Recent content by conor

Well i dont have to worry about the wigglers by the looks of things she ate the eggs and he's still doing a great job protecting where they were(idiot) lol I have a sponge filter in there now will squeeze it in to my fry tanks and swap it with the sponges from the other tank where the new ones...

Thanks andy I didn't have as many losses over night as i thought i was going to have but still a fair few I'll swap some of my filters over to the parent's tank later and try get the Bb built up in them maybe it'll speed up my cycle's

I realised the density thing after i posted if it was the case they would be sunk not floating it looks like some of them are starting to get down a little bit but they are struggling i can't find anything on line that may cause it other than air bladder problems but cant see how it only...

Well i done 50% water changes it has brought the nitrites down to 2ppm but my first spawn of frys are all staying in a bunch at the top corner of the tank they really aren't acting normal i think they'll be gone by morning :( Actually I just thought of a possibility as i was typing probably...

Well i've just tested all my tanks I had a huge nitrite spike in the tank with the oldest fry in it it's reading 5 (top off the scale) so i dont really know how high it is but thats after the 50% change yesterday so i dosed with 5 x the amount of prime (what's recommended on the bottle). Whats...

Aghhhhh �� I done 50% water changes yesterday in my fry tanks and when i got in today and went to feed there were alot dead, i matched the water temps ok and only added "showmaster" water conditioning salts hadn't time to check my parameters yet today. I did check ammonia yesterday...

Well she's getting ready to spawn again and by the size of her it's going to be a big spawn. I noticed her cleaning the glass earlier so i moved my clay pot over there then she started cleaning a leaf of a plant (thats not very healthy) so i put another clay pot in and she still seems like she's...

Well she's getting ready to spawn again and by the size of her it's going to be a big spawn. I noticed her cleaning the glass earlier so i moved my clay pot over there then she started cleaning a leaf of a plant (thats not very healthy) so i put another clay pot in and she still seems like she's...

Well i done some shopping today and this is what I've ended up with Any advice on sex and breeds would be great i think i have the sex down but unsure about the dark one mostly and a 4ft tank for $20 with minor damage (one of the top supports was broken due to a filter catching fire and...

Looks like I'll have to move in to the garage then, at least it has a solid floor ;) I think I'll pick them up tomorrow and put them in one of my grow out tanks temporarily and start hunting for a 70G tank to have as a grow tank in the garage hopefully I'll get one set up b4 my fry out grow 1 x 40G

Damb :( I was hoping i would get away with a pair of young fish with them until I get more tanks set up they really are nicer than I have seen before Would they be ok in one of my other tanks that i will be adding fry too when they outgrow there small tank would they make it to much...

Well my new babies are eating well hopefully there won't be as many fatalities from this spawn as i have my bbs hatching down and its a little smaller than the last spawn I was in the LFS today getting a sponge filter and some bloodworms and i seen some lovely viel/ribbon tails there, I'm very...

Yeahhhh! :D I have more free swimmers ☺ And mammy is starting to look plump again this really is like an unstoppable train chuga chuga choo choo

I was afraid you would say something like that. The house is on wooden stumps about 2-3ft of the ground and about 4 ft apart, like a wooden weather board house but has all brick exterior walls I've never been underneath it but have looked in. We have alot of redback spiders about and that would...

I found this and thought it may be of interest to some people http://www.killies.com/Decapsulating.htm