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lol yeah a VERY happy chappy!! The parents have done well considering they have survived 3 house moves, 2 failed filter incidences including an electrical fault sending current into the water for 2 days... will post some pics some time of the babies if they hold still enough

WoohoOO! After 2 years of trying I finally have fry ! Just three of them, found them as I was cropping back the infestation of indian fern Just had to share !

I might have some around, how much do you need? Will pm ya

Lol i have that problem with stargrass and indian fern. Didn't stand a chance the poor plant. Interestingly he wiped out the planted ones, but is ignoring the one that got uprooted and is floating around. I suspect this is his revenge for wiping all the algae off the glass..

After months and months of looking for green pine in the shops I finally get some, pop it in the tank and in 2 days my siamese algae eater has shaved it to a stalk. Arrgghh...!

Sorry to hear A-town, looked like a pretty awesome fish. I admit i was one of the ppl getting ready to duke it out to bring it home. Glad all your other fish are doing ok tho.

Hey thats where i ended up getting mine from! I ended up getting most of my equipment from pearlingnz. Absolutely great guy, he pretty much walked me through everything, and contacted the guy for me and everything. Tank wise i coldn't be happier, the plants are growing ridiculously well, and i'm getting less algae cos of all the happy plants using it all.

I had 6 albino sterbai's from Jansens (animates now) in Botany last year, but sold them when I moved house. Quite sure they were albino sterbai's cos of they're white with orange fins. Haven't heard of anyone that have bred them in nz so you might be the first here? I havent seen them in the shops for ages though, would love to have them again as I miss the ones i had dearly.

rip em out and start again i say ! :roll:

Im just setting up my co2 system, and have got all the bits and pieces, but still waiting on the cylinder atm. Just a quick couple of questions, any disadvantages of buying a second hand cylinder? or would I be better to rent one? And where would I do both in Auckland? Thanks!

Hey Blue, yeah had a tank disaster over christmas and a move so I'm just getting into it again. But now i have an internal garage so the tanks are multiplying... just trying to convince the fiance to park her car outside about now. Cheers for that, would I be better off buying everything separately or just get a total packaged system ?

sweet all good, live fish would've been tricky. given you a pm

I'm heading to rotorua on sat but will be stopping over tauranga on monday. Is it fish or equipment? what exactly is it?

I do mostly cold water but in winter in the south island i used to add some boiled water to the bucket, and test it with my hand. Just enough to take the cold edge of it.

Just my experience, my analogue ones are great but my digital just doesnt' work. Might be my programming tho - I'm a bit techno handicapped. But they are handy