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It will grow OK if converted from the emersed state as it is normally grown and sold. It was a popular pot plant in Victorian times. The sap when newly picked can be poisonous to fish. Soak in a bucket for a couple of days and then float until it grows submersed shoots with a few leaves then break off and plant. Grows slowly like Anubius so subject also to algae problems.

Either, depending how bad it is. You don't seem to have a lot of faith in it but Wunder tonic is a mixture of meth blue, malachite, acriflavine and quinine so would have a pretty broad spectrum treatment.

Mouses ear (saururus cernuus)

I used malachite on goldfish and acriflavine on a wound.Meth blue is good for fungus but wont do much for the wound.

I have never used the meds you suggest but have used meth blue, malachite green, acriflavine and others directly without a problem

Fungal infections are usually opportunistic infections following and injury and if that is what it is your treatment with meth blue would probably be worthwhile. However, when you say it is spreading down the body I wonder if it might be mouth fungus which is also known as saddleback and is actually a bacteria and needs to be treated with an antibiotic. The easiest to obtain without prescription would be furan. A picture might help.

I Don't think turning up at the airport with a box of fish is going to be OK with MPI. It is not that simple. Have another chat to your importers.

I don't know what you are talking about with using an incubator. I can think of better uses for that. There are lots of ways of breeding crickets and locusts and the best way is the one that works for you. Take a 50-60 litre roller container, place small vents with fine mesh on each side (I have used a hole cutter and glued with a hot glue gun the s/s mesh that is on the wax moth larvae from biosupplies). Place a 30x30mm piece of wood across the bottom and a shopping bag to seal the bottom of the one third. Fill with vermiculite/peat mix that is well watered so as to be damp without free water. Put cardboard egg containers in the other end and a 40 watt bulb and reflector in the lid. Add 24 adult winged females and 6 males along with food and wait for babies to appear.When you see babies move adults to next container. You must keep the media moist and give the moisture through apple, carrot etc. There are many ways to breed crickets and that is how I do it and it works for me. Others use small containers and remove them --usually to hatch in another container and because smaller containers dry out quicker they often cover with gladwrap. My plastic is to discourage moisture from getting from the media to the egg containers.

I have seen a few tanks done in black and they look and stay great. They do not discolour. They need to be made well to start with and we have someone down here that does great ones.

I use those 50-60 litre rolling containers with a 40 watt bulb in the top. One third vermiculite/peat and the rest egg containers. Line laying media with plastic to keep moisture out of egg containers. You must keep the laying media moist. Leave until you see babies then move breeders to a new container--still keep media moist. 24 females and 6 males. Move again when babies seen. Four containers works for me. Keep some offspring back to restock your breeders. Slower than locusts but potentially more productive.

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It is a bit like using copper solar panels to save electricity. It doesn't take in to account the energy used in Zimbabwe or wherever to mine and process the copper etc. They don't count--they are on the other side of the world.

I wonder how many times more energy is required to make the petrol than can be released from it.

3.20am.

It depends a bit where they come from. Many places basically just tranship so the fish can be pretty stressed before they even get on their way. Can result in damage to liver, kydneys etc. They are also crowded during freighting to save money. They used to be drugged to allow for more per bag but I think a lot of that has stopped. When I imported goldfish they all came back from testing as having kydney damage from being crowded out in pooor quality water. There is also an economy of scale at your end. The bigger the shipment the cheaper for each fish and your overheads are the same for one tank half full as for all tanks really full.

If it is a standard type tube you would be OK. I think some imported tanks have specialty tubes and wont fit a standard one.

After you have treated the water with chlorine for the required time you can neutralize it with sodium thiosulphate before discharge to the sewerage system. Cheap as chips.

It depends how many fish you want to import in a shipment.

Different disinfectants are good at different things. Some are good on gram negative bacteria, some are good on gram positive and a very few are good at both. Very few are good on viruses and most are no good on some parasites. The water from the fish has to be treated more seriously.

Disinfectants are used to disinfect surfaces such as equipment, benches etc. They are not used to treat the contaminated water from the fish.

A recent picture of one of them

MPI will have a list of approved disinfctants and methods. Last time I looked they had approved anything that even pretended to be a disinfectant.

There has been the odd one on trademe but I haven't seen the market flooded. Who knows---the seller might have 10000 ready to flood the market with after you buy these. You pays your money and takes your chances.

Do that and you will cure any disease and end up with a sterile corpse. That would be four times the normal dose of four different chemicals. Cheaper to add a litre of formaldehyde or bleach.

A lot of local plans have a provision for home occupation. The conditions usually require family only and no retail sales. Quarantine should fit in to that so see if they have made provision. :dunno: I would be surprised if a ocal authority like Auckland was so far behind the times that they have not made provision for that. Curious as to how you are going to provide a sink, wash hand basin, hot water supply and effluent disposal without doing plumbing and drainage. You will also need a freezer (seperate to your home freezer) to put any dead fish into.