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    Email Spam

    Spam from Social Knowledge, LLC. Early Retirement Newsletter is now hitting my inbox. I changed my email address on AA and now it's hitting that inbox. Are social knowledge the parent company of AA? Can their unsubcribe button be trusted? Cheers. Gav.
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    Saratoga (Australian arowana)

    Just looking at these on gumtree. They are $250-$400 for a 40cm fish. What makes them so special?
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    Weening a fish off of live food

    I have a freshwater perch that has been wild caught and I'm trying to switch it to peeled prawns from my local supermarket. It's been 9 days without food and the fish still won't take any notice of the prawn. How long should I go before I give up? Any other ideas for food?? Imported prawns are...
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    Free yabbie Australia NSW Central Coast

    So I'm getting rid of a small yabbie. Was thinking about cooking him, pretty small though. Otherwise if someone around the coast wants one. I guess he is about halfway grown.
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    Freshwater mussels what do they eat? Breeding successes?

    Got some freshwater mussels out of my mates creek. So I think they are aussie natives. Do they really just filter feed? Should I add anything to the water for them. I just put some sand in I had in another tank once for them. It has stirred up so much I can't even see my fish. Also I heard...
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    FW Nitrate filter idea.

    Started building a sand filter out of pvc to hopefully filter some nitrates. Waiting for pvc glue to dry. Says 24 hrs but it still stinks. Any way the idea is a pipe within a pipe with slits in the bottom of the inner pipe to allow water passage. Both pipes will be full of sand and water fed in...
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    Cricket trap

    My perch loves crickets and grasshoppers but they are hard to find. I always hear crickets outside and have found some black ones in the cracks of concrete. I made a trap similar to this one and filled it with apple. But no crickets. Anyone got any tips for bait or catching them in general.
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    Wild Caught Fish.

    Anyone have experience with wild fish in their tanks. I just got one for my tank. Not sure if it is a bass or an estuary perch. It won't eat yet but I guess it's still not sure what the {mod edit} heck is going on.
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    Guppies dying.

    Guppies dying. Bought some orange guppies to add to my tank. They both died two days after. Now 8 of my other guppies have died. They just slow down and then die. Fairly quickly within a day of them looking sluggish. The 4 have died each day. Now 2 are sluggish and one of them has bloody...
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    Anyone with dapnia in aus?

    Anyone breed daphnia for food? I want to give it a go but had no luck finding any around where I live.
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    amphibious caterpillar?

    This came with some Fanwort. Anyone seen one before?
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    Mystery snails. Are they mating?

    Found my mystery snails like this. One appears to have a thick tube inside the other. Its hard to see in the photo. Think they are mating.
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    YAY no more school

    Left skool today, got a job, new internet 2 50kb/s, new life.
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    Special Rank

    Hey ive got a suggestion for the monthly photo contests. You dont really win much from a photo contest except kudos, but i think it would be kool if you got a special rank for winning like 15 times or just have the rank for the month you win.
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    Dynamic images

    hey does anyone know how you can make the image in my sig dynamic (i think thats the word) like the one on the front page??? thx
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    Slime?

    Has anyone experienced slime in their tank? Its sorta clear like and gets on pretty much anything in the tank thats plastic (all the filters). It doesn't really bother me but should it?
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    $28 AUD Yabbies

    :lol: I went to this aquarium today that changed to new owners. They had taken down all the tanks and started again. It looks heaps better now but they were selling Yabbies with i little red stripe on each nipper for $28. THis guy is havin himself on, he rekoned it wuz exotic. He had normall...
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    150 watt heater *edit another question about filters

    I want to buy some heaters for my tanks a shop has them on special for $14.45AUD but only while stocks last. They have 100 watters for a few bucks cheaper but they're out of stock does anyone think it would be a bad idea to get 2 150watt heaters?? edit*** o and how much filtration do i need im...
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    is any old perspex ok for aquariums?

    is any old perspex ok for aquariums? or is some perspex toxic?
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    Yabbies and guppies

    Ive got some yabbies in a tank with some guppies and goldfish. The goldfish keep getting attacked and act really stressed so im going to move them out, but the guppies don't seem to care about the yabbies. Also i feed the yabbies chicken pellets and they swell up in the water. When the yabbies...
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    My yabby molted *put in pics

    my yabby just molted today or last night. You full can't tell when there about to molt. It wasn't moving much for a while but some times they just do that anyway. Anyone else keep yabbies???? I'm planning to breed mine soon and am wondering if anyone has had any luck. I decided i wanted to look...
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    Small 14L tank. Central Cost, NSW, Australia

    Ive got a really small tank for sale i put about 14L of water in it so it could be a 15L tank but im not sure. Its made from perspex(you can't even pick it from the photo, its finished off really nice, has an Aqua One SR-2500 air pump, an UGF and your choice of 2 fantail gold fish, 2 guppies and...
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    edit:my now CLEAN really dirty tank

    lol i put some river sand in and its really dirty :lol: its not really a tank either its half the liner of a 44gallon drum I cleaned the sand and now it looks like this
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    Outside Box Filter

    Hi, I´m in the proccess of setting up a 50L tank for some yabbies. Ive made a simple filter that is air driven and sucks water through filter floss. I was looking around the internet and found a website that mentioned outside box filters. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3363/filter.htm Heres...
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