alanmin4304

I am in Christchurch and have bred a few beardies this year. Mine certainly eat more than that. They can get a bit moody about food sometimes particularly when shedding. Have sent you a PM with my details

I would have thought that Insect Direct would have spent enough time watching the crickets

In orda to correck you obvusly knew what was ment.

Any language is about comunication so if you understand the message you have achieved the desired result.

A check valve is a one way valve and the cheaper ones are usually only a flap valve. They are not usually very reliable as they can stay partly open with rubish stuck in them. They will not let gas through and retain liquids. What you need is a fluid trap as suggested.

copper sulphate is toxic to fish and some more than others, and particularly if the water is soft.

A check valve is a non return valve so will stop liquid running from your tank to your CO2 generation container but will not stop liquid from there getting into your tank.

I had overlooked the fact that it was 12 volt. I still think to be close enough to the light they will be in a wind tunnel. As I said earlier, I am using a 50 watt one to heat a cabinet but I took the bulb out and blew the fan over a heat emiitter as I thought it would work better on the bottom and disn't want the light on the bottom. Have put a seperate light at the top. Works good for what I want.

It is hard to beat live brine shrimp nuplii as fry food.

Don't forget it is a 50 watt light bulb, not a 50 watt heater. You are also restricted to puting the light and fan in the same location and the UV should be close to the basking area so you are forced to have the fan close as well. If I remember correctly they are not high UV out put either. I prefer the light and heat seperate.

I like and grow mainly Echinodorus species (Amazon sword family).

Great setup

Do it, and I hope you get more of a reaction than I got. Have a look at the following: 274115504, 275539550 and 275539704, and good luck.

Synthetic carpet makes a surface easy on the shell and hides a lot.

We missed you.

Looks like hornwort to me. The problem is that trademe does not seem to care. I reported someone selling Lagarosiphon last week and left a message for them as well and they are back again this week selling it again. Why bother. Dam strains.

It needs good light to grow in an aquarium.

People with breathing problems should try to avoid living in overcrowded aviaries?

Organophosphates are pretty toxic to humans as well. When I was training we had an entemologist who looked perfectly healthy but had arranged to leave his body to medical science. He had spent most of the second world war in Australia mixing DDT for the Americans to spray all over the islands before they invaded. They were in the very north and worked all day in only shorts and shovelling the powder into concrete mixers with no protective gear at all. His party trick every year with new students was to lick his finger and dip it in 50%wv DDT and eat it, then say "HOW POISONOUS IS THAT".

One person's waste is anothers fertilizer. Having spent most of my working life dealing with "health hazards," I can assure that there is no such thing in law. There are nuisances persuant to section 29 of the Health Act and there are similar offences under the Resource Management Act. If you have ever been in a poultry farm where they grow fresh eggs by the old less mechanised method you will see droppings piled under the cages up to half a metre high and this is part of the management regime and not a problem. There is a parasitic wasp that controls the poultry flies that breed in it but poultry flies do not invade the house like house flies. I would hate to count the number of complaints of "Health Hazards" I have dealt with that were actually a situation where someone didn't like the neighbours life style or the look of a situation.

You realy need a thermostat to control the heater. There are usually two brands on trademe.

Thats the one, and the whistlers don't like the heat so you get green and golds or whistlers but not both and the southern bells don't seem to care as they probably eat both the others. Bloody Strains.

Sagittaria and some of the smaller chain swords have the spoon shaped leaf when emersed but Sag has seperate male and female flowers and Echinodorus flowers are bisexual. The cell structure is more obvious in sag leaves. Probably S. subulata.

If it is OK (and often encouraged) to dig foul manure into your veggy garden it would be a bit difficult to say that bird manure confined in a bird aviary is a health hazard.

DDT was used extensively throughout NZ for many years and has a half life of 14 yeers if I remember correctly. You would therefore expect to find it all over the place. There is a lot of evidence that it is fat soluble and can accumulate in the body but I don't think there is a lot of evidence as to its toxicity. Most of the organophosphate insecticides that replaced it are extremely toxic.