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hi I have always used salt in my tank's and I had pandacatfish ass fare ass I am awere only the siamese fighter don't like salt. Make sure that you don't use normal kitchen salt (in case you din't know this) becouse this is iondist (sorry for my spelling) use aquarium salt fore marine tank's tonic salt ore ontreatet sea salt. how nmutch to use 1 tablespoon per 20ltr. salt only leafs the tank when you do a waterchance if you only do a water top up the amount of salt stay's the same. I hope I havend told you thing that you already know. scalare

hello all loughes are nocturnel (night fish) so most of the time they are more active in the morning and at night (but in a fishtank they have sometimes differend behavoir than in the wild). the more you have the more fun they are I compair them to dolfins they like to play. some times they look agrasive to other fish but they are not they are parasite eaters and look fore parasite's on other fish an can anoy the crap out of them. if you have only one they can be a bit grumpy becouse they don't have a playmate scalare

hi If you turn you temp op to 30 the cicle of the white spot gose (speeds it up) faster and with a lot of the white spot treament's it can be poisen to some fish like your loughes. one of the ingredians in most white spot cure is malachite green (I hope I spelt it right) and formalin. the malachite green is toxit to them you can use methyline bleu and a other product (don't know the name out from the top my head) this is not ass strong ass the green but it will help keeping your loughes a life try to treat them in a other tank becouse the methyline bleu can stain your silicon (make this a nice bleu coller) I will get you the corect name's fore the treatments and how mutch to use If you whant scalare

hI It's nice to see more and more dutchy's on this forum. Where in holland are you frome I am from drente (Emmen) If been here for 2 years now and I feel at home. you will see that what we can get here is a lot less than in N.L. but ass caryl said the people will make up fore it. I know how It is to leave you tanks behind (snik snik snoter snoter) so I feel fore you. hopelijk gaat het door met je imigratie. Hoe kreeg je het idee om naar nieuw zeeland te gaan? scalare (marcel)

HI It's good to see that some one takes on sick ore not nice turtles people bring theme to oure store somtimes and now I can tel theme about you so they can go to a great home where they been lookt after in the proper way. keep up the great work scalare

HI See if you can test for koper as well I have heard that some older houses still have koper pipes and that a lot of the live beares don't respont wel to it. Russel of ouwer aquarium club told us this. An other problum is with live beares is in breeding they get alot weaker frome thisand more prone to ilnes. If I order in frome my suplyers I order the live beares in frome 3 differend places so if people thake hame home there is less chance of brother and sister in the tank and I don't take them of custumers for this fakt. I hope this can be of some help to you scalare

HI I don't know if you whant to buy it frome a shop or not but try animates I work in one store in moorhouse ave in christchurch and do the fish ordering there and I can order it so they shut be able to do it as wel. If they don't knowe the suplyer they can give me a ring at moorhouse ave and I can give it to theme scalare (marcel)

HI The automatic feeders work fine but experiment with theme fist before you leaf the house as mengent before they can get conensation and this wil lump the flakes togheter see wat is a good distans beween the tank and the feeder so you fish get fed but your feeder is not geting any condensation. smal granuals might be an idea they don't lump to geter as easely as flakes. somthing els you can try and not as expensif are vakation feeders they cost aprox $5.- / $10.- and they can feed for 7 to 14 day. They slowly desolf and release the food in to your tank scalare

HI On september 24 and 25 there is a pet expo in christchurch at the addington raceway ch ch our aquariumclub (Canterbuty aquarium and pond society) have a stand there with info about our club, a raffel for a tank, 2 ft display tank, foto's, and we have a video running (from the tankcompetion from my club in N.L) If you have any idea's of what you wood like too see on our stand let me know and I will see wat I kan do to get It there. we are not selling just displaying. I am there both day so see you there scalare (marcel)

Hello where do you come frome and what fish do you have back home ? For inport info. qestions you can ask the guy's at redwood aquatics they inport a lot of theyr on fish ore critter kingdom I think they do it as well. If they can't help you I can have look and ask my suppliers I work at animates in moorhouse ave. But find out what fish you are aloud to in port like caryl said. scalare (marcel)

Hi blue green alge Is not a alge but a bacteria (like you said before).Furan 2 is an antibiotic this will stop bacteria frome reproducing this go's for you bad and your good bac. you will need to put new bac. in your tank with cycle ore stress syme ore if you know some one with a fishtank use there water.(keep an eye on you amonia etc.) Why your plants break I don't know but was the bleu green alge on them? this might stopt the plants from geting there nutrision and might have weakend them. bleu green alge apears most of the time in new tanks ore in tanks when the boi ballans is opset furran 2 is the fast way to get rid of it but fore the next time (hope this dus not happen) try to syphon it out and let the tank find it's ballens again this thakes ime but will not upset your bac. scalare

Hello Before putting anything in your tank look up what's the mater with your fish so you know what medication you need and read the labels it whil tel you olmost efery thing that you need to know (most of the time). Melafix is a mild antiseptic and it help's with faster reparing of skin and fins and a couple other thinks as well. It will not efect you good bacteria. Most of the time it's not a problem to use it with other medication. Always read the labels before use. scalare

