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Hey are you guys gonna bring any of the black shrimp tubes/houses to the meet?

Shrimps are always hard. I find it hard to get them really interested in food. I've read that 'Max Growth' works really well. Interested to know if/when your start breeding

I love the metallic blus with mustard fins and a white mask. Will you be selling?

it might. I would try and hide it on the back left like the filter and heater on the right. Would add couple more reeds to cover it. But on second thought I hate noisy air pumps so maybe i'll sit on it

I like your too, you got a more rugged natural look going there. Mines not really much effort - its really low maintenance. since i started it in Feb, only ever been cleaned by BN and snails & until recently was feed mainly by the auto feeder. Was thinking of putting the Hatch n Feeder in there.

Feeding him up on blood worms for the 17th November Victoria Betta show! :tongue: Not sure if he is that pretty or form or whatever - but I still love him

Thats stunning, love the colour

hmm this is how mine lives... not sure if it is ideal plus he has tank mates.

BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP...... :bighug:

I would tend to agree with 3 of the points above 1) Get a timer, it could take a month but they will get used to the schedule 2) Set the timer to turn on after dawn and turn off before sunset. So the light is not what is actually waking them up. 3) Get cover it make the fish come out more, Floating plants, submerged plants, moss, driftwood, caves, ornaments etc... I use just LEDS and doubt that it is too bright, but if you think that it is infact too bright I would simply buy, a floating plant which would naturally dim the light (frogbit , Lillies, duckweed, etc..). But I doubt it is too bright. I would add one more point. Feed them on a schedule in an open part of the tank. This will take a while but they will learn this too and it will help get them used to coming out when you are around.

Thanks I tried sponge filers But I hate the noise so I don't use them. I like my tanks silent. Well my CRS are really heavily with lots of brown eggs. Hopefully there will be some white specs soon.

Does pantyhose really save baby shrimp getting sucked into the powerhead? CRS & RCS? Has anyone successfully done this? Can the babies get sucked and trapped against the pantyhose from the water flow/pressure? On a side note I've got shrimp carrying eggs. Do I do anything for the potential babies? Do they just feed the same as the adults? When would they start to appear visible to me?

OK Thanks everyone for all the input & information. I think that most aquarium plants will probably be OK, but just to be safe I called the number Brenton provided. http://www.quarantinedomestic.gov.au/ They referred me to the "Noxious Weeds Listing" of each state. They said that if its not on the particular states "Noxious Weeds List" it's fine. VIC http://vro.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vrosite.nsf/pages/weeds_noxious NSW http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/weeds/noxweed/noxious-app-application?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3dpLmFncmljLm5zdy5nb3YuYXUlMkZ0b29scyUyRm5vbnNhbGVhYmxlLmh0bWwmYWxsPTE%3D These 2 states lists don't seem to have any plants that i know of/interested in. :-)

Hi could someone point me in the right direction. Where can I find a list of restrictions regarding the importing/exporting aquatic plants between Australian states? Does each state have a different website and list etc? Does ACT just fall under NSW? Can Frogbit, Anubias, Java Fern, Java moss be shipped between VIC/ACT/NSW with out restrictions? Thanks

Nice love the name

Bump Bump Bump........ give me more pictures!!! :alright:/>

LOL, it is cute.

Cool can't wait to see it loaded up with fish :drool:

Ok its up and running. So I put it in the fishy showroom http://ausaqua.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=15267&st=0&gopid=171347&#entry171347

