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yea thanks Aquagreen, i never bought from you but you seem to do good by everyone! maybe one day ill be lucky enough to deal with you XD

You guys! Scared him off with the drop bear nonsense. It's the crocs and great whites you have to worry about.

Looking good.did you use grommets for you overflows? Or are they a glue in female fitting?

I have a second berried female . I haven't seen the other berried female today but I saw her yesterday so I have no reason to believe she isn't still carrying. Sorry for the quality of the pics. All I had handy was my iPhone.

You do have quite a few choices. Elodea is a good pond plant and it has dual benefits in that it creates shelter, the fish will eat it, it self roots and I personally like the look of it. It will grow without potting and the simple trick to sink it is to put some rubber bands around the bottom and slip a pebble under the rubber band to sink it. Foxtail is another good under story plant and loves shade and has a softer look to the foliage. Milfoil comes in about 4 different varieties and is a very good oxygenating plant and likes to be in shallower water. Valesenaria comes in a few varieties as well and goes to the bottom of the pond. Val, Elodea and milfoil are all good oxygenating plants. For the surface there are also a number of plants you can use such as Hysop, rotola and many others. These plants like to be a water level or just below water lever. You can either buy float rings that the pots slip into and the plants float around the pond and stop the fish eating the main plant. I personally use one of these for my hysop and it has now grown to about a third of the size of my pond. You could make your own using polystyrene because once the plant grows you wont see the ring anyway. For height out of the pond you could use rushes which vary from 400mm - 2.5metres tall. You could also use lizard tongue or pickerell rush (excellent filtration plant) I also run Mashwort which has a similar leaf to water lilies but the advantage it has is that it does not become dormant so therefore you still get surface coverage. I also use duckweed because it has multi functions. It acts as a sunblock, absorbs nitrates (Helps prevent algea and green water issues) and the fish love to eat it. The disadvantage it can take over but simply net it off and use it as compost. It is a great fertilser. I have a few of these plants in my pond and I run all my ponds biologically. My water is crystal clear. The only disadvantage running a pond biologically is that you do loose a fair bit of visibility because you need to aim up to 70% plus coverage of the water surface for it to work effectively. Not sure what state you are in but I could and would be happy to give you some cuttings.(if interstate you cover the postage) Otherwise let me know and I can put you onto a person who does grow these plants and does send interstate. Hope this helps and feel free to pm me if I can help you out.

Slow progress is still progress lava rock base sprinklings of shrimpy daddy products and som boss minerals. and then a bag of ada amazonia I only had time to do the bottom 3 but its a start!

Huge thanks to Aquagreen for my order of DAS, DRN and Chameleons! Even put in a lot of extras. Thanks Dave and Robyn!

Really some of the most professional people to deal with, can't ask for better service and advice!

Yeah no dramas. After contacting one of the suppliers of the standard stainless steel mesh ones you see on ebay they use 250 micron mesh for their intakes. So 500 should be fine, had no issues with it filtering water in my new 4ft tank as the dividers have circle holes cut in with the mesh inside. I have my intake pipe and one end and my outlet at the other and it sucks water thru no dramas. I also have just made some intakes for my new tank which is running a sump using the same mesh and the water flow was awesome :) Some pictures to make it easier to understand what I am saying.

I'm with Ineke. I initially didn't like how snow makes the tank seem a little messy, but I'm getting over it since the shrimp like it so much.

I use bennythestooge! http://stores.ebay.com.au/bennythestooge

If you have Jaycar in Syd their heatshrink is much cheaper and comes in many sizes. Good luck!

Big thank you to 20FUS for the Crystal Red Shrimp, Crypt and Pearl Moss, you Sir are indeed a Pimp.

Crystal Red Shrimp added this morning, also a Crypt and some Pearl Moss, thanks 20FUS.

Food for shrimp generally comes in small packages so if you have a few tanks there is little chance of it going off before you use it all. However if you only have one or two tanks or live along the coast (high humidity), one of the threats to the quality of your shrimp food is moisture. Moisture added to the food encourages the decomposition of the food and the growth of bacteria and fungi, which could potentially make your shrimp sick. One way to help keep your shrimp food in top condition is to use a silicon gel satchet that absorbs the moisture from the air in your container. Satchets are available online, but are also readily available as preservers in some human food items. Moreover the satchets can be recharged by drying them in an oven. If you are silly like me, and are constantly forgetting to dry your hands before dipping your fingers in the shrimp food, this may be a great way to protect the integrity and nutrition of your shrimp food.

Disciple unfortunately I spend most of my day everyday in front of my tanks. The shrimp are such time wasters and when you have a lot of shrimp tanks what else would you do? Lol Revolutionhope don't give him any ideas! The snow is a great product though And the shrimp love it as you can see. I didn't like the fact that it made the tanks look a bit untidy but I'm getting over that now! I leave it in for a couple of weeks and then if there is any left I siphon it out and put fresh in although you can just leave it in. I only put 2 pieces in my smaller tanks but this big tank has so many shrimp I put quite a bit in.

Sounds good to me. But.... I don't think they are able to survive in my luggage and take the 10 hours flight. (^_^")y