Aquariums

[Guest]

angel-eggs by smurff900, on Flickr

angel fish laid eggs today!!

-Smurff

[slystiguy]

Well done! ;D

[QRAF]

now they just have to be fertilized and then not get eaten by any of the other fish we had our angel fish lay heaps of eggs but nothing survived :-\

[Guest]

 QRAF said:

now they just have to be fertilized and then not get eaten by any of the other fish we had our angel fish lay heaps of eggs but nothing survived :-\

the other angel has already done his run over, think its a male anyway hahaha, has different organ than the one that laid the eggs.

as for being eatin, yea, its a slightly busy tank, they may not last the night, see how overloaded the mum and dad get, at teh moment they are doing a good job protecting them.

i am worried as they have been layed on the filter inlet tube, so if they fall off they get sucked straight in to the filter.

shall wait and see what happens

-smurff

[ODB]

Still waiting for my $1500 to be paid by EQC for my damaged tank/stand.

Its looking most sad with about 40% of water in there atm and dirty as

[QRAF]

got some new lights

thats only the white light and the pink light going a have a intense white one as well.

I've also never clean my tank or changed the water i just keep topping it up when it evaporates

[ODB]

Um so how do you stop it getting the green algae in there?

Maybe mine is in a too sunny spot??

[QRAF]

i have sucker fish that clean the tank for me three blacks ones and a large orange one.

our angle fish when she layed eggs see the little ones swimming there all dead.

[ODB]

our sucker fish died and i havent replaced it yet since the tank is so crappy.

[slystiguy]

If you are getting algae something is unbalanced in your tank, so adding "X" nutrients can make is go away(and helps to keep water stable). I've been looking into PMDD for nutrients supply an hopefully test a batch soon. fnzas has heaps of info on this stuff

[Guest]

we have always had algae problems, or 60L tank did, now our 180L tank does, im buying a UV filter to deal with it.

our sucker fish dont do stuff all when it comes to eating algae, he did when he was little, now days he cant be bothered.

the clown loaches we have seem to do a good job, but they dont get the spots on the glass, but when the spots sprout, there all over them.

my 20L tank had a rather big algae problem, moved one of the clowns in, over night he destroyed the stuff, tank was sparkling the next day and he was an aweful happy fella lol

Clown loach

clownL by smurff900, on Flickr

Simon the Siamese fighter

simon by smurff900, on Flickr

one of 4, new guys to the tank

SilverA by smurff900, on Flickr

-smurff

[Guest]

ahh, all the eggs are gone, sucker fish got in there and had some dinna, mum and dad decided to eat the rest.

going to make a tank divider, incase it happens again the the future.

any of you guys tryed having a blue light? we have a white fluro light, im thinking of retrofitting a duel tube holder and larger ballast (maybe an e-ballast) into the light housing i have already

-smurff

[QRAF]

i have a blue, white and pink

but when there all on its to bright and the fish just go crazy ;D

[Codez]

I have a 2ft tropical aquarium

Has 1 angel fish, 2 pearl gourami's, 1 blue gourami, 1 moonlight gourami, a mix of tetras & barbs and an albino pleco (sucker fish like above).

Used to have a 4ft tank and a tall hex tank. My old's had a 7ft tank that had a giant gourami, 3 silver dollars a flower horn, an Oscar and a massive plecostomus. The flower horn was a mean machine....HAD TEETH lol!!

[Guest]

anyone going to the pet expo on the north shore this weekend? hoping there may be some food deals or some good prices

-smurff

[Nick_96_RSB]

used to have some pretty epic fishtanks while i was growing up, lots of cool tropical tanks, some axolotls, had a massive turtle tank in my bedroom at one stage, with about 4 turtles the size of dinner plates, the tank sat on a table as big as a decent sized dinner table at coffee table height - was pretty churr, 90% of the tanks were built at home too

might get a tropical tank again one day maybe

[Guest]

QARF, does the blue fluro have any effect on the fish's temperment, or does it just bring out there colour more?

i bought a UV filter this weekend, a wave generator thing just a little one, to get some water movement in my tank.

i re-did the plumbing for my external filter, spray bar is on one end of the tank, not across the whole back and intake is straight, not at a 90 degree, its working alot better now.

and got some new plants some christmas moss on a bit of drift wood and some plant, no idea what its called, but the guy said its super easy to grow.

so once the other plants i ordered show up i will have the tank well planted, i have been told this helps with algea.

now to wait for my crushed oyster shells to show up to help stablize my PH

i love fish

-smurff

[toad]

i have 3 turtles fatty, cledus and realeen. they are bit bigger than picture now as this was bout a year ago. same set up tho

[Guest]

ooohhh they are awesome

-smurff

[toad]

lotsa work but worth it. gotta clean filter every 4 or so days and whole tank refresh once a month lol.

[wrx_lou]

One of my mates at work had an outside pond with 4 turtles in it. All about the size of a small plate.

He said they were real easy to look after. only had to feed them during the warmer months as they would sleep in the bushes all winter. Just had to clean the pond out ever could of weeks.

[Nick_96_RSB]

yeah turtles are good fun. some of the big ones i had as a kid were laying eggs but in the water rather than there sandbox lol turned the tank water all white and murky ... but cool pets nonetheless, ended up selling them to a pet store after a fair few years

we had a baby one in a tropical tank too that was pretty choice tiny thing

[ODB]

turtles are farken filthy things lol.

need a lot of cleaning!

They just started swimming about in willowbank reserve( i take my wee guy there a lot) the other week. Have been sleeping somewhere all winter obviously.

Just bought a new tank yesterday to finally replace my EQ damaged one after it was painfully obvious EQC were gonna take ages to payout.

What happens they ring me next day lol

Getting nitrate cycle going now in the water and should be ready for more fish in a week or so.