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[Peckoltia]

Looks mint mate.

[Anka]

Thanks guys

Check out the video of my new North Australian River Prawns that arrived today



Some pictures:

Edited by Anka, 11 May 2012 - 08:29 AM.

[Anka]

Some photos

[fishking123]

Wow it is sooo cool good job man

imo i think peppermint bn will look coll in your tank?

[Anka]

Cheers mate - I was actually looking at getting either peppermint bn or some of the smaller plecos.

You read my mind haha

[Scales]

L168 would look cool in there

Or L134 as well

[Anka]

I'm looking at L397 atm

But will look into those L168 and L134

Cheers for the suggestion

[Mattymak]

L080 are nice too or L333

[Anka]

Video of my fish

Edited by Anka, 03 June 2012 - 06:22 PM.

[SamJohns]

Looking good! I have a mate who wants to get rid of a 10cm L168 for $80 if you would like it.

[Bowdy]

$80 thats retail price sammy J

[SamJohns]

Sorry don't know anything about them really. I asked Johno how much and he said that would be a fair price for a female of that size privately.

Sorry Anka. Scrap that haha. I don't have a great knowledge of L numbers. Only kept a L333. He was cool.

[dazzabozza]

$80 for 10cm sounds fine to me. The're half that size in the shops @ that price.

[Bowdy]

aquotix has a heap 10cm $90 in pretty sure

[Anka]

Cheers Sam, but a L168 wouldn't fit in my tank as my pH would be too high.

L168 require pH <6.5 (apparently) and I am slowly raising mine to 7.5.

[Bowdy]

i kept 168's a while ago in 7.4 ph and they were fine mate

[Anka]

Really? That sounds alright.

Do you know if they are likely to eat my prawns/shrimp and plants?

[SamJohns]

I kept a L333 in a little shell dweller Nano in the tattoo studio for a while. Didn't really know much about them at the time, but he was very active and grew quickly "so i assume he was happy" Only had limestone/bleached coral. Didn't use any buffers.

Im sure the PH was a little above desirable now reading up on them a little more.

He lived happily with a couple of blockhead, calvas and others I can't remember the name of. I'm sure some Ls would be fine at your PH.

A girl from aquarium city Maylands "up the road from my house" has him now and he has doubled in size apparently

[waruna]

Hi Andrew,

Your tank looks very good, i assume this is your first planted tank so well done mate.

However i agree with Craig, break it down a little.. Have a clear fore/mid ground sections. With proper care those swords will get massive!! When i bought mine i was assured that these aren't going to grow any bigger than 40cm, but in about three months they reached 75cm+. With AS you really need to plan a head, if you try to move around plants when roots are established it will make a huge mess.

I have two books of Amanos, you can borrow them Consider on a gravel or a carpet plant, AS is very messy/muddy. All that mud will cover your matrix and may suffocate your bacteria colony.. Someone else could confirm/reject this idea perhaps? I personally think Matrix is the bomb, and i'd pay extra for it Without gravel or a carpet plant i struggled to get the water movement/surface agitation i wanted, which is very very important to me.

Do you run Co2 24/7?

My suggestion is to forget about adding more fish for the time being.. Get the plants going well first. Learn from my mistakes, it is hard i know i was very impatient. Then again mistakes are a good way to learn from, i remember those much clearly!

What is the PH of your tap water? And why are you raising it?

[Anka]

Hi Waruna,

Thanks for the kind words.

I know, I was very impatient and am now experiencing difficulties as a result of rushing into it. Having a lot of algae problems I spent $40 on a algae identifying/treatment book but turns out it was for Marine... *sigh*

I have Amano's collected works

I've tried growing glosso but it's died everytime (spent about $100 trying to grow it )

CO2 is pH controlled and most likely turns off at night by itself.

I've read, and heard from rainbowfish enthuisasts, that the PNG species that I am keeping prefer a higher pH and harder water. After exams I plan on working hard at finding an equilibrium.

Water comes out the taps at around 7.6 (see link: http://www.perthcich...x...t&id=15450)

I look forward to your visit next week - hopefully you can make some recommendations? It's hard to photograph algae :-\

Cheers for all your help.