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260? Holy crap animal world way out in med hat has them for 239. He's got some sabre tooth payora barracuda for 150 that look cool for predator lovers. My favourite last time I went tho was the Archer fish made me wish I had a pond so I could watch me spit bugs outta the air and feast.

Not sure what part of Sask you might be coming from but Animal world in Medicine Hat has a nice pair of spotted peacock bass right now. If I had to gues smaller one is about 6-8" bigger one 8-10". He has a nice shop if your into predator fish.

Found acrylic for tank tops at home depot. Using table saw for cutting may actually be better. I used jigsaw with acrylic blade but even so getting cutting speed right was a trick. Too fast with that thin of a blade and it fused together behind the cut. Too slow and start shaking and breaking.

Yeah that sounds like a pooched regulator.

Had a stone shop next to my work that would get a few slabs double thick occasionally. Same rock same dimensions except 2 1/2" -3" thickness. Three to four times the price because of it.

Definitely a ramshorn and snails are good in any tank planted or not. Population explosions let you know there's over feeding or algae issues. Decking populations may be indicators of water quality problems or under feeding.

Hmmm tank at work and Jason has time to count 198 fry. How do I get that job?

Yeah mine is a little overkill, I can't trim back the floaters too much or I get algae blooms.

http://www.petsandponds.com/en/aquarium-supplies/c378121399/p17686846.html

While looking for a cheap temporary lighting solution for my tank until I build my rack I went with 46w CFLs from Home Depot. For $60 I got more than the plants need.

I know for certain that the two national chain pet stores out here offer a ten day return policy on any fish they sell that happen to perish after leaving the store. Now I have yet to test them on this as none of the fish i've lost since rejoining the hobby a year ago either happened within that first ten days. For that matter when they did pass by the time they were discovered(check my tanks in the morning before I leave for work and feed/clean/maintenance as needed) had almost nothing remaining my fish and inverts don't starve but they aren't over fed either and are usauLly hungry.

So if I said I planned to place it in a pan full of salt and leave the salt pan on the pavement in plus 30 weather they'd be fine as long as myself or any animal in my house doesn't eat it? Really though the correct answer would have been I'm going to put it in an aquarium and keep it until it dies of natural causes. And there is nothing as natural as a puffer or loach enjoying a snail.

With nothing but plant you could remove the bio from filter and cycle alum(spice aisle at any grocery) @ 2 tbsp/gallon.

Ok time for an update on these. Decided to pull the babies out of community tank they were born in to prevent them from being eaten. Turned out to be four not three but alas two had to be put down due to scoliosis of the spine. The remaining two continued to feed and grow very quickly. Had put them in a ten gallon I was actually wanting to clean out and rescape for some cpo's if I ca find them this fall. Glad I did as the spixi snails I had in there took the over feeding smorgasbord I was providing and make like rabbits. Went from two I purchased from Vince to 6 and now to over a dozen of them. Hundreds of MTS in there now too. Last weekend I figured at nearly twice the size of the neon tetras I have had for a year now it was time to move the babies back to community tank. Watched them that night for a bit and everything seemed great. Male came around and checked them out and by his behaviour thought my hunch of remaining babies being both females confirmed. Came home next night from work and couldn't find the little buggers. Freak. Fed the tank still no sign of the babies. Resigned myself to thought that Columbian tetras munched em. Two days went by and never saw a sign of baby beaks. Came home Thursday and there hanging out in front of a mass of wysteria was a baby beak. Believe I also spotted the second weaving amongst the mess of greenery. So looks like will be success and might just be wishful thinking and old bad eyes but mom looks to be getting chunky again.

36Gallon Bowfront community with: Fauna: 6 Neon tetras, 2 ottocinlus cats, 4 candy cane tetras, 4 red and blue columbian tetras, 5 glowlight tetra, 1 pristella tetra, 1 lampeye tetra, 3 bloodfin tetras, breeding pair of Celebes Halfbeaks, Breeding pair of "red lazer" Rainbowfish(eggs laid but no fry yet, let them mature little more in community and try again), 2 Red onioon nerite snails, 2 purple mystery snails, 8-12 Ghost shrimp(Paleomonetes sp.), numerous MTS and pond snails. Flora: Scarlett Temple, Anubias Nana, Water wysteria, cryptocoryne Becketti, few small java fern on a 12-14" peice of driftwood,Red Tiger Lotus, and this picture shows a banana plant that has since expired.

Having bought some red tiger lotus from Vince I can vouch for the quality of his stock. This is a very fast growing plant and sucks up nitrates very rapidly. I took one of his smaller specimens at the start of March and have had to trim back twice already.

