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Hi Everyone – the November Meeting will be held on the 24th November @ 3pm. We will be having an early roast pork dinner @ Amandas Place - $10 per Adult and free for Children under 10 – Families Welcome! Amanda has a lifestyle block so you'll be able to meet some of her animals and catch up with our club members. As Amanda lives out Eyrewell you may wish to car pool, if you have space available or need a ride please let us know and hopefully we can organise something! Also there will be no meeting in Dec / Jan and we are hoping to have an early Feb meeting. As we need to know numbers to organise the food please rsvp by 20th November Message me for the address

The October Meeting will be starting at midday on October 13th with a potluck meal (so bring a plate to share), then we will be helping Donna (Turtle Rescue and Rehoming) clean out the outdoor ponds and indoor tanks as well as a general tidying so that they will be ready for the summer. Anyone is welcome to help! message me for the address. If you want to help but only have an hour or two that would be great as well. Please bring gumboots and outdoor clothes (and maybe a change of clothes to go home in )

Ok, so we will be meeting at 1pm at Jen's new place (please message me for address). we will be leaving promptly so that we can make it to everyones places. We will be finishing with a fish and chip meal so please bring money for tea if you wish to join us. Everyone is welcome to come and join us in looking at fish! :nfs: :happy2:

Hi Everyone, we will be having a tank crawl next saturday August 25th from 1pm, ending with a fish and chip tea. We are sorting out details now and will update you once plans are finilised. Members and non members are welcome to come, we will be touring some local tanks and some fish shops as well

The next club meeting will be at Donna's Place on Saturday 23rd June from 5pm. Please bring a plate of food to share. Donna will be doing a presentation on Turtle Rescue, everyone is welcome. We will also be discussing changes to our meeting frequency, times and any ideas for future meetings. Don't forget those who haven't paid for this years club fees please bring their money with them. please pm me for address details if you don't have it. Cheers, Erica

Hi Everyone Meeting will be held this Saturday(19th May) at Erica's place from 5pm. Please bring a plate to share. pm me for the address. It will be our AGM meeting so if anyone is willing to take up a position please think on it. Memberships are due they are junior membership (under 18) $10, single membership $20, family membership $25. New members welcome.

September's meeting will be held at Donna's place on Saturday 3rd September from 11.30am, starting with lunch so please bring a plate to share. This month we will be doing something different as we will be helping Donna (the turtle lady and one of our club members) with cleaning her ponds and filters and helping her get some things sorted for the pet expo which will be held in October. You will need to wear warm clothes and/or wet weather gear as we will be getting wet and dirty. Please pm me for address details or anymore info regarding this.

Welcome to another Chcher! Totally Tanked has meetings on the first saturday of each month usually starting at 5pm (providing we haven't had a big quake ) We are a friendly bunch and our meetings are mostly social with normally just a wee bit of club business. We are having our agm in april, you are welcome to come and meet us if you want. Info is here: http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=51704 Pm me if you are interested in coming and I can give you the address details.

I am lucky I was at home during the quake. Just lost abit of water and a few things fell, but we had more things fall during the september quake. I am just glad that all my family and friends are alright....

We picked the chicks up yesterday and my little miss is absolutely delighted with them

Well I will be picking up some RIR chicks in the weekend and have bought some food etc for them. look forward to seeing how my little miss likes them :lol: Thanks for all your help, I hope I do get more hens than roosters though....

I think I will get 6 rhode island reds, so that hopefully I will get at least 3 hens. There don't appear to be many orphingtons down here except for fertile eggs which I am not ready for yet. If i do end up getting roosters they will end up in my oven (yum yum). Will get Jennifer to teach me how to clip their wings so that they don't escape

Have been doing a wee bit of looking online and was thinking of breeds like shavers, hy-line or rhode island red. We have a fenced off area out the back with a 6ft light fence separating that area, am kind of hoping to free range them during the day then locking them up at night so that the local animals don't get a chance at them. I'll have a look at the poultry forum. Thanks for all your replys

I would like help in deciding what breed of chicken to get, looking for something which will lay well. I am hoping to start from chicks so that my daughter can enjoy them (I do realise I won't get any eggs for about 5 months if I do this). It's been years since my family have kept chickens so would appreciate help on what they need to keep them healthy. I recall my mum cooking up food scraps, pellets and crushing up eggs for them but other than that I don't know what else they will need. I will be keeping them out the back in a well fenced off area so that they can free range and getting my handy hubby building up a wee house for them. Thanks in advance

I was lucky I didn't lose my 3 ft tank (an aquaone on their stand) it moved off about 5cm and was just hanging on to the base. Lost lots of water from the tank (mostly caused by my eheim filter losing those flimsy clips and seeped out water fromt the top). Male gba was found on the floor as well as lots of plants, lid dropped into the tank, but no other losses, gba was fine as we found him pretty promptly after the quake. My 5 ft tank lost about 1cm water and hasn't moved at all, it is on a solid mdf stand which has a lip 3/4 around the tank. Luckily my 2ft tank in the hallway wasn't full and though it has no lip it survived (it is plumbed so that may have contributed to its survival. My other two small tanks were fine, just moved slightly on the shelf but didn't fall.