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Tattooed fish are legal to import as the tattooing was done in another country. Tattooing fish in this country would come under the animal welfare act and would probably attract a prosecution and also public outcry.

How do you know they don't use tap water or care about the fish?

If they cared about the fish they wouldn't promulgate bad practise in fish keeping. PS. sorry to shoot your heroes down but they make themselves an easy target.

They make some nice tanks on Tanked

You can learn a lot of something on Tanked

There are over 60 species of Hermit crabs known in New Zealand. Hermit crabs have a very soft, vulnerable abdomen so inhabit empty shells of marine snails for protection. As the hermit crab grows, it needs to find larger shells in which to live. NZ Hermit Crab (Pagurus novizelandiae) The NZ hermit crab has blue nippers with rows of bumps on them its antennae re smooth. Plankton hermit crab (Paguristes setosus) Similar to Pagurus novizelandiae but main distinguishing feature is the fine long hairs on its antennae, it uses these to catch plankton in the water. Halicarcinus whitei Easy to keep Does not create permanent barrows is nomadic and probably feeds on polychaetes I have seen mine eating mussel that i have dropped in to the tank. Must be a hardy species as has survived the cycling of my tank and having a Olive rock fish for a temporary flat mate. Can be found under stones or Buried in the substrate all over the intertidal zone Glass shrimp (Palaemon affinis) The Glass shrimp grows to 3cm it has a clear body and its internal organs are visible. It can swim forward and backward using its pleopods or rapidly with a flip of its tail, the Females hold their eggs under the tail between its pleopods . This shrimp is commonly found in habours and rockpools and is easy to keep. They will eat almost anything that you feed them and dont need to be fed to often eating dead animal and plant matter also seen them eating Brine shrimp and probably pods. Palaemon affinis has a wide range of salinity tolerance and regulates the osmotic concentrations of its body fluid. Reproduction: The male deposits spermatophores on the sternum of the female, Eggs then issue from the females genital openings.The eggs pass over the spermatophores and most are fertilised. eggs are attached to special setae on the four anterior pairs of pleopods (on the female). Unfertilised eggs fall off after a few days and the fertilised eggs remain until the planktonic stage hatches.. Camouflage crab ( Notomithrax peroni) The camouflage crabs get their name for their habit of nipping bits from seaweeds and gluing these onto their hairs. They eat almost any food and can damage anenomes by using their claws to pull food out of them. The Peroni has bigger nippers than ursus and is larger overall. One i had was about 12cm along the carapace. Hairy Decorator crab (Notomithrax ursus) Similar to decorator crab but smaller with smaller nippers and the carapace is covered in stiff hairs

Some of the critters that will help keep your tank clean, just remember that they need food to survive so a newly set up tank may not be the best place for them. Brown Creeper Zeacumantus subcarinatus Diet: Coraline and filementous algae Brown Bubble Snail Bulla quoyii Diet: Ulva, Sea lettuce,diatomaceous film and filementous algae Turret Shell Maoriculpus rosea Diet: Deposit feeder, filters sediment. White Bubble Shell Haminoea zelandiae colour variable Diet: Ulva, Sea lettuce,diatomaceous film and filamentous green algae Ducksbill limpet Scutus breviculus Diet: Ulva, Sea lettuce,detritus feeder Black Spotted Topshell Diloma melagraphia atheops Diet: Grazes on algal film and sediment deposits detritus feeder Cats eye Snail Turbo smaragdus Diet: Foliaceous algae and machrophytes Cooks Turban Cookia sulcata Diet: Foliaceous algae and Ecklonia radiata Glass Shrimp Palaemon affinis Diet: Almost anything, good for cleaning uo uneaten food. Brittle Starfish Diet: sediment deposits detritus feeder

Banded Coral Shrimp Stenopus hispidus , Difficulty: Medium Description: The Banded Coral Shrimp has striking colouration with the body and tail banded in red and white and covered in small spines, they can grow up to 60mm in body size with the antennae and periopods extending further. Habitat: They are found on rocky reefs off the northern coast of New Zealand in the intertidal zone to a depth of 15 metres. Temperament: Peaceful, they are a cleaner shrimp and remove parasites, fungi and damaged tissue from the fish. Minimum Tank Size: 100 litres, more as it matures. Tank Age / Maturity: At least 6 months Diet: Readily accept all frozen Pods, mysid, raw mussel, prawn and meaty foods. Special Requirements: N/A

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Common names get stuck on a few different frogs the binomial name ensures we are talking the same species.

The only legal whistling tree frog in nz is ewingii

It is Litoria ewingii which have orange thighs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma

With that minimum from overseas of 100 I have asked for 4 samples, paid for them then they have shipped them :smln:

that wouldn't happen in the far far north :gigl:

I thought you couldn't start your joint enrolment as you knew you couldn't have one with unidentified plants.

Is a joint enrolment a home school thing? It is hard to understand your postssometimes

:bggrn: same care as this viewtopic.php?f=5&t=45424

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http://floraseries.landcareresearch.co. ... /Book.aspx

You could sort through NIWAs database, or buy some expensive books :sage:

there is no complete list as some haven't been identified yet

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/?page_id=2379