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You will definately need a larger tank i'm afraid, a 55g would be the absolute minimum for an adult.

I don't have any ammonia levels, the amount of biological media I have in the wet/dry and trickle filter areas of the sump takes care of that side of things very well. What I do have is high nitrate levels which although not an immediate problem to freshwater fish I would prefer to get them...

Well that was simple and painless enough, one DIY turf scrubber built installed and running. I didn't have any screen since it seems that snails have decided the couple of pieces i had were tasty and ate it so I used a piece of 18x12" acrylic I had and rubbed it both sides with some coarse sand...

This has been an interesting read, i don't do SW but big freshwater predators are my thing and they are living ammonia factories which in turn means high nitrates and large time consuming water changes to compensate. Andywg has suggested turf scrubbers to me before but the whole "tilting...

They prevent free floating algea (green water) and slow down the growth of other algeas by removing spores from the water before they can fix themselves to a substrate. They also destroy parasites that have a free floating cycle such as ICH and velvet. They are a nice addition if you don't...

Polystyrene is fine for putting under tanks, its job there is not to insulate but to even out any bumps in the stand and prevent vibrations passing through the stand to the glass. What is being discussed is insualting the walls of a fish room where conserving heat and keeping the ambiant...

Keep treating the tank for another week and keep the lights off and the tank covered for that time too, velvet is a real SOB to get rid of and unless completely killed off will keep coming back. The spores are photosynthetic so to completely kill them you have to stop them from getting any...

When a fish has cost you a lot of money you sometimes can't help but feel the loss of the money more than the loss of the fish, especially if you haven't had the fish for long before it dies, we're not talking about fish that cost £10-£20 each here but ones that cost £100 and upwards each...

As bad and then some more, with 2000 gallons of water in my 24x10x8' fish house the condensation that forms on the walls is unbelievable.

Chaca are exactly the same as in all you see is a mouth in the sand but in all my years of keeping them i have never seen one yet take something that isn't a live fish.

Get a piece of glass cut to the exact same size of the base and silicone it to the bottom of the broken pane not inside the tank where the braces are likely to get in the way and make getting a single piece inside the tank difficult. Most hairline cracks are water tight anyway once the weight...

I've heard conflicting information about the toadfish stings, some sources say its no worse than a bee sting while others say that its along the same lines as being done by a stingray with excruciating pain and a need for immediate hospital treatment, either way I'm not about to go handling my...

Those tanks are expensive!! You should easily be able to pick up 96x24x24" tanks with covers for less than £300 if you looks around, i buy all my tanks from http://www.windsor-aquatics.co.uk/

Another method is a sheet of plastic egg crate cut to the size of the bottom of the tank and placed in there with something under each corner to keep it off the bottom (small rocks etc).

Polystyrene is a pretty poor insulation, its certainly better than nothing but compared to modern materials its way behind, you'll certainly be needing a few of them to put under the tanks though.

Well to be honest my 3 are always knocking scales off each other but i'm counting on that stopping once i get them into the 900 and the Dorado starts chasing them about.

Those severums look great. You need more Brycons.

Its in a 30g along with the new gulper which is too small to go in with my other gulper at the moment, once it outgrows that tank i'll move it to a 180 until its large enough to go in the big tank. This gar has quite an attitude, its taken bites at my nile perch, royal knife and calophysus...

It should readily take things like earthworms and frozen whitebait or lance fish, though you might have to break them in half and just give him the tail at first, your polli's will enjoy them too. Once its feeding confidently you can add a bit more variety like mussels and prawns and maybe even...

I only got one, at over £150 a pop the mrs gives me stern looks when i start talking about multiples of fish, but the shop has got a few more in so i might be lucky enough to grab at least one more soon since I've just had a nice juicy pay increase. I wouldn't say fish like this are dangerous...

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We mostly use US gallons because otherwise it confuses the American members :P

Its luck mostly, just take as many photos as you can and the chances are one or two will come out ok.

Prehaps you are letting the water level drop below the strainer on the intake so your syphon is broken?

Spotted gars have an optimum wild size of about 4 feet so for a captive fish i'd not expect much more than half that size, which gives an estimated length of 30 inches or so which isn't so bad, and if it does get bigger than that i'll have to build an extension on the fish house so i can fit a...

Well i'm afraid you are wrong there, on this forum you don't have any rights other than those granted to you by the rules, and if people have a problem with those rules then its best that they find another forum to post on where the rules are more to their liking. The forum may be free to join...

300w is a little low for a 400l tank, really you should have around 1w per litre of water, i'd go and buy a 100w visi therm and put it at the other end of the tank.

After a few mouthfulls you soon learn when to stop and get the tube out of your mouth. I find that you only really ever need to get the syphon going once, after that shutting the valve on the quick release taps holds the syphon in place and you only have to open the valve again and water starts...

Cool, i take it you'll be leaving us then? Bye

:lol: I think some of the people posting here might want to find themselves another forum to post on judging by the attitudes i'm seeing, the answer as always quite simple. If you don't like something then go elsewhere or shut up and quit moaning.

But getting wet is half the fun of keeping fish :lol:

Orange pikes are quite mellow and are more likely to be bullied by large aggressive central american cichlids than be the bullies themselves, there is absolutely no way a pike cichlid would swallow a veija or texas, their body shape is far to high for a slim profiled fish like a pike to get...

If you fancy bringing it over here and having a tour of the zoo we call home then i'd be happy to house it in my front room display tank, i don't drive and i've used up my quota of fish collection journeys until i've done some more DIY so i can't get over to you.

There are two of those filters in the tank placed at opposite ends and one of which is a double model. They are rated at filtering 500 litres per sponge so all together with 75lph of air pushed through them they provide enough filtration for 1500 litres of water which is ample for the 800 litre...

They didn't, it went in a poly box

Something is only worth what the buyer is prepared to pay for it, i have paid way over the odds for fish in the past but have been happy to do so in order to obtain a difficult to find or exceptional specimin. If something is too expensive then people won't buy it so the seller will have to...

You wouldn't be able to handle her, she's very high maintenance ;)