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livingart

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  1. depends on the parents they were bred from ie: were they siblings, and then their grandparents it happens on small islands over many years if you can swap with someone else would be better but then with the small gene pool you may be dealing with you may be breeding with the same genes you may have no option but to let your torts bang shells it would be good to sort out a register of tortoises in nz and where they have come from to setup a breeding register
  2. i usually put them back once cleared could give a few more days to be sure
  3. I feed mine to the kawhai and penguins
  4