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If there are any there (males for females or both?) do you want me to just let you know or buy them for you and bring them up? My Dad is coming down to Palmy tomorrow and I'm coming home with him up to the Bay. Am going to clear my fishtank out completely as I'm pretty sure my goldfish have dropsy (both of them now) due to their being slightly bloated with scales sticking out And as I don't know whats causing it, its complete clear out time. Then am going to plant the tank up and leave it for the 3 weeks I'm away over the hols to cycle. Then *fingers crossed* when I come back I can check the water and hopefully get my first ever tropical fish *yay* Also collecting rainwater instead of Wet Pets water as my pH was WAY high when I got it tested at animates the other day to check my levels. Read in another thread somewhere that the Wet Pets water had high pH and at least this way I know its pretty pure (and free!)

Not far out of Havelock and Hastings, down Te Aute Road. Didn't even see you were in Napier sorry Want anything from Wet Pets? ;-)

oooo thanks! And yay, can see the siamese fighter Haha about the algae, do you have lazy overfed BNs ;-) Least you don't have algae all over your plants *sulks* Spose at least my comet is trying to eat it for me...

I looooove Wet Pets, the staff must think I'm crazy because when I get there (which isnt that often) I spend ages there, even just deciding what plants I want ;-) Am going there on Wednesday before I head home up to Hawkes Bay. Was hoping not to have to re-cycle my tank, but I have a sick goldfish for absolutely no apparent reason so I think it might be better to start from scratch. Will just get some plants and start the cycle... The healthy comet will be going into a pond :-)

Yeah I was reading about them and their breeding. Have to admit at first I thought "hey, that would be cool" and then reading on realised how prolific it really is and decided males only might be better ;-) Thats if I can find some nice guppies, if not I will probably go with a small school of neon or cardinal tetras Hey Evil! Any sign of that photo you promised me? ;-)

Its the filter lol, sucks in the water through the 'tail' at the bottom and spits it out the top :lol:

Haha yeah I was eyeing up one of those $45 dollar test kits tonight Was thinking the Jebo would be fine, for a few years until I get my BIG tank anyway mwarhar Goldfish seems fine now, just worried as thats how my other ones went, just started hanging out on the bottom more and more and then.... *doom doom doom*

Haha and you have the same filter as me, albeit a little bigger! yeah i know about the whole "you get what you pay for" Am just wondering what the extra I "get" is buy spending so much more? The Jebo one will keep the tank at the right temperature and so will the Jager one...so whats the diff? lol Top of the list is a water testing kit tho. When I had the smaller tank I was always having a goldfish drop off the end due to overstocking I'd say. Now just have the two and they look happy as. Then just before I had a worry as my calico fan was hiding on the bottom. I do weekly changes (bout 40%), only feed once a day to once every 2 days, the fish don't have white spot or anything....so whats the problem?! thus want to check water quality, will get it tested tomorrow at a friends place. Haha sorry for the ramble, your the only one replying to my thread

Ooooo whats to stop me having a few guppies in there? They look wicked :-) Yes, I'm having fun surfing the net and reading up on tropical fish care lol Kinda slow in here, but if anyone wanders in, would this heater be good for my tank? http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pe ... 864713.htm What do I have to gain by spending a lot more on this one... http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pe ... 736880.htm And evilknieval, how often will you be doing water changes in your mini tank?

Cool, thanks for that :-) Your tank is wicked for a little one, do you have any newer photos? I hadn't really made the connection that increasing plant numbers helps keep nitrates and ammonia down duh And yea, I would be starting very slow, don't want to screw things up. Looks like I might have to invest in a testing kit to keep things stable (or make frequent trips to the LFS to get them to test it, which isnt a bad thing in itself hehe)

Oops, I meant to post a link to the kind of idea I have: http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/evils- ... 13686.html

