alanmin4304

It certainly sounds like it would work if done properly. My question would be that if the father is the alpha male and there is little agression how will the males develop good fins. I have always worked on the theory that the males being able to see each other and flare encourages good fin development.

I don't think it would grow too well in the heat and it generally grows mainly emersed.

The iceblocks melt in a matter of minutes.

I have done it with daphnia and decap brine shrimp nuplii. You need to remember that the food is dead and it is very easy to overfeed and pollute the the tank with decaying food. Fish will be OK with no food for a few days and are generally better off that way than swimming in a bacterial soup.

I am trying to get the message from my beardies. Can any beardie body language experts explain the following? Female turns her beard black under the throat. Male bobs head and female returns the gesture Both wave forelegs in a royal manner Male bites female's beard and she waves front legs as above. I have some ideas but am interested in what people with more experience think.

Each to their own. In some cultures people do not eat any meat. In others they eat cats, dogs, monkeys, snakes, horses or a whole variety of insects. In others they believe all living things have a soul and say a prayer for that soul even bfore eating vegetables. Humans are omnivores and are designed to eat meat and 5 veg. Who am I to argue with the creater--I just say "yes dear", and hog into whatever is going (well almost). Each to their own, and thank God we are all different as it would be pretty boring if we were not.

Does that make you a Kausi?

I have had male red ears lose their front claws by them doing their wee waving in front of the females thingy when she has a headache.

I have always made them from clear glass so don't know if opaque is better or not. I think fish are more comfortable if the light is from the top.

That sounds like a ferret.

Seperate building heavily insulated. Conctrete floor with polystyrene and steel, batts and sisalation walls and ceiling and lined with flat colour steel with joints sealed with RTV and painted with antimould paint. You should have seen the young fellas with weird smoking habits eying it up during open homes. If you put the work into the building you save heaps on heating in the long run. Sold the house and fish house with it. Stands now full of exotic timber and a few tanks behind he shed.

I think they are very slow growing as well. Get a rod for xmas?

They could have been dyed or GM I guess. Either way I wouldn't support the idea by buying them.

There may be the odd feral dog around but there are heaps of feral cats.

I built a purpose made fish house with between 50 and 60 tanks and heated it with a one bar heater that hardly ever came on. It is all about how well you insulate it, not how you heat it.

Most of the commercial fish have a minimum legal size as well (says him who 30 years ago kept flounder the size of a 50c coin).

It is a lot cheaper to heat a room if it is well insulated. The problem is that they usually are not.

There are quarries in the Malvern Hills and a processing plant in Hororata I think

Leucistic?

The yellow one could be albino

I think the registering of dogs came about as a way to get some control over the disease of hydatids. You can train a dog and there are not many ferrel dogs out there. A cat is like a ferret and does what a cat does. There are heaps of ferrel cats out there and they are not as good as ferrets but they are also by nature killing machines. Microchipping is all poitics and does nothing. You have to catch the dog before you can read the chip.

I didn't clean them as they were new but damaged at the top where it didn't matter. RTVed a plug into each and was heating the whole room. Aquarium heaters will work.

When I first started breeding tropicals I put all my spare cash into building the fishhouse. I bought 5 baths that were seconds and used them till I got enough to build the tanks. They work well---you only need something that holds water.

Tell the stoker to stop for a coffee

Some animals like foxes will do a lot of killing over and above what they can eat but they will hide a lot for another day but ferrets just seem to kill because they can. There is a cycle that happens in the Southern Alps. About every four years the beech trees have a particularly large crop of seeds and that year the mice multiply like mad because there is lots of food. The mustelids then multiply like crazy because they have heaps of food. Unfortunately for the next three years there is not much seed so not much mice so the mustelids eat birds. Cute they might be but native bird killing machines they are also. I have no problem with irradicating them any more than possums or rabbits. Given a choice, I would go for native birds.