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- Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:07 pm
- Forum: Brackish Tanks
- Topic: BW plants???
- Replies: 91
- Views: 53492
any updates on the brackish planting experiment >?>? im looking to do the same thing -- and was wondering if there were any other nuggets of wisdom you may have gathered over the last few months?? Sorry Mike, havent been online much lately if you were referring to my brackish plant 'experiment'. An...
- Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:45 pm
- Forum: Brackish Tanks
- Topic: rainbow fish
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3497
I bet Martin had no idea the can of worms he opened up :shock: lol! But 'its all good'. Sometimes I wonder if keeping fish is all a big crapshoot with all the misinformation out there. :? Some are started by highly renown folks. Sometimes it goes for decades before being proved a myth. Who knows. pr...
- Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:14 pm
- Forum: Brackish Tanks
- Topic: rainbow fish
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3497
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:15 pm
- Forum: Brackish Tanks
- Topic: rainbow fish
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3497
(IMHO) : A SG of 1.005 is barely brackish... That might be somewhat true but take about 75% or more of the freshwater plants out there and put em in 1.005 and watch them quickly die. Just another way to look at it. Another thing to look at is simply because the fish is hardy doesnt mean we should p...
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:00 pm
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: tank mates for f8
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1500
- Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:29 pm
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: The Transcontinental F8 Puffer Move
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1040
Wow thats a long trip, glad to hear the fella made the trip ok. That sucks the inverter wouldnt power it... was it rated high enough? Perhaps some inverters just dont put out a good enough sine wave, like I said in my previous post all the motor devices I plugged in got alot louder, but they all wor...
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:08 pm
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: wrong info on a figure eight
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1618
Re: wrong info on a figure eight
ive just brought a baby fig 8 when i got him the shop owner he said it was fresh and brakish but reading up they are brakish puffers hes in fresh at the mo untill friday when i get some marine salt will he be ok in there untill then and when adding the salt do i just put it straight in ? :? Dont fr...
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:48 am
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: I found some too! Must be the season for little F8's.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 509
I got mine I think from petco, was the only time I had been in there and I saw fig8's for the first time cheap. They are sort of rare it seems in most lfs. They were 3-something each. Conditions were bad, sunken bellies, there were feeder guppies in with them that were bigger then they were. And som...
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:24 am
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: New pics a video of my Fig 8's
- Replies: 12
- Views: 751
pic #7 is great -- you can really see his chompers ! Actually I am getting worried I may have to trim his teeth after not too long. :? I tried something a bit different with these photos I linked in my first post - I actually shot them in the complete darkness using only a flash. Its not perfected ...
- Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:20 am
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: New pics a video of my Fig 8's
- Replies: 12
- Views: 751
- Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:02 am
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: New pics a video of my Fig 8's
- Replies: 12
- Views: 751
New pics a video of my Fig 8's
Tried taking some pics of my puffers today, a couple pics came out ok. Man I really need a dslr! But instead I just bought a big fish tank, doh! Here is a short wmv video clip 'hand feeding' my puffers sort of: http://tristan.homelinux.net/fish/movies/puffer_feeding.wmv sorry the compression seemed ...
- Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:52 am
- Forum: Brackish Tanks
- Topic: Planting my F8 tank and taking it brackish.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2847
You probably already know this but here are a few things. The valls are sensative to Excel, although they do well in brackish water. I have pretty much killed all mine of with Excel. If you go the injected co2 route the bio-wheels will gas of some co2, not sure to what extent though, but either you ...
- Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:18 pm
- Forum: Brackish Tanks
- Topic: BW plants???
- Replies: 91
- Views: 53492
Re: update
Crazy: How is this planted brackish coming along? Current SG/conditions? Well... so so. The first thing after my last post was that the Jungle Vall started dieing. They are pretty much all gone, so I am really thinking about trying pressurized co2 since I really want the val. I am still nervous abo...
- Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:41 pm
- Forum: Brackish Tanks
- Topic: Mio Primo Salmastro (My First Brackish)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2865
Re: Building Brackish on a snowy day
I've been reading that Bumblebee gobies requiere a lot of caves/hiding places so that it my next objective. Would 6 Bumblebees require 6 different hideouts? Would the Bumblebees be annoyed with all the lighting(130w for 55g)? I've heard some brackish fish don't like a lot of light - would this incl...
- Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:29 pm
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: fig 8's and water hardness
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2205
Hold on a second I think this is all going off on a tangent :o CO2 is extremely beneficial to plants and is almost required in heavily planted tanks, and is the best deterrent against most algea (when the plants are flourishing in it anyhow). It shouldnt be too hard to measure, there are a few metho...