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Offline Resa

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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #20 on: May 30, 2014, 10:13:50 AM »
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Oh...b****r it!! I spoke too soon :-[
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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #21 on: May 30, 2014, 10:53:57 AM »
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he-he-he  :))
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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #22 on: May 30, 2014, 11:27:15 AM »
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Quote from: Resa on May 30, 2014, 10:12:21 AM


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Wow Resa..... very impressive! It's only taken a year and a half. :rotfl:
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You can't rush these things :rotfl:
Stop it please! A man of my years can't take this much stimulation before dinner! :rotfl:
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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #23 on: May 30, 2014, 12:21:48 PM »
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Quote from: SteveS link



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Stop it please! A man of my years can't take this much stimulation before dinner! :rotfl:

Sorry Steve.....what time do 'Meals-on-Wheels' usually arrive? :rotfl:
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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #24 on: May 30, 2014, 12:28:05 PM »
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It's OK Steve..... we've got one of these.....

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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #25 on: May 30, 2014, 12:33:13 PM »
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Quote from: Resa on May 30, 2014, 12:21:48 PM
Sorry Steve.....what time do 'Meals-on-Wheels' usually arrive? :rotfl:
"Meals-on-Wheels?"... if only. I have to walk up the shops and get my own ***** meals! :isay:
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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #26 on: May 30, 2014, 01:53:28 PM »
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Liz, don't be tempted by Resa's talk of cories. You have just about the only kind of tank where they are not recommended. Biorbs have a very small floor for the volume and bottom dwellers need more floorspace. And the bio-media is those rocky things on the bottom which are far too rough for cories.

Nerite snails do make good algae eaters and come in a variety of colours and sizes. The biggest are zebra snails (light and dark brown stripes) then the ones I've seen called red onion or racing stripe nerites which are orange red with black markings. The smallest are the Clithorns, these can have black and yellow stripes or are just plain brown, and they may or may not have small horns. They are usually quoted as having very little bioload but they do poo a lot since they do eat algae. I'd wait till you have some algae before getting any.
They can't breed in freshwater as the newly hatched larvae need salt water to develop. But the females lay sesame seed like eggs over all the decor, and they don't come off easily.
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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #27 on: May 30, 2014, 05:11:02 PM »
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Liz?... Is there someone called Liz here?... I think Sue's going dotty!...   :rotfl:

Sorry Liz... We sort of hijacked you... Resa got carried away. She gets like that sometimes and we have learned to be tolerant  ;)

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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #28 on: May 30, 2014, 06:09:24 PM »
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Quote from: Resa on May 30, 2014, 10:13:50 AM
Oh...b****r it!! I spoke too soon :-[

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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #29 on: May 30, 2014, 11:53:14 PM »
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I knew this forum was going to be fun as well as informative..... you're all mad  :raspberries :rotfl:

Liz
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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #30 on: May 31, 2014, 12:05:44 AM »
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Quote from: Sue on May 30, 2014, 01:53:28 PM
Liz, don't be tempted by Resa's talk of cories. You have just about the only kind of tank where they are not recommended. Biorbs have a very small floor for the volume and bottom dwellers need more floorspace. And the bio-media is those rocky things on the bottom which are far too rough for cories.

Oops...sorry Sue, I will go and sit on the naughty step :-[
In my defence, I thought some small Cories would be ok in an Aquanano40 as that is what I thought Puffin has, and Liz is Digs, isn't she?
Now I'm just confused ??? ??? Mind you, it's not hard to confuse me ;)
I think I'd better go lay down in a darkened room ;)
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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #31 on: May 31, 2014, 12:18:57 AM »
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Quote from: SteveS on May 30, 2014, 05:11:02 PM


Sorry Liz... We sort of hijacked you... Resa got carried away. She gets like that sometimes and we have learned to be tolerant  ;)



I echo Steve's apology, Liz :-[ I am very sorry to have digressed on your thread. I can only try and excuse my shameful behaviour by telling you...that it is ALL Steve's fault, he is a very, very bad influence, and is ALWAYS in the wrong thread....I have had to tell him of this before, but you have to make allowances for his age :rotfl:
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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #32 on: May 31, 2014, 12:23:21 AM »
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Quote from: Digs1923 on May 30, 2014, 11:53:14 PM
I knew this forum was going to be fun as well as informative..... you're all mad  :raspberries :rotfl:


How VERY dare you :o...I am NOT informative ;)
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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #33 on: May 31, 2014, 07:59:08 AM »
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Yes, it was me with the cories, (or caries, as autocorrect so kindly points out, have appointment for a filling on Tuesday!)
And an aqua nano 40.
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Re: What to put with Black Widow tetras?
« Reply #34 on: May 31, 2014, 10:17:33 AM »
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It's always confusing relying to 2 people in the same thread. I wanted to make sure the one with the biorb didn't think cories were OK in her tank. We all know that Resa loves her cories  ;D


For clarification:

Puffin has a 40 litre tank and small cory species are fine.
Digs, aka Liz, has a biorb which is a tank that shouldn't have cories; or any other bottom dwelling fish either.



Quote from: Resa on May 31, 2014, 12:05:44 AM
Oops...sorry Sue, I will go and sit on the naughty step :-[

I wasn't criticising, just a bit worried that Digs (Liz) might think cories were OK in a biorb - or anyone else with a biorb. I had to skim through the thread to remind myself who had which tank, and I got a bit confused as to who was who. These days I am easily confused  ::)
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