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yeah I'm seriously considering that Any suggested brand name for said pump? I'd not pickup another coralife due to the noise. So run 2 pumps into the pvc setup, have a bled off valve somewhere, preferably in the garage

thanks for the info, will look into that asap cheers, Antonio

Hi there, I'm debating going over to a pvc system for my air supply to my tanks. In total I'll have 20 or so tanks from 2.5G to 20G (4eac 2.5/5, 7-10G, 5-20G) and am seeking a neater method of getting the air to each tank. My understanding is that with the pvc setup, especially if installing in a loop, I should have less issues with having to adjust air pressure at each individual outlet in order for the others to work well etc. From what I've read and seen posted, a 3/4" pvc system should work well. Only major problems facing me now are where to source out the materials. PVC is easy enough. How do I adapt from my existing air pump (coralife sl-65) which I believe has a 3/8" fitting (right now it has a 4 way gang valve screwed directly to it) to supply the pvc system. 2nd where do I get good quality brass valve that I can tap/mount on the pvc system? Also worth mentioning is that the coralife pump is VERY loud, so I'm looking at a way of mounting it in the garage and running an airline into the house that hooks up to the pvc system. thanks, and please feel free to suggest changes as this will be my first time trying this. Antonio

btw only seeing a few newborns is quite normal at first. I had 2 pearl blues drop and at first could hardly see one or two babies at a given time. Now, nearly a month later, they are berried yet again and I cannot count the number of young, they are all over the tank. cheers, Antonio

Good stuff, most of my stock are now berried as well fun times

ahahahah best show of 'who's the boss"!

I'd suggest you figure out what plants you want to have in there first, then determine your lighting requirements. I have 30 G tanks with basic single lamp florescent fixture growing some plants just fine, and I've got high output t5's over another 30G with different plants. cheers, Antonio

flourite dark, black etc are just the colour it comes in. I'm ordering flourite black sand myself, mostly since it's for shrimp and I want a dark substrate to show up the colours on them.. In addition local water is so hard that substrate that would help my shrimp would not last very long, so until I go to RO water I'm sticking with neutral substrate. cheers, Antonio

I did find that you don't want to mix them with amano shrimp, but cherrys as Jason mentioned are fine. cheers, Antonio

hahah too true

ohh I so want my parki's to go full color ! they are quite big but not orange on body as yet cheers, Antonio

haha lemme see if I can dig up some shots, as for the shrimps any time you can get them a ride on down or swing by you are welcome to some <goes to dig up photos>

looking good I see you have the same problem I have with that shelving unit, it bows a bit when loaded up. Has me a touch worried but not overly so, I'll wait for summer maybe and convert over to a wooden setup. I'm running much the same as you, 4x10G on top, 2x20G & 3x5G Centre, and 2x20G, 2x10G bottom cheers

personally jump on the bosi's and deep water creek (bunch of 6) would be a decent start very colourful fish cheers, Antonio

<thinks he underestimated how many fishies Galeen has> lol nice! Antonio

I've got mine scattered about the house I'm trying to ensure I don't mix species in which (to me) the females are hard to tell apart. The males are no brainers, they look so different Hence, 90G has parkis, 30G has skull creek and deep waters atm, 2nd 30G has the pagai village group. I've gone for 3 pairs of all but the skull creek which are 2 pairs, hoping to make these my first breeding project. cheers, Antonio

I'd not worry about the angels. I used to keep my main pair of kribs in my 90G tank with 7 angels, 3 pairs among them. At breeding time the angels kept everyone at bay, when the kribs bred they kept the angels (yes all 7) away, and raised their young till 10+ days in a heavy pop community tank. In my experience, neither species messed with the other, no fin nipping etc. cheers, Antonio

get ahold of Rainbowrick and Galeen on the boards here. Between the two of them you might be VERY surprised at what's available locally So far I've got a group of 6 parkisons, 6 pagai village, 4 skull creek, and 7 deep waters with my bosi's coming soon After that I need to buy a new house to keep the fish in as I'm at the limits with my wife lol cheers, Antonio actually, pretty sure Rick has some pagai village up at the moment, and Galeen likely still has some deep waters. (I'm not one for their proper names sorry )

For sure one could buuuuut that takes alot of time/work starting off with great stock is way easier ) cheers, Antonio

Picking up some stock (myself and at least one other board member) from said breeder this year. Soon as they get here yes, we'll have 7 lines combined that we'll be managing. cheers, Antonio

I've heard from a local pet store today that Edmonton tap water has about double the normal ammonia etc. Are you using just the amount required to treat the water on changes or more?

man that suckeths!

for sure interested in some cpo, remind me when you are ordering and I'll try to get in on it. thanks, Antonio

hah same on the yellows but add in cpo's hehehe Antonio hmm we should start a shrimp help line for us addicts

slightly off topic, but where did you pick up your soil from? I'm looking for a local supplier as the shipping cost on it from out east is high. thanks, Antonio