Nanglebadger

dark bronze FTW!!!! Phil.

galaxy rasboras/celestial danios are MINT! i have one left over from mark, they're like tiny little trout! Steve - we need pics of all your setups! now! i have no updates for my big tank other than that i have removed the power head and installed an additional spray bar and relocated it to the rear side of the tank. reason being, most of what i have in there (fish wise) is amazonian, and as such doesn't like strong water flow. it was also causing my java moss to go all fucked up. since i turned it off i have noticed the RCS are out alot more and there are TONNES of them lol, but still only low level movement from the neons/cardinals/embers/rasboras. so im thinking of adding some hatchet fish to add higher level movement, but would need to fashion a cover that still allows light through without condensation, i.e. a plastic grid same as my dads. also, needs a load more ottos and maybe some corydora habrosus that have come into my LFS recently at a good price. also tempted by some sunkist shrimp and maybe some galaxy rasboras. I have also ordered an inline heater, so in the picture below, the power head is now gone, and soon the internal heater will be gone too. minimal intrusion aquascaping FTW! as for the fighter tank, things aren't so hott here. I have removed the corys as they should never have been there in the first place. I lost my big white and purple marble Veil Tail which i was gutted about as it was the nicest fighter i'd ever seen, and at present i have 4 rather poorly looking bettas too. the only one who seems ok is the big Crowntail. Levels are fine and regular decent water changes and pump cleaning, and now adding health booster which seems to have improved one of them, but still. bit gay. if they all go i may break it down until I eventually move house as otherwise relocating this thing will be a disaster as it's bottom drilled. also, never again installing it below a low shelf, makes cleaning a wanker! now, onto new business. as u all know, my dad had a 400L marine tank. well, we now hate marines as we simply couldn't get them right. even with the right lighting and an external sump and UV steriliser and reactors and skimmers it just wouldn't take. so, lesson learnt, we are staying away from marines. the marine set up was broken down and stripped out (i have it all for sale if anyone wants anything) and the fish taken into Exotic Aquatics. I then cleaned down the tank and the sump and cabinet and return pump, and with Mark at the other end of the line, we rebuilt this 400L badboy, tropical stylee. First I put down aquasoil, followed by nearly 25Kg of natural gravel. This was followed by several branches taken from the garden, which as they are black thorn, are very tough and dense, and are taking FOREVER to waterlog. an entire bag of alfagrog was added into two chambers of the sump, the heater set for tropicals, and believe it or not, i scooped in the beginning of the water with a small plastic tub so as not to disturb the soil before feeding in the water via the overflow box, again to prevent disturbance. this mofo was then cycled empty until up to temp, and i began by adding the corys from my fighter tank one at a time over the course of a week to start the bacteria growing. and now a few weeks on, we have one fighter, 2 albino corys, 2 corydora Reticulatus, one corydora habrosus, 20 X-Ray tetras, 11 ember tetras, 48 wild green neons (oh yes!!!!! tough to get) and 8 wild caught blue rams (i gotta say, the colours of the wild caught ones are simply breathtaking! we cleared the shop out in one go of them!!!). Amazon swords, bacopa (sp), some tall vallis grasses and a random plant have all been added, although the rams appear to be doing some munching. picture of the overall set-up below. we still need to buy and install a proper light for the plants and remove the halide currently being used, and obviously those horribly out of place looking rocks will be coming out in about 3 weeks (they are weighing down the wood until i am 100% sure it's water logged). Phil. Phil.

Lew...any bloody chance dude?? thats a hell of a thing to hint at and then not deliver!!!! for shame! Phil.

apparently there are a shower of pricks about at present who PURPOSELY sit in the outter lanes to piss people off and force them to do the undertake, then when they do the bastards ring the 5-0 and report them for undertaking. now, i had heard folk were being done on the back of this, but tbh i find that complete horseshit, because its the word of some wanker against yours. and if u are in possession of a clean and advanced driving licence and they are not, then who's word is going to stand stronger?? lol but yeah, just watch for them pricks too guys. Phil.

lulz Phil.

much, much louder! win! Phil.

simply awesome! Phil.

frankly i'm on the copper's side tbh. you should have been done for careless driving. fact. if it were me behind you i'd have undertaken you then cut the shit out of you in the outside lane to give u the hint. use the correct lane. to be honest the cop was more than decent not booking you for it. he should have. Phil.

^^^bastard wullie!!! u beat me to it!!!! that was what I was fishing at!!!! but yeah, why on earth would you be sitting in the outside lane??? just because u were doing the speed limit??? nothing bugs me more than driving home late at nite on a motor way or dual carriageway and findin some goon in anything but the inside lane!!!! and they're only there because they're doing 70 or they're turning right in 6 miles!!!! there are whole road safety campaigns dedicated to this entire MLH (Middle Lane Hog) disaster!!! i don't understand why anyone would be in anything other than the left hand lane if they're not passing anything. You drive in the left lane, u pull out to do an over take, and u move back in! must i get on my Qualified Advanced Driving Observer High Horse and preach this shit all over UKSC! if it had been me had come up behind u that nite u'd have got full beam and the horn and irately told to get in the right bloody lane lol. Phil.

@Russ78 - just curious, why were you sitting in the right hand lane?? were you doing an overtake on anything or was it a clear road?? Phil.

fuckin love this project! Phil.

i have fond sexy memories of that clio. happy times. nice one dude! Phil.

f**kin win! Phil.

KP30 counts as a starlet all day long. Phil.

no, definately not a bolt on job dude. i believe the biggest difference is the larger tranny tunnel in the floor pan yeah, but really we need an EP95 owner to come on to confirm that. Phil.

i had an HKS one on mine, found it caused too much pressure and was forcing the coolant out so resorted back to the stock one that comes with it. Phil.

no. AFAIK, you would need to make a whole new transmission tunnel to accomodate it, hence why people turbo EP95s instead of 4WD'ing EP91s. Phil.