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if you look very closely you can just see a tail of a 4 in cl

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two cl sleeping

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Dan,

Nice sleepers. I wonder if they actually sleep in there or if they just rest. Was that shot taken during the day? If so, what are these guys doing? Aren't they supposed to zoom through the tank during the day .



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ingo ,
about 5 15 am, and i think that they had been sleeping ,there was no movement from them at all. all 6 cl in the tank were out later in the day.

also today i saw the orange spot bn in tank 4 for the fist time, after 5 weeks id given up hope
so far no sign of bga coming back at all

cheers dan

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sorry forgot to say that from the way the rock is positioned there would be a slight current coming out of the hole that the fish are sleeping in

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a slight current coming out of the hole

Does that mean that you have the hole open on the other side and a powerhead is blowing water into it?

Or how do you do that?

Ingo

Anything else going on with the tanks? How are the plants doing?

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there are small holes and crevices throughout the rock and the other side is under the overflow of the hob filter,
plants are doing fine one annubias has 3 flowers, have been doing a bit of overtime lately to get some money for more plants and wood and backgrounds and fish

thinking of experimenting with a soil substrate coved with sand to see what happens and of making a 4 ft sump for my 8 ft tank (but thats another thread)

also my brother in law has some interesting little fish in the holding tanks at the local water treatment plant
http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/threads/27083.1.htm?6#

and i think ill set up a 3ft with water from there so i can go catch some.

thinking of co2 to help the crypts in tank 4 grow quicker , think its worth it?

the electric yellows are starting to move the substrate around(one of my pet hates) so i think they will go back to the lfs and i will get some small schooling fish , any suggestions?



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thinking of co2 to help the crypts in tank 4 grow quicker , think its worth it?

Personally - Nah. Except if you have the money and don't know what else to do with it.

About the yellows, aren't they African Lake fish? And doesn't that mean that your ph is pretty high? Which one of the tanks are they in anyway (you have so many that I always get confused)?

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tank 4 the one that had the bga, but they always stay behind the wood. as for ph

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hey,

Just for the fun of it, why don't you measure your ph?

Or do you know it and don't want to share it with us?

Ingo

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its 7.8 ingo ,


tell me what this means

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IMHO,

It means that the ph is just fine for the Electric Yellow .

As all fish from the two African Lakes (Malawi and Tangania) prefer higher ph than neutral. Malawi fish seem to tolerate lower levels than the Tanganians, but still above 7 or even 7.5. Yellows are from the Malawi lake.

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ok time for a much needed update, first off tank 1 lots more wood in there now, lovely tea coloured water. today i put 4 3cm bristlenose and 5 5cm SAE in the tank to help nip algae in the bud

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Dan,

You should make a stock list for all your tanks! What is in the tank from the picture? I like the drift wood. Is it stuff that you found in the bush?

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tank 2 a few more rocks, some more algae , and looking at this pic i definately have to do something about the back ground

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tank 3 going great, today i put 4 3cm bristlenose and 3 5cm SAE and 15 3cm bronze cories in there. still my favorite tank by far. just goes to show , spend a few extra dollars and do the tank exactly right the first time and you wont have to touch it again. i am a big fan of small bioloads so well have to see if the new fish upset the balance or not

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tank 4 a few new bristlenose and one new SAE , everthing going well except i had a dead electric yellow last week , cant find a particular reason

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here is a pic of the background i am making for tank 4 its a bit blurry but you can giet the idea , actually all my pics in this update are pretty crap but they will do

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now another pic with the silicone and substrate covering the back ground

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Nice glasses there, Dan. Are they safety goggles or your regular shades

Well, seems you have your work cut out ther for you (literally). Hey what are you going to do with your batallion of BNs once they all grow up?

Ingo

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By the looks of things he is hopping they will breed in his caves and then he can make millions of dollers selling the babys to LFS's.

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ingo the glasses are both,in the town where i live about 80% of the people work in heavy industry so if you arent wearing orange and PPE you dont fit in.

yep the BN will hopefully get it on and i can give some to the lfs , my last batch of eggs hatched and were going fine until we got a very hot day and killed them all.

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here are a few pics of the new background going into tank 4

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t4

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there you go , nine on topic posts and no post count increase, in my opinion this new policy will drive people awayn from FP or at least stop them posting.

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funny how my rant was countyed and im too drunk too spell properly

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now my wife is picking on me for not being coherent, so here is another pic

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t4

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Have you been drinking while doing this job?

That would make it even more amazing than it already is. How did you manage to wiggle this huge thing into the tank when there is the cross bar on top? That must have been a really tight fit .

In any way, I think it looks nice. Do you have a vision of blending it in more with the scape, like adding moss to the wall or something?

And what was that electric yellow trying to do during the setup - suicide by air breathing? Where was the school of fishies during that time?

Nice job, you sure know how to do it

Ingo

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I was wondering what was going on with the fish too! It looks pretty nice in your tank and it seems your fish alreay dig it! I like the idea of addint moss to it but I am not sure how one would go about such a thing unless doing it before adding it to the tank. Maybe you can crame some chunks of moss and fern in the cracks? Just an idea. Oh and it looks much much better with the black back.

