HummingBird

It's got a 5mm baby swordtail in it.

Why not try breeding the bristlenoses?

I've got a couple of cultures that are sort of on the brink, think it's too cold for them atm. Haven't harvested in about a month. When mine are up and running again you're welcome to some. I feed mine yeast. What does everyone else feed theirs?

Anubias is another species that they won't eat, and java moss might do well. Maybe Vallisneria too. There isn't much else really, Goldfish and plants generally don't mix.

I wouldn't say GE fish are really like possums, since the Glowfish can't even survive in NZ. Gambusia are more like possums, or WCMM potentially.

Guppies will eat fry if they can and they're hungry, the best advice I can give to prevent it happening is to stuff your tank full of plants, both floating and non, and keep the adults fed and happy.

Alright, so about a month ago I took home a leafless bulb from work (I work at Jansens, taking home mangled plants is just one of the pluses of working there 8) ), within a week it put out leaves and now it's putting out these weird branching things too - at first I thought that they were flower bulbs, but they just keep branching and branching and never flowering. Are these baby plants? Or Flowers? Or something else entirely? Also I've been assuming it's some sort of Aponogeton, am I right in this? I await the answer of you plant experts eagerly. All of the leaves in the picture are from the plant too. The tank it's in is 30cm tall.

Good point, I've had it happen to, but not in the size of tank that would usually be allocated to feeder fish Another big plus with convicts is that they're always interesting to watch, too.

I would recommend Convicts too. They breed far more often and in higher numbers than the other fish mentioned, the only issue is growing the fry up - you'd probably have to have another tank or a tank divided, because otherwise the parents would eat them when they go to breed next week. heh.

I can vouch for that jn, I recently had a problem with cyanobacteria in one of my tanks, the nitrate was usually around 0. Since I've slacked off with water changes it's dropped down quite a bit. Still there though.

I've theorized that plants were actually the cause of my green water, Rockerpeller, so that might not work for everyone. The tank I had the problem on is heavily planted with 90w of lighting on it (3ft tank), whenever I tested it the nitrate levels were undetectable. I fertilize heavily and I figured that the plants need the iron & trace elements and whatnot to grow (which I was adding) but they also need more nitrates than were being produced by the fish, so they couldn't grow. But, and this is pure speculation but practice has borne me out on this, I thought the algae might be able to grow without nitrates, and just make use of those trace elements. I've put more fish in and have been feeding heavier than usual, and I think this helped the problem clear up - the nitrates still don't rise above zero though.

I recently solved a green water problem by making a daphnia "reactor". Had a pump in the tank that pumped a very low lph into a plastic container at the back of the tank which had daphnia in it, which then overflowed back into the tank via a lip in the container that I made using a soldering iron. The water was clear in less than 24 hours, at which time I fed the fish the daphnia and the problem hasn't reoccurred since.

No plants? Blasphemy! Heh seriously though, the tank is looking awesome.

You only have "too many fishes" if your nitrates rise too high between weekly water changes, keep monitoring them and if they don't, you're fine. I'd go for the Corydoras with the numbers you've mentioned, just because with only 3-4 Khulis you probably wouldn't see them that much (If you have 6+ you see them a lot more, in my experience) where as the cories will be out and scrounging around constantly.

An equally logical explanation would be that she's more of a peto than a fisho.

Oscarfishlover, I'm currently keeping a teenage oscar in a planted tank and he's been fine, I know of others who are doing the same so it might work for you as well. Also I wouldn't really expect a reply because Freshwest hasn't posted on here in about 9 months.

I'd recommend keeping the nitra-zorb in there, it'll keep ammonia levels in check till the nitrifying bacteria establishes itself in your filter. I'd say remove it in about a month or so, but watch your ammonia/nitrite levels when you do.

Note however, that the Aqua One tanks are moulded glass too, and also an all-in-one system. Marginally more aesthetically pleasing.

Actually it was a 2x1x1.5, but regardless it seems large to them since they only really have experience with tiny tanks.

I can understand why they'd think so though, when I got my first 2ft tank it was huge!

Quite an impressive tank, really like the effect of the tall driftwood. Crypts should be fine even in your sand, they're pretty hardy.

Blue&Kim posted a detailed account of his raising of some ancistrus fry a while ago, it might be of some use to you. The post is here.

I've got a large one in a three foot tank with guppies and swordtails, he's only been in there a month or two but I haven't had any problems.

All turning the heat up does is speeds up the parasites life cycle and thereby makes it easier to treat (it can only be treated when it's in the water column), it doesn't kill it.

The whitespot could've laid dormant in it's egg phase for that long. Another good treatment that's not as harsh on the loaches is Copper, usually available as a snail killer like Snail Rid. It kills all invertabrates though, including Ich.