I have used play pen sand on many occasions.... This tank was set up for a mate who wanted a low tech,low maintenance planted tank. It's a Juwel...
Just Google " Green Tiger Barb " ... they're pur-deeeeeee.....
Most LFS's stock them.... My personal favourite is the Green morph - really spectacular when they get bigger....
Skimmers do work in a Fresh water tank - just not as well as in marine conditions - water is much less dense in our tanks. Adjusting them to foam...
Nah - 10 to 12 will be very happy in a 3 footer.... In shoals of 8 or more they are not that fin nippy,but dont tempt them by keeping fish with...
Hey @BBQ.... Scrap the idea of running all 3 tanks from one cannister - not going to work.... the 2 smaller tanks can easily be run with small...
Perfectly safe.....
Take the stairs for your health if you want to.... but as for pressure changes over the space of 4 floors.... negligible....
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Yeah @scotty - you may educate your clients(and we thank and applaud you for it...),but 90% of the LPS's dont..... and 2 Orandas,even in the...
Pic one : soz - some little Tetra species,best I can say... Pic two: Hypseleotris cyprinoides male... I have a pair of them...
@Good_Times - they use a "Blanket Ban" .... All indigenous species.... the ones that get listed in the BL are species that also occur outside of...
@themasterofSAURON - contact @Pet Stop - check under sponser forum..... "entry fee" is the tank (filter built in) - whatever you do to it after...
One major problem with recreating this..... (Been wanting to do it for YEARS!) - It's illegal to collect or keep any indigenous plants or fish...
You forgot the "King" of them all: Potomotrygon leopoldii (and the gorgeous morphs of them bred by the Asians and marketed under "Black...
There does seem to be a bit of bacterial damage to the tail fin - off the shelf anti bacterial (Tetra's one is good) should clear it up in no time...
Malawis are easy - just get the male and female ratios right,and they do it themselves....
Easy @CharlieB - think of exposure times.... Adding aldehydes to your water every day.... Vs. a once off treatment...
Then buy a bag of shell grit for cage birds from your local LPS.... Just wash well 1st...
From Algae Town to Algae Dessert....these Sicyopterus gobies are the most voracious algae eaters I have EVER kept.... For 1st time since I started...
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