My CRS tank (had a few weeks now). They swim around stuff, but seem less active than the Cherries. They are way prettier than cherries though. Think it might be a good idea to buy a couple of those black carbon tube house things for them and the cherries. CalicoRain: yeah I had seen the Fluval Ebi Shrimp one, they are very similar and very nice too. Stewart B: Yeah the worst thing is with snails if they die your not sure that they have died because they could be just hiding their shell but they are then effecting the water quality. Snails sometimes have the funniest behaviors. Mine go up the glass or lilly stems then eat for a while on the frogbit or lillies and then parachute down to the sand and start all over again. My flatmate endlessly watches it. Iron, Calcium and extra wastes etc.. I was suspecting the same thing and that eventually trace elements or something would diminish without water changes or fertilizers or fish could be making something bad that I wasn't checking for so a water change seems just prudent. So if everything stays cool I'll just do a change after a couple months anyway. I've read basically planted tanks works a little like garden aquaponics. Add nitrogen through feeding fish, plants take up nitrogen, I trim and remove plants which takes nitrogen out of system. I like to have my tanks running as simply as possible, I have lights on timers so I just feed. Also I'm getting an automatic feeder so I'll just manually feed live and frozen food etc... The community tank I also have never cleaned and it still looking good with just the Bristtlenose, glass shrimp and snails doing there thing. I was worried that the BN was not getting enough food so I gave him some supplementary feeding and he has noticeably grown in the last month. Co2: I have never added Co2 to my system I've just had a rippling current from the powerhead and it must be dissolving enough Co2 because the plants grow pretty fast. I've done this with Water reeds lillies, frogbit, java fern, anubias and about a dozen other submerged plants I used to grow in a livebearer tank. The only plant I have ever had shrink and die was dwarf baby tears. So I generally think added Co2 is completely unnecessary unless your trying to get exceptional growth or have a plant which needs really high Co2 levels. The little community tank has been going for 3 months and what I love about the tanks is that it is sooo low maintenance after set up. I come home watch the TV, during the adds I'll end up watching them and put a bit of food in. And that's it. (once a week I remove some plants). By the way if anyone wants Frogbit, java fernlettes your welcome to have some ;-)

Finally set up my 2 little Shrimp tanks next to my little community tank! :cheer:/> They are not that amazing but thought I would share anyway. And love my Betta so any excuse to show him off :-) As you can see I'm still waiting on a 3rd LED light. I don't like to look at joins on tanks so they are all with curved edges. Feeding time! My Betta is the king of the jungle in there. Made him angry with a mirror. So all his little tanks mate are in hiding. As soon as he flares the Black Neon Tetras run for cover! The snails are super active and they've got this huge third tentacle that comes out. Not sure what it is. Boy parts? The new cherry tank - First day! Has lucky Bamboo in it which I hope will be ok. I'm using panty hose over the power filters to save any potential baby shrimps. (read it online somewhere). I was going to try Air pumps but only think I will do that if i have dedicated fish room or somehow go deaf in the future. My plants are growing like crazy, not sure if its the LED's or the window light. I started with small amounts of each plant and used some of the extra moss and fernlettes to fill out the main tank and plant the 2 shrimp tanks, but every week I still have to get rid of frogbit and cut the water reeds. It seems to be great for the nitrates because the community tank has been going for 3 months and it still tests at zero. I changed the water anyway just because it doesn't seem right not to. Does anyone know if I actually have to change water? If the planted tank just keeps reading zero nitrates can I just never change water???

Nice! Love the lighting I bet it took a long time to make that moss bridge.

Ok bought some. I read the same thing about fully submerging them. I plant on them growing out of the aquarium. If they are too sort i will just start with a low water level and slowly raise it.

Setting up a shrimp tank - will have cherries in it. I've been reading some conflicting info on Lucky Bamboo. Will this work in a Shrimp tank? Will this poison the shrimp? is it toxic to the shrimp? Should i just use real asian Bambo? or is Bamboo just bad? Note: I'm aware its not a true bamboo and from west Africa etc....

I started a community tank and all is pretty good so far. It's about that size but different dimensions. I started with planting and establishing the plants first. Then I added fish. Not sure about the female Betta aggression. On a side note check out these pretty natives. If hadn't already got a small school of Tetras these would have been pretty cool http://www.aquagreen.com.au/plant_data/Pseudomugil_gertrudae.html