I'm down in southeast corner of the province and aquarium only store is not an option which is exactly why I never leave Calgary empty handed when I do go. Trying to change the lack of local breeders by becoming one. Success with the halfbeaks now is encouraging. Think I need to let the rainbows mature a little more for viable hatching there.

I've found them to be better option than the other two pet stores out here that carry fish.

Well came home tonight and she's not fat anymore. Had a few things to take care of before I could take a good look but have spotted three little fishes swimming around amongst the water wysteria floating on the surface. Now if only I could get these red laser's eggs to hatch.

How have the fry made out? Picked up a pair from Vince my last trip to Calgary and either the female is now carrying or she getting very fat. Hope I have even half that success.

The reality is there will be some people who read this and agree with SGG that it is a bad practice, some who don't really care one way or the other, and there will be some who read title and think "cool a tattooed fish I'm going to buy one tomorrow". Simply by posting you may have increased demand thereby insuring future sales.

That's what I was thinking; that it was happening too fast. Seeing test results in couple days that I wouldn't expect for a week but wondered if combination of using water and more importantly the plants and that clay decoration(lots of ridges to hold bacteria) might have sped it up. Will be keeping an eye on results and being slow and cautious of what I introduce if it is showing cycled. Was still a trace of NH3 at 72 hr mark so not done yet but hit that mark before I thought it would. Ottos and a couple MTS snails will be test pilots before I risk the shrimp and the rest of the snails. Especially since at least two of the MTS snails I got must have been preggo. Already spotted way smaller than I placed in two out of three tanks and hasn't even been a week.

Ok so came home from Calgary with a bunch more goodies and thinking ahead to fry time I decided to get 4th tank up and running. This time I've decided to try and do things right and used Fluval shrimp stratum substrate with a black sand cap. Once it is completely cycled this will be the shrimp tank for the cherries and will be re-working existing tank using a real substrate rather than just gravel. Moved some planted/stem plants(wysteria, red ludwigia and amazon sword) from existing tank along with a clay shelter with few very small java fern rhizomes. When ready will be also moving marimo moss ball and few good sized clumps of flame moss. Also used water removed from other three existing tanks, 36g BF, 20g long and standard 10g, for about 2/3 of the tank and new conditioned water for other third. This is a new filter and I dosed with nutrafin cycle bacteria supplement as if setting up whole new tank, 20ml day 1, 10ml day 2 and 3. Added no other ammonia or fish food. No fauna purposefully added but have spotted one small pond snail that hitched a ride. Day 2/ 24hr test results- NH3- 0.25ppm, NO2 - 0ppm, NO3 - 10ppm I attributed nitrates to used water Day 3/ 48hr results - NH3 - 0.25ppm, NO2 - 0ppm, NO3 - 20ppm Day 4/72hr results - NH3 - trace, NO2 - 0ppm. NO3 - 30ppm did a 10%WC Is this tank really cycling this fast because of all the bacteria seeded even with a brand new filter? And yes I have MTS bad considerring this all started in August with the 10g originally for my daughter. Hey she still feeds them and helps with the water changes.

So have had a pop bottle CO2 system setup for about two and a half months now. The set-up I'm using is two 1L bottles T'd together then fed into a small juice bottle for a seperator(to keep the gunk out of tank). From the seperator it goes into check valve to prevent water siphoning from tank(unlikely to begin with with pressure behind it plus bottles are on a shelf above tank but better safe than flooded) then it goes to DIY wooden/bamboo chopstick diffuser. I have two of these setups going into the 36g with staggered setup days. Improved plant growth was noticed immediately but was still lacking light and nitrates were still climbing like crazy. With addition of better lighting and few more plants things have taken off. Nitrates got under control as plants now have everything they need and are able to utilize available nutrients. This system is actually working so well that the PH is coming down in the tank not drastically but enough that I will be keeping an eye on it. The recipe I'm using is 1 1/2 cups sugar and one teaspoon BREWER's yeast/ bottle. The mixtures take about two days to start producing but is lasting for three weeks. Have been using the wood diffusers as no power head ATM and have been told not to use filter intake method for two reasons. First the CO2 bubbles or even air bubbles are hard on impellers and second the CO2 itself will kill the aerobic bacteria living in the filter. Will eventually switch to pressurized system but for now this is working quite well and no more shrimp deaths or moss dying from using metricide/liquid CO2.

Having trouble wrapping my head around the math. I'm trying 6500k 42w CFL bulbs which is double the wattage and double the lumens of the 23w bulbs shown in the chart. The chart is putting the PAR of the 23w at around 50 micromols/ m2. Does this mean my one 42 watt is nearly double that? Does doubling the lumen output double the PAR? Am I already at 100micromols and would adding a second bulb double it again?