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Sounds good, just monitor after adding fish should be just fine.

Shelley I showed your sister when she came by for the liner.. I hope you got it ok. My pond is about 16 feet long, total gallons????? Anyway thanks for the link, I just pound more new ideas into my head for future projects. I will let you know how efficient my filter is for the size of pond and provide pictures.

Did you add bacteria or just let nature take its course? I know when I did my 50 I got a Nitrite spike for about 3 days. The tank was fully cycled in about 10 days but I also seeded it by using a used filter out of a AC 500 in the filtration. If you think that your nitrite tester is working properly then I would say it is cycled because of the Nitrate readings you got. Harold

I like what he did with plants on top. I just finished my filter for my pond, I used a 5 gallon pail with about 20 pounds of lava rock, then I found the Beckett replacement filter kit at Home Depot for $15.00. Inside was a 1ft square piece of mechainical filter like Skippy and a 1ft by about 1.5 inch thick piece of biofilter foam. I used abs for the plumbing and overflows. On top I used cut out pieces of universal furnace filter, it is blue spun plastic about 24 by 30 inches that costs $5.00 at Rona. To do what Skippy did you might need 4 or 5 if that was all you were going to use for filtration. I tested mine and it is capable of passing approx 2500 gph with 2x 1.5 inch out flows. If any one is interested I can take pictures. I plan on having the filter at one end covered with another house I am building similar to my mill. This one will be a "Dry Goods Store" Total cost for this filter would be between 30 and 50 dollars

My condolences as well Harold

See if you find something similar here, http://www.2cah.com/pandora/Disease.html#NTD You told us it looked beat up, I wonder whether due to weakened immunity it aquired something else? Best wishes Harold

Welcome Len :beer: -ham- -ham- :beer:

I agree with Valerie, and feel bad for you, I just had my male daffodil completely annihilate his little female just because I put more gravel in the tank so they could dig. I have never seen a little fish so torn up and still be alive. I culled her because I couldn't stand to see her upside down after 24 hours and only moving when you touched her. I hope things work out for you.

Bought 2 at Riverfront during the sale for $5.99. Christian,are they S.A. bumble bees or the Asian Pseudomystus siamensis? I was unable to see if the top whiskers stuck up or out. I bought them on impulse, put them in my 55 and then proceeded to look them up on the internet. There I learned about their eating habits and I had just stuck a pair of 2 inch cats in with some 3/4 inch blue dolphin fry. :chair: I had to tear down the whole tank to find them and net them out. Of course in all the mess and confusion I still didn't make a note of the whiskers. They are now in my tank with 4-6 inch adults. And my wife questions why I would buy fish that I will probably never see. What can I say I thought they were cool.

Also known as a catfish that can grow to 3 meters and is blamed for eating small children in the Amazon basin.

And a ameiva quadrilineata looks like this, Sorry Christian but you got me interested.

yea 2 months it sounds like you have a trio of porkys. 40 days on the outside.

:welcome: welcome to AA :welcome:

A book I read says to cycle the tank with swords he recommended reds or velvet reds then add your angels. He goes on to say that the swords will later provide lots of fry for the Angels. IMO I would not use cardinal tetras for cycling but you could for compatibility. I found them along with Neons are to susceptable to ammonia. You could also cycle with convicts. They are 99 cents at Chums and if you could find someone to take them off your hands when you don't need them anymore it's great.

See if what your guppy had is in here, at least you will know for next time. http://www.2cah.com/pandora/Disease.html#NTD

I have about 100 african fry, almost always have that many, 3 varieties in a 10 gallon filtered by one ac mini. When they get to between 1/2 and 3/4 inch I transfer them to a 20 gal. juvey. The only fry I had die was when I took the foam off of the ac intake and my wife stripped a female and 3 or 4 of them got sucked in. IMO and why I feel I have never lost fish due to bad water is 1. I change half of the water twice a week. 2. I feed sparingly many times a day. 3. A lot of people will argue this one but I use gravel in my fry tank. I feel it acts as an additional media for bacteria to keep nitrites down. BTW I have never had a positive nitrite or ammonia reading since I cycled the tank. If I were you, regular large WCs I know they are a pain but I am a firm believer.

I don,t see why it would'nt work, you look at the commercial ones and it basically mech. filtration, bio filtration with foam or similar inert material and then bio balls. The only problem I see having is slowing down the speed of the water coming from a 2000 gph so it doesnt overflow or blow up the filter. I have considered putting this filter ahead of the pump but it seemed to me to be problematic with supplying adequate flow to the pump intake. So I am think a baffled filter with very large out flow and a bypass in the top.

Answers 1. I tried a couple of 200 gph pumps on my pond worked until late summer and algae bloom. 2. If you think of a pond as an outdoor aquarium with the same problems, like everyone saying you should turn over your water 4-5 an hour. I dont know that you would need that much filtration.Uv is good to get the green out of the water. 3-4. Working on a system myself similar to sump system using valcanic rock as biofilters with some mechanical filtration. Seems like too much money for what you get for me too. 5-6 Put what you like in and around your pond, 1 found that putting gravel in the water helps trap particulates and biofilters the water. Definitely put water plants and yes floating plants like water lettuce and water hyacinth, for 2 very good reasons. 1 they use up nutrients that algae would use and 2 they block sunlight from the water which also encourages algae growth, besides the fish like to play in the roots. My comets started out that size are about 6 inches now , they had babies last year not sure if they were eaten or not. 7 I just bought a 2000 gph pump am going to build a little house to go along with my mill to house the filtration system. Going to empty the pond in the next little bit and probably start it up middle of May and get these poor fish of mine out of the basement . Hope some of this helps and BTW someone else submit some pictures.

Someone interested in Victorian Haps he says.......wants to breed some he says...... Where have I heard that before????? Welcome :beer:

:beer: welcome :beer:

I am sure there are a lot of people that will help you keep the top fin up and the pooping part down......... unless of course you have upside down cat fish Welcome :beer:

Thought I would make a note here that felixc has a Pondmaster Mag 24 for sale in buy and sell. 2400 gallons an hour.

Good stuff, I think I am not going to do the water lettuce or water hyacinth again this year sticking to native stuff and water lilys. I am waiting to see what has survived the winter but all the wild stuff I have gathered from lakes and sloughs have always come back so far.

A Kenyii is good too unless you had your heart set on zebras, plus if it is a male it will change colors unless you had your heart set on blue then......

Does kinda look like a female Kenyi too only on his fish there is no coloring on lower fins which appear to be prevalent on both zebras and kenyi depending on whose picture you look at. And the markings on the tail?? I am sure Kyle or Neil could enlighten us all. Here is one example I found of the Kenyi http://fins.actwin.com/species/index.php?t=9&i=263 Sorry I just looked at what you are saying about the stripes YOU ARE SO RIGHT :bang1: :bang1: :bang1: :bang1: :bang1: