alanmin4304

I am not against catching fish, in fact I am planning on catching herrings today. Neither am I against shooting pests like rabbits and possums and have in fact shot thousands of them. The herrings will end up as turtle tucker and any trout caught will be put back (yea right). I don't have a problem killing things, just torturing them and culturing them so they can feed on our natives.

What realy gets me is how everything is geared up to protect salmon and trout and nothing is done to protect our unique native fish that they are feeding on. It is all about money. The money from fishing licences that makes the fishing lobby so powerful and the money from tourism for people catching introduced fish. If you did to a cat, dog or bird what people do to trout and salmon you would end up in jail so where are our heads people? Even better people pat themselves on the back for throwing them back so someone else can do it to them again.

Do they always think they are bigger than they realy are?

I sell plants on the unmentionable site. I charge $6 per parcel and will send multiple sales for $6. I cut down small cartons (takes time) to less than 70mm thick and they can then be posted fastpost for $3-$5.50 depending on other dimensions. They then take 1-2 days rather than 3-5 days. There will be at least 2 plastic bags, tape and a printed label plus the cost of getting to the post. I don't feel bad about it because I state that the $6 is for p&p (packing and post). If you quote for postage only then you better just charge postage and add the other costs to the product (all academic realy)

I thaw mine out in a disposable drink glass and change the water a few times to get rid of the excess nutrient, then feed with an eye dropper.

It is all a bit academic realy. You sell for $20 plus $10 P&P when it costs $5 to post, or you charge $25 and $5 actual postage. There are other genuine costs other than the postage.

I have seen it before. Female on the left

You a male then

No, it was not whirling disease but something else I had not heard of. They love to quote whirling disease for all sorts of problems (including banning the sale of live tubifex to the North Island many years ago) but I understand it is indemic in some coastal marine fish and since most of our native fresh water fish spend time at sea it all seems a little pointless. Some importers don't import some types of allowed fish because of the frequency of them having it.

If you want to cover postage you quote and charge postage. If you want to recover some of the actual costs you quote and charge P&P---and it will still cost more than you charge.

Can anyone advise as to the legallity of selling non native wild caught lizards? I know they have banned the export of them.

I think they stopped the importation of goldfish because of a disease (which I forget the name of) that was discovered on fish in Australia. They thought it was a threat to trout and salmon and the fishing lobby has a lot more pull than the fish keeping lobby.

Are they arriving in 4-5 weeks or available in 4-5 weeks? If available they would already be in quarantine.

When the babies are a few days old you can siphon them off and rear them in in another tank and as stated the parents will go gain very shortly. Feed the babies on brine shrimp nuplii and microworm. I have raised a number of spawnings that way.

If it is plistophora it is for all intents incurable but the fading colours in neons can also be an indication of being unwell from all sorts of causes.

The floor should be bearers spanning the garage roof and joists running over and across them with the flooring on top of the joists. As stated, the position of the joists can be determined by the nail pattern on the flooring. Idealy the tank should be at right angles to the rows of nails and therefore across the joists and also as close to a load bearing wall (an outside wall or one which is a wall for the garage).

Got a pic?

I was pointing out that the practice is not the same as the theory. The same as the article quoted: Myth *15 In NZ joists are not normally 2x10 they are 2x4. But that all comes down to how far they span. Spread the load as much as you can. I have a stand with 2 tanks on it that are 1200 x 450 x 400 high on a timber floor built in 1945 and all seems well. The load is distributed over the whole footprint and is as close as possible to the joists.

The design floor load of a dwelling is 2 Kpa which is equivalent to a column of water 400mm high. Anything over that (like everybodies fish tank) exceeds the design floor load. The load is determined by the height of the tank not the number of litres. Each floor will have the same design floor load.

The other way would be to join NZKA and get some eggs to hatch, as they can be easily sent through the mail.

Don't forget that officers of Maf are creatures of statute and can only do what the parliamentarians have empowered them to do with the laws they have made. The time is fast coming where these things can be rectified. We are not all related to Freddy Angel but I guess they consider that the greater your interest in these critters the greater the risk of you smuggling them. The same would go for a druggy smuggling drugs. They wouldn't be doing their job if they ignored it--- provided they stick to the law and don't just do things because they think it is a good idea. With a court order any info can be obtained from PM, Email, mobile phone, computer etc. There is a court case going on here at the moment where text messages are being quoted.

Just put some money aside to get the place fumigated by the pros if any escape.

Christchurch water is pretty special though. Must be for pretty special people eh?

Such a friendly helpful soul.

Yes, but more people would be trying to get rid of it rather than buy it I would think.