phoenix44 Posted June 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 oh i put wood in the tank. its under some of the rock so the fish have access to that. the food is tetramin tablets and hikari for bottom feeders with wood in it. zucchini is in the tank as we speak, lol.. my africans and the other plecos in there love that stuff :bounce: :bounce: Thanks for wonderful fish, they are wonderfully conditioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquatopia Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 they are the nicest bristlenoses i have seen ! That tank is rapidly becoming a masterpiece ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 they are the nicest bristlenoses i have seen ! That tank is rapidly becoming a masterpiece ! Many thanks! Im so happy with all the fish I have managed to get till today. All the new fish are 100% off people from here. :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquatopia Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 Many thanks! Im so happy with all the fish I have managed to get till today. All the new fish are 100% off people from here. :bounce: Even better - proves there are plenty of people being successful with their breeding Im still waiting on hearing back regarding the dolomite rock i want for my tank but its dragging on so long i may have to change my ideas on that unfortunately. Thats another story though - meantime I can wait since your tank is inspiration enough to me to get mine right first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 is there more than one colour available for dolomite? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Look who came to pig out for a bit today. It is so out of character for these guys not to eat small fish, but he leaves even the smallest of lumphead cichlids alone, and they swim by his side and eat up all the fragments of food he throws around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquatopia Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 is there more than one colour available for dolomite? not that im aware of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 is there more than one colour available for dolomite? depending on the minerals present when it was formed it can be shades of white, pink, grey or brown mine is a cream colour, it came off the west coast of the south island somewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquatopia Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 depending on the minerals present when it was formed it can be shades of white, pink, grey or brown mine is a cream colour, it came off the west coast of the south island somewhere Hi - cream colour would be great if I could get hold of some - how did you get yours ? I read the following on a website when I was researching the stuff - "Golden Bay Dolomite is a 100% New Zealand owned company. We are situated at the foot of Mount Burnett, in Golden Bay. Our quarry is the only source of commercially available Dolomite in New Zealand" So if there are other ways of getting hold of it from other sources I would be chuffed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 i have had it for about 11 years, it came from the local rock shop, i got the left overs of a palette someone had bought for a house front entrance not quite the same but there are a few coastal limestone formations around nz that are interesting looking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquatopia Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 i have had it for about 11 years, it came from the local rock shop, i got the left overs of a palette someone had bought for a house front entrance not quite the same but there are a few coastal limestone formations around nz that are interesting looking Cool, i will have to do a bit more digging, so to speak, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 fox river beach jst noth of punakaiki has these rocks on it im very certain they are limestone based they are easy to carve like oamaru stone. they come in white, pink and black sometimes mixtures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinsonMassif Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 There is a limestone mine at Kowhitirangi. Don't know where they take the rock to. I want some too. Will do some investigating. There was a huge one just south of Whangarei Port when I lived there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 you can carve the punakaiki rock look into any limestone type rock, though natural if you can find it is best soaking the stone before carving is easier and not as dusty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxim_nz Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 they are the nicest bristlenoses i have seen ! That tank is rapidly becoming a masterpiece ! (I have 60 odd left, Pickup from Lower Hutt, at this rate I will probably be able to split them off into pairs for selling. Some of the older ones are 6months+ now) I wonder if Hutt Pet wants some more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 They are really nice b/n's and are well behaved too, only too happy to eat politely and share their courgette with each other.can't see why shops would turn them down... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave+Amy Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 I'm waiting until saturday to get mine (hopefully!!!) haven't had just the brown ones in ages...I don't know how many other people concur but I find the brown BNs more hardy than GBAs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Take some BNs to the next KMAC auction an I'm sure you'll be able to sell some Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 Take some BNs to the next KMAC auction an I'm sure you'll be able to sell some so do you guys just turn up with fish and auction them off? or is it pre-arranged? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Today I got the biggest, mega-est, massiveist B/N ever! this guy is huge!!!!!!! about 15-18 cm long! Got him from wetpets in PN for $25, I thought it was a bargain! I even put more wood in the tank for them just in case. I have called him Optimus Prime I never thought they would have gotten this big Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted July 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 Disaster I wasn't going to post this publicly but im hoping this will make others more aware. Tank disaster. I did my normal water change and somehow the heater came lose in the socket. then i ran to work and came back only at night - fed the fish - slept, woke up the next day, chucked some food in the tank as i was in a real hurry to get to work - noticed the fish were hiding but didnt have the time to stay and see what was going on. came back home from work at about 9pm (work doesn't go on till 9) and noticed the fish were still hiding, but all alive. touched the tank, and it was cold as ever. propped up the aquaminder and it said the tank was at 17 degrees. the low temp alert had been reset somehow, or it would have beeped the house down until someone rectified the problem. raised the temp to 25 over the next 10 -11 hours or so (all at night) but the next evening(yesterday, after another day at work (temp now at its normal 27)) i had to fish out 10 big e yellow bodies. and my alpha male demasoni. this morning there is another dead dem, with what looks like potentially another fatality but im not giving up hope on that one. All the plecos and catfish are fine. Bristlenoses are fine and have eaten well. there are 5 yellows left - all happy now. clown loaches are also happy. Least to say this has not been a good couple of days. to add salt to the wound - I have another good 200W heater that i could not put in the tank, set at a lower temp (as a backup in the event of such a disaster) - as the flatmates do not grasp the concept of a thermostat :evil: . it goes with out saying that the other heater is now in the tank and set at 23-24 degrees. so im hoping this will highlight the importance of having a backup heater set a a lower temp - it does not consume more power as the whole point of that heater is never to come on. if it comes on - it means the temp has dropped too much - but it will save your fish. would hate for anyone else to lose fish in this way. Thanks to those who got me to post this here, you know who you are Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 Sorry to hear about your loss What brand of heater was it? Those tronic ones are the best ones I've ever had. That BN looks awesome. The biggest I've ever had is 16cms and he died recnetly but I still have a 14cm+ female. so do you guys just turn up with fish and auction them off? or is it pre-arranged? You just turn up with whatever you want to sell with a list of what it is then it gets auctioned off. I think 10% goes to the club or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 Thanks for posting that. We often learn more from our own, and others', mistakes and this has been a good lesson to all. Why were you not going to post it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted July 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 it is a jager 300 W. the heater works brilliantly, its just i plugged in a powerhead to move debris away from the nooks and crannies and when i removed it i think i dislodged the heater plug. the backup heater is a 200W fluval tronic. I managed to measure the bn the other day as he was eating a courgette (a whole thing by him self, that glutton). 18 cm long and 4.5 cm wide at the head Why were you not going to post it? I dunno. for a while there i was going to pack it all in, sell the fish, re home the ones i was attached to like the butterfly pleco and the clown loaches. pleco would have gone to some one who could have bred him (least there is one female in the country that i know of). get a couple of axolotls or something like that but then lots of people on here and else where managed to screw my head back on. so a big thank you to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Posted July 4, 2009 Report Share Posted July 4, 2009 So sorry to hear about your tank disaster Phoenix. I'm glad you have decided to stick with it - it's a cool tank. I like your new big BN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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