Hi again, Thanks all for your help. Have been thinking too much about fish now and not enough about my impending exam tomorrow lol OK, so oxygen weed is good for goldfish. This is why I thought I'd ask here, I think you guys would know what your talking about better then some store staff who told me I could have 4 goldfish in a 13 litre tank :roll: Am sooooo tempted to turn tropical, and it doesn't help that I have a soft spot for sucker fish. Only thing holding me back is that I realised I'm quite attached to my 2 goldies haha Oh, and I do have a backing on the tank, its dark blue. I checked the photo and realised it just looked as though it was the curtain continuing down, but no, there is a backing So definitely would get a bristlenose catfish for the tank. Apart from a lone male siamese fighter, is there any other fish I could have in there instead that I could prehaps have 2 of? Would also love to plant the tank up more, like using the hygrophilia to cover the back wall (and heater! lol) and have more of a natural environment looking tank Thanks so much again for the help

Hokay, no adding a pleco, thats good, I pretty much realised the tank was too small anyway for an extra fish. I know my goldfish will outgrow this tank, but as I said, I will be upgrading in a couple of years. Thanks for the gravel idea, I just saw that in another thread. Need to find some dark gravel now lol. As to it being by a window, I don't have anywhere else to put it. Its only just in front of it, on the far right of my window and what little sun I get only comes in on the far left in the late afternoon. I only have the tank light on in the evening too. Aaaah conflicting information! I thought oxygen weed was good, then I got told by the Wet Pets staff that it isnt good for goldfish, and now its good? lol You suggested a siamese fighter and a couple of bristlenose catfish for tropical, is my tank big enough? Also, you said the bristlenose are not algae eaters, is there an algae eater I could get? Thanks so much for your help :-)

OK lol, long story here but bear with me please (I was reading the 'what to do with a 30L tank' thread and wanted to ask about my own) I have a 20L tank, with 2 small goldfish in it at the moment. Heres a photo of it so you know what I'm on about: http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f69/R ... shtank.jpg Scuse the blurryness of the fish at the front lol, they dont stay still! :roll: I love my tank, infact I'd like a bigger tank, and then make it tropical... (yes, MTS strikes again). However, I am at university for another couple of years and have to bring these guys home twice a year, hence not being able to get a bigger tank. As you can see in the photo I have the generic gravel, live plants, rocks, a piece of driftwood.... The filter has a sponge and carbon in it. And I have a bubble stone under the rock which I turn on when I feel like having bubbles lol The only problem I have is that my plants go green! Lovely slimy algae covered green. The stones also manage to turn reasonably green by the end of the week (I do water changes weekly of about 40%) Now, talking to the guy at the LFS he said I can either get plastic plants (yuck!), buy new plants when they go green (well, thats an expense every few weeks id rather go without) or he knows of tanks that have added a pleco in with them. He explained I'd need a heater to get it up to 22 degrees to make it comfy for the pleco etc etc. Hence I ALMOST got sucked in but thought better of it.... Oh, and I know plecos grow. The Wet pets staff (our LFS) seem quite cool (yes I know, they are trying to sell me stuff) but he said I can bring back the pleco and swap it for a smaller one each time it gets too big. Hence come my questions: 1) Can my tank even hold another fish? I've been told 10L to 1 fish. And I realise my tank is small, I plan on getting a bigger tank when I'm out of uni. 2) Can I happily have a pleco and goldfish in together? The guy told me hes seen it done a number of times, but second opinions would be nice 3) Then after reading the thread about what to do with a 30L tank, I'm tossing up about turning my tank entirely tropical and swapping my goldies for tropicals. However I don't particularly like the small schooling fish. I saw someone in there suggest a pleco and siamese fishing fish, could this be done in my smaller tank? And then of course, would these guys transport ok (its only a 2 hour trip) And then what extra stuff do I need to do to take care of a tropical tank (water testing? I have NO idea about. I get my water from Wet Pets as I am flatting in town thus town water) All this from not wanting green plants!! BTW the photo was the day I bought new plants, hence the non-algaeness. The longer plant at the back was older, I tried to clean it but you can still see green on it... Thanks for bearing with me and any advice would be GREATLY appreciated

Theres some for sale on trademe at the mo, just search for them in Pets and Animals. One lots in Auckland and won't ship, but someone else in Christchurch will ship them...