alanmin4304

The spa pool in Christchurch where people ended up in hospital with rotting armpits and groins looked pretty inviting too.

I have a couple of heat pads if you want to borrow them. OK away from water and no thermostat but might be usefull if monitored.

It is an enclosed system, so what nasties get in there are trapped. There can be a good reduction of bacteria and other nasties as well as nutrient and heavy metals by passing efluent through the root zone of some plants and this is the principle with treating sewage effluent this way. I am not sure how much other than nutrient would be removed in this situation. Excluding areas poluted by sewage, the sea and moving fresh water are continually flushed and would have a far greater reduction in any nasties I would have thought. There have been some pretty nastie disease contracted from swimming in pools and spa pools where the water treatment has not been adequate.

Echinodorus cordifolius

They are probably Southern bells, green and golds have a gold line along the side of the body and going through the eye (they are not found further south than Gisbourne. They would eat a fully grown locust and they are about as big as a praying mantis. Good idea to send the kids out to catch insects.

I could see a raft of diseases that could be transmitted by that situation. The natural filtration will remove nutrient but may not reduce bacteria or other nasties. I have been involved with a number of installations of septic tanks using "natural" treatment and they can work but need to be well designed, installed and maintained (which they seldom are).

Locusts, crickets, slaters and other hard shelled insects are better than flies.

What sort of frogs are they? fruitflies will be OK for whistlers but a bit small for the others. If they can eat each other they don't have a problem with a blowfly.

I was advised not to use an electronic light fitting near water by someone in a specialist lighting shop who I would respect the opinion of. I assume it is the electronic ballist and that it would be OK if wired remotely and kept away from water.

I have been advised that electronic flouro lamps do not like water and should not be used over an open tank, is this so?

Most drugs used in fish keeping have more than one use but each generally has a prefered use.

A swimming pool is constructed as that and includes pools for wading, swimming, paddling and a spa pool. A goldfish pond is a goldfish pond and is not a swimming pool. The Fencing of swimming Pools Act states in part. (see subsection © (ii) Nothing in this Act shall apply in respect of— (a) Any pool that has no part of the top of its side walls less than 1.2 metres above the adjacent ground level or any permanent projection from or object standing on the ground outside and within 1.2 metres of the walls, where the outside surface of the side walls is constructed so as to inhibit climbing and any ladder or other means of access to the interior of the swimming pool can be readily removed or rendered inoperable and is removed or rendered inoperable whenever it is intended that the pool not be used: (b) Any excavation, structure, or product, in which the maximum depth of water does not exceed 400 mm: © Any excavation, structure, or product,— (i) That is not used in association with any house, home unit, apartment building, school, hospital, hotel, motel, camping ground, or other similar premises; and (ii) That is not modified for use, or intended to be used, for swimming, wading, paddling, or bathing: (d) Any pool intended to be used for wading or paddling in any place that is under the administration of a local authority: (e) Any pool that is wholly enclosed within a building that is used principally for a purpose or purposes not related to the use of the pool: (f) Any pool where— (i) Persons are employed and present to provide supervision of the pool whenever the pool is available for use; and (ii) Access to the pool is effectively prevented by a fence that complies with this Act or by locked gates or doors whenever the pool is not intended to be available for use. The words mean what the words say and not what someone at the Local Council office thinks they say so make it as deep as it needs to be, but don't ring me if a child drowns in it. A child can drown in 50mm of water.

The Fencing of swimming Pools Act states in part. (see subsection © (ii) Nothing in this Act shall apply in respect of— (a) Any pool that has no part of the top of its side walls less than 1.2 metres above the adjacent ground level or any permanent projection from or object standing on the ground outside and within 1.2 metres of the walls, where the outside surface of the side walls is constructed so as to inhibit climbing and any ladder or other means of access to the interior of the swimming pool can be readily removed or rendered inoperable and is removed or rendered inoperable whenever it is intended that the pool not be used: (b) Any excavation, structure, or product, in which the maximum depth of water does not exceed 400 mm: © Any excavation, structure, or product,— (i) That is not used in association with any house, home unit, apartment building, school, hospital, hotel, motel, camping ground, or other similar premises; and (ii) That is not modified for use, or intended to be used, for swimming, wading, paddling, or bathing: (d) Any pool intended to be used for wading or paddling in any place that is under the administration of a local authority: (e) Any pool that is wholly enclosed within a building that is used principally for a purpose or purposes not related to the use of the pool: (f) Any pool where— (i) Persons are employed and present to provide supervision of the pool whenever the pool is available for use; and (ii) Access to the pool is effectively prevented by a fence that complies with this Act or by locked gates or doors whenever the pool is not intended to be available for use. The words mean what the words say and not what someone at the Local Council office thinks they say so make it as deep as it needs to be, but don't ring me if your child drowns in it. A child can drown in 50mm of water.

I have morphed Japanese fire bellies for sale. PM for a FNZAS dicount if you want one or two or six.

We get that down here for free every weekend.

Not in Christchurch. They will grow in a glasshouse.

Very spectacular to watch flying.

I remember years ago watching native falcons hunting a flock of sparows over a valley in the inland Kaikouras. They were a pair in the breeding season and one chased them across the valley while the other dived from above--it was a very short meal break. Language is about communication so if you understand what people have said then the excersise has been successful.

For the good of all parties I think we need to avoid making too many assumptions.

Don't forget that they can become a very large plant, most of which is emersed.

When the question was asked previously the answer was that they were being kept by the government at taxpayers expense so I assume they have not been destroyed but contained.

The government can ban plants nationally but the regional council can ban additional plants in its region if they are a local problem. My understanding is that V. gigantea is nationally banned and others may be locally banned.

Livingart for President

Sounds like an incurable std. The cutting boards are polyethylene as is your 2litre milk bottle and alkathene is a tradename for the same thing

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