Hi your tank is up and running for one moth. howe big is your tank and howe many fish do you have (and what soort) in it at this moment. have you done any watertesting. It takes a whyle before the tank creates it's own bacteria you can use things like cycle ore stress zime to boost your bacteria's in your tank. And dont put to many fish in your tank at ones this gives to mutch wast and there are not anough bacteria to breack this down what means there is gone be a peak of ammonia, nitrite, nitrate in the tank and the weak fish go first. I dont know if you have done this but it is better to introduse a couple fish at the time. Buy a few and wait a week and do a water test if this is clear add a few more. Fore removel of things like chlorine you can use aqua plus ore stress coat it nutrlizes chlorine havy metal and it puts enzymes in to the water fore less stress. And like caryl said the dwarf gourami's (if you have these ) are a lot weeker then they used to be I think that the gen pool is to small and they shut get some new blood in frome oversea. your pet store can do a full scale watertest of your water fore you I hope this is of some use to you scalare

hi Tray this pet store where I work (I din't name it) for cheap plant's have look in the buy sell there is a guy in there that I heare a lot of he seems to have lots of plants fore a good price. I dont know his name ore adres but I bet that some one how is reading this can give it to you ore have look in the buy sell you self scalare

hi Yes shelly it's me the dutch guy frome animates how are things going with my tank I am still bizzi with it I had some more other cost (more in portent) this wekend I am gone cut the wood to size and start putting it to geter and then the only thing I need is a stand and a frond glass and it is ready (I hoop). I am gone find a couple more web site fore you aqua that are going strait to the pages with photo's. scalare

He' I am dutch And now you are making fun of me misnoma. And no my fish don't have to pay fore theyr food (they have to do tricks for it) Aqua if you want to know more on dutch tank's have a look on the duch site www.aquarium.pagina.nl on this site you can enter most of the dutch web sites ore have look on www.nbat.nl (the dutch version of fnzas) I know that it is all in dutch but have look on (if you can find it) verslag landelijke huiskeurig this is the aquarium competitionin holland and there are lots of photo's on it if you can findt it I hope you enjoy it scalare

hello scalare here Have you askt the shop that you got it frome if they can get it frome theyr suplier. I have done it for one of my costumers at animates. Most petstores that sell a product can get parts fore them as well. I hope you can find what you are looking for. scalare

hello You might whone try light glow it is a stronge and bright light. This is not a purple light that help's your plant growht but it will (and might help your plant's a bit) brighten your tank a lot. This is the one that whe sell so dus any one els knowe of a different brand. What is the coller of your gravel if you have lighter gravel this helps reflecting the light as well. For your ram's you have tryd critter kingdom and animates but have you tryt redwood just like ck they inport theyr on fish. scalare

hello Try things like the seven balls frome jbl. You can just put these onther the roots of your valleseneria. This is natrual (klay) ore come in this wekend (I work zaterday and sunday) to animates in moorhouse ave where I work and I can show you more optoins. just ask for marcel the dutch guy you can't mis me scalare

hi Just make sure you dont put all your fish in at the same time just do a couple at the time. Other whise your whaste levels are gone be sky rocketing and your bactieria can't keep up. Example put first you rasbora's in let the thank going for a week get your water testet fore amonia,nitrite and nitrate if this is fine put some more fish in and do the same thing again. I have read that you ask't if you can put more than one male in your tank yes you cane even if the are close related to the siamese figther they are not as aggresif against other male's but make sure you have more female's than male's the male's can chace the female to here grave if he whants to mate. If you have more female's thay cane thake turn's. frome scalare

hello Have look on the web site www.aquarium.pagina.nl and look op the collum that says labyrint vissen. and you shut find info. about pearl gourami's. I am gone send you a pesonal massage as well with more info on them. For your qeustion how I came here my wife see is a kiwi but here parents are dutch she has a sister in holland and she stayt there for 1.5 years and she moved in whit me fore 2 years this in the plase Emmen and than she got homesick now whe are here. I work in a petstore and manage the fish department. scalare

hello What type of lights do you have and howe old are they? try to use the purple flurensend light (this stimulates plant growht) if you have theme your brown alge shut be taken over by green alge that most alge eaters will eat. If you have the purple light and they are more than 1/1.5 years old than the spectrum of light has gone and they are just like normal lights and not doing there job. Try to find more purmenent salutions more than kwik one's if you don't find the problem it just comes back. In sted of cleaning your rocks ore wood boil theme fore 2 min let it cool down and put it back in your tank and your fish do the cleaning fore you (they love cookt alge) scalare

Hallo En welkom op onze site hier in nieuw zeeland mijn naam hier is scalare (marcel) en ik ben hier nu bijna 2 jaar en kom uit drente . waar in nederland woon jij want als je meer info. wilt over aquariums ik kan je een paar adressen geven van aquarium verenigingen bij jou in de buurt. of probeer www.aquarium.pagina.nl En hoe ben je op deze web site gekomen. The rest I am gone post in english I askt him where in holland he's frome and that I know lots of aquarium clubs back home. And howe he found this site. frome scalare

Hi the meeting whas good a few new poeple that I haven't met before and a few I already new like goldie and teecee. If poeple stil whant more info. on the club you can stil contact me but no longer at animates in papanui but in moorhouse where I am gone be the in charge of the fish department . see you there scalare

pleace pleace teecee weare bells for me you be the bell of the party scalare