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@tan wrote:
west yorkshire here just off the M62 and A1, but my dad lives in north yorkshire (boroughbridge….between york and harrogate 35 mins from me). where abouts in north yorks are you katkin? when i have some fry i’ll gladly meet and swap. dont know how long my lfs will have them for! if they stop selling them i’m stuck! i visit my dad most weekends.
tanHa! I’m 3 miles from Boroughbridge! Drop the kids off at school there everyday. I’m at Dishforth Airfield, at least for the next few months anyway. May well be moving by the summer though. Hopefully will have had breeding success before then.
wow!!! my best mate lived in norton le clay which is next to you and my cousin lives in dishforth, and my uncle in rainton!! whats the chances of that?! i used to live in marton cum grafton which is 5 mins from b’bridge. what a small world it is!!! what lfs do you use then? my sis (who lives in boroughbridge) said they used to have fish at morrisons there in the garden centre bit. is that still true? i’m gobsmacked!!
katkin, as the water around boroughbridge is the hardest water i have ever come across, i’m curious to know if your galaxies have bred yet? if they breed in boroughbridge water, they’ll breed anywhere!!!
tanWell Tan, they’ve definately been showing signs that they want to breed, ie the little dance display etc but nothing yet. However I’ve only had them a couple of weeks so we’ll see. I’m hoping to re-do one of my tanks with better lighting, substrate etc this weekend and move them into that, as the tank they are in has just got whatever plants I had available thrown in and it looks a mess. I’m also waiting on some java moss to arrive (hopefully before the weekend) I was considering putting some peat in there as well to try and lower the ph a little, but I might wait and see if they will still breed even at a ph of around 8!
The garden center at Morrisons does have a few fish, but the quality is not brilliant, nor are the prices. Most of the guppies I bought from there died or had major whitespot.
I tend to shop at Maidenhead Aquatics in Poppleton, aquatic fanatic in Northallerton or Forestmoor garden center in Calcutt (near knaresborough) There’s another one at Bishop Monkton that look pretty good, especially if you are into Marine tanks. I didn’t see anything I wanted as far as freshwater fish are concerned and they seemed abit pricey.
It certainly is a small world. You’ll have to let me know next time you’re up this way, you can come and give me some suggestions on my rather sad looking tanks, which seem to multiply everytime I go out! My husband is going to go mad, He bought me the first tank before he went away, thinking it would give me a project to keep me busy. Little does he know, I now have 4!! Trying not to think about our next impending move and how on earth I’m going to keep everyone alive. I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
kWell Tan, they’ve definately been showing signs that they want to breed, ie the little dance display etc but nothing yet. However I’ve only had them a couple of weeks so we’ll see. I’m hoping to re-do one of my tanks with better lighting, substrate etc this weekend and move them into that, as the tank they are in has just got whatever plants I had available thrown in and it looks a mess. I’m also waiting on some java moss to arrive (hopefully before the weekend) I was considering putting some peat in there as well to try and lower the ph a little, but I might wait and see if they will still breed even at a ph of around 8!
The garden center at Morrisons does have a few fish, but the quality is not brilliant, nor are the prices. Most of the guppies I bought from there died or had major whitespot.
I tend to shop at Maidenhead Aquatics in Poppleton, aquatic fanatic in Northallerton or Forestmoor garden center in Calcutt (near knaresborough) There’s another one at Bishop Monkton that look pretty good, especially if you are into Marine tanks. I didn’t see anything I wanted as far as freshwater fish are concerned and they seemed abit pricey.
It certainly is a small world. You’ll have to let me know next time you’re up this way, you can come and give me some suggestions on my rather sad looking tanks, which seem to multiply everytime I go out! My husband is going to go mad, He bought me the first tank before he went away, thinking it would give me a project to keep me busy. Little does he know, I now have 4!! Trying not to think about our next impending move and how on earth I’m going to keep everyone alive. I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
kwell if you want to sell your fish and tanks when you move you have a buyer!!!!
i used to go to forest moor when i was a kid as my mum used to drag me there to look at plants for hours!! they used to have a minor bird that could talk which amused me though! so will def have a look there! maidenhead aquatics are meant to be the bees knees, i didnt realise we had any round here though! york is about 30mins away, but collect my sis from college there quite often so can detour while over there! in fact i’m collecting her tomorrow. if my hubby can have the kids might have a look!
she lives near northallerton, so will ask her if she knows where that one is. my galaxy tank and 45 gal are my worse tanks as they were thrown togther on a budget. long story, but the 45 gal came afetr the 15gal. the 45 gal leaked, so got the 2 28gals instead. repaired the 45 gal, so thought i might as well use it, so got alot of tanks in short space of time…tanks were coming in faster than the cash was!!! the other tanks look loads better!
not sure how this wil work (might not show the pics, not sure)
http://www.fishlore.com/Forum/130-members-fish-tanks/tans-tanks.0.html
but theres my tanks. the galaxy one has the java moss and a few plants, but needs alot of work to make it pretty. namely lots more plants! at the mo its just functional!
i started with 1 tank in january for my sons , I now have 4 too!! my hubby despairs too! are you originally from yorkshire then, or just here as your hubby’s raf? be funny if you were at same school as me!!!
take care
tanGot to register to see your pics!
