My Humble Low Tech Setup

I'm sorry, I went to Pet-n-Pond yesterday and counted 14 dead fish all in separate tanks. And one fish with white spot. I won't be going back.

And it's really sad, its the only LFS within 15km from home, excluding Animal Kingdom.

 

@Krefie: I can walk into any local petshop and find dead fish or sick fish for you. It is unfortunate, but it is part of the hobby.

 

I understand fully, but if the guys selling you the fish can take a smoke break every 15min and a large female guppy is already past half eaten by the other it has been dead for a day or two.

There is no reason they cant check their tanks once a day between the 3 of them working there. Heck it would take me 5 min just to remove the dead fish.

Sorry I did not mean to hijack, I am just a bit upset with the state of the their tanks.

 

We can then again put this down to lazy staff, and people who just don't care.
And agree, even Dorry had a few floaters in the tank.

Just wonder is PNP stopped selling the loaches. Phoned them and alerted them to the fact...

 

@fhmarais: Then point it out, I do it regularly when I notice if fish are sick, dead or incorrectly named. You cannot expect change when you don't so anything. @Krefie.

 

It'll make me uncomfortable haha, I know I won't be pleasant...Imagining every time I go back they'll say *Here is that douche again* ... *you help him, no no you help him*

 

@Krefie: You don't need to be unpleasant though, if you point it out in a nice way then I am sure they will be nice in return.

 

haha you're right, but I'm expecting the answers of we don't have time, or fish do die....ooooo jong...ek druk n patty vir hom op sy vloer.

All kidding ofcourse, but taking this dead topic out of the tank...lets flush it here.

@Swagasaurus will the batting be fine enough to catch tannin?

 

@Krefie: No but it is definitely fine enough too catch the finest particles that might be drifting in your tank water.

 

hmmmm, oki, will give it a go, I need some sponge for my Hydor 450, lots of space left, and the default sponge looks kind of warn out

 

Problem is I have a problem to see. I can't see detail, and only spotted the white spot problem when I took a photo of the tank and the new adopted kids.

 

Here is how I layer my HOB filter with batting, from the bottom up I start with the coarsest batting and then go finer all the way up. I end up with 5 layers, when I clean them I always throw away the bottom one and put in a clean one. This is after removing them from the filter after 3 months, they are supposed to be green and white:

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I did the same with the canister filter and it works like a bomb.

 

Here is some pictures of my new inhabitants (Panther Loaches)

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Still need to decide what I want to do with all my equipment and how to store it, removed the big tool box since I sold off most of the extra stuff I was not using and switched to something smaller.

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I am happy to report that all 5 of my Panther Loaches have made the transition too their new home zero casualties and they are feeding. Here are some pictures of my bottom feeders feeding:

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looking good larch

 

Who is this larch fellow you are refering too

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some tonsil..
must be mistaken

 

Ahah, heard he can be a real duchebag some times.

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