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Tropheus Duboisi juvies are so cute

it thinks it's great :lol:

I recieved this touching email today, outstanding! In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University . On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee, inspected the elephants foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day. Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Peter and his son Cameron were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man. Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter could not help wondering if this was the same elephant. Peter summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing, and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly. Probably wasn't the same elephant. This is for everyone who sends me those heart-warming Edit suphew: Implied swearing removed. stories.

i wouldn't eat my pets either, my point is that they are not pets. they are wool clad grass processing poop factories.

hi from up north

i have 3 acres which i put a few lambs on & they will grow & will be eaten. I am not a business & they definately aren't pets, we cannot get close enough to them to touch as they are wild animals.

not quite true, there is a kingfish farm in ruakaka. the site used to be the old marsden b power station & if i remember what they said on the documentry it requires 1,000,000 cubic metres of water per hour. the old power station had a cooling system with this capacity, i think they said it was a 2.4m diameter pipe that sucked the water straight from the ocean. i may be getting confused with the paua farm they have also set up but it was something like that.

how long is a piece of string? twice as much as half of it. if you give sizes we may be able to help, ply is generally 2400x1200 or 2700x1200.

10mm perspex is around $800 per 1200x2400 sheet

make it out of wood or plywood, it will be worth it in the long run.

melteca, avoid it if you can. i will most likely deteriorate very quickly as the substrate is mdf or particle board.

if you can post a pic i'll tell you what it is & if it's any good for a hood. if its melteca or mdf don't waste your time making it.

like mdf you can get various thicknesses of ply from about 4mm to 30mm i think. it is alot stronger & as it is actually wood it will perform alot better when wet. I made a top for a AR620 out of 2 layers of 17mm h3 treated ply, i cut it to match the curved shape of the tank then did two cutouts for plumbing on the back edge of it & another in the centre for a aquaone light. It worked out really well, i laminated formica on the bottom & painted it black on the top & edges.

Syndrome down Syndrome!

here's one that was recently posted on the cichlid forum 500L

thanks so much for your efforts, i have just arranged transport.

anymore pics out there?

possibly the most important remark made in this thread :roll:

my tanks cost me less in the winter, i unplug the heaters because of the fireplace being used will overheat them with the heaters on during the day.

that would look like a feathery aligator? :lol:

good work for catching it, pitty it wasn't sooner. I am about to put stoat/weasel traps out now that we have our birds & this has firmly put my "a into g" to do it. they are just before they get smoked We make slippers for our kids out of their skins, they (slippers) are cute they eat eggs of native birds etc don't they

F0 makes sense to me for wild caught, that would make, as you have correctly noted, the F1 1st generation & therefore a new strain incraesing the gene pool. Definately not hybrids

i think this was the case when they were first made available to the hobby, they originally took a small number from lake malawi & put them in pools at lake tanginyika where tens of thousands were bred but i see guys on the cichlid-forum talking about their "F1" yellows which i understood to be wild caught fish so there must be a few more strains around than the original small one. maybe i misunderstood what they were saying but thats the idea i got from it.

when mine breed they also show faint "barring".

if your looking for a tank that is 300 litres or less i think a factroy made option is a tidier & more straight forward option as it can be a pain organising a stand & hood. it was a pain for me & i was a cabinet maker