davidb

haha I have a list!!! it is a personal compilation so it is biased towards fish I am thinking of keeping in the future and misses fish which i don't have as much interst for. These prices were effective as of 1 month ago. the prices are taken from 2 or 3 different shops in auckland and go something like this; Kissing gourami 11 Blue Acaras 11 Festivum ciclids- 12 Silver dollars- 10.00, /16 (size diff) plecos- 20 Giant gourami 35 large angels- 20 tinfoil barbs 10 diamond sharks 17, 10 severums 9gold/green) 12/15 kuhli loaches 4 for 20 Ghost knife 40 G. Brasiliensins 17 neons 10 for 17 Uaru 40 Mysus cat 15 Red scissor tail 12 G. suripari- 28 Jack dempsey 35/12 cuban cichlid 30 clown loaches 30 (gone down though I think) scunk loaches 20 Striata loaches 13 Jewel 20 red heads- 14 butterflies- 40 black neons 4 for 12 rummynoses 4 for 30 convicts- 7/9 Salvini-13 red devils cichlids- 15 3 spot gourami-10 newts 50 ea striped barbs- 11 glass cats- 12 gba's 6-20 featherfin rainbows 2 for 21 sm. firemouths 18 silver sharks- 10 (sm) oscars 25, 40 (diff patterns) so hope this helps- all prices are rounded and can of course vary greatly depending on shops but these prices show the average sorts of prices for tropical fish...

i'm sure someone in on her in wellington will have a phosphate test kit... everyone with reefs will anyway. phosphate readings can be deceptive though because you can have a phosphate reading of 0.0 ppm and still have algae because the algae uses phosphate which is why it is there in the first place. Hope I didn't confuse you!!!

i was about to grab a big one last night and then i remembered that they can sting. this one was brown and it was about 1 cm wide and from what i could see about 15 cm long... he is probably the one nibbling my colt...

i'm a student and so far i think i have spent roughly 4k setting up all my tanks

well i want to keep them with festivum cichlids and gold severums so i'm sure they can't do too much damage to those guys

i just hand fed my puffer earthworm for the first time. i normally hang it on a string and he eats it off that!

i want a pair of featherfins... are they hard to keep?

i feed them to my fighter who loves them

thats disgusting. I put feeder fish in my puffer tank occasionally but i woul;d never hold a live fish while my puffer chewed it to bits!!!

they can climb i have heard... using their suckers- perhaps this is what happened?

should be fine with plecos

sound interesting...

i meant it would have come in as an egg...

congrats shelley!

mine lives with an unidentified fish... see http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/my-new ... 17624.html he/sge is still alive and i have no idea what it is... it swims around the top of the tank.... i have tried unsucessfully to get a picture of it but it is still really hard. it is a dull grey color and looks like it might be a killie of some description... lets hope it is a male

hey folks here are some updated photos of my reef tank... its pretty empty but its getting there- good things take time here are my cute little chromis- http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s135 ... hromis.jpg here is my monti test frag and xenia(cheers wasp!) here is my colt and my goby my pink anemonefish and his bta and shrimpy.... http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s135 ... 200130.jpg

substrate...

One word WOW!!! this is up there with the top aquariums in the wourld in terms of amozonian exhits IMO http://apisto.bravepages.com/AMAZONIAN% ... rticle.htm

i was- all gone now sorry

provide them with lots of hiding spots and they will be out more!!!

I am the only other owner of an arrowhead puffer on FNZAS possibly NZ... I just want to emphasise what fishy-t says- these are a wonderful fish- definatley not the most active species but they are a real talking point I know that as each time my parents have friends round they don't forget to go into my bedroom to show them my puffer (Called Peter) So yeah I would have snapped up mr. Hanky but I had a big talk to fishy-t about breeding him and we decided it was not the best idea as my peter has already eaten his partner (yes there were origionally two) and we don't want to take that kind of risk with such awesome fish! so yeah- A reccomended buy!

I double that it is the venturi making the noise as it sucks air in... disconnect the venturi and see if this helps I have found this to be the case with many filters

welcome lamnidae! I hope you enjoy your time here- i have a bit of experience in coldwater natives (both fresh water and salt water) myself... so if you have any questions you know who to pm :lol:

wow awesome colouration on your male ram!!!! awesome pics too. thanks for sharing

wow i like the foxface rabbitfish display