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Yup - very good

Thats larger than the picture makes the fish look

cheers

I agree, looks like a young fish. What size is it?

Great, glad you have used them before and found them okay.

My 4 year old daughter loves 'helping' too. Funny when she calls the battery drill Daddy's toys

I have used those scrubbers before too although it was actually for an alligator's pre-filter for a large pool. The problem was that dye leaked out and discoloured the water.

It didnt bother the alligator but I changed it as soon as I noticed the water colour. if it was a fish tank it might have ...

Did you not like the Betta article too in TFH LOL

best thing i find is plain old fashioned salt at 1 teaspoon per liter (as long as its marine salt) and methelyne blue. Meth blue is also great for freeing up oxygen.

I use this for a lot of sensitive fish that often get velvet like some wild bettas.

There are 3 adults crusing about the tank from time to time but rest assured I am being eagle-eyed for any signs of breeding... hopefully more pics to follow

Hi,

wasn't a sucessful spawning as no eggs hatched but i am still working on it! The female is pretty fat again...

Colin

Hey Mick

yeah, I think there is definety a lot to be said about that. I guess weather loaches are the obvious example but it makes sense that seasonal spawners will wait until the right time with the right conditions.

The BBC weather website gives pressure readings due for 5 days in advance ...

Hi keith

interesting stuff! Many experienced fish breeders I know will check the weather during after a spawning to see if there were any changes, most notably thunderstorms etc.

The lunar cycle is also one to check. I spawned European cuttlefish and although the male couldnt actually see the moon ...

Tony, these clowns I have, and all the other fish in that tank, have been at this pH since June 2005, and before that I am not so sure as I didnt have a digital pH meter but I guess around the same.

Good luck

One good thing about adding the peat is that it not only can decrease pH in the tank but it also adds a lot of organic chemicals... perhaps the addition of peat humus etc acts as chemical cues to the fish?

That's why a lot of people subscribe to using Indian Almond leaves too.

I think that a tank ...

Hi

I am lucky here in that there is virtually no hardness at all to the water so if i were to just fill a tank with water and run an airstone the pH will drop over a couple of weeks to 5 and then on to 4 after another week or two. Adding fish greatly speeds this up.

Never add acid straight to the ...

Hi AnnMarie - no hoax!!!