alanmin4304

I don't know about where you are but the place I get my glass from it can be cheaper to buy offcuts of thicker glass like 10mm than to buy 5mm. The reason being that the thicker glass is used in bigger sizes for bigger windows and the thinner can be used right down to small louvres or the like so it is charged at a new rate rather than as an offcut rate. You would need to work out what you want and get some quotes. Building tanks is a good skill for a fishkeeper to have and it is not as hard as you think untill you have done a few. It would be a bit of overkill but I would build a tank that sixe from 10mm. I have two that are are 1200 x 450 high from 10mm with euro bracing.

Meth blue usually stains silicone. I can't remember if malachite does.

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As Caryl says Rotala rotundifolia, or any of the stem plants like ambulia, cabomba which can be grown in a bunch.

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Good old Canterbury greywacke gravel

You will get used to the mulm after a while.

The ones that are released are not capable of breeding and these will be the same.

Will it run faster?

Chocolates are one of the dwarf types

The thing to realy push them is natural light from the top as well as the right artificial light. Blue light will make them flower.

They have.

Local Authorities keep the water slightly alkaline so it does not corrode copper and brass.

I did not get any NCEA credits at all but can get by quite well without that (or Shakespear for that matter)

It is all a crock to get you all excited. No university worth its salt is going to make it easier to get a degree or their whole reputation would be destroyed. Getting a degree is just like any other formal education and proves that you are capable of getting a degree. It is what you do with your new found knowledge that matters.

I was told by a person at an electrical wholesaler and they used the term electronic for the whole fitting as opposed to the old t8s I guess. I

Feed them every time you walk past and change water when you walk back.

Also some containers not intended for food can be made from plastic that leaches componants such as plastisizes from the material they are made from. If the labels indicate they were used for food they should be OK.

They discovered a disease in goldfish imported into Australia from Singapore which would have been a risk to trout and salmon in New Zealand. The fishing lobby has more pull than the fish keeping lobby and native fish don't seem to matter so once again--accountants-1 fish keepers-0.

The $1600 cost you quote from Redwood Aquatics is a one off cost for testing one species of fish for a disease. They and other importers have had greater costs, fish destroyed and complete shipments threatened with being destroyed because of diseases found. I chaired the meeting between Maf and the importers which resulted in the establishment of the present regime for the importation of tropical fish and I was the last person to import goldfish into the South Island before thir importation was stopped. I know a little about the reqirements and costs of Quarantine. Returning to the snakes in question: Where they native to Australia or an Asian Country, and if so which country would they be sent back to? Would that country accept them? Where they a hybrid and not native to any country? What diseases could they carry and therefore would need to be tested for? What is the incubation time for these disease and therefore the minimum Quarantine period? It is very difficult to tell if reptiles are carrying a simple disease like salmonella so it is realy hard to be sure they are disease free and it is therefore often better to destroy them than take the risk. It is a waste of a couple of very nice reptiles but it could be a waste of a whole lot more if they introduced a virilent disease to the native population. Accountants-1, caring reptile lovers-0

Probably not, as the submersed leaves are the imature form of the plant and the floating leaves the mature form where the plant can get lots of light with the leaves floating on the surface.

If it costs thousands of dollars to get disease analysis carried out on imported fish how would it be cheaper on reptiles?

I agree but there are problems. Who is going to provide and pay for the quarantine facility? Many countries don't want these animals returned because of the risk of diseases. In this case would you send them back to South Africa or Asia (and if so which country) I agree it is a waste of a perfectly good and innocent animal but to save them would cost megabucks and unfortunately most Countries are run by accountants.

Thinking of you all.

Taking precautions to try to prevent unwanted diseases and critters from entering the country makes sense to me.