henward

yes, also numbers of certain fish are culled to keep the price up and the rarity. i was told this by a breeder in singapore of discus. he said discus once bred will keep breeding and potentially you can have thousands and thousands a year they cull them and keep the numbers down. no doubt same with arowanas

thats what i mean megabucks. nz has a limited market, say out of all fish keepers, a small % keeps mosnters. out of those monster fish keepers only a small % will ever spend several hundred let alone thousands of $ on a fish:D so.... likelihood is low but i would love one dream tank - aro comm.5 to 6 high grade aros and another 5 to 6 silver and black aros and maybe a jar or two:D tank must be 4000 litres i think.

i have my lights on 8am to 10pm daily. is that too long and contribute to algae?

i would say the chances of a snow aro coming into the country is as likely as snakes being legalised.

that fish is a beast, you can tell it has been fed alot - if you look at teh stomach, i believe it has formed a elastic stomach from lots of food. hence the beastiness. nothing wrong with that! i would buy it if i had space! skip all the enlarging process lol and msot of all, what a bargain! fruju: yours can, feed lots and wc lots!

I have had much aro experience, some not good of course as part of the laerning curve. but i have reared monsters as of late. IMHO - Aros need the 3 commandments. 1) Space - They will need space to grow. swimming space to excercise. Settle it in with little dimmed lights then increase it after a month or two. Should be fine. LIDS! 2) Water quality - Low nitrate, good filtration. not sensitive but always good to have water qual and arowanas eat alot, and digest rapidly... so the amonia will spike if you dont have adequate filtration. 3) food food food! Get them only hikari aro sticks asap. Then after they eat taht comfortably. Not chewing and spitting 50% of the pellet but i mean really eating 80 to 90% of the pellets as you would have a certain degree of fragmentation of pellets when swallowed - THEN SHRIMP. once aro has shrimp, they love it and its hard to revert them. but a diet of pellets is pretty good. i hear over seas that silver and balck aro loses its nice sheen because its fed beef heart...turns the scales kinds beige and off white...you want it silver, white in colour with a tinge of pink or in the black aro, bluish.... thsi is achieved by shrimps and pellets like hikari aro sticks. They are expensive but HFF has a awesome sale right now, im getting a KG of aro sticks for 130 ish. on that note, its funny you buy it with out researching.... interesting approach but hey, as long as you have the means to look after it, thats fine. Remember they grow large.... fast. 1 inch a month is the good target of growth until 12 inches.

how do i reduce phosphate?

i ordered a few latifolius from HFF, looks really nice! dosent get too big and carpets too

what else can i do to get rid of black algae? i have my lights turn on 14 hours a day. is thatoo much? what causes black algae?

so its a different species to nomal amazon swords? how much per plant?

amazon swords are relatively common are they not? i have a few and grow many plant lets. whats the species of it?

chain swords? whats that? amazon swords? the grassy bit on the front is the chain swords right?

thats a siamese algae eater. they can be abit agro cant they?

wiould it be ok to put mystery snails in my discus tank then?

yeah its not deep right now, probably 1 inch max in the deepest parts but generally, thin layer so will thsi be avoided with thicker layer?

do you think discus wille at them and get indigestin? someone mentioned hard shell?

dont knwo what it is, im at work so cant search much but its a carpeting plant, looks like the leaves are 'spades' onplayign cars, bright green not too bushy. kinda longish stemps and leaves in the end, singular leaves. they look cool any ideas? S. microfolia is nice, i like it

really, blue mystery snails? is this always the case though or more likely than not type of scenario?

tank is 62 cms deep 4x t8 power glo. glosso and hair grass i know i can google it but anyone have pictures of established tanks wtih carpetting glosso and hair grass? wanna see what it looks like established

well, i have clown loaches. their population can be controled something to aerate the silica sand i guess. i love silica sand, i wanna find a solution.

i want something that will eat algae that pleco cant. also on leaves of plants. apple snails? my anubias is getting this black stringy algae on it. any feedback?

ok i want carpeting plants you know, plants that grow relatively fast, low and looks natural like pastures any suggestions, and pics of examples? main plants will be swords...anubias plants, maybe crypts...?tiger lotus maybe, but need more suggestions on carpeting plants

as above also, trumpet snails i hear help aerate silica sand? any feedback on this?

ok in my tank i have bald spots where silica sand has been blown away ... corners mainly. i am thinking, will planting the plants on the sand stop this form of 'erosion'? the only fish i have in there that would cause this would be the senegalus. its only in the front right corner by the wood. or, shall i put rocks around it to stop this ? any feedback?

whats daltons? pictures? examples?