API Fish Treatment Stress Coat + Tap Water for me
Nano tank at work, water comes from water purifier machine
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API Fish Treatment Stress Coat + Tap Water for me
Nano tank at work, water comes from water purifier machine
RO is not required for tropical tanks.
Treated tap water is perfect.
Treated tap water is perfect.
Siamese fighting fish cannot be kept with other male fighters. Males can be kept with a large group of female to spread around bullying. They are fin nippers too. Will nip at anything with long coloured finnage
Probably a red tailed shark, black shark or Bala shark.
Fire eels grow biiig, and need a sand substrate to be happy.
Angel fish need a tank with at least 18 inches (from memory) depth to be happy.
This will need to be a big tank for some of those inhabitants!
Or make a plywood tank, then you only have to use 1 expensive glass viewing panel, much cheaper 
No, Im not.
It does work, is done very often, and there are products designed for the purpose....
Why is this so hard to believe?
Why would it be lame? Have you ever seen a plywood tank?
Take a look here:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=288821
A large selection of DIY plywood tanks.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=288821
A large selection of DIY plywood tanks.
What, like when you go to a tourist Aquarium?
You knew that would happen before you bought them right? 
Yup totally legal. no special license required.. Why would it be illegal?
Not really, quite a hardy fish. Why you would want to keep them is another matter, other than to say "I keep piranha"
They do need quite large tanks though to be kept in an adequate school to keep them happy. So size can be a limiting factor.
The silver dollars shown above are a piranha species iirc.
lol, that they might fly out and start eating people??
I would not keep any of the red bellies (or similar), as they are ugly, take chunks out of eat other, and are generally very dull to watch!
Silver dollars are probably the most appealing of all the varieties. Except perhaps Pacu, but they are real tank busters!
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You reckon thats a big tank??
check this guy out. One 50000 gallon tank, and another 15000 gallons...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWHSbu6kLwk
check this guy out. One 50000 gallon tank, and another 15000 gallons...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWHSbu6kLwk
HUGE pics through, might wanna re-size them!
I doubt you will see any real growth from the plants, trimming away brown bit perhaps.
Planted tanks take a bit more work unless you have some of the very hardiest and low maintenance plants going.
They grow new plants like that, the drop down till they hit the floor, and then grow out into a new plant. its like a runner.
Looks nice!
Just an FYI, have you seen any reviews on that corner filter unit though? I heard they stuggle on heavily stocked tanks.
Just an FYI, have you seen any reviews on that corner filter unit though? I heard they stuggle on heavily stocked tanks.
What plant additives, and CO2 addition are you using?
I only have a few tetras, 2corys, a red tail shark and a plec and am looking to completely restock but im not too sure what to go for. This is the first tank ive ever had so I wasnt aware of the vast array of different fish i could get at the time. I love how some cichlid fish look but im guessing my tank is too small for those? I love quite 'evil' looking fish (have some serpae tetras at the moment they're cool) and am not too into fish like angel fish, guppys etc. Im looking for something a little different, any ideas of stocks i could have?
What size is the tank?
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I keep an 8 litre tank at work. Runs a small hob filter from HK from Ebay, with a small fluval light.
Mine was only supposed to have red-cherry shrimp, but I ended up with a single fry from an egg on some plants that were introduced.
8 litres is pretty small, you would be limited to perhaps a single corie (which prefer groups) maybe a small group of micro-rasbora/white clouds?
10+ litres would give you a bit more scope and make the tank a bit more stable. I was just doing this to show that small tanks can be done on the cheap, and with not too much maintenance Any maintenance required is also dealing with very small volumes of water, and this in itself make its quick and easy!
I can do 2 litre water-changes into a plastic bottle, via airline tubing in 2-3 minutes. I would normally only be doing that once a week in this tank, but seeing as there is a little fry in there, I am currently doing 1 litre daily (monday-thurs), and 2 litres on Fridays (seeing as I am not in the office on the weekends).
Mine was only supposed to have red-cherry shrimp, but I ended up with a single fry from an egg on some plants that were introduced.
8 litres is pretty small, you would be limited to perhaps a single corie (which prefer groups) maybe a small group of micro-rasbora/white clouds?
10+ litres would give you a bit more scope and make the tank a bit more stable. I was just doing this to show that small tanks can be done on the cheap, and with not too much maintenance
Any maintenance required is also dealing with very small volumes of water, and this in itself make its quick and easy!I can do 2 litre water-changes into a plastic bottle, via airline tubing in 2-3 minutes. I would normally only be doing that once a week in this tank, but seeing as there is a little fry in there, I am currently doing 1 litre daily (monday-thurs), and 2 litres on Fridays (seeing as I am not in the office on the weekends).
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Not at all!
All you need is...
Lots of light
CO2 injection
Plant Additive
Jobs a goodun
Can't match the colours though to be honest
A Malawi tank is pretty darn colourful.
http://www.irishfishkeepers.com/cms/images/fbfiles/images/02_Malawi_Cichlid_Tank_1.jpg
http://www.cichlids.com/uploads/tx_usercichlids/user_pics/4802/pictur_b5f18b5e69.jpg
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