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  1. Ludwig Venter

    Moving House Tips

    Where-ever the 180l fits into.... (it has to be moved).... do the same..... (btw..... Melt... I do remember you .... welcome back and hope you stay)
  2. Ludwig Venter

    Moving House Tips

    Nah!!.... 50l tank.... drain the water to about 4"depth..... remove the rocks and ornaments..... put the tank on the back seat of your car (fish & all) and drive off to the new destination.... put the tank where you would like to have it(replace rocks & ornaments) and refill..... I will...
  3. Ludwig Venter

    Have A Taste Of This.......

    I have my brother in law visiting so I decided to do an oxtail “potjie”….. (as it is known)….. I use a no.3 3 legged cast iron pot which I smear with butter and heat the pot inside the Weber over 4 or 6 hot coals…. (very slowly) When the pot is warm & butter sizzling, I add one whole oxtail...
  4. Ludwig Venter

    Happy Birthday - Mattyeatsmatts

    Happy Birthday!!!....Have a great day!!
  5. Ludwig Venter

    Happy Birthday - Little_Nemo

    Happy Birthday!!!....Have a great day!!
  6. Ludwig Venter

    New Weekly "off Topic" Topic No.17 (28/05/12)

    We are now stuck around Santa, (which is interesting) but what about those other imaginary characters like the Boogey man, tooth fairy, Easter Bunny..... etc.... Did you ever get any cash for your tooth?.... What did your Boogey man look like?.... etc.
  7. Ludwig Venter

    Neon Tetra Disease

    Hi and welcome Jamie..... It appears that you've been doing all the right things esp by removing the infected fish as there is no known cure for NTD..... It affects a wide range of fishes and (I'm under correction).....I do not think your plec is in any danger..... Of your remaining fish... I...
  8. Ludwig Venter

    What Do Feed My Dwarf Gourami Fry

    What I do Tony…. I cut off the bottom of a 2L plastic bottle ….. make a hole in the bottle (screw-on) top just big enough for plastic tubing to fit tightly through this hole… connect the other end of the tubing to an airpump & switch it on (vigorous aeration)…. I fill the bottle (upside down of...
  9. Ludwig Venter

    What Do Feed My Dwarf Gourami Fry

    Tony... I would strongly recommend that you find out more about hatching and feeding live brine shrimp..... it is not at all difficult and you do not "raise" them..... merely hatch them in a salt water sollution..... syphon them off and then feed them to your fish.... It is easy enough.
  10. Ludwig Venter

    May 2012 Tank Of The Month Competition Winner Is:

    Great contender for Tank of the year 2012..... (approximately Feb 2013)
  11. Ludwig Venter

    May 2012 Pet Of The Month Competition Winner Is:

    The MAY 2012 PET OF THE MONTH winner is: ---------------------NY82.-------------------------- Drawing 14 of the 42 votes (34%) …..…… Well done and congratulations!!!!...... Great win.... Thanks to all who entered and also to everyone who voted….
  12. Ludwig Venter

    May 2012 Fish Of The Month Competition Winner Is:

    The MAY 2012 FISH OF THE MONTH winner is: ---------------------Ainsy.-------------------------- Drawing 24 of the 76 votes (32%) …..…… Well done and congratulations!!!!...... Great win.... Thanks to all who entered and also to everyone who voted….
  13. Ludwig Venter

    May 2012 Tank Of The Month Competition Winner Is:

    The MAY 2012 TANK OF THE MONTH winner is: ---------------------Tonyb111111.-------------------------- Drawing 30 of the 92 votes (34%) …..…… Well done and congratulations!!!!...... Great win.... Thanks to all who entered and also to everyone who voted….
  14. Ludwig Venter

    Happy Birthday - Mikaila31

    Happy Birthday Mikaila, Have a wonderful day!!!
  15. Ludwig Venter

    June 2012 Fish Of The Month Competition Entries.....

    You are sooooo right Judy..... it is normally after the announcement of the winners that the entries starts rolling in.... I would say that by having 6 entries at this point in time....is a good indication.....
  16. Ludwig Venter

    June 2012 Fish Of The Month Competition Entries.....

    Spurry..... I need to inform you that your entry photo is currently not a valid entry. When I compile the voting poll.... I remove all names and just identify the fish by number to prevent votes going for the more popular person rather than for the fish..... The voting poll is only compiled...
  17. Ludwig Venter

    Help Me Identify This Fish Please

    Looks like a Port Acara to me.....
  18. Ludwig Venter

    New Weekly "off Topic" Topic No.17 (28/05/12)

    This week we talk about the little white lies which parents tell...... do your kids (or did you) ever believe in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, the boogey man or any of these other fantasy figures parents tell their kids about..... (If so) At what age should they be told (or at what age did you...
  19. Ludwig Venter

    One Liner - Quotable Quotes....

    When I get a headache, I take 2 Aspirin and keep away from children. Just like it says on the bottle.....
  20. Ludwig Venter

    One Liner - Quotable Quotes....

    If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat? We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse I just let my mind wander, and it didn't come back.
  21. Ludwig Venter

    To All Our Guests Out There!... Come In!

