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sorry phoenix but i am not a fan of sand paper on perches as it can cause bumble foot better to teach him to let you buff his nails with an emery board the more you handle it regularly the better it will be as an adult they are naturally clowns and love to play enjoy your lorrie

are you hoping to expand your setup or work on new colour varieties?

was asking about substrate as it can habour bacteria and stick to a weeping burn i use under floor heating, no burns water dragons leap better than beardies

try putting your hand on one

the water needs to contact the coral sand for it to start raising the ph loosely packed in the stocking and water passed through it should work i have some coral rubble here i use this in the sump and pass water through it

are the tanks in the fish room 3 or 4 footers dauckland?

the cage gives them something to hang on to and it gets hot as well

some reps sense of being burnt is almost non existant skin on feet is thicker than skin on chest, hopefully it hit the bulb and dropped straight away, so not a deep burn problem with infection will be if or when dead skin peels away what substrate is it housed on?

i have some biggies in a 2.4m x 65cm, seem ok once they settled down

nothing like a hot wok for burning desire

betadine ointment is good for burns hopefully it is shallow and not deep, bulbs are hard to hang on to has it burnt its feet as well is it still eating?

hi anvil welcome to the forums may your time here be pleasant

all too true spink

tough descision?

what size and age is the fish usually hard to tell for me until they are pairing off or breeding

no obfuscation when it comes to dixon 1990

importing and more market, probably an age old topic that has been thrashed since fish have been kept in nz more population, more of a % keep fish, more buying power for importers we are but a mote in gods eye in the grand scheme of things fish related in the world some importers in nz are specialising in certain species and maybe creating their own market i believe you can create a market but it is not infinite here and once it is saturated you need to move on to other colour morphs or species,

:oops: forgot my glasses

maybe photos don't represent how big it really is theres possibly 80 tanks in that bottom photo

we've got enough bans going on without an auto one

sorry phoenix gotta go with kiwi on the bourbon i can control myself better on the tequila now that i have aged more as to the fish in question i like tag and release but can understand the feeling of keeping, eating and mounting a fish like that

yes a bummer all round sharn this came from a local person to shed more light on the fish in question

30HRS after birth weighed 8.9kgs so djsurfs and donnam were the closest i think birth weight may have been slightly heavier?

silverbeet, spinach, broccolli, to name 3 you can blanch them first to make it softer oh and aquarium plants