lorenzo

hello scalare, nice to see someone from holland here. do you like it overthere and why did you go there and not stay in holland? i live in Hoorn Noord-Holland. in my town we have a club that is called the blackmolly but they dont awnser my emails i have send them 2 times. so if you now a good one close to my town please tell me coz i found a few but dont know if they are good. i found this site by using google, i was looking for aquariumforums and found this one also and i like it here. do you know someone in newzeeland or holland that can tell me more about pearlgourami's coz i want to have 3 pairs and would like to have some info about it. well thats it for now. greetings from lorenzo (jan)

:lol: i think that is great fun to watch...

:lol: hahaha and did the worm snap in two caryl? hahaha :lol:

all the gravel and sand comes from rivers. i got my material (gravel, sand, stones) from my work (highway construction) all those material are used to make roads so i payed nothing for them. the gravel and sand i washed very carefull to get the dust out and the stones i boiled them for 3/4 of an hour. try to get as much as you can for free coz building a tank cost a lot and this way is more fun i think.

i allready feel at home here thanks to you all when all my plants are in i will make every 2weeks picturs and when the film is full i will show them to you (dont have a digital cammera ) today i went to many shops but i could not find a nice plant to fill up the gape that i have in the back.. this week my favorite shop gets new plants so i hope to find a nice one so i can make pictures of my juvenile tank.

many people in the netherlands use philips tld83 and tld84 for plantend tanks.

yes plantman i am writing from the netherlands. i know they do well on driftwood, but in thegravel i read different things so i wanna know of they do well in the gravel also. good for you that the java fern is doing wel.. mine is just planted i keep my fingers crossed that i goes well :lol:

hello, i have just planted my tank and i also used microsorium pteropus that i put in the gravel. now i just read on the internet that it is possible and not possible. now is my question who has planted this plant also in the gravel and what did it do?

hay driverjohn, i have a friend who is have aquariums for a long time and he gave me the numbers for the tl light. he is using them too only more coz his tank is taller and has no problems with it, but i will see how it goes... i made picturs with a normal cammera so when they are developed i will place them here! i am gonna make pictures every 2 weeks so you can see the progres...

hello everybody, yesterday i put in the electric part in my tank. (lights, filter and heating) i put in 2 tl lights 36 watt from philips collor numbers are tl-d/830 for the front and tl-d/840 for the back. for heating i have newatt 150 watt. my filter is a aqua-pro2 from superfish and pomps 800 l/h. my tank is 200 liters. today i put in the plants and the tank is looking realy great now. on the bottom i have sand (light brown) and from bleu sandstone (rock solid) i made some platforms and filed tem up with gravel. the plants that i put in are : anubias nana lilaeopsis brasiliensis lobelia cardinalis echinodorus (2 kinds) vallisneria spiralis microsorium pteropus spatiphilum ceratoppteris thalictroides on the back i have still a gape left but that i am gonna fill up if i can find a nice plant outside my town coz all the nice ones i allready bought in my town :lol: to bad i dont have i digital camara outherwise i put a picture in this message. i hardly cant wait to put fish in my tank but i gonna wait two weeks before i put fish in the fish i want to put in are : 6 pearl gourami's 10 rasbora heteromorpha 10 barbus titteya 6 corydoras (dont know what kind, many nice ones there are) 3 otocinclus affinis so thats it for now, when i put my fish in i will place an other message. cya all, greetings from lorenzo

when i buy them caryl i want to buy them all together so they are allready been togheter for some time.. i heard that from some one else to. i just gonna try it mystic and i will see what happens.. think i am gonna try 2 males and four females. if the males start to fight i will return one to the shop. i think that that is a good solution. but i start with the pearls when my plants are grown coz if i start with pearls 2 weeks after planting then there is no cover for them. and in this time of year we can not get floatingplants in the netherlands i also posted a topic in the welcom forum so i you want to know something more about me just take a glimpse overthere. :lol:

hello everybody, i am lorenzo from the Netherlands. i am 32 years old not married just living together with my cat! i work in highway construction. i had a tank when i was younger and now i am working on a new tank that holds 200 liters. today i just finished the electric part. tomorrow i start working on the decoration. i have been grazy about fish all my life. i learned fishing from my dad and grandfather. when i fish i fish for carp, that is one of the strongest fish that we have in the Netherlands. i also go every year to france to catch carp because overthere they grow bigger than in the Netherlands. my biggest carp is 24kg/102cm. in my tank i want to put pearl gourami's and in the anabantoids forum i already have a question over them. so i somebody has expirence with paerls please take a look overthere... i am sorry that my english is not perfect but i try to do my best! i hope to have a nice time when i visit this site. see all later somewhere...

that is good news for me mystic thank you... i read a lote about fighting males so i was a bit worried if it was possible. i like the beauty of the pearl very much coz the female is nicely also is nice coloured comparing to other gourami's. i am from the netherlands (europe)

i want to hold several pearl gourami's in my 200 liter tank. i was thinking of 6 pearls. now is my question can i hold 2 male together with 4 female?? i read on the internet on some sites that it can and also that it can not... who experience with several pearl gourami's in one tank and can give me some info about it!!!