the substrate? clay balls seem good but anything else ?

similar to silica sand, same texture and grain - is there such a thing as BLACK SILICA SAND? looking for something that is identical or extremely similar to silica in texture but black, pitch black.

also, when people comment on slow growth, as i said.... i believe most of the time its cos of the tank size. feeding and water change regime. that is key. my american dat is not 30cm or ust under whcih is pertty much max, huge monster - really thick bodied, active, hungry.... i only had it for 2.5 years at most. diet consists of massivore, prawns, beef, assorted pellets what ever went into the tank. My filtration is mega, my water change is too... and full size in 2.5 years. i got my indo dat to 30 cms or just under in same time frame - same diet.

I agree and disagree:) 270 is ok... that is the key word OK. growth of a dat will be dramatically stunted or slowed which usually leads tos tunting in a small tank. the waste a dat produces is the same and is constant. but if your tank is small....your volume of water and its ability to dilute nitrates and wastes are not as good as if the tank was big. I would say its OK.... but i wouldnt recommend it in all honesty. A syno... catfish, produces lots of waste, catfish can eat untill their belly is so fat they cant even touch their fins on the ground. Dats too. A healthy dat will eat untill its anus is almost popping out!! though thats nto good, but it can... a healthy dat has a healthy appetite If you were to put in a 270, you would have to manage its feeding and regulate it, meaning you wuold not grow it to ist full potential. The filter is ok for that size...thats great.... but i dont think its enough. If the date is tiny, thats ok, but as soon as the dat is 10cm plus... gotta double that. I used to do that too.,. small tank and upgrade but now im a fan... just get a big tank and plan ahead. .... thatway the full potential of the fish is achieved. just my 2.5 cents:D

oh yes, $90 to $100 is reasonable when yiou pick your fish, dont get the one with a abnormally large eyes compared to body. probably stunted. get one that is active, that eats when you are there. not just bloodworm. dont pick one that just hides right at the bottom corner and is skittish, pick one that at least reacts to your hand when feeding. the patters may be blurred when stressed, though this is a contraversial topic, some say that its natural some say when linse are clear fish are happy... but i anyway, plenty of arguaments out there

sexing is near impossible. breeding in captivity is unheard of

Hey have had lots of experience with this. I have 2 currently, An American Tiger and a Indo Tiger. http://www.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=h ... CCMQ9QEwBQ the above link tells you what you are looking at. In NZ, American tiger and Indo Tiger are most common. The rest are little to none around. anyways, they are easy to care for, just neesd good filtration. Questions 1) Size of Tank 2) Fitlration 3) Tank mates This fish is awesome. make suer you put on a diet of Prawns, preferably trained to eat pellets. Best way, is to go to your pet shop and ask them if you could see it eat pellets, thats best. Otherwise you will be feeding prawns all its life and will grow slower. with opellets they grow rapidly. It took me only 2.5 years for my American tiger to reach full size. but prawns, it could take longer! there is a myth out there that his fish is slow to grow. but that comes from feeding bloodworms and prawns only. Pellets, especially massivore delite by HIKARI will grow this fish fast - sometimes too fast:D Dont put anything small, it will eat it. you can put 2 together, or 10, tey dont tend to eat each other, its like a heirarchy, they know who si bos and dont eat small ones. but good to intro them when same size. you really need a good sized tank, good filter as they eat lots and poo lots. google has plenty info. keep in mind, eventually they get huge

like a popping sound... prawns popping.... (district 9 joke) no really. yeah like a popping sound and they quickly retrun to the bottom and get out of the surface... its awesome

i do think that some fish will survive the onslaught. nature does find a way inSOME cases. all we can do is hope i guess. still want nuclear:) im a big nuclear believer.

yeah, the price of fish in south east asia or asia is extremely cheap. youc an get borneo tigers for a few bux. silvers are 2 to 5 dollars nzd. any fish is cheap there, only a hand full are expensive, like asian aros are always gonna carry a high price, some discus, flowerhorns can to. but nothing likt it is here. pangasius sutchi catfish i ate some in south africa, they farm it for food.... not very nice to eat, plain no flavour but in asia its kept for food AND aquarium. '

sadly i agree, they would not dispose of such waste properly, that ist he problem though the atomic agency will regulate their disposal and is governed by that body. they can build it elsewhere, not in that area. wires can always transfer power. the waste si fine. it can accumulate.... eventually technology willb e created to deal with it:)

Nuclear is the key wind is inconsistent in the best of times. Nuclear... is clean except for the spent fuel whcih is generally dumped in a desert in the US anyways. i reckon the impact of the spent fuel is far less thant he impact of ongoing pollution. say coal, or impact of dams. Dams are not clean, as they kill the surrounding areas. this is obviuosly gonna strike a chord wtih greenies taht are anti nuclear. but wind farms are not as viable as people think thats why no big corporations invest in them, as they are not that profitable to have because they are not as efficient. Power is all about money and cost effectiveness. thats why solar is not common yet - solar requires a massive amount of space and little return in power for that space.

that is true. but the modern world is different. i am not agreeing with the building of this dam. but i am saying that the people involved, and the people that require it do not think of the consequences. we can all live like we did 300 years ago - but who will do that? its a shame that this dam will flood hundreds of acres - I think they should just go nuclear to minimise the land impact.

what is gonna go in there? that tank deserves monsters IMO lol awesome! heating that will be... somewhat costly me thinks

yeah, man has the ability to destoroy what took millions of years to evolve. but, you know what i believe life will find a way in alot of cases. also the hobby may keep the species alive and well. who knows. our technology and society now has the ability to keep such fish alive and breeding maybe? sad though. but, how do you tell hundreds of millions of people that need power - which is fundemental to everything that they cant have it to save fish? for us, we can see that but for most of the world, Africans, Latin americans, South east asians..... wildlife really takes not the back seat but boot... no forward thinking is found in these countries. Its the short term gain, thats what its all about... its like hunting rhinos for the horn. in this modern age with scientific proof that it does nothing to your health, chinese still believe it. Tiger testes. Bears milk. all jsut examples of many

You know - I wasnt meant to offend ay. i put it there to showcase the arowanas ability to consume live food. if i was to say, that i find it against my DNA to see fish eat pelleted food and dead food as it is not natural... what that sort of conversation be removed too? As i said to a mod who removed it. If i was to describe the video by words.... would that be ok? some would say that words are more descriptive than films. i find this crazy and insane that such a video cannot be put on. anyway, im gonna get over it now..... i jsut wanted to vent.