alanmin4304

What was the conclusion when the plant arrived?

They could end up as described or the gold could be recessive and you get ordinaries split to gold.

Thanks for that (still working on the martii and tennellus)

I have had one turtle for 9 years (since a few months old) without a reptile light and he is very healthy. I feed good quality turtle food, live fish and as much plant as they want to eat. They are all healthy and breed well. Your temperature is OK but if the heater is on all the time it is too small or the thermastat is not working. I have an area where they can get out and dry their shell and it is right by the window and has a glass cover over that part to stop them from escaping. Good diet,some sun and letting them dry out is the way to go. I put the babies into a tank in the garage which has a reptile light and a heat lamp because there are no windows.

I don,t know but I would have thought the ammonia reacting with the water would raise the pH by the production of hydroxyl ions. If it locks up ammonia I would have thought it would lock it up tighter than that. I don't know, I have never used it and have no idea how it works, just curious. I am an old fuddy that avoids these additives and and tries to do things that will not produce an ammonia spike.

They probably think they are capable of living and breeding in NZ and causing a problem to salmon and trout. The sport fish lobby has far too much say in NZ because they pay licence fees and have more clout. To hell with the mud fish and inanga etc. This is why they were mumbling about barbs. It will depend on what level of risk they assess as to what level of restriction they wish to impose.

My comment was about a question I was not sure of the answer to. If ammonia reacts with water to form ammonium ion how can Ammolock convert it to ammonium ion when it is already there?

It depends on what you want but if you remove the parents they will breed again sooner and they cannot eat the eggs. You can also leave them in there and watch them look after the young or eat them. If they are what I think they are they will have double blusher and gold genes and are not very common.

I have been using flourish excel and my guppies definately don't like it

Ammonia reacts with water to form ammonium hydroxide.

I would agree, they are very good quality but expensive.

It seams your water supply is fairly normal. We are lucky in Christchurch as the water is artesian and completely untreated.

I think most of the stories about fish in the ponds through being flushed down the loo are an urban myth as they would have a hard time getting intact to the ponds in most places because of all the pumps they would need to pass through. It is more likely that the fish have been released directly into the ponds. I know of one pond which had both trout and goldfish in it. The trout died after about a year but the goldfish survived OK. My fish die instantly by being bitten in half by a turtle.

Sorry, I have no idea how those tests work, but I would think they use a reagent that reacts with both.

I found it during my training as an Environmental Health Officer and years of inspecting water supplies and swimming pools.

It must bebecause it contains no organic material (which is very unusual)

I think you may be missing the point. What I was pointing out was that chloramine can be added to the water supply as a disinfectant and that site describes a way that it can be made from ammonia and HTH (80% free available chlorine) before being added to the water supply. My point is that chlorine can also be added to the water supply as a disinfectant. It is a very strong oxidizing agent and will react with the amino acids in the water to form chloramines. It will also react with other compounds of nitrogen to form chloramines. The more that chlorine is added the more the balance will move towards the trichloramines. Your water supply may not have chloramines added directly for treatment but they will be formed because of the reaction of chlorine with organic matter. Some places prefer to use monochloramine because of some of the other componds formed from using chlorine. Hence my comment that chlorinated water supplies will contain chloramines. There endeth the lesson for today.

I have found that baby angels do best on lots of live food and water changes.

The smell of the acid cure is acetic acid (vineger) and I have made hundreds of tanks and licked my fingers when smoothing out. I would think that if it is not toxic to me it is not toxic to fish. I also eat pickles. If it says suitable for aquaria on the label it probably is.

As I mentioned earlier virtually all drinking water will contain proteins as they are present in bacteria, plant matter and other organic matter present in water. Unless you live in Israel and drink distilled water there will be proteins in your water. Proteins contain amino acids which react with chlorine to form monochloramine then more chlorine to form dichloramine, then more chlorine to form trichloramine. When all the amines and other chemicals that are present have reacted with the chlorine you can get free available chlorine (chlorine gas reacting with water to form hypochlorus acid.) So unless you have water completely free of protein (which is very unlikely) you will have chloramines in a chlorinated water supply. Monochloramine is what iritates your eyes in a swimming pool and can be fixed by adding more chlorine until you have only trichloramine which is less irritating.

Laminated glass is not as strong as the same thickness of plate.

The standard is probably dominant over the gold (like albino) so you will probably get normal looking young split to gold, and half each if you breed them to each other.

I have a large pleco with my mature turtles. They started out as babies together and get on well. I also have a lot of guppies which were fed out as babies and have survived and bred as well. I catch small fish in the river and they get eaten straight away and some would be 100mm long. If it is a fish and slow enough it will become turtle tucker. Pleco must not look too attractive.

What do they cost and can they be bred?

I got mine sprayed commercially with two pot paint