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I noticed that this mack snow could be a little different when mature. It looks like the spots are going to be pinstriped. Have to wait and see what it turns out like when a bit older. Not a good pic but hope you can see.

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It obviously is in the first stages of cycling. You don't get ammonia from chlorine but you can get it from the reaction of chlorine with sodium thiosulphate or from fish metabolism.

Not a chance. If there was I would be at the top of the list. I have sold every aquatic noxious weed available to the shops in the past ( before they were declared noxious weeds). Blueies are not a problem for me as they do not do a single solitary thing for me. If people continue to be idiots with some animals like red eared sliders and releasing them into waterways it is probable that more animals may be added to the list. My brother came over from Queensland a while ago and freaked out when he found out we were breeding red ears. They are shot on site over there. Most animals have the potential to be a nuisance given the right conditions.

As I understand it MPI (maf) can ban or control animals or plants nationwide but Regional Councils (or Unitary Authorities such as Auckland) can introduce controls if they think there is a particular problem in their area (over and above national controls). Some people on one side of the Bombay Hills cannot perceive that the real world may be different to their situation and that an animal or plant may not survive in Bluff but will be a real pest in the north. Some of us southern oldies understand this because we use to eat jaffas in the pictures as kids. A lot of the really bad plants that could be a disaster in the north just would not survive the winter even in Christchurch (Salvinnia and water hyacinth for example. I know this because in the "good ol days" I use to bring these down from up north and sell them to the pet shops"). There are however patches of microclimate where they might---hence the national ban.

It would have been a bylaw of the old Regional Council before amalgamation and is in the same catagory as some other animals such as ferrets. The problem will be that the bylaw is now administered by someone who knows nothing about it and has no interest---probably someone who was previosly trying to control pest plants. This is how the council keeps your rates down---dumping more jobs on people who are flat out doing something else already. The Councilors are probably having their free refreshments and still think the staff are all leaning on shovels. The main problem with blue tougues is that they have live young and so do not need the right conditions to incubate eggs.

I think the advice may not be correct. My understanding is that if you have them you may keep them but you cannot breed, sell advertise for sale or buy and bring in to the Auckland region.

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How about a decimal place?

My understanding is that they originated from Orana park and someone collected a few but were all famales but mated them to the only known male left in the country and now we are away with breeding them. Therefore all the variations have come from what were wild natural coloured stock only a few generations ago. The expression "unrelated pairs" is of course relative.

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Will be keen to see that baby as it begins to change markings and as an adult.

I refer to the second post

I have never come across gill worms, only gill flukes (though may have got lost in translation).

Not so secret squirel says there are some good colour variations in the pipeline (not this pipeline unfortunately).

Nice to know finally. My logic was that if you breed mack snow to mack snow (which is what is happening) you get normals--(hi yellows in this case)and they are not that, super mack snows (still waiting for them) and guess what---must be them. That being the case there are more in the pipeline (more growing to do and mainly spoken for) and hopefully in the incubator.Thanks for the confirmation.

Payback time

Reminds me of a story. My partner used to have a little container that stuck to the supports on her glasses and a guy that had been indulging in spiritous liquours whispered in my ear asking what the wee box on the glasses was for. " You have heard of pacemakers for your heart?--yep. Well she has had a stroke and this is a pacemaker for her brain." He believed it for some time but it took a really long time before she got the joke.

Congrats to all those responsible, especially those that didn't just have a bit part.

We have sold stuff in the craft markets and they were a disaster profit wise. People expect stuff really cheap so it can be a lot of work for very little. I would think that selling food would be pretty much the same

There is a pretty detailed report made when resource consent applications are made for these and as stated,don't climb the tower but they are worked out so a person at ground leval will get less radiation than the person next to you with a mobile phone on their ear. Ugly but harmless.

It depends on what else is in the tank and might eat them. If so best to siphon off what you can and raise them in a seperate tank. Use the same water they are in at the moment and an airstone to agitate the water. Feed them brine shrimp nuplii or microworm when they become free swimming.

A chaffinch is far better looking when adult.