Adrienne

I do know how old Ira is! My statement still remains. I am still older than Ira, younger than Caryl and have been married for longer than a lot of you have been alive! IMO & IME -the thing to remember is that good advice in fishkeeping doesn't always come with age. It comes from reading, surfing the net, chatting, keeping fish. It comes from people who know the fish/plants etc that they are talking about (those people who have kept them and have experienced success and failure). It comes from people who have spent a good deal of time listening to others and trying out suggestions and then sharing the good and bad. Most of all it comes from those with a passion for the hobby!

I'm older than Ira and younger than Caryl and have been married for longer than a lot of you have been alive!

all good - both ways this time

Yes Sarahfish - the next meeting will reveal the answers or is that the one you will not be here for?

Fantastic news and yes that feed, change, play, feed works unbelievably well. I am so happy for you and I am so impressed that other mothers (I assume they are mothers on here and not dads) have said publicly that it is not easy with a young baby. Well done everyone. Just persevere with the day time as well and the little one will settle.

no, we didn't find out which they were.

It was your behaviour Sophia that caused it. Goodness knows how you manage to get up to such mischief and keep a straight face :roll:

Why would you think we would take pics of this meeting? I certainly am not going to take any pics that show me being whipped in the quizz :sml1:

lol - sense of direction! I got lost going there, yet again and then went home a different way to the way I had planned. Never mind, we made it. I was suggesting that you should rejoin this year.

You can do quite a few things to keep him seperate in the mean time if you want - he could go into a 2litre ice cream container floating on the top of the tank or into a large coke bottle that has the next cut off and a few holes punched into it. The bottle could clip to the side of the tank with a peg if the tank does not have a lip on it or I sometimes use a suction cup with the sucker side on the side of the tank and the other part pushed into the bottle to hold it in place. Stress coat is up to you. I myself would leave him free swimming in the tank unless the guppies take exception to the ripped tail and start nibbling it as imo and ime it is less stressful and the improved filtration in the tank compared to a container will reduce the chances of rot. If you are willing to 'salt' the tank that would help but that depends on what else is in it.

Well, I enjoyed myself last night. I haven't laughed that much in ages! Thanks for the quiz and it was lovely to see two new faces at the meeting.

Maybe - just keep an eye out for fin rot

bn also spoken for

I've got 5 young bristlenose around the 3cm+ mark looking for new homes if any Auckland member coming to the meeting tonight would like to take them off my hands - no cost. The parents were both brown bn however I do suspect that somewhere down the line a golden may have been in the mix. Nice looking bn. PM or email me before 6pm if you would like them and I'll bring them along.

If it is ammonia you will have either badly burnt or dead fish in the morning if you do not water change. All the sponge filter/airline is doing is adding more water to the tank, its not removing the 'poisons'. Its an assistance to the fish but is not likely to be the solution.

could be something in the gravel so syphon out as much muck as you can when you water change.

Could be a variety of reasons but I suggest you run an airline in to the tank to increase the amount of oxygen in the water and do a decent 30 -40% water change on the tank tonight. That should improve the ammonia situation if there is one, which without a test kit you won't know. Did you wash the gravel well before putting it in the tank?

sent you a pm :thup:

Do you have a local plunket or karitane unit?

absolutely - do I take you as well? I would never leave you to walk home that far!!

bbs, decap brine shrimp, bloodworms, mozzy lavae, daphia live and dried, tubifex worms, nls, microworms, bettamin + any other tinned stuff from the pet shops with a pic of a fighter on the side.

I often have baby snails floating and have never thought anything of it. I will interested to hear what others have to say.

I collected 4 litres of rain water the other week, added it to my fighter tank and came home to find the fighters in a dreadful state. Siphoned out most of the water, refilled from the hose and they recovered rapidly.

yes I am good for it and it will make sure I get off my backside and go to it :sml1:

thats pretty much standard behaviour for a group of discus in a tank. If the discus are young and there is in fact a pair there it can take several times before the eggs last long enough to develop in to wrigglers. With more than a pair in a tank the eggs are never going to last. Is any discus actually fertilising the eggs?