I’m not from round here, hubby’s army, I was born in Somerset, grew up in Canada. Lived up here for nearly 4 years and just beggining to really settle in, so of course, we now have to move. :cry:
Aquatic Fanatic is on the A168 just outside Northallerton, it looks like a big farm, car park’s a bit pot holey! Usually a good selection of fish at reasonable prices though. OOOPs, I just realised the time, gotta go take the kids to Judo, or they’ll be late, again.
KGot to register to see your pics!
I’m not from round here, hubby’s army, I was born in Somerset, grew up in Canada. Lived up here for nearly 4 years and just beggining to really settle in, so of course, we now have to move. :cry:
Aquatic Fanatic is on the A168 just outside Northallerton, it looks like a big farm, car park’s a bit pot holey! Usually a good selection of fish at reasonable prices though. OOOPs, I just realised the time, gotta go take the kids to Judo, or they’ll be late, again.
Klol!!
A168…isnt that the old A1?
i’d hate having to move so far all the time. my sis in law’s hubby is in navy and they move about. my step dad is in rfa (auxillary ships section of navy) but he has 6months at home, then 6 months away, so it makes no odds where he lives really! it is hard. when do you find out for def if you have to move? how much notice do you get?Yeah, I think it must be the old A1.
In theory we should get a minimum of 3 months notice, but I know people who have received posting orders on a Friday to be in their new post by the Monday! We should know by the end of May, hubby’s back middle of May & we could be moving anytime between mid June and March next year. Nightmare. I reckon if he’s gotta go before summer hols, I’ll stay here with the kids until they break up from school and then follow him. Or if the date falls after september, I’ll see if we can get a quarter early and I’ll move with the kids so they can start new schools in September. Either way, it’s always a pain in the backside. At least this should be our last move until he ‘retires’ and learns to live as a civvy in the real world. Only 6+ years to go.yeah, be good if it means moving the kids schools sept time. is it likely you’ll move far, or could be up the road to linton on ouse or something? or just pot luck?! it seems the MOD make up the rules as they go along! they seem disorganised as everytime my step dad will be due to go on leave they havent arranged anyone to cover him. why cant they plan further ahead?! at least you’ll have your hubby over summer which is nice. guess he was away over xmas though was he?
any fry yet?
tanWill probably end up moving back to Suffolk where we spent 4 1/2 yrs before coming up here. I suspect that’s where we’ll end up, but at least I know the area so it won’t be like starting somewhere totally new. I just hate all this waiting about and not knowing from one day to the next, what the army will decide to do next.
Luckily hubby was here for two months over Christmas, so it wasn’t too bad, but generally been a rubbish year, he’s only been home 3 1/2 months total in the last twelve.I’ve removed the heater from the danio tank as I couldn’t get the temp below 24c, It’s now down to 22c and the males are jigging about quite happily trying to impress the females who are showing absolutely no interest whatsoever! Re-doing tanks tomorrow, so fingers crossed that might spur them into action.
I was thinking of mixing some peat in the new substrate, do you think that would help lower the ph a little? or should I just leave it?
Kthats tough going! hope he spends more time home this next yr. how old are the kids? do they nag all the time wondering when he’ll be back?
hows the new tank arrangement doing? what fish are with the galaxies? just the danios? i’d be inclined to leave the peat out as it’ll prob cloud up the water and drop the pH too fast which will put stress on the fish and not sure how the extra minerals etc will affect the fish? it seems you may be moveing soon anyway, so if the fish dont breed where you are now, the new house may have better water for them. for me….well i’m stuck with this water!!!
i’d read a post on here about someone who had bred galaxies without a heater and it was about 22C. not sure how the danios will be with it cooler though?
tan@zzyzx wrote:
Mine have just produced free-swimming fry and their tank is at 23-25 (depending on time of day).
Guess I’d better put the heater back in then! As without it my temp is dropping overnight to around 20-21c at least with the heater it was holding at around 24c.
Congratulations by the way! Are you seperating the fry or keeping them with the parents? What are your other stats?
Cheers
K
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