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Thanks, I had a read of the site, but no link anywhere to this 150% Saltwater (got to love good referencing). What I have found is the salinity of the lagoon in which they were discovered reached 34ppt at a seasonal peak. And interestingly this massive tome...

I'd be interested to read that if you have the source?

I agree, let it grow some more.

Should have seen that coming....o_O

Nutrition is a key component in egg quality, so when your fish are laying eggs consider feeding more often and a more varied diet. Eggs require a huge amount of energy and that all has to come from the female, and if the female is not getting enough nutrition, it will come out of here energy...

Interesting idea, why did you stop?

Hi Welcome back to the hobby. Looking forward to hearing more about your tanks :)

Ask them?B-) Wont let me access the picture for some reason?

I agree it has it's limitations, as would any model. But It still can be a useful tool IMO

These ones were quite small, Though I did have some larger ones (Glyptonotus antarcticus), I will put them in another post later on.. Not very deep, everything we collected was from above 25m, I would imagine plankton feeder, but not 100% i'm afraid.

The "eyes" are just a trick of the light, its a soft coral. The black stuff is a very thin filament algae, which I used to transport a load of amphipods back to the uk in.

So, I thought I would add another instalment of this section. So this is the transport aquarium As I have mentioned previously, this was used to transport fish and inverts back to the UK from Rothera, It is a refrigerated shipping container, with 6 fish tanks in, and 7 large sump for water...

Yeah, thought I would askB-)

Ok, just checking as you said there were still a few fish in after a few had died

What is the stocking of the tank? numbers and fish wise?

Hi, Welcome. I look forward seeing how your tanks progress, post pictures when you can!

Nice looking tank :good:

As the guys have said above, they really need to be in a 15-20 gallon. If you can't keep them in one maybe consider taking it back to the store or re-homing??

Quite a helpful tip, anyone who is reading this. I like to keep extra media in all my tanks ( like a small bag of K1 for example). So if I need to quickly cycle a tank, I have extra media I can do this with. It has saved my life a few times!

Buy a chiller maybe......:angel: Things on poles so you don't have to get your hands wet. And when you do just grin and suck it up! a good pair of gloves is like gold dust! And because I'm British a good cup of tea to warm up is essential!d:D

I like to use Aquadvisor as little tool to help inform my decisions. It's not perfect and I use my judgement on the results, but It can be helpful in preventing from going really wrong. Page seems to be down at the moment though http://www.aqadvisor.com/

A bit of advice I was always told, Buy the biggest tank you can realistically maintain and afford. As you already have the fish the sizes the above guys are recommending should be your minimum, but go for the largest you can afford and can keep.

Hi, Welcome to the forum!

Never thought of the pacmans, might have to use that in the future. So the Lumpfish is common in the North Atlantic, and I would say it was a Sub-Arctic species. The males exhibit a huge range of colouration during the mating season ( Red, green, blue, pink orange). They have been fished...

I have never used it, I like to get rid of my Nitrates the old fashioned way... if you do buy it and use it keep us posted on what you found out about it??

I could be wrong, but I don't think that's how it works...:book: The genetic component you could be mistaking for could be the description of the virus being a double stranded DNA maybe? Have a read of this it might help (covers KHV CHV ect...

Just in case anyone was interested, here is a small batch of my Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) eggs at the eyed stage of development. Eggs are laid in a sticky egg mass, and guarded by the males. They are quite large eggs (about 2-2.5mm in diameter). Females can reach 60cm long and 4+kg in weight...

I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to put down your method of fish keeping, That's the last thing I wanted to do. I can completely see the reasoning behind the way that you do it, and It does make sense. I was merely attempting to say that there was also a perfectly valid argument for Coin_T's...

I'm not going to disagree with you on any of your point, and certainly you make quite a compelling argument regarding hybrid species. Just a couple of points if I may: Firstly hybridisation encroaches on our definitions of a species in the first place. The traditional definition of a species is...

As TDS is measuring everything dissolved in the water as a reading by it'self you cannot really tell much about it. Try taking a reading with the usual testing you might do eg Nitrate, Nitrite, Amonia, Ph Kh Gh ect. This will then be useful in informing your decisions of what is actually going...

I see your point, but have to disagree, you are never going to have a completely sterile tank, there is always going to be some bacteria (viruses, parasites) in which you don't want. So to really prevent diseases you need to reduce stress on the animals, eg keeping at the right temp, lighting...

As long as you know it has been done, what really is the problem? I mean we hybridise other fish and animals all the time, just sticking with the fish hobby there are many crossed species (eg flowerhorn). From a species preservation point of view I can see that you would want to keep those...