alanmin4304

It is Hygrophila corymbosa stricta or cherry leaf or temple plant or blue hygrophila. Also sold on trademe as large green plant.

Read my post above.

I am sure there is no law against selling lizards in NZ at any age or size (including eggs) provided they are a legal species. There would of course be a better chance of keeping them alive at that age. There is a limit on size/age of turtles in the US ostensibly to prevent children from puting them in their mouth and contracting salmonellosis.

The last case was where it crossed the moat and got through a hole in the fence.

I think the last case in the world was from a laboratory in England and the guy running it committed suicide.

Not sure about the cardinals but neons produce mainly females at 24 deg C and more males at 20-21 deg C. They feed live lumbriculus variegatus as whiteqworms are too fat.

Double or triple dosing to kill algae can knock fish about

Bacterial diseases don't form---they exist and are spread. Salmonella is present in the sparrow population in Canterbury and can be carried by just about every animal you can think of including wild lizard populations and commercial poultry, and the pidgeons in the square used to be loaded with psitticosis (parrot fever). Campylobacter is frequently carried by birds and that is one reason it was not cultured in labs for a long time. Birds have a higher body temperatuture than us and they had no success until they raised the incubation temperature. You should always assume that animals carry diseases, and we don't quarantine humans arriving or returning to NZ (unless they have obvious signs of a quarantinable disease). There were only 7 internationally quarantinable diseases and now that smallpox has been iradicated there are only 6.

Not sure of Christchurch water parameters but think hardness is around 45ppm and pH would be slightly alkaline like most water supplies.

I have found that if you have the breeders in one container and move the eggs to the second container it works for me. I move them once a week and they hatch in about 11 days. I leave three containers (3 weeks) in the second container to be on the safe side. The neonates (newly hatched) climb the glass sides and the bigger ones don't so it is easy to gather neonates to feed baby reptiles and leave a few to grow up to maturity for maintaining continuous breeding.

I know people in Christchurch that have bred heaps of them in tap water so the water is not that important. They are not as productive as neons and not as easy to breed so most people commercialy would rather breed thousands of neons and sell them for a buck each. As with neons you want youngish breeders and bred in NZ if possible. The right food is important as well to get them conditioned.

You cannot buy plants outside of New Zealand and import them without them going through quarantine but you can buy plants in New Zealand from anyone who is selling them on any site.

The lizards at the christchurch airport are now at Orana park. They were labeled with the general location they came from (such as cromwell) but there are many locations with different types in Cromwell so they can't release them. This is the same with all of them I think. It is likely they will end up in zoos or put down. By the number of trips he has made her over the last few years he is a regular Freddie Angel and they should have thrown away the key

It would depend on wether male or female and how good an oranda it was. People have been paying more than that for orandas with good head growth but not terribly good tails on trademe. Do you have a picture?

I use two exoterra terrariums insulated on the outside with 15mm poly and two 40 watt light bulbs on 24/7

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I haven't bred them but I understand crickets are easier to breed than locusts.I am a bit paranoid about crickets as they bite. Since leps are nocturnal I would guess that they don't feed a lot during the day so you might be better with locusts so they can choose when they want to eat them. I would tend to lean towards locusts plus the odd mealworms rather than the other way round. Other insects in the mix such as wax moth larvae etc would help to give variety as well.

If you can afford the overpriced leopard geckos you should be able to afford a mixed diet of overpriced insects. I can't afford to buy insects for my overpriced beardies so I had to learn to breed their insects. It is not always easy and so would be a great diversion for your studies. You may not end up with a degree in insect breeding but you will learn some usefull skills. It is only my opinion but feeding reptiles on virtually only mealworms is a bit like you living on virtually only porridge (which as a student I admit you may be used to---but hopefully that will end when you get your qualifications and become an overpriced professional).

When you remove the eggs the parents are not there to clean the eggs and remove the infertile ones. The infertile ones fungus and the meth blue discourages it spreading to the fertile ones. It will stain the tank, particularly the silicone seals.

Pet shop should have it.

If I think I need to get my my feet on the ground again I remind myself how excited my parents were when they got their first piece of carpet in the house ever. It was in the front hall which was a little bigger than the toilet compartment and I was 12 years old. I lived with a long drop toilet until 10 yeers old. The only thing you can do is try to make the most of the situation you find yourself in and as circumstances change your life has to change to suit. I did half of a three year course in business administration at night school but gave it up to work 12 hour rotational shifts 6 & 7 days a week to make enough money to buy a house. My choice, no regrets and it put me eventually on a different career path which I enjoyed. Life is about choices rather than having everything you want and if you had that life would be pretty boring.

There are four plants around that are very similar and they are generally sold in the emersed form. Hemianthus has the leaves in apposing pairs. The others I think alternate. They are all called baby tears along with some other plants.

I don't think it is available here. Hemianthus umbrosum is around and is sometimes sold as callitrichoides

I was pretty tempted by that maroon bellied conure myself and was tossing up between that and staying out of the dog kennel

I think in the case of my ones I will know they are happy when they stop doing serious damage by biting each other and my partner.