Stella

muahahahaha! 8)

Ira, that is so revoltingly, repulsively fascinating! :smln:

aw thank you! Chipping into my last box of 50 now....

may I post your video to my New Zealand Native Fish facebook page? http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Zealand-Native-Fish Mostly it is links to news articles etc, but it would be nice to have this for something a bit different. Thanks for the link - mmm earthworm pellets! :spop:

Wow that is fantastic!! Really beautiful tank, nice and light - how long has it been set up? I love the part where the banded tries swallowing the pellet and the inanga are trying to steal it from his mouth! What is the name and brand of the pellets?

It went in the post on Sunday night. It could be in your letterbox today I was awake enough to remember to put postage on your copy :yaw2: but preacher's one will be returning straight back to me :oops: :facepalm:

Not a bad way of getting partners interested and subsequently less resistant to you taking over the spare room, garage and back yard with fish stuff

Love the first photo! Luminous Have you discovered the trick with inanga and smelt is to turn the net rim horizontal and come up underneath them? They are still fast, but they don't seem to see the net that way. I read an old paper about diet of giant kokopu based on stomach contents. One had eaten a 20cm kokopu I can't remember the size of the eater, but it was probably 40-50cm, and a 20cm kokopu will not fold into a neat package for easy stomach storage like a nice bendy little smelt. :spop: Sounds like a great trip, I have a craving to go spotlighting.

When do you want to start? :spop: I do have a small herd of inanga at the moment. Haven't had inanga for years and just recently got 8 little food-obsessed torpedoes :love:

No, sadly I don't. I thought I had a banded whitebait for a while, but realised it was an inanga with drab markings due to the surroundings. I definitely want another, just one. At the moment I just seem to be making enormous to-die-for public kokopu aquaria, that others pay for and maintain

Interesting, thanks for the update! ooh look at those little doughnut patterns forming!! He/she will be beautiful -SQUEEE! (I just got back from visiting my National Trout Centre native aquaria again today, was in fishy heaven watching the kokopu cruising around !drool: )

And a pest. Handy in the garden but in the wild they are predators of native snails, weta and other bugs, as well as eggs of ground-nesting birds.

Most tumours in fish are not life-threatening or inclined to spread. They tend to be caused by viruses.

What I am wanting one for is to read the squillions of classic novels etc that are out of copyright. I love old books

Sweet macro! Great photos and story! :lol:

Well, a friend of mine is going to show me how to set Margery in resin, which sounds kinda morbid, but I am really keen to learn. Have pinned out her legs in a natural position and popped her in the freezer so her abdomen doesn't go yuck. &c:ry Insectdirect i would love to have your little spider! I promise to take good care of her and keep you updated Have sent you an email.

Sophia, try looking up ladderweb spiders (which is a group of species) or the grey house spider (which I think is a species).

My spider died today. I really didn't need that

Ooh, useful to hear! I am really keen to get that Sony one. Had a play in the shops and looked at endless stuff online and I think it will do what I want.

Nice! Thanks. Will definitely look into starting her tank again with peat and some sticks for structure. Rather handy that she can't climb the glass, so I can leave the lid off most of the time.

Wow Simon, amazing photos!!! :rotf: will remember that about crickets! Classic

well... more like: SCUTTLE! .....wait.... SCUTTLE! .....wait..... NOM!!!!! SCUTTLE! ......wait.... while mealworm thrashes around in agony for the next 10 minutes as it slowly dissolves from the inside. Meanwhile I have gone to bed feeling rather ill and trying to convince myself that it isn't all that much different to feeding the cat, only I don't kill her food myself. :sick: But Margery still rocks. :love: She is only doing what she evolved to do.

Well, this is odd, but it seems to have been going down today. Looking less pinecone-y. The area hasn't changed size (as far as I can tell) since I first noticed it a few days ago. Will keep up the waterchanges and hope for the best.

Meet Margery My cat Nelly had been idly watching this blowfly doing circuits of my office, but once I put the fly in with Margery (and thus completely out of reach of the cat) she just had to have it. As you can see her tank is rather spartan. The aforementioned underside of her cephalothorax from a previous shedding, complete with FANGSSSS

Not sure, but I think it is like most aquatic critters: until their breathing apparatus dries out, which depends a lot on temperature and humidity.