alanmin4304

You require a permit to keep native geckos and since you can't sell them they are "free." you do not requre a permit to keep leopard geckos so you pay for them. In either case the lizard is the cheap bit and proper caging and food can cost a lot so best to get breeding mealworms, crickets and locusts if you wish to get serious.

It is probable that the stuff in the pet shops is grown emersed but it converts to emersed readily if you break it up enough so it gets good light.

There are more knowledgable people than me on here, they are just quieter is all.

There are knowledgable people on here for free.

The vet can't get the toes back. It is a common problem with toes and tail when shedding. Make sure thay have a moist hide (I use sphagnum moss). soak the feet and remove any remaining skin and check the tail while at it. The vet can treat an infection if the amputated bits become infected. The skin restricts the blood flow and causes gangrene. Most vets will be one page ahead of you in the same book but they can prescribe when required.

I don't think there is any change to the genetics. The males all have the ability to increase colour, they just don't do it while alpha male is around or they get beat up. It is just their turn to show who is boss when he is away.

Found a fungus very similar on the side of a track when up your way. Could be a first cousin

I have only grown it emersed in a glasshouse so not too familiar with it submersed. Generally plants that need high light (like glosso) also need ferts and CO2 to go with it. Someone who grows it submersed could help more.

Stay alert. NZ needs more lerts

The Regional Council down here has a regular cleanout of our wild population. There are good reasons for not importing animals willy nilly---good looking as they might be.

Many moons ago I was asked if I was prepared to put up some money and go for a trip to Australia with a group of similar minded men. Buy a boat and 500 sulphur crested cockatoos at $A5 each and sail back to NZ. Then to export to USA 10 a week for $nz1000 each. The deal was that if aproached by customs or police the birds were released and the cages thrown overboard. I turned it down but you can be sure someone took my place. I spoke to a guy who told me he had seen a flock of sulphur crested cockatoos flying past Mt Egmont and coming from the sea. They are not sea birds.

They get paid very well, particularly if on overseas deployment---megabucks.

Do you realy think that the Australian parrot populations in NZ are all escaped pets?

Congratulations to all those that are now on the MPI's "full body search register"

Days tort killin not spellin?

But the Prime Minister has promised.

Copper will kill them but it may kill some fish as well (some fish are sensitive to copper). Various loaches will control them.

Sorry also. My personal experiences of the army and my more recent experiences of relatives in the army make it difficult for me to take them seriously. My partner's daughter is a sargent in the NZ army and her husband is a major. He nearly blew the house up by puting a gas cylinder on the fire to help light it and when investigated further revealed that he had let off a thunderflash at his previous accommodation and blew the door off the hinges and the windows out of the room. He also blew the barrell off my shotgun by not checking if it was clear when reloading. I have to admit that these things have given me a twisted view of the army and I can only hope that your membership might raise the collective IQ. They have got past the communist obsession I hope but may be interested in wether you or any relatives are muslim. I think they have may have moved foreward a little and will get you sitting IQ tests and personality tests. Other than that I can only wish you luck.

A few people have had them but they were destroyed by MPI.

How cheap was the reptile in your avatar?

I would do a 50% water change and treat the whole tank with furan.

They are probably fish that are already here in the thousands.

If you use rainwater you will need to add chemicals and if you use tap water you will need to add chemicals so the choice is yours.

After doing national service I became convinced that you have to sit an IQ test and get less than 30. Not being a big time royalist, I refused to sign the oath of allegiance and was threatened with 7 years in Ardmore military prison. I said "so be it" and a week later I found myself before the CO. He was a major of Norwegian extraction and I will remember the conversation until the day I die. " Do you vish to be an officer in ze New Zealand army---No Sir. You do not vish to use your talents to leed ze New Zealand Army--No Sir. Bring in ze next vun." Good luck, might be a good time to start learning Syrian.

Chlorine is a very strong oxidizing agent and reacts with all sorts of things. This is why monochloramine is added to water supplies in some parts of the US instead of chlorine. It is not as good a disinfectant but does not form as many nasties on the side. Our water may not be pristine at source but generally lacks the nasty chemicals from industrial polution found in many other countries that will react with chlorine to form even worse chemicals. All water other than laboratory distilled water contains chemicals that form the "chlorine demand" of the water. This is the stuff that reacts and forms mono then di then trichloramine before you actually get any "free available chlorine". When you stand water or aerate it you will drive the chlorine of and the equilibrium moves back all the way to monochloramine and this is what people smell when they think they are smelling chlorine. When a swimming pool smells like that people think that too much chlorine has been added but atually the way to fix it is to add more chlorine and drive the equilibrium up to trichloramine. The only way to get rid of the various chloramines is to add sodium thiosulphate which then produces minute quantities of colloidal sulphur,sodium sulphate and hydrochloric acid all of which are less toxic than chlorine or chloramines.