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Help finding Shrimp Breeders - Penrith Area

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 04:28:13 +0000

Hi All,

Looking for Shrimp breeders Penrith area , not as popular as they were a couple of years ago and getting harder to find

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers

Best shrimp food

Sun, 04 Aug 2019 11:24:43 +0000

Folks, I’m just starting with shrimp (crystal red) and wondering what folks are feeding - I’ve googled and appears “biofilm” or “Beta AE” is good, but I can only see it available on line from US and very expensive.

HoneyComb, White eyed, snowflake Morays and a few other surprises

Tue, 23 Jul 2019 09:47:34 +0000

Friday is the day they all come to live in their new tank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT-ZmIyduKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdJoT9eTp5Q

ANGFA Convention October 2019

Sun, 03 Mar 2019 06:16:52 +0000

Hi all, fyi for anyone interested in natives and PNG fishes:

The Australia New Guinea Fishes Association Victoria (ANGFA Vic) in conjunction with ANGFA Incorporated (ANGFA National), are proud to present the world renowned ANGFA Convention for 2019. This is the largest event focusing on Australian and New Guinea fishes anywhere in the fishkeeping realm.

The ANGFA Convention is held every two years and this year it’s in Melbourne!

A non-profit organisation, ANGFA’s objectives are to promote the study, conservation and culture of the native freshwater fish species of Australia and New Guinea, and to provide a forum for the exchange of information.

Attending an ANGFA Convention is a must for anyone with a keen interest in these fishes and their aquatic habitats, (ideal for scientists, naturalists, fish hobbyists or students with a keen or professional interest in these topics). The convention is a biennial event, miss this one and you will have to wait until 2021!

The event will be held over the weekend of October 11-13 at Best Western Airport Motel and Convention Centre Attwood (10 min drive from Melbourne Airport).

Key points:

Excellent speakers from Australia and Europe (including some of Australia’s leading fish scientists) giving informative and entertaining presentations on a range of topics including: conservation efforts, discovery of new species, field observations, aquarium care, and parasite control.
Mega Fish Auction - huge range of Aust/PNG aquarium fish species, native aquatic invertebrates and plants, (including many species that are rarely available in the mainstream aquarium trade).
Catered event – lunch, morning & afternoon tea provided.
4 star accommodation available at convention venue, with a discounted rate for bed and buffet breakfast for convention attendees.
Convention dinner on Saturday night
Opportunity to mingle with fellow fish enthusiasts from all over Australia and from overseas.
Attend for either a single day or for the full event.
Early bird registration option available – book before end of June and receive a discounted rate!
Free car parking is available adjacent to the convention building.
Free airport shuttle bus to the venue.
Heaps of great raffle prizes, courtesy of our sponsors.

For more convention details and to book online, visit: https://www.angfa.org.au/2015-03-05-12-12-58.html

Aquarium Service job available

Sat, 20 Oct 2018 02:18:18 +0000

Aquarium and Pond Service Role

Mobile Aquarium Care

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Servicing both ponds and aquariums.
Communicating with clients to ensure customer satisfaction.
Organising specific requirements (such as products) for individual jobs.

SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS

A high level of knowledge and experience with aquariums and/or ponds is preferable.
Good communication skills and an eye for detail.
Responsible and have respectful attitude.
Have a reasonable level of fitness
Being comfortable driving to different areas within Sydney.
You must have a good RTA driving history (no DUI's, excess speeding, disqualified or dangerous offences) and a clean Police criminal record,as
RTA and Police reports are required as a condition of employment.

BENEFITS

We will provide you with full training and highly competitive pay.

HOW TO APPLY

Go to seek: link below. Or message me through forum

https://talent.seek.com.au/Job/ManageJobDirect?1538529988171
No transient/travelling workers need apply.

We thank all applicants in advance and will only reply to those who are short-listed for an interview.

Please message me us on the forum telling us a little about yourself and what you can bring to this role.

Right to live and work

You must have the right to live and work in this location to apply for this job.

8x3x2' Reef Tank Journal

Sun, 27 May 2018 03:08:58 +0000

After along lay off from having a reef tank, I made the hard to decision to sell all of my freshwater stingrays and set up a new reef tank!

The tank is in our front lounge room that backs onto our double car garage. I picked this room of the house, as it was easy to drill through the brick wall and turn half the garage into my 'equipment' room.

The tank itself is a 8x3x2' (LxWxH) glass, black silicone and starfire/low iron front and sides. The stand I had professionally welded by a local fabricator, and powder coated 'satin' black. I picked a Satin finish (low gloss) as it gives a bit more of a 3D feel rather than matt black that very much looks 2D.

The stand is all open and won't be cladded with anything. I think the height and sleekness of the stand being open gives the tank an illusion of being taller than it is at only 60cm/24". Also having a bracket made and finished the same as the stand that will go over the tank for the lighting to hang from.

The tank was also drilled for a Synergy Ghost Overflow, and has been plumbed as a bean animal system to reduce noise as much as possible.

