davidb

testing the pH wont tell you much (with regards to whether you have a nutrient spike from adding too many fish at once), do you have a Nitrate test kit? What are you feeding the bristlenoses?

Cant see why not, provided you are not harvesting them commercially (ie selling them). Bigger question would be how you are going to get them off the rocks without tearing the byssal threads? or are you going to take a small rock covered with them? Should be fine to keep in an aquarium, Marine biologists have done it before, not sure about the details however sorry, as of course they are intertidal species- but should be fine being constantly immersed I would think.

silver dollars? any smaller and they will be food for Oscars

Black Flea Mussel aka Little Black Horse Mussel, Xenostrobus pulex.

http://www.nmit.ac.nz/portal/TemplateID ... agodQwgarg this is the website for the Nelson trainee ranger course. It is over $4 grand but you would be able to get a student loan, if you wanted to go down this route

If I was you I would come up to Auckland and do the Zookeeper course at Unitec. Its once year long, and then you can get a job at pretty much any zoo in NZ 9though you will have to start from the bottom and work your way up). Other option if you want to work with animals include getting a job in the biodiversity or pest management sectors of DoC, again you will need to do degree or the DoC ranger certificate (in Nelson if I remember correctly). Other options are pet shops, vets, public aquariums or animal shelters. Good websites to keep an eye on include http://www.conjobs.co.nz/ http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/page.aspx?id=42183 http://www.conservationvolunteers.org.nz/ (although these are volunteer positions, they will help you get work experience and ultimately, a paid job) Sorry, but I come from the conservation/zoo side of the working with animals, so cant really inform you if you want to get into the vet/animal shelter side of things

I went from where the creek goes up the road upstream to the Litter trap, youll see the litter trap if you park at the service station and walk down the path to the creek about 200, north of the service station

waders, or cold wet legs.

I was doing an invert sample on Oakley creek just a while back and got about 50 shrimp with a kick going upstream from down where the river goes under the road up to by the service station (round the back of unitec)

not exactly, he did work for the wildlife service (now DoC)

have you seen my setup adoge? at hte museum. 8ft by 3 by 2 I think from memory.

Lies!

read- http://fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/basic-mari ... 23675.html

stone and water world?

have 2 in the rockpool at Work, you can buy them from fish-markets

Rarotonga- in the pacific

the chirping of the Whistling tree frogs is nice- I have had 20 of them in a 5ft by 2ft by 2ft tank in my room before.

oh and I thought it was bad having to write 7000 words about a swamp

That would have been awesome shot if you managed to get all the wing in the frame. I love the first one though

bare tanks is the way to go. or use glass or persplex to make a false bottom if you want to bring it up to height if you are using a fish tank

Haha if she did come I think she would know how to spell her name correctly! its Miley not Milley!

hardly, unless they had Amazon river dolphins in there too.

how long have you had it?

ditch the heater bro. What is the skimmer brand? thats the main piece of equipment

I had a Arrowhead Puffer Tetraodon suvataii for a while, not a dwarf puffer but did well by himself in a 90 L tank. I sold him to Henward but havent checked up on how he is doing latly. Really had character though- I taught it how to eat Mealworms and snails out of my hand and would swim up to the top and jump out of the water whenever i came near the tank begging for food.