    I see we still have more than 2/3rds guests to members ratio reading the forum daily...... Go on man!!!.... it is much more cosier and fun inside..... Join us... it's easy....
  22. Ludwig Venter

    When Is My Guppy Giving Birth?

    There.... (welcome to the forum cdaloser) now your Guppy is visible for all of us and she is very pregnant...... I will never support breeding traps and/or breeding nets..... What other fish do you have in this tank and what plants do you have?? (she will probably deliver any time during the...
  23. Ludwig Venter

    Bird Feeders

    Buffy..... I had no problem when the pigeons landed on my bird feeder (shown in the pic) as they were still willing to share with the rest of the birds that visit my garden.... BUT... when these blighters discovered my bird feeder..... I was compelled to take it down.... They take handfulls of...
  24. Ludwig Venter

    This Week's "off Topic" Topic (21/05/12)

    As a rule, my wife cooks regular "have to eat" meals during the week (cause I'm at work), but I ALWAYS do a bbq on either Saturday evenings or early on Sunday mornings exclusively because my gardener comes in on Sundays and then I usually do enough meat to feed a family of 10 and provide a...
  25. Ludwig Venter

    Cananybody Identify This Baby Cichlid ?

    Yep.... That's a Convict.... sitting with same size Convict fry myself atm......
  26. Ludwig Venter

    This Week's "off Topic" Topic (21/05/12)

    By her own admittance..... my wife just cooks because we have to eat. There are set recipes and they are followed to the T.... When I get home and it is curry & rice.... Then I know it is Monday.... when it is Macaroni & Cheese.....I know it is Tuesday etc. etc..... Absolutely no experimenting...
  27. Ludwig Venter

    Above Ground Pond/container?

    The outside "Ponds" I am using are basically just containers.... At my previous residence.... I had 12 x 2m circular kiddies pools (about 500mm deep).... with filtration and the plants were potted.... (because I had the space for it).... I am now using 3m x 4m x 3m deep plastic containers, which...
  28. Ludwig Venter

    Best Heater For Tropical Aquarium

    Heaters are one of those things where your best option is the price paid..... In SA.... we normally go by (approximately) R1 per watt.... where a 100w heater will cost you around R100 and a 200w heater will be R200.... If I find a 200w heater and the price is R350..... I'd rather go for that one...
  29. Ludwig Venter

    Is This Normal Apple Snail Behavior?

    Methinks,that he probably landed on his side and in his/her attempts to get upright.... it gripped onto the substructure and collected a lot of it before finally succeeding (with the weight gained from accumulating the gravel).... to get back some balance.... Once done.... he discarded the...
  30. Ludwig Venter

    Keeping My Apple Snails In An Outside Tank...

    I moved a number of my Apple snails to an outside tank which gets about 5 hours of direct sunlight per day.... I supplement their feeding with baby marrows (which they seem to like...)... and then also supplement with crushed flakes... They have a vast temperature fluctuation between day and...
  31. Ludwig Venter

    June 2012 Tank Of The Mont Comp Entries.....

    Unfortunately.... as it is.... I cannot open your entries in the format that you presented it.... Please copy them from your Photobucket account as an IMG file.... In your case... I will accept your entries for this month's competition.... if you can submit the entry and verification in a...
  32. Ludwig Venter

    Descendants Of My Guppy Culture.....

    Yes!.... I know my Guppies are different (my own strain) as the blue colouring is unique as well as their hardiness..... If you live in an area where your ambient daily temps do no drop below 4 degrees C.... I believe you can start an outside pond, providing that you do so in beginning of summer...
  33. Ludwig Venter

    Descendants Of My Guppy Culture.....

    When I got rid of (all of) my guppies..... I kept a few males and the guy taking the rest.... overlooked one fry (which turned out to be a female) when I discovered it some months later.... Soooo..... I decided to put 2 of my males with this one virgin female to start the whole culture all over...
  34. Ludwig Venter

    Silicon Sollutions.....

    I will not even speculate as to why this tank just decided to crack overnight after standing outside for almost 2 years..... Nice 45 degree crack spontaneously happening.... I had some convict fry in there and when I got to it in the morning.... there was just an inch of water left in the...
  35. Ludwig Venter

    About A Girl...

    Kind've brings up the words to the song - Robby Williams and that beautiful actress (Nicole Kidman)??? - (& then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like "I love you")..... Yea..... females are from another planet..... The book is not yet written....
  36. Ludwig Venter

    Happy Birthday - Jojouk!

    Happy Birthday!! - Have a fantastic day!!!
  37. Ludwig Venter

    Id Anyone Please?

    Java Fern??.....Will grow on driftwood and sandstone.....
  38. Ludwig Venter

    Happy Birthday - Jenste!

    Happy Birthday Jenste, Have a great day!!
  39. Ludwig Venter

    June 2012 Pet Of The Month Competition Entries.....

    Thanks again to everyone who participated in our May 2012 competition. The poll to decide the winner is currently running and will be active until 31st of May 2012. The winner will then be announced. Meantime, please start posting entries and nominations for the June 2012 competition here. A...
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