sharronpaul
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As a rule for most gouramis, males have a pointed dorsal fin, and have bigger finnage. The gold you got the other day was a male. The females have a rounded dorsal fin and don't have the long, flowing anal/pectoral fin.
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He had drop eye when we bought him at 40cm or so.
It was a result of him being in a tank with other fish, and always looking down on them. Has got no worse in his current tank. The thread above covers it well, if other fish are in the tank, the aro will get drop-eye.
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Pictures are a little graphic. Those who are a bit squemish are best to not go there.
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h103/ ... ousev1.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h103/ ... mouse3.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h103/ ... mouse4.jpg
Thats the mouse's tail in the last pic :-)
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For gluing most things in my tanks I use selleys glass silicone. Comes in a blue tube, and it doesn't have to cure completely before you put it back inbto the tank. If you let superglue or epoxy (araldite) cure 100% before it goes back into the tank it's okay too.
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Good question.
Last month we moved out six footer down a flight of stairs, involved some strong people and a fair bit of forethought.
In your case, it may be easier to move the tanks if they have a few bits of 4x2 underneath them, enabling people to hold onto the wood instead of the tank, with a person at the end steadying the tank. In all its a bit of a bugger and best avoided.
The fish of course can just be put in chillibins, will be fine for up to a day.
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David R Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject:
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I wouldn't count on it, a cricket thats been eating nothing but protein and vitamins for the past 12 hours is pretty good!!
(altho you'd need a few crickets to make up the same volume of food as a mouse!)
True. Maybe I could pump up the mice with the good stuff first. Real fun food to feed
Should talk to the breeders and see if I can get a pair of mice going - don't know how hard it would be to breed crickets, anybody have any ideas?(and he's not too fussy yet, still takes the pellets happily)
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Well, I've got two boys.
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True. Much more nutritional value in a mouse
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Good job. Nice looking tank.
Probably one thing I would do would be to put a diagonal brace along the back of the stand, but I am always accused of over-engineering things anyway :lol:
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Pinkies? It had hair, body was about 40mm, tail was around the same.
Aros are funny, he just opened his mouth and the mouse disappeared, except for about 15mm or the tail which was stuck out the side of his mouth for a few minutes before he swallowed.
Talking about pinkies, I learnt very early on not to put a finger in the tank, it was best to put the whole hand and half the arm, otherwise He'd try to bite it off. Guess it's a lesson all aro owners learn at some stage
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Has anybody else fed their aros mice?
We were kindly donated a juvenile mouse today, about 1.5" long, and fed it to a very grateful silver aro. He's specifically asked me to go back to get more.
I'm such a proud dad!
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Welcome to the forums :lol:
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We're hoping to be there - have to organise somehwhere for the million children to go, then we'll be fine!
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Yeah, seemed quite novel to have our own chocolate fish factory
But, alas, all gone tonight when I looked. Next time I might pull them out and put them in a separate tank just to see how they go.
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Eggs still there thismorning, now been a couple of days. About 1.5mm in diameter, and a tan colour.
Fairly sure it won't be a choc-choc spawn, I think they're both females.
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Update - They have spawned, female choc is guarding the eggs, not letting anyone near.
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Hi Caryl,
The meeting was this saturday just gone. Normally it is the last sat of the month but several of the club members had unavoidable committments this saturday (myself included). :oops:
The next meeting is the AGM, on Saturday 21st April, 3pm at Papamoa Library. Will post a reminder a week or so before.
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Hello and welcome to the forum
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Salty water is what I use.
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Welcome back
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Have you tried talking to Carine's Garden centre just past Te Puna?
They do ponds and water features, and have a reasonable selection of fish also.
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Hello and welcome to the forums
Water Parameters
in Reptiles and Amphibians
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I've never worried greatly at water parameters with my turtles (redear and snakeneck).
I give them a 50% change every three weeks or so and clean all the crud off their filter every 10 days.