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alanmin4304

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  1. I had two pairs in a 1200mm community tank and the only agro was between the pairs. I had a cave each end and it was only where the territories overlapped in the middle there was any arjibarji. Both pairs bred a number of times. I used to siphon the babies out when they had been free swimming a couple of days and this would have removed the need for protection of the young. They were albinos and they are the only albino fish that I have seen produce some normals when bred to each other.
  2. It is not excess food gone mouldy is it?
  3. Welcome and good to have you on the site.
  4. You can cut two the same size so that you can wash one when required and use the other until it dries.
  5. I think they call it astroturf. It is completly synthetic carpet. Not made specially for reptiles but works very well, especially for leopard geckos as their dropping dry out in a day and can be easily picked up. Would be a bit messy for beardies I think. but I do use it for babies. Comes in different colours but I prefer green. Cut it to size and then use a flame to burn off (melt) any loose bits right around the edges. You can get loose bits otherwise that they may swallow.
  6. I get mine in Christchurch from The Wharehouse
  7. Don't be fooled. He made it from silicone rubber.
  8. Doesn't know where that finger has been.
  9. The NZ version is probably called secret squirel.
  10. The safest way is to send by Air NZ airport to airport but it cost me $184 last time. That way they will only be in transit for a few hours. I sent a beardie from Auckland to Christchurch and baby leopard geckos from Christchurch to Tauranga and no probs apart from with the bank manager. Usually two days on petbus from Auckland to Christchurch.
  11. Imported fish can get close to that. You would need to do it properly and use oxygen etc. but they should be OK.
  12. Packed up and ready to leave home. The best part is when they have kids and you get to watch the payback.
  13. God's mother in law is the one you need to watch.
  14. Are the Eastern babies usually that colour?
  15. Here is something to try: Will work with a turkey, large chicken or rabbit. It comes out as if it was cooked by a Chinese chef in a hangi (Maori oven for those from SA) You make a big pile of playdough about 2kg of salt and the same of flour, add water till it is moist enough to roll out like pastry about 5-6mm thick Take 1/4 cup light soy sauce and add a tablespoon of honey. Melt in microwave and add a teaspoon of crushed garlic and crushed ginger. Marinade the outside of the beast them put the remainder inside and sow up all the holes at both ends. Wrap in aluminium foil and fold over the edges to seal. Wrap the whole thing in the playdough and moisten and seal the joints. Cook at 130 deg C for 4 hours (until it looks like a gold brown loaf of bread). You will need an axe to cut the top off to get acces to the beast but it is well worth it and will keep a turkey very moist. I have done it with turkey, chicken and a wild rabbit stuffed with rabbit back steaks. You could also stuff a chicken or turkey with quail. If you realy want a traditional NZ hangi start digging a hole in the back yard. That is what we had at a friends place last year. Hard to beat.
  16. Must be a great white or did you run out of paint? Great job.
  17. It is only a carbon filter and will absorb some stuff and then when full will dump it again. Five micron will not filter out a lot of bacteria. All but useless I would think.
  18. Not sure about breeding but they do not like the heat. I have heard of tadpoles being alive in frozen over ponds and they don't live right up north. Too much heat might be a turnoff for them.
  19. I think the "tail droppers" are geckos which you cannot take from the wild and you need a permit to keep them. Someone more in to natives will advise I am sure.
  20. The hot glue gun works pretty well on most plastics.
  21. mince and worms. You have to be sure that the butcher has not illegally added preservative to the mince or they throw it straight up again. After assuring me that there was no preservative in it I found out the messy way that there was. The preservative they use is metabisulphite which gives off sulfur dioxide and you can test for it with malachite green. The solution goes colourless if there is sulfer dioxide there.
  22. It is too. I was getting confused over who owned that veination.
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