i wept because i had just collected all dwarf sp birchirs. And now i am short of this and that.

Yep. did wc last night d. Will gradually fill up the water tonight and tomorrow.

my knife fish and eels off feeders for a month++.
Wonder will they ever get pellet train?

It's great to have fibre tank if can't dig a pond. ^^

usually we on 6 hrs of lights.
And usually light is for us to see better, or to show off more.
A few hours of light for the fishes is like sun shine and darkness is like moon light. Give some drift wood for them to hide. Some birchir like senegalus, teugelsi, endli and delhezi are the show off kind. They prefer being seen by public. Others which like to hide will hide.
Tigers are very slow growers. My IT is slow. Likes to hide. But since i started my once a while lights on, it comes out more.

You ready to handle the jaguars' " tahiness" or not

mine still alive even after the death of 5 ropes

So we'll have jaguapia

Just pasang my trickle filter compartments yesterday.
Fuyo~ So challenging (to me).. ==
I think i finally got them right.
At Tesco i bought the green sponge rm1.00 for 5. Stuff 3 pcs at each compartment. So ngam 3 tier x 3 compartments.

Will only pasang when i go buy the powerheads.

Mine is transparent so have to wrap it dark and gloomy.
Will just use sponges.
you google this link and you'll see what i meant
http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=186048...98187.10.QE1M4c

My acrylic compartments:
a set of 3 tier x 3
a set of 3 tier x 2

less than RM150 for two.

I saw off the blocking panel (the blue plastic tank cover yet thecompartment cant fit. so i just put directly on the tank. Sambung top filter head dulu.
Will look for sub power head later.
heavy bio-loads..hmm maybe 25oo L/hr might work for my 4ft.
what says you guy?
My fishes are slow, so will not go extreme for gushing effect

Jaguar very pretty look.

Don't put carbon if ur the lazy type. It only absorb a certain amount of toxin then will released back to water. Double toxin if u din change.
I just lapik sponges. All three tiers, 9 compartments.
And a bag of whatisname to balance the PH

Butterfly fish is delicate fish (read from a mag: told by breeder).
When a fish is fragile, i prefer species tank.

p/s this is my trickle filter. Very simple. like kacang
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=468...&type=3&theater

You have to give me your id first.
I don't cincai accept mar~

Actually everything is ready for me to set up,just like Lego toys.
The difficult part is i had to figure which part goes to which set since i bought two sets.
My plants is ivy, 万年青 very durable. And i heard very strong " suction" when dealing with bio loads' toxin
I used suction cups and cable ties to pull everything together. Some might submerged some might emerged.
When it turned yellow it's already 2 months. You can trim or just pull the whole thing out and put fresh.
Usually i just cut of the rotting part. If too botak then i taruh baru

no water spill from the system. Works like ordinary top

Yes, only half. Or maybe 60%.
Polys need surface more than height. And i dont have kamikaze polys and ropes so far.
I think low water level and floating plants chill them down.

1.8*1.8*4ft