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oh the morning after the night before
here is a pic of the background this morning, the pic came out a bit dark , i tried to get a nice shot of the sunlight,

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the electric yellow that beached himself is doing fine,as are all the other fish, i could say that i measured the new background perfectly to ensure a snug fit, but the only measurement i took was for length. also i am a bit surprised by the difference in colour from the substrate as they are the same sand gravel mix.

eventually plants will cover most of the front, im a bit disapointed in how much the grey stands out , i may take it out and paint it one day

wings which black back were you talking about?

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Six post up not counting this one it looks like the insides are black but I guess they are not.

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the pic with no flash, but i certainly agree it would look better with a black interior , it would give an impression of depth

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It would look much deeper and it would not jump out at you as much as big white circles do.

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well its a sad day today, it got cold enough to put heaters in my tanks, ugly things they are. with all the cyclones around lately the temp has dropped from about 35 deg to 25 deg each day and it even rained where i live for 3 days, so when i checked temps this morning the tanks were down to 22-23 deg so time for some new heaters

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Dan,

I guess you have been through these temperature changes before, right? I would assume that the fishies will be fine, so far, as the changes are very gradual and 22 is still not dangerously low.

Yeah, bad weather can really be depressing. We, up here, are just getting started to awake from our winter sleep, I can't wait until it gets warmer.

Ingo

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with all the cyclones around lately

It is really fun how we all have different words for the same thing. Lucky for my one of my classes talked about how down under giant spinning tropical storms are known as cyclones not hurricains.

Must be nice to not need heaters most of the time!


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hi guys havent been posting much lately, have been busy with work etc. i have been reading posts but not taking time to reply. here is a pic of tank 2 as it looks atm. needs a water change but thats for saturday .



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here is a pic of tank 3 you dont realise how much slow growing plants do actually grow, this is still by far my favorite tank, i havent moved anything in ages and its one of those tanks that just seems to go right.

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and here is a pic of a pregnant shrimp that is in tank 4. she is maybe 75 mm long and very fat.

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and for the lazy people like me here is a link to the page with the before picture of tank 3, it is at the bottom of the page . i love seeing how much plants can grow in just a few months


cheers dan

http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/threads/18622.2.htm?106#

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Dan,
Looks like your tank is growing it really well. I like how you have just a few different types of plants and a nice mix of colors. Might be nice to sneek in some hard scape though before the plants over take all the space.

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do you think i should put in rocks or wood wingsdlc? i would prefer wood as i think it would suit the tank theme more


cheers dan

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I would do a mix of both. More wood than rocks though.

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One more thing. What kind of shrimp is that? Doen't look like the normal feeder shrimp.

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it is a shrimp out of my local waterways. im pretty sure this is the species but not certain

http://www.faunanet.gov.au/wos/factfile.cfm?Fact_ID=74


also i am going out to get more wood for tank 1 over the weekend soill have some more pics and i will try to do the stock list that you asked for wings

cheers dan

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well where does all the time go , here are some more pictures,

a bronze cory skull in tank 3, ohh, the humanity









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my sailfin hiding tank 3












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tank 4 ,convict ,nest and eggs





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tank 2 , the tail of one of my whiptails , very crooked , the other of the pair had his tail bitten off and it is slowly regrowing




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one of my inquisitive crayfish looking at whatis going on





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the lhs door for the four tanks






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the rhs door




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my pidgeon , who always sits about 6 feet away and watches everything





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the doors in place , just the centre pieces and painting to go






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wingzdlc just been rereading the thread and it seems i didnt answer your question on stocking , sorry mate,

so here goes

tank 1

about 12 dwarf neon rainbows
3 bristlenose
2 sae
1 L104

tank 2
guppy feeders
2 whiptails (5cm)
2 mature bristlenose
750,000 baby bristlenose
1 L168

tank 3
15 now 14 bronze corys
1 sailfin pleco
1 orange spot bristlenose
9 cardinals and one neon (fallout)
3 bristlenose

tank 4
4 convicts
1 gold pleco
1 orange spot bristlenose
1 borneo sucker
14 kangaroo creek rainbowfis
2 shrimp


cheers dan


edit sp?

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Dan,

Nice pictures as always!

My convicts have fry right now in my 55G. They are very interesting to watch. This time around it seems as if the partenting is being split between the mom and the dad. Each has a batch of young with them at either end of the tank.

Thanks for the fish list!

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ok another update

tank 1







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tank 2
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tank 3
nothing new , except i moved the sailfin to my 8fter. i still have not touched this tank , dont even have to clean the glass



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tank 4
i got sick of the background and took it out and added another bit of wood, might put a few rocks in





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a pic of the parents




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i have mounted the doors and given them their first coat of paint , i need to adjust the left one up a bit ,you can notice it a bit in the pics but its too heavy for me to do by myself so ill have to wait to get help






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