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Pet world at Northlands mall have a probable pair of young ones for 3k bred by the owner from white and yellow morph if I remember correctly. Spotted them yesterday and nice looking beasties.

I had a landline number which no longer seems to work. Anyone having contact details please PM me.

All will be forgiven in the long run.

Patience grasshopper

Are those pictures of leopards in NZ ?

Does it say on the bottle what the active ingredient is for the steri-lizer?

I was very sad that I did not get a Scottish stamp on mine.

Have you tried pollenating the flowers?

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700mm is high for a plant tank so you get the problem of light penetration. Ground cover plants will not get much light but taller plants will get heaps. You also have a lot of blue and little red and red does not penetrate water as well as blue and plants need both. I would think a bit more red light might help (growlux, plantgrow or lumiflor). The short answer is probably no to the amount and maybe to the type.

Gravel/sand is like many things a matter of preference. I grow a lot of plants and use sand. I use greywacke river sand because there is plenty of it here cheap and it is smooth and relatively inert. Some plants like a bit of calcium so some beach sands can be smooth and provide that. The specialty plant tubes have a number of peaks (3 on blue I think) and as you say these are the important wavelengths. They have different functions, some encourage flowering, compact growth etc. We are geared to greern but plants are not so as with many things it is about what you want to achieve and personal preference. Some will be easier on the eye but not so good for plant growth. Often a combination is a good compromise.

Growlux type tubes are designed to grow plants and are 10000k. It is not only blue and red light that is required but those colours need to concentrate at the right frequencies, which is what the tubes are designed to do. They are not called growlux or plantgrow or similar for nothing. Thats why I use lumiflor---secret squirel.

There is nothing wrong with eating lotus root in a stir fry either.

I have a tank of different types of male killies together with no problems. I have hade gold and chocolate australes plus fundulapanchax gardneri blue, gardneri albino, and nigerianus gold males all in together and no problems. They do better in a planted tank I think as it blocks a bit of light and gives them places to hide. Go the male killies.

Well done.

If you are looking for a large spectacular plant that does not grow massively out of the water like marble queen, try Echinodorus uraguayensis. It remains submersed and looks like a giant vallisneria. Grew to about 600mm in my 500mm high tank but remained submersed. Not that easy to propagate so not common.

If you have the chance to discover the background of some people you discover that there are some very sick people out there and it is not hard to see why when you learn what they have been through. I had to intervue a 23 year old mother of a 7 year old daughter who had been raped by her father, stepfather, uncle and three brothers. At the time she was working as a prostitute and was sharing a double bed with one of her brothers. You explain to me what would be normal for that person. There are some sick puppies out there.

The velocity of the water entering the siphoning end is directly proportional to the area of the opening so you need to get the right balance between the area of the opening, the size of the hose and the head of water (the difference in height between the top of the tank and the water level in the bucket).

A heatlamp over the basking area is good as well for the first couple of years. Keep the top open so they can dry their shell. A tank with a lid will create 100% humidity.

Until the females decide they have a headache and chew them off. Males are also smaller, have a longer tail and go black at about 10 years old.

Bubble and squeek have some good albino babies at the moment and a few are carrying the long fin gene. Can't remember the price but they were pretty cheap as they bred them themselves.

Everone has their own preferences. I use lumiflor and cool white in combination. Lumiflor is like growlux but I suspect a bit more red. The 18000 tubes are high in blue so encourage compact growth and flowering (normally used for corals I think). Red will make for tall skinny growth. Plants need red and blue light and the growlux type tubes are designed to provide that. I grow a lot of plants emersed and have been a bit slack bringing them inside for the winter but will very shortly. Last year I used lumiflor tubes but this year I was going to replace one with a lumilux blue (gives off very blue light) as an experiment. I couldn't get a 30 watt 18000 T8 tube or I would have used that. I get my tubes from Lamp specialists. A tank 500mm or more high will need good light to get to the bottom if you want ground cover plants. If you are going to only grow the larger plants that will become emersed then they will be closer to the lights and you will not need as much.

I thought Wittee Repartee was a maori activist.

Will there be enough room with Mrs Grindel as well as a couple of bearded dragons?

Unfortunately many of these kids come from homes where severe punishments are handed out regularly, so harder punishments are not the answer. They are so used to it that they think that is the norm and may even be one of the contributing factors to this behaviour.