purplecatfish

Start a club and get funding from the student union. They used to pay 50% of travel expenses. So you could all go on a mollie hunt near Turangi, or get them to pay for a whitebaiting trip or a trip to the national aquarium. For fund raising do a sausage sizzle. We used to make $400 in a 4hr period. With the grant from AUSA we hired a van and paid for petrol and went on a tour around the North Island. It was a great New Years holiday and it didn't cost me a cent.

Yeah, I think you did the right thing. I've heard that fish TB can be caught by people. I think there was a thread by someone on here who caught it via a cut on his hand/arm. The disease mine had was a long slow lingering death, they just got skinny and lethargic. At least with guppies you can buy a pair or two and soon you'll have a tank full again in no time.

What fish need new homes?

Resistance (is futile)

Yeah, I find the lemon tetras can rip each other to shreds.

I've got a 3ft tank crammed with Indian fern which the Fundulopanchax gardneri (blue) love as they are breeding without any assistance or fry food. I'm going to transfer the adults and fry to another tank and I'm wondering how long I should leave it so that any remaining eggs can hatch before tearing the tank down. Also how big are the eggs? If anyone wants some indian fern that may or may not have eggs in it they're welcome to come over and collect some (free).

Thanks Caryl. Thats it.

It's now got another one under it's tail/tail fin.

I've got a bronze cory that has developed some round blisters just behind its dorsal fin. They kinda look like cory eggs. Any ideas?

I got mine from the Lynfield Vet Clinic on White Swan Rd, but I can't remember what it cost. Malachite green is a common ingredient in broadrange fish meds. I think it's in tonic. I've still got quite a bit left and I'm sure I could spare a few ml's. Give me a call.

I would as UV can make some meds break down faster. I'm not certain that's its essential but I'd err on the side of caution.

I use Flourish Excel and I use a syringe to squirt it onto the BB. In a couple of days it goes bright crimson as it dies. If you do a large water change (aboutr 50%) you can use the higher dose rate then on the following days use the regular rate and systematically go through the tank. In some ways its like weed spraying.

I think it shouldn't matter if you tip LFS water in, because any fish should be going into a quarantine tank for several weeks before going into their final tank. You can then make sure that pH and temp are close so that the transter from quarantine can be done by net. Always quarantine fish, and yes I've learnt this the hard way.

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/drontal-droncit-praziquantel-adtape-amp-gill-flukes-vp260591.html

You'll hate yourself for getting rid of the big ornate unless you can send it to a new home where you can visit on a regular basis.

My job is to stop planes from crashing. I also look after 1500 hectares of grounds and gardens and a wildlife sanctuary on Wiroa Island. I spend more than a million dollars a year. My wildlife hazard rangers use a birdfrite round which looks like a shotgun shell. It explodes about 70 metres away, with a flash and at about 120dB, to scare birds off the airfield. We also have a CAPA round which is fired from a pistol, has a range of nearly 150 metres and explodes at about 150dB. As a last resort we are authorised to shoot birds that pose a risk, but we'd rather scare a bird because it then associates the area with danger and will teach it's young. Dead birds don't learn. With the bad weather recently we have had the worst week on record. We used over 500 rounds in a week (approx a year's worth of ammunition) and placed about a 1000 mylar flags out on the airfield. And we had to double the rangers on duty. This was because 2000 plus Oystercatchers wanted to roost right next to the runway. The result: no birds collided with planes while the rangers were on duty in June. There are over 15,000 landings and takeoffs in a month. We've also just bought a Hovpod hovercraft to chase the swans away. With the drought earlier in the year, we had about 1000 swans in the Manukau harbour. They used to live on the Waikato lakes but because of all the sediment that the farmers dump in the lakes the aquatic plants they feed on have died out. Come Jan/Feb they'll be back and we have our guys out on the harbour once or twice a day chasing away from the airfield. But that's enough of work, I'm on holiday now.

My Holiday starts ... Now! 8) And it's my son's birthday tomorrow and I've got a week off to spend with him. yippee 8)

Just to educate those outside of Greater Auckland: There is Westie Territory which is called Waitakere City in the news, basically it's filled with normal people who used to drive V8s until the petrol prices went through the roof. Then there's the North Shore where people would like to be Westies. But their Dad, who's a builder, moved out of West Auckland back in the 80's and built their family home where they then grew up. You know they want to be Aucklanders cause they all try to cross the bridge every day rather than finding a job north of the bridge. Back in the 70's Westies used to holiday here as no one lived in places like Whangaparoa and Orewa. Then there's Central Aucklanders who aren't allowed out west unless they have tattoos and a Harley as their passports. They're politely told to go back to their lattes. This is where nearly all the SUVs and 4x4's in Auckland are, they're used to drive to the dairy, the local school and create traffic jams. Then there's East Auckland/Dannemora which is a suburb bigger than most NZ towns that has been built in the last 10 years and is still waiting for the trees to grow above roof height. Then there's South Auckland which is highly promoted in the news in order to discourage those south of the Bombays coming into Auckland and causing all the traffic problems because they don't know where they're going. What we don't tell the rest of NZ is that all the problems are in Manurewa and Otara, the rest of South Auckland is full of normal people who have never driven a V8. It takes approximately 1.5 hours at 100 km/hr to travel through South Auckland. Whereas it takes 1.5 hours at 30 km/hr to travel through Central Auckland.

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I get my foam from Pararubber, just around the corner from HFF in Mt Roskill. They have the full selection of pore sizes and sheet thicknesses. And they can cut it down for you with their huge bandsaw.

Looks like you're trying to do what I looking at doing, and here's what I found out: There are Lyre-tail and High-fin genes to consider. Lyre-tail males have a gynopodium that is usually physically too long for mating. There are artificial ways to breed them though. High Fin males are usually crossed with Lyre-tail females which gives a 50:50 ratio of high-fins and lyre-tails. If you don't have a high-fin male you can cross a normal male with a high-fin female to produce a 50:50 mix and then use one of those. For the genetically literate, I'm talking phenotype not geneotype. And lyretails would be heterozygous. Now if only I could find a nice high-fin male in Auckland

So there I was this morning looking at my 2.4m tank and I couldn't believe my eyes - a young killi. The strange thing is I've never had killies in that tank :-? . I haven't put any new plants in there for at least a couple of months :-? . I have different nets for each tank :-? . And I just can't figure out how it got in there, or how I'm going to get it out . I also don't know if its a nigerianus gold or a gardneri blue :-? .

Get some large leaf indian fern for them to bubble nests under. It's the floating plant that my Dwarf Gouramis prefer.

I've gone in without, fish and told them exactly what I need and for what and a description of symptoms. Both times they didn't have the meds on the shelf but got them in for me.

Before I can answer Can someone give me the dosing regime? I've read 250mg/10L or 1g per 100gms of food. And that you should turn off the lights because it makes the meds break down. But if I dose the whole tank, how often should I dose and for how long? Thanks for the offers everyone .