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Please do not put a goldfish in a bowl. One fish is too many and 3, no matter how small, would not last long. A goldfish needs at least 80L of water (pref 120L) plus good filtration and regular maintenance. The first thing your church children would get to discuss, if you put 3 goldfish in a bowl, is whether their goldfish went to heaven. We, as an organisation, do not sell fish. Our members offer when they have some for sale.

How old was he? Bettas have a 2 - 5 year life span and can often be relatively old when they arrive in a pet shop. They will deteriorate quickly when it is old age. This can be mistaken for fin rot or other disease. As there has been a delay in response here, did he survive?

I haven't seen them for quite a few years (but I haven't been specifically looking either) but used to breed them. A lovely fish. Ask at your local pet store, if you have one, if they can get some for you.

I noticed last night that my Betta had a small tear on his fins. I tested my water about 7 days ago an everything was perfect, tested again last night and my ammonia had bounced up. I moved him into a hospital tank within a couple hours an treated with tonic. This morning when I checked him it was way worse, the end of his body was abit patchy and fins more deteriorated. My locals said that there's nothing more I can do at the moment. I'm very worried he won't make it through the night, he's starting to struggle. Any advice is much appreciated.

reports.pdf Reports - attached - these will go into the minutes as well. Thanks team see you all tomorrow

Minutes from last years AGM FNZAS AGM 2024 minutes.pdf

Below are the Nominations for positions, also the Statement of Financial performance for the 2024 - 2025 Tax year, Reports will be added to this thread as they are received as well Thank you FNZAS President Nominations for FNZAS Executive 2025-2026.pdf statement of financial performance 2024 2025.pdf

Here are the details for 2025 AGM As the Fish show and Expo has been postponed for a year we have had to revert to an online only AGM Please note anyone can join - but only people on the executive and the delegates can speak unless we open the floor. I will add more details below this post regarding AGM President FNZAS is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A RECORDED MEETING Topic: FNZAS's AGM Time: Apr 26, 2025 10:00 AM Auckland, Wellington Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/97593927808?pwd=kAXQoDbuAsiYOhAiDVqbowtwHiHaOM.1 Meeting ID: 975 9392 7808 Passcode: 986889

Karl is in Australia now doing reptile relocations lol

Did you have any luck?

Derek can you get away with just thick sponge as a divider then it can be removed when you want

Make whatever size holes you like and cover them with netting, or a bit of mesh, to stop fry from getting through, if that is what the divider is for. Otherwise, if this is for platy fry, they are quite large so make the holes slightly smaller than the fry. Won't matter if one or two get through as you will be over-run with fry quickly if you save them all. You could also get solid mesh netting that would do the trick or perhaps a metal, or Perspex frame with mesh siliconed or fastened some other way to it. A heavily planted tank (especially with fine leafed plants like water sprite, Indian fern or Java moss) will ensure enough fry survive each month without you ending up with hundreds of fry you don't have space for and can't get rid of and you don't need to build a divider.

OK, so if I am reading this correctly, you added the new guppies to an established tank that already had fish in it and it is just the new guppies that are dying and not the originals? What is a possibility, is that your originals have some sort of "bug" that doesn't bother them but the new fish have not encountered and so don't have an immunity to. Once the new fish started getting sick, it increased the number of "bugs" so now the originals are having to fight the larger number. People always say you should quarantine new fish for 4 - 6 weeks to check they don't bring anything with them but that doesn't help if it is a case of something the fish have not built up resistance to. I had a similar problem once, many years go now, and it was not the fault of the fish shop. From memory, we just had to wait to see which ones survived. I don't think adding further meds to the water will help. Survival of the fittest. Do the sick fish have stringy poo? That can be a sign of internal parasites. Next time, quarantine new fish to check they are fine before adding them to the established tank. If they were sick to start with, they would show signs in the quarantine period. If they don't show signs of sickness until a week or more after being added to another tank with current inhabitants, I would look at something in that tank that is the problem. Not necessarily poor water quality, as it sounds like everything is good there, but something new to that particular batch of fish. Someone else may have other suggestions.

