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haha, well it averages out to be about 20 GB per person per month which is reasonable but on a single account I guess you could regard it as heavy. The plan was apparently designed for households like mine who have a high number of users. Anyway, the problem lies with the small group of people who go through TBs of data each month (by circumventing Telecom's filtering rules), some of whom do it just so they can boast about it in certain forums.

I'm a bit disappointed by this too. I have 6 internet users in my house (ages 18-26) and our average monthly usage is ~150 GB so the big time plan was perfect. Guess it's time to shop around again. It seems to me that broadband speeds are very good at the moment (ADSL 2) but what is lacking is capacity.

Shipped some fish with Post Haste this evening. They mentioned that there has been a surge in ppl shipping fish with them in the past couple of weeks

The inconsistency between and within each branch is certainly frustrating!

Up until today, they were happy to ship the fish as long as I accepted their no-liability clause, which I did. I have been using them for the past 2 years and have never had anything go wrong so I'm a little frustrated that they are taking this stance.

I just found out today as well. Went in to drop off a box of fish only to be told that they no longer take live fish because the SPCA told them they weren't happy with it So I'm also on the look out for another shipping company.

Have you tried using google scholar? http://scholar.google.co.nz/ It searches articles in the published literature (Journals etc). I did a quick search and found a couple of articles relating to corydoras reproduction and behaviour. Hope this helps. Article 1. Article 2.

Thanks for pointing that out Ryan. I haven't come across any that have 7 stripes but it is indeed a good idea to keep them separate. How's your breeding colony going by the way?

As Ryan has mentioned, I bought a bunch off him a couple of years ago and have added a few more along the way. From what I have seen, all the Dems in NZ are the Pombo rocks variant. I try and sell them to members on these forums or TradeMe and sometimes I offload them at the local pet shops if I have too many. Thanks Ryan. With the setup I've been running, I get a very high survival rate so the fry tanks are indeed becoming very crowded! My breeding Dems are in my 6 foot display tank. There are 4 males and about 10 females which spit, on average, about 20-30 fry. They breed almost monthly so the fry numbers can add up pretty quickly.

I haven't posted here for a while but here are some recent pics I took of my demasonis. Hope you guys enjoy it. 8 holding females waiting to be stripped: Holding female: The fry are such piggies - they love their brineshrimp eggs. These guys are about 5 mm long. A cobalt blue fry is the odd one out! These guys are about 3-4 cm. Fry tank: Other threads with photos of my tank setup: http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=37482 http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=40465

Let me know if you intend to stock it with Dems. I might even have enough to fill up that entire tank!

About 100m from one.

My telecom one:

Thanks for the comments, she is a real cutie. But I don't think she appreciates the ones that relate her (or her pals) to a nice meal 8) Anyway, please pm me if you are serious about taking her.

She is a mini lop.