Adrienne

Thank you for letting me know. This way I can check to see whether or not I have received your capitations. I will pm you individually on this rather than post on here. If anyone else has the same problem please feel free to email me and I will check on my lists. We are still waiting for the odd club to send in payments for members who were slowing paying this year. This is because members who were on the list last year need to be removed if they have not rejoined and completely new members need to be added. It is much easier to do it in bulk. There is also a little work to do on the website to give you access but as Zev says, the web admins will look at it shortly. Should not be much longer. Adrienne

I really can not believe that you purchased fish that you know nothing about. All livebearers have fry and do not lay eggs.

Looking at your first post on here, there could be numerous reasons why the new fish are dying. Where in the country are you located?

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These cards are being printed on Monday and will be mailed in a bulk lot to each club secretary. They should reach your secretary in time for you to collect them at the August club meetings. What better reason to attend a meeting!! If there is not one for you please check with your club officials to see your capitation and details have been sent through to me. Thanks Adrienne

I did not know you could get long fins. Thanks. If I had seen one in the shop I would have thought it was a different species of catfish and not a cory :oops:

10 hours a day then imo the tank is getting too much light. Cut it right back to around 4-6 hours and that will help. Have it on so you can see it when you are home or in the evenings. The fish can see in the daytime without a light Are your plants growing?

If you use the black male you wil get red.

I've done heaps of cambodians so here's what I have discovered - you will get a solid colors and Cambodian. I would Ike to say 50/50 but it won't happen. Your solids will be a mix of colors, possibly ever color you can imagine and you may also get a few marbles. However you are unlikely to get a decent Cambodian out of it as the bodies tend to get black specks in them, meaning they are not true Cambodian. The fins and tail will also be a variety of colors. One question though - why breed using a fish that already is not a perfect shape. The bump is a deformity.

We then headed to Lake Nukuru (known for its pink flamingo) via Lake Naivisha (where Out of Africa) was filmed - Lake Naivisha Lake Nukuru - more pelican were present than flamingo white rhino - solitary and a grazer of scrub black rhino - found in groups and a grass grazer 2 of 3 lioness sleeping up in a tree, waiting for the nearby zebra to come under them for shade baboon - the first of many

What is the setup you have to keep the adults away from the eggs?

Agreed - Sophia, up here in Aucks has smallish tanks ie under 50 litres but they are just beautifully planted, great substrate and little fish. They are really really nice.

and the challenge was??

We headed to the Mara, a drive which due to the rain the night before took 6 hours instead of the normal 1 1/2 - 2. Arrived mid afternoon and headed straight out on safari until dusk. The next day we had two more drives and visited the Masai Village. Not a way I would choose to live -no water, no electricity, very dark smokey little huts which they share with the young stock and a lot of very smelly manure filled mud. Oh, and flies everywhere, in the kids eyes, up their noses, in their ears. However, who is to say they would be better off if they moved into a city like Nairobi! We were fortunate to see 4 of the big 5 on the game drives plus a lot of other animals and birds Masai Village Some of the animals/birds - the leopard, one of the big 5 rarely seen a pair of cheetah, out hunting at dusk hippo, nearly as wide as they are long water buffalo elephant and the classic photo - giraffe at sunset the Ugandan or Crown Crane as it is more commonly known Eagle? and last one - Ostrich, not quite with its head in the sand!

Wow - so Monster Fishkeepers has actually done the proper thing. Its wrong but as we all know, in the end the company with the most money will probably win, its like David and Goliath. Perhaps this should be taken to the media.

Looking good. I love these wee tanks. What about twisted val? You can always keep it short by dividing out the longer stems.

I say a lot of stuff but it doesn't mean someone will actually do it. Good on you for stepping up

Thats a big decrease. How many litres less are you heating now? Or was it the lights for the plants? I believe a lot of high power bills can be attributed to what is left running because we are just too lazy to turn it off.

Isnt it all to do with trademarks/patents? on the brand names. If neither have it then nothing is likely to come of it. If one has it the other will not have a leg to stand on. It will have nothing to do with who had it first. http://www.uspto.gov/smallbusiness/trademarks/

wow - thanks. I am wanting to attend!

I like tank crawls! Maybe Anthony might organise it?

After Nairobi we flew to Kisumu on the edge of Lake Victoria which we used as a base to visit our sponsored child Oscar, who is in the Rangala Family Project run by Childfund. Oscar was orphaned at the age of 4 and has been cared for since then by his step uncle (same father as Oscars father but from his no. 2 wife. Oscars mother was the no. 1 wife) and step uncles wife who have three young boys and another child on the way. We took gifts for Oscar - Oscar only asked for one item from a list however we were able to supply all and we were also in a position to be able to pay his school fees for the next two years which is when he will finish secondary school. They are a lovely caring family and we were so happy to meet them. Pics - Oscar with my husband - his caregivers - their family Lake Victoria local scenery and at on display at the local park a view of life in the Kisumu/Rangala region, children walk kilometre after kilometre to school. People sitting on the roadsides were everywhere, just watching life pass by Cichlids at the aquarium in Kisumu. Tanks were not well looked after. These cichlids were also found on my husbands dinner plate at nights.

It was, very much so. I thought after visiting India 7 years ago that I had seen the worst but in fact Kenya was by far in a much worse state. The people there are lovely, even wandering in the streets near our hotel we did not once feel at risk. We are hoping to assist in the slum areas in some way. While a lot of people say that the task is too big, even if you can assist one person then you are making a difference.

We then flew to Nairobi. We did not stay in the five star tourist hotels. In fact the driver who later dropped us back to our hotel said that never in his 25 years had he dropped tourists in the part of Nairobi that we stayed in. However it was a 3 star but only cold water and no toilet seat. Our view from the hotel and the surrounding streets. This is the true view of Nairobi, it is not necessarily the Nairobi that tourists get to see. In the second set of photos we visited some mission schools in the tin slum area of Nairobi. No water, no sanitation. The children we met are beautiful, friendly and talented. They were happy to see us and sang and recited for us. A lot of the songs were from their life experiences; orphaned by HIV, poverty, child abuse. Nairobi streets - you will note the mud. This was only the very beginning of the wet season but there is no drainage. by our hotel school suitcases stacked on the roadside for sale The slum area, we are talking hectares and hectares of tin/cardboard buildings here One of the mission schools, the buildings are on the left and the play area is where the children are sitting. this was the Library - a single sack of books holding text and library books. I say was because 3-4 weeks ago the school was broken into and the books stolen a class of young children, up to 35 inside a tin room about 5x6 metres Lunchtime - the children lined up and waited patiently for what is for the most of them, their only meal of the day Spot me in this photo. This was half the school. Those lucky enough to be able to pay the NZ equivalent of about $6 had the necessary gumboots. We had to buy some too but left them behind for the volunteers who run the school and teach there. No paid staff here! It was a very thought provoking, humbling and worthwhile experience to be able to meet the children and the workers there. We visited 5 out of 6 of the schools run by our contact in Nairobi.

Thanks