Free with a catch; needs to be picked up from Te Awamutu on or before this Saturday. I can help with moving/carrying and can disassemble the tank interior prior to pick up. I set this up to attempt to make a stable system with low stock - was successful and I can never detect any nitrates, so I have just trimmed the plants and left it be generally. Water changes to manage mineral build up in water only essentially. Rimless 900x45x450 aquarium. First set up in 2021. Hardscaped and planted heavily. Fluval 207 canister filter and everything you see in the photos included, including the stand which is custom made out of 25mm laminated bamboo. Have glass aquarium bits so it's not as visible. Programmable LED light. Current stock is one geriatric neon tetra (my tetra's were all original when the aquarium started and have slowly dropped off in the last year). 4-5 (not sure buggers won't stay still to count) Borneo suckers/loaches - I leave the algae on some of the glass that grows where the sunlight hits it for these guys as they seem to like it. These were all also added not long after the tank was set up so based on the lifespan on google they are likely all geriatric as well. An indeterminate number of kuhli loaches (possibly zero - I very rarely see them). I presume these guys have bred in this tank before as we saw a very small kuhli in the tank a few years after set up and all the originals were quite large. E-mail me if keen. Don't want any money for it, would prefer someone experience with planted tanks and interested in keeping the existing livestock have it for their enjoyment.

if you have not rehomed this fish yet let me know and I can share this on our Facebook page as well - President FNZAS

Hi team, so my builder is going to place some Perspex in to divide off a smallish section of our tank. However what size holes diameter! do we drill to have water circulate to keep them in. Thanks Derek

We need to dismantle our tank while renovations go on at our house. My daughter has two good size phantom tetra and one harlequin tetra in her small tank that we’d like to find a happy home for. Especially if you have more of the same- free to good home. Pick up near Hutt hospital.

I might be paranoid or overthinking that animates have sold me sick guppies.. it all started from February 4th when I bought a bag of female guppies. The tank looked vibrant, then the week after a guppy died. I thought it was complications from giving birth cause a couple of them came to me pregnant. But from there every week I start loosing 1-2 of them. It's all from animates, I got worried that something was wrong with my tap water (maybe it was double chlorinated and I didn't know?) but it didn't make sense as I have 6 tubs of aged water running for water changes and just to be safe I'll add some prime. I also bought RODI just to be safe during this but nothing changed. I religiously clean my tanks every Sunday and do a 15% water change, before it I'll do a test and Ill also do one after (I know I don't need to do this extra steps but I just have a major OCD so everything needs to be 'perfect'). All of my other tanks are fine, this is just from one specific tank for female guppies. It's been 6 weeks, I had 12 female guppies and now I only have 4 (one is going through the same problem. They would have normal looking bellies and couple days before they die, they would get very very skinny for some reason). I've tried what the staffs have recommended me, salt, pimafix, melafix, meth blue nothing worked. Im at my wits end as all im seeing is a floating fish every Tuesday or Wednesday (is this a coincidence?). Idk what to do, I regret introducing new fish in the tank and should have been happy with my originals, they're still surviving but I think whatever it is in there, it's getting to them soon as a few of my originals are starting to show signs. Did anyone go through this??? Should I just cull the rest of them? It is sad that they're going through this and I can't do anything.

Hi lol it’s 2025 and I’m only seeing this now , I’m on the Kapiti coast and want a torrentfish where can I find them?

where can i buy leopard fish? i cannot seem to find them anywhere.

Hello, I have an approx. 6 years old comet goldfish who I adopted from friends who moved overseas. I'm currently renting and also not an experienced fishkeeper by any means, so while I tried to give him a good life in a 65L tank, I'm not in a position to get into fishkeeping as I know he needs to be in a bigger tank or pond. I'm not actually sure of its sex but just went with 'he'. He's a lively guy, will swim around and follow (basically begging for a feed). Really hardy fish. Please let me know if you have a suitable environment for my lovely fish to be in. I'm also happy to rehome him with his current tank + 2x small driftwood & 1x java fern + tank stand + HOB filter + food + accessories for free. Thanks so much Priscilla Based in AUCKLAND

Hi, looking for some advice please. My son purchased a 450l tank off facebook marketplace, we’ve filled it up and it leaks. Of course the dishonest scum bags who sold it to him aren’t doing anything - is it worth resealing ? Can it be resealed?

Hi there, I am looking to rehome our tropical fish. We are downsizing and no longer have room for the tank. - 1 large bristlenose catfish (I think, this one was given to me and is at least three years old) - 2 stripes loaches -6 neon tetras. must pick up in Wilton, Wellington. thank you!

Well done and good work. I know a number of different hobby and interest clubs who are wrangling with all this.

Hi All, Good news. Societies office has reactivated our Society Status and also have accepted our new Constitution. 🥳 Cheers Chris (Secretary HBAS)