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thanks for that Whetu Can you tell me which ferts with iron would be the best to use? And are they readily available at an lfs?

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of course the other main advantage with this pump is that you can also siphon the tank water out simply by twisting the bottom of the pump and turning on the kitchen tap, no more buckets yay

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IMHO I think Christchurch water is too cold to put into my tank from the garden hose outside which is why I prefer to get the temperature closer to the tank temperature, a few degrees cooler would be fine, but our water is really cold, like been in the fridge cold.

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I finally found something that works. It is called a super pump and attaches to your kitchen mixer tap, there are four adapters so it fits most and it will both drain and fill your tank. to drain you turn on your kitchen tap and that creates suction to pull the water through from your tank via hose. Then just twist the bottom of the super pump and it will fill instead of draining. I used it in the weekend after buying a hose and some attachments for it from Bunnings and gravel vacced my tank and then re filled the tank without having to use a single bucket!! Fantastic it probably saved me a good 30-40mins. I would recommend it to anyone whose tank is reasonably close to the kitchen or laundry. Mine is about 4-5 metres away from the kitchen tap. I bought it from Mike's fishing shop here in chch but he also has an online store and it was only $23.50. I have never seen these anywhere else.

Have you checked your water parameters? Maybe something is a bit out of whack. If so I would do a good water change 30-40%. I have never used Furan 2, but if its working and that's what it is designed for then keep using it as per the dosage on the packet, unless anyone else has experience with it and their opinion differs.

Hi Loopy Have been meaning to come for the last 3 meetings or so, and I will try to get there this time, but can't make any promises as we have alot on that wkend (renovation hell!!) but I do feel bad for never having been so far :oops: by the way do I win a prize if I say you have got some black angels and some golden ones?

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I love gouramis, and have four at the moment with minimal probs, just a bit of chasing each other. They live in a four ft tank with angels, serpae tetras, some bolivian rams and some fighters. but I did have one golden gourami that killed two swordtails once. he was in the tank first and got territorial I think, it was awful, he would grab hold of their sword and pull them out from where they were hiding (trying to get away from him!!) and then nip them. He completely stripped them of their scales on part of their body. I ended up taking him back to the LFS and swapping him for another fish. I think it can depend on the size of the tank too, as this guy was in my smaller tank (60L) which may not have been big enough for him and a couple of swordtails (forgive me I was a new fishkeeper at the time :oops: )

yeah I was going to say that if your filter agitates the water it should be fine, all the best

I would check your water parameters, give a decent water change of 30-40%, whether you find anything out of wack after checking the water or not and add melafix to the water using the dosage as per the instructions on the bottle. I had a siamese fighter with one "pop" eye, which could have been from injury, not sure, and he survived after doing the above.

sorry didn't get a chance to post any pics in the weekend. But in answer to your questions whetu I just have gravel as my substrate and I don't add anything to the water, I once used 7 balls under some new plants but off course can't use this for Java Fern and I didn't use it for the other plant that has this problem. I have noticed that this rustiness also appears on the older leaves of my anubias too, which I did put 7 balls under.

oh they are so cute

yeah the funny thing is the Java Fern although it has heaps of kind of "rust" on it, it grows like nothing on earth, I have so much of it and it always has bubba ferns growing on the ends of the leaves etc, the leaves slowly over time get rusty and holey. and another thing I have noticedsometimes the newer leaves get a kind of thing on the end of them like if lettuce gets stuck to the back of your fridge and it gets freezer burnt. (sorry best way I know to describe it) The other plant that this seems to affect also grows like wild fire (whatever that means ) but gets the holey rusty affect on some of the leaves. This plant grows quite tall and has light green oval shaped leaves .The leaves get to about 15 cm in length, and the leaves get a pinkish tinge to them, I think they would be pinker if I had stronger lighting. I'm not sure about the current adodge cos it is not that fast except where the inflow pipe is, but I do have two airstones in there which give the water alot more movement. Maybe I should post a pic, so you can see what I mean. Will try and do that in the wkend.

Hi Guys I have an Eheim 2217 cannister filter for my 4 ft tank, which at 1000 l/h should be heaps of filtration, but my plants get sort of rusty leaves and sometimes the leaves get holes in them too and from another thread I have read somebody suggested this could be a filtration problem. Java Fern is the main one that this affects, but there is another plant that also has issues with this but I don't know what its called (sorry not much help there). My filter is running properly and I clean it out every 6 weeks or so. What I am wondering is should I increase the amount of media I have in the filter and if so what extra should I put in. currently I have 1 box of eheim noodles (eheim mech) and two boxes of eheim lav (which is the pumice stones). I was thinking about adding some of the blue plastic mesh stuff too but I would probably have to clean out the filter more often then. Any ideas from anyone? And do you think this is a filtration problem or something else?

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Ow how cute, as long as it doesn't piddle in your coffee machine that is. It has such a gorgeous face.

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sometimes the angels will eat them too!! I think I have two girls as often I have eggs but they always end up eating them.

If you have a lowlight set up don't bother getting hairgrass as it won't grow very well in my experience.

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