cesarz

Hi, Just find some females with lots of evenly spaced black dots so the resulting offspring will have more rays. Notice that the shorter part odf the tail ends at the black marking. Here's mine:

They are called Blue Green Moscow check this one out on Aquabid http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/ ... 1282423211 dont they look almost exactly the same as the ones being sold here? AaaronBeta pointed this one out to me.

Isn't the first pic a banana plant?

Hi raewyna, Yes those are very nice Pingu guppies, the LFS are actually selling them now as "Bumblebee guppies" cesar

Is johhnny still active in this forum, Moscows are now available in the LFS.

You must be dreaming :roll: There are however lots of imported guppies for you to choose from in the LFS both Animates and HFF. You will have to develop those strains yourself as they are not yet available in NZ. You would need the following strains that are available in the LFS right now: For the Full Black: Black Tuxedo female, Moscow male For the Full Red Albino: Full Red Tuxedo male, Red Tail Albino female

I actually found heaps of submerged Homalia sp in a creek in Christchurch. Bundles and bundles of them looking like wiry java moss. I took a little bit (less than a handfull) and chucked half of it in the tropical tank and half in the coldwater tank. They both grew so slow that I concluded that I'd rather have the java type mosses instead.

I experimented on my reject guppies by giving them high fat food, they grew very fast and became fat. (Have you seen a fat guppy ) Then one by one they just die suddenly, very lively then suddenly dead. I disected them and they all had very fat internal organs which resembled fatty liver disease. I was also watching my prized breeder guppy male courting a female and suddenly died mid-courtship. I guess it was heart attack, he was not fat though.

That one looks like Homalia pulchella, and is a NZ native moss, I found a big patch of it under a small waterfall when I was hunting for other species of Fissidens (not berteroi) Fissidens is actually better and faster growing. Homalia is extremely slow when submerged.

If you bought it from Hutt Pets, that one is Echinodorus parviflorus "Tropica", used to be wrongly called parviflora or parva

No, he is still in quarantine in a plastic bin that's why I said I'll take pictures if he is still alive. He had a bad case of columnaris and velvet (whitespot?) given to him by the two females. See the blue water? When he is okey I'll take photo of him side view. I'll take pictures of him if he dies too.

But at least you have the Full Red tux female , I dont have one. The red females with my Full Red male are Marlboro Red females so I can get rid of the slight tuxedo in the offspring eventually

Here they are: Trio of Full Red Two Moscows Green(right) and Old Fashioned(left) Purple Moscow

Promise this Saturday if he is still alive. There were three of them but I let them go to other members of the club (we were having our club meeting at the Pet Centre Porirua). I did not get all of them or else I will get the evil eye stares.

This is a photo of a speartail from Malaysia Guppy Club. I dont think anyone would think their fins are ripped. must be something else and not speartail.

Got them all off here in PetCentre, Porirua. And very healthy too! I got the Full Red Moscows there a week ago and a friend of mine got three Silverado Moscows also a week ago. it is good to see that Moscows are in New Zealand at last!

I just got these ones today: Black Moscow - could be a Midnight Black since it does not fade under stress Green Moscow Blond Moscow - could be an El Dorado And more Marlboro Reds and Blue Neon Platinum Keep them rolling in!!!

Found out that this strain is called Gulfstream. These were imported by two different companies and are being sold in LFS in Auckland and Wellington, ask your local LFS to get them. .

Update: New import strains that just came in: Marlboro Red - the red striped with silver body Full Red Tuxedo - just slight tuxedo on the peduncle but head is full dark red Silverado Moscows - silvery blue head, colourful body Micariff - the non-metallic yellow Sunset - yellow and red tail Blue Platinum - metallic uniform sky blue no tuxedo Sky Blue Neon - light blue tuxedo Can anybody just add more, I did not see them all Does anybody know what the metallic yellows are called?

It is actually Eleocharis montevidensis according to ADA dont know if we have it in NZ although somebody suggests that it is an aussie-NZ plant.

I have a lot of wellington tree weta -- free . PM me your address.

Thanks BURN! There you are, it really pays to spread out some rare strains to the right people. I got some more from another person I gave some to but they are all females. Cheers, Cesar

The first pic is the native orchid Earina autumnalis it is an epiphyte but can also be seen growing on the ground.

The bigger fish might be seen but I looked at the xray of my bag full of guppies yesterday at the Christchurch airport and cannot see them at all.

The lotus seeds being sold on TM are the true lotus Nelumbo nucifera and is allowed to be imported as dry seeds. they are not the Tiger Lotus which are Nymphaea lotus 'Zenkeri' which are also allowed but rarely available due to the seeds needing to be wet when stored.