The idea is that no plumbing will be seen from the front when viewing the tank and the pipe work will go through the wall and all that will be seen is an open stand with the wall and back of the tank also painted black. The idea is to black everything out; back glass, stand and wall and try get as much focus on the colours of the fish and corals.

The quarantine tank also sits in the garage in the equipment room. The QT tank is bigger than what most people would use, but I had it from one of my FW set ups and the tank was pretty much brand new. QT is 4'x2.5'x1.5' approx' 400L/100Gal - and will be filters by an Aqua One Nautilus 2700. I also like the idea of being able to quarantine decent amounts of fish at a time. The rock in the display is Carib Sea Life Rock, a combination of 'shelf' and 'shapes'. Ordered online to try it out and see if I'd use it on the display.

Sump - 4'x2.5'x1.5' and is approx' 400L/100Gal. I have already bought my skimmer, ended up going with the Nyos Quantum 300. I got this skimmer as it had some very good reviews, came recommended and seemed to be reasonable value for money.

I will keep this thread updated as things, change and things should come along pretty quickly. Next up is to get the back of the tank painted and the wall drilled and painted to get the tank moved back onto the wall!

Cheers,

Alex

My Community Planted tank

Tue, 01 May 2018 23:30:03 +0000

Hi folks,

Here is a pic of my planted/community tank.

The fish I’ve got in there are:

Lionhead cichlids, Rainbowfish, Congo Tetras, Angels, Red Top Electric Blue Rams, Peppermint and Common BN, Gold Spot Plecos, One large Featherfin Cat, a few Electric Blue males, Gold sucking cats, One large Glass cat, Two Gourami (Pearl and Blue Spot) and about 100 common BN fry in a saver.

I have no problems with aggression or fighting as all the fish just seem to get along really well.

This pic is a few months old and after using some LCA all in one fertilisers for a few weeks all the plants now are almost triple in size. Currently I’ve stopped the ferts and have reduced light to only one light (usually 3) and the photoperiod to only 4 hours a day as I’m treating for a massive black beard algae outbreak. I’ll get a current pic up soon

MArine 4x3x2 epic

Sat, 17 Mar 2018 08:23:31 +0000

grabbed this tank this morning the fun now begins

Shark in a 2fter

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 22:25:53 +0000

Just saw this ad on gumtree, bit cruel

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/ermington/fish/small-marine-tank-shut-down-sale-livestock-not-included-/1158796455

New Systems on the go

Mon, 17 Oct 2016 05:57:24 +0000

Well after quite a long time away from the fish side of the industry, its time to set up a couple of little systems to play with, Sarah likes the Wild Bettas, and is starting to accumulate a few different species, and we are now looking at some Killie Fish, Sarah has just ordered 2 species that arrive next week. For me, I will be setting up 2 tanks for some Comps, and the half a system with Sarah with some L's and cories and whatever else floats my boat.

Sarahs system will comprise of 2x 3x18x12 tanks on the bottom, they will be fry grow out tanks, the next 2 levels will be 16 of our custom made acrylic tanks 30x20x20, purely for Sarah's Betta addiction.

Then we pick up the 12 tank system off Tim tomorrow, they are 3ftx20x12 I will custom split some of these tanks, both systems will run off custom built sumps.

Looking forward to getting these going.........................

peace out

IAPLC 2016 pics are up!

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 22:53:21 +0000

Prepare to feel inadequately scaped!

http://www.adana.co.jp/en/contents/iaplc/2016/index.html

Plant ID please

Fri, 07 Oct 2016 02:09:37 +0000

hey guys just wondering if anyone knows what plant this is? it has a larger root running lengthwise with smaller ones coming off, similar to a java fern. i have buried it in the subrate. been in there couple of months now. as u can see in the last photo it has grown new leaves with their own roots off the end of one of the other leaves.

(in the first pic its the large plant at the back)

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JUNGLE TANK (PHOTO)

Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:39:58 +0000

Hi Guys

Here is something that i thought you might like.

I know i took some photos of my Peacocks before but here are some more. As well as some others.

Do you think this is female?

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Looking for floating plants for new pond

Wed, 28 Sep 2016 01:42:54 +0000

G'day Guys,

Currently setting up a new ornamental above ground pond on my deck with some White clouds and live bearers (During the warmer months). I'm after some Hyacinth if anyone has some?

Cheers,

Ian

Peacock Gudgeons

Fri, 16 Sep 2016 08:16:20 +0000

Just thought i might share some of my peacock Gudgeons

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Toxotes microlepis

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:54:55 +0000

Toxotes microlepis archer fish. Being a true freshwater not brackish species, do many lfs etc know the types they are getting when they get them in? The reason i ask is because id love to put some in with some geophagus but dont want the brackish characteristics. I had 2 archer fish years ago no idea what genes and i had them in with community fish and they were by far my favourite but i gave them away because they out grew my tank at the time. Any suggestions if they are compatible with geos and possibly places to buy these fish would be appreciated

Wild Betta M'ssssssssss

Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:06:04 +0000

Sarah got these in the mail today

Sarah was happy

Ultra Rare Live Bearer Breeding Project

Sat, 03 Sep 2016 10:54:27 +0000

hahahaha, might have stretched out the truth alittle

Shrimp Nerds!!

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 03:16:11 +0000

Hi folks,

Finally after a few attempts I have managed to keep a few colonies of Shrimp alive and to get them to breed for me! I currently have Glass, Red Cherry and Fire reds all living happily together in a small tank.

They are quite cool little creatures and I'm looking at trying a few different species.

Is anyone else on here into these little fellas? I'm about to try my hand at some Macro Jardini (Long Arm Shrimp) and would like to know if anyone else here has tried them?

Cheers,

Alan.

Filter replacement advice

Sun, 24 Jul 2016 23:28:58 +0000

Hi everyone, I’m new to the forum. I found out about the forum by one of the members here who has just taken over my local aquarium shop. I don’t keep cichlids; it’s not that I don’t want to its just I have never tried to. As the name suggest I keep mainly Tetras and livebearers, there are over 700 known species of tetras from glowlight tetra to the pacu tetra so there is plenty of scope of variety

I bought a 2nd hand Aqua One ( Aqua Style 620T) fish tank. It was missing a lot of parts including the motor but I have replaced everything. I find that the tank doesn’t seem to be clean so I suspect that the filter isn’t cleaning the tank properly, I want to get a canister filter to replace the trickle system.

Edit:

The reason I wanted the canister filter is that the trickle filter doesn't clean the tank, as I said early.

Instead of a canister filter; would a 2nd power head filter be the way to go? The tank is 3 foot and 130 litres.
Could it generate enough current for the detritus to be picked up in the flow and be sucked into the trickle filter?

The downside to this is if the power head was too powerful the fish would be swimming for their very lives.

My planted tank journey

Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:46:38 +0000

Thought I'd keep a log here of my journey from buying second hand tanks to some sort of end result. May be death of 1000 plants or may work out ok.

I recently purchased 2 tanks on a tier. One is 5x2x2 and the planted tank I'm going to try is a 5x2x18. Both tanks were pretty filthly and my first post is just a clean up vid. Other than comments, most of it is just going to be youtube shots. As I progress I'll likely progress into some commentary especially as I learn more.

If you have a wife or a girlfriend you'd better hide them from the first vid as there is a whole lotta man in it

And the theme song is dedicated to Link

Japan and Amano

Fri, 27 May 2016 13:00:42 +0000

Well Sarah and I just got back from Japan, loved it, spent alot of time eating and checking out the local culture, and sussing out a tonne of aquariums and pet shops

Sarah came back with about 40 Odd Kg of Iwagumi rocks for her planted tank fetish, and a heap of equipment, all aquascape based, some of the stores were superb, stock and people

New tank

Sun, 15 May 2016 02:53:35 +0000

Hi all my name is brad and ive just started up a new tank after about 3 years of not owning a tank i use to have a few cichlids but unfortunately i never got into it as much as i would have liked .. so ive had this new tank running for about 4 weeks while it cycled and used some quick start in the tank to help speed things up abit .. i finally got my tank stable and added some lake Malawi mbunas (love the character of these fish). Now ive got just a standard 3ft tank with a canister filter that turns over 1200L an hour. Ive put in 3 hongi, 3 red empress, 5 yellow labs, 4 striped obliques, and was thinking of adding 4 yellow tailed acei once i see if it will handle them (probably wont). Had the fish in the tank 4 days in total and just done a mild water change of 40L so probably 30% water change. One question with all of this, i added some quick start and water agent to the fresh water i put in, im worried about doing big water changes straight up because im a little unsure if my tank is stable enough or if im doing the right thing .. i raked and cleaned the gravel as well amazing how much they have dropped in 4 days .. just looking for a few pointers to keep everything spot on cheers!!

Anyone have blue yabbies or marrons with cichlids?

Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:30:24 +0000

As the title says has anyone kept either of these with cichlids? I'm setting up a 2 foot tank (I know it isn't big) and I would like to know if they would be compatible and what you fed them

Cheers,

Jack

Wrestling Halfbeaks?

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:03:30 +0000

I recently bought some halfbeaks on impulse as they are such beautiful little fish from Labyrinth Aquarium (can not recommend them there highly enough for service, great pricing and Andrews extensive knowledge) and I'm wondering if anyone here has had success in breeding them in a species specific tank?

I'd love to breed them as I think they would be a great little addition to almost any smaller species community tank. They look great, and with their mouth being at the top of their heads to eat food off the surface is awesome to watch!

I think they would also sell quite well in most LFS' as they are rare to find and very hardy and totally out of the ordinary and well suited to beginner keepers and the smaller tanks.

My little guys absolutely smash the crushed up pellets and are even tame enough that they come and nibble my fingers!

So yeah, I'd love to hear from any other keepers of this highly underrated fish.

Cheers,

Alan.