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  1. alanmin4304
    If Maf were to find that rays had entered the country illegally with your help you might well be the cuddle fish while you had a holiday for a while with free board and lodging in one of the local facilities.
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    Welcome.
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    That may reduce the water retention but does not fix the cause of it.
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    It is caused by water retention through kidney failure from a number of possible causes and I have never seen it successfully treated once it gets to the pine coning. Often the damage may have been done through bad conditions in early life.
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    You can make a carpet with riccia or various of the mosses available out their. Not sure if riccia requires strong light. The mosses don't need so much and of course strong light may lead to algae problems.
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    Not normally. It is not a female full of eggs is it? The swelling tends to be more to one side when it is eggs.
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    Hemianthus micranthemoides is availabe but very rare. I lost mine over the winter. It will grow emersed but is more of a true aquatic and is the better one submersed. Hemianthus umbrosum is also available and will grow emersed. It is not a true aquatic and is more suited to emersed growth in a terrarium. As far as I know Hemianthus callitrichoides is not available in NZ. They are all susceptable to algae when grown submersed.
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    If it is on castor wheels then take the weight of the tank,stand and water and divide by 8 and that is the force on each castor. Not forgetting this is on a concrete floor in a garage not built to the standard required in a dwelling and probably without steel reinforcing. Chances are you will break the concrete floor. Suggest you remove the castors as there will be very little area in contact with the floor.
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    Hi all

    alanmin4304 replied to nzfish's topic in Welcome

    Welcome and enjoy your time here. See you tonight at CTT?
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    Hi :)

    alanmin4304 replied to JaSa's topic in Welcome

    Welcome.
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    alanmin4304 replied to echurchill's topic in Welcome

    Welcome and enjoy your time here.
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    Correct.
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    I would say that they are not obviously no good and worth hanging on to to see what happens. Throw out any that start to look no good and just wait. Make sure you have plenty of live food ready in case.
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    The safest,idiot proof way for automatic water changes is to build an overfow weir and then all you have to do is adjust the rate that the water flows in. Siphons can be dodgy.
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    They are on artificial grass carpet and there are four 4 litre icecream containers with sphagnum moss and that is all. It is a double storey unit and there are three beardies in the bottom with sand and plenty of driftwood.
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    I have never used it but peat might be OK. As stated earlier, good old garden soil might be the cheapest and easiest. Mine usually lay in the sand on the bottom of their enclosure but the eggs will dry out really quickly so you need to keep a close eye on them so you can remove them straight away. They usually spend a few days scratching in every corner they can get to before they actually lay.
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    Potting mix usually contains fertilizers and might be best not used I think
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    I have four in a 1600x600x600mm heated with a ceramic heater on a thermostat and no problems.
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    Moist vermiculite is good for holding the moisture or vermiculite/sand mix.
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    Got mine today---good read so far.
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    These flowers are the only way often to properly identify Cryptocoryne species because they vary so much under growing conditions. The pics would be worth adding to the plant data base if you are sure of their identity.
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    Watch it old fella or you might get banned.
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    I have built tanks with mirrored glass on the back and ends and they look realy good on a heavily planted tanks. Looks like the plants go on forever. The fish go a bit nutty fighting with themselves for a couple of days but give up when the pain does not arrive.
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    Loss of colouring in neons is a sign of stress. Of course it is also one of the more obvious signs of Pleistophora. It is sporozoan and for all intent is incurable. Some importers years ago used to hold it off with formalin until they could get them through quarantine but it is not a cure. Best to destroy any fish that are affected and keep a watch on the rest. It is more obvious in neons but will infect other fish as well (other than cardinals) and mostly tetras.
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    Most lizards will go off their food before they lay eggs. Not a lot of room left in there.
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