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40-50mm at 10 or 12mm thick, not glued at each end and allowing for filter pipes and heater wires etc.

Two months old will be fine. Make sure you have live insects of an appropriate size and cut up fresh salad vegetables finely to make it easier for them to eat. The care sheet at the beginning of this section is good and the link to beautiful dragons gives good information on salad vegetables. I feed mainly dandelion leaves, nasturtium leaves and pea or bean leaves but have a look at the list and see what works best for you. A good sized water container that they can hop in and out of will help them stay hydrated. They do not recognise standing water but if they hop in the dish the water moves and they are more likely to drink it. Being Australian it is claimed they only recognise xxxx.

MPI do monitor this site and we do have a good relationship with them.

It sounds you had the right problem and have the right treatment

There are all sorts of Chinese whispers out there but if people want to be idiots I guess that is up to them. This site does not encourage involvement in illegal activities such as smuggling or release of organisms to cause havoc with our natives. This is a public forum and no doubt is monitored by bio security and other agencies.

Black spots on the underside of the java fern leaves has more to do with its sex life than its suicidal tendencies.

I understand that Java fern requires more light as the water gets harder.

Most people with any experience would not be keen to send eggs now that the weather is getting cooler.

Aquabases and sand

Most of the breeders will not send eggs but you can get fish from Rodney Fletcher---pauljones on trademe.

It probably relates to the relative strength of each product. You should check on the shelf life of the liquid. powders and tablets normally have a far greater shelf life than liquids.

What he says is true except he should have added can't sell or advertise for sale. They grandfathered ownership (meaning if you owned them before the restriction came in you can keep them, but not breed, sell or advertise for sale). Also cannot bring into the region. I think it only applies to jaffaland.

I don't know much about what happens in jaffaland, but air nz wouldn't ship them to or from and trademe wouldn't sell them and who knows what Mr Brown is up to. I think many people ring MPI who say "yea no problem" but don't realise it is the Council.

What makes you think that?

Welcome to the forum and to NZ

Don't forget that the restrictions on blueys is imposed by the ARC (now ACC) not MPI

In a previous life I worked as a dangerous goods inspector and there are horror stories out there. The guy that cut an inspection in a large underground storage tank with an oxy torch without degassing it or the craftsman plumber that disconnected a wetback on a log burner and capped the pipes off. The CO2 cylinders wether converted fire extinguishers or not have to have current certification before filling so you have to do something pretty idiotic to have a problem. I have two CO2 cylinders and they are both converted from fire extinguishes (which are CO2 cylinders and just have different release mechanisms). They have had the normal extinguisher mechanism removed and had the normal fittings added (by people that knew what they were doing). You are more likely to have an accident with a diy.

It is supply and demand. There have not been many baby beardies for sale in the last couple of breeding seasons but still a good supply of water dragons and leps. There may be a heap next season and the price will come down. I think it will take a few years for more cunninghams to be available because they don't seem to be as prolific as the bluies.

The cell structure of wood is like a box of drinking straws in a dairy. This is why when you partially turn wet wood to make it dry quicker it does not dry evenly but curls on two sides as the sap is replaced by air. You are wanting to replace the air with water again and it may take some time. Like most things with aquariums--patience is a virtue.

When geckos are detected at the border they cannot be returned because of mixing up genetics or introducing diseases. The Dunedin ones were returned because a guy had done a PhD on them and had pictures of the individuals and GPS locations for the bush each had come from. Even so one later turned up for sale in Belgium (smuggled again). It was only possible because of the unique patterns they have. The guy who did the research was able to identify which bush it had come from. No such luck with insects

The smaller the tank, the more water changes.

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These plants are grown emersed--no fish, no ich.

The spores for most types of algae will be in your aquarium and it depends on the conditions wether or not they will thrive, this also applies to "blue/green algae" as well so trying to sanitise plants with little chance of having aquatic algae seems a waste of time to me. It is not always easy to convert emersed plants to submersed so why give them more hassles to overcome. Treating aquariums for algae will drop the algal load but ultimately you need to change the conditions or it will come straight back. Just my thoughts.

All public water supplies have a pH at least slightly over 7 as the water will cause dezincification of brass and corrosion of copper if it is acid. There are people down here breeding neons in tap water and the pH is about 7.2 and hardness about 45 mg/litre expressed as calcium carbonate. Most aquariums go a bit acid after a while with the waste products. I wouldn't worry about it. I think Coca Cola has a pH of 6.4