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alanmin4304

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  1. My first baby beardie poked its nose out of the shell yesterday and is running around today. Always exciting the first time. Will try to get a pic up when I get a chance.
  2. Thank goodness we are all different or life would get realy boring. My deaf friends communicate well without punctuation or inflections. I think language is about communication so if you understand the message the other person id giving you the purpose has been achieved.
  3. I know one person in Christchurch that got theirs today.
  4. It can be pretty invasive so would not be too popular with the powers that be I would think.
  5. A car is only a thing to stick your vinyl on
  6. Go to the experts and you get the right answers.
  7. Salmonella is spread by the faecal / oral route so washing your hands thoroughly after handling your beardie (or any other pet) and the same with cages and equipment will prevent you from getting salmonellosis so no need to panic.
  8. Aponogeton distachyus is legal (as far as I can tell) but is not usually sold in the shops as it prefers cooler water and only has floating leaves so all you see in an aquarium is the stalks. The ones sold are usually undulatus or crispus.
  9. Should we add something about feeding too much rich food until the beardie gets too fat and that they will be OK fed only six days per week. Because reptile maturity is more to do with size than age I think sometimes there is a tendancy to overfeed, particularly with rich foods and this can cause problems like obesity or metabolic bone disease.
  10. In an older house there is usually iron in the plumbing reticulation. It will be galvanised iron pipes in the house or water supply reticulation as well as frequently a caste iron wetback in a fire place. In the first few weeks of life the copper hot water cylinder reacts with the iron and forms a corrosive resistant amalgum that protects the copper from further corrosion. The house we are in was built in 1945 and still has the original hot water cylinder. In newer systems which do not have a lot of iron in the system there can be a problem but it is not likely or the cylinder would be leaking in a few months. The copper in the system would not be enough to be toxic to fish.
  11. I built a connector that replaces the screw on tip that goes on the kitchen fawcet. You will probably find that the thread is not a standard plumbig thread and that the threads are different for each make of shower fitting. The fittings for the fawcets are available from the places that sell those stupid filters that screw on to the kitchen tap to give you "pure" water. You may be able to make something up with a combination of fittings from the filter place, plumbing fittings including the flexable plumbing hose that goes under your wash hand basin and the snap on garden hose connectors to your hose. Your idea is good and mine works well, but off the kitchen. It allows you to blend water to get the right temperature without hassle
  12. I got it from The Wharehouse and it wasn't too expensive and was quite wide.
  13. Surely if you are replacing 25% of the water then you will only need 25% of the reagent
  14. I have large driftwood so they can get closer to the heatlamps and UV (without burning themselves)
  15. I use sand for the adults and intend to use synthetic lawn carpet for any babies. The sand is easy to remove sloppy faeces from but it will be a bit more of a challenge for the babies so I have made 3 so I can wash and dry them as required (also have flamed the cut edges so they don't eat any loose bits. Whatever you use you will need to remove messy droppings.
  16. As I have said on many posts before (so I wont bore you with the details) after you have dispersed some of the chlorine you are still left with the monochloramine which is used to sanitize drinking water in the USA and is about as bad as chlorine.
  17. It forms sulphur and hydrochloric acid.
  18. I used to breed the red tux years ago and found that a femle that is from red tux with a good sized peduncle and no black in the tail was good.
  19. That is healthy plant. What light and anything else special are you doing?
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