Adrienne

Survey closes tomorrow - last chance to have your say as to what you want/think.

Survey closes tomorrow - last chance to have your say as to what you want/think.

Survey closes tomorrow - last chance to have your say as to what you want/think.

If you go to the home page of this website and click on plants you will find a bit of information there on some of the ones you have listed http://www.fnzas.org.nz

Have fun. Please take a camera and take some photos of you as a group partaking in club activities. I desperately need some for the website and magazine I might even get down on my knees and beg

what sort of sores? Can you post a picture?

At eight weeks old it is too young to be eating much apart from small live foods ie brine shrimp, live daphnia. Personally I would never have dreamed at selling a fighter at that age. Where did you get it from? What were they feeding it? You could try chopping up a single defrosted bloodworm and feed it a couple of 1-2 mm pieces. Apart from that see if you can get hold of some decapsulated brine shrimp. If you have to go dry foods try the micro pellets. Leave the fighter in the container, it will get used to it - it will be totally freaked out being so young and placed into a tank with other species of fish. As a side note eight weeks you are unlikely to be able to sex it properly, it may end up being female

Good to hear about the crystal clear water but if there are bubbles it has either a leak or an air lock. Give it 24 hrs to stop and bleed any air and reset itself and if it is still bubbling screw down the lid tighter and check your hoses are clipped on to the cannister fully.

sounds like a broken wire and not the motor

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I have a rainbow fish with what looks like that around its gills and occasionally the odd spot or three appears elsewhere on its body. Its been like it nearly all year. The spots move around the body and the number around the gills vary. The only fish affected by the spots and no other symptoms spotted. Its like teenage zits.

I am after some high resolution quality images of marine fish and tanks. In particular I am hoping to get hold of a clown and the hosting anenome. Needs to be cute, very clear and would look good displayed in a landscape format. Preferably not posted elsewhere. If you have any great photos would you please email them to me [email protected] and I will come back to you if we want to use them for either our new website or aquarium world magazine. Thanks Adrienne FNZAS Secretary/Treasurer

Hi, does anyone have any high quality, full size images of people out spotlighting or collecting natives that you would be willing to send to me. They need to be really sharp images, also top quality images of native fish would be really appreciated. Thanks

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To keep their fins (rays) strong fighters need to flare. Most breeders use a mirror and systematically place it beside each container or remove the cardboard dividers so they can flare at each other. Point fins stuck together is more likely to be fin rot starting imo. You have to remember that in the wild fighters do not look like the commercially bred fighters - they don't have the long fins and tails.

Definitely sounds like fin rot - the advice Blueether has given is good. If you see red streaks appearing in the tails then it has turned to a bacterial infection and you will very very likely need to go stronger than salt but salt and water changes should do it otherwise.

Time to go back to Jaxxnz's original query about Going Lifestyle - Jaxxnz I found this https://www.facebook.com/lifestyleblock which also has a magazine. I haven't looked at it but it might be helpful. There is also this http://www.ruralconnect.org.nz/led/get- ... yle-block/ Good luck - I am very envious of you

Coming from rural Canterbury I fully agree with Smidey. He has given the true and factual account of living on a property with stock. If you are going to have stock then you need to be out there way more than just weekends. 10 acres is a lifestyle, and you should embrace it I know a lot of people who commute from Bombay into Auckland and back on a daily basis. There is not a lot you will be able to do with your 10 acres unless you are going to commute and be there. Even growing things on the land is going to require regular irrigating etc which is not just going to be weekends.

This is your chance to have your say

This is your chance to have your say

This is your chance to have your say

This is your chance to have your say

I've only ever used JBLroot balls, in fact I am still having to use them even with a huge fertiliser based substrate due to the large sword I have in my tank I've found them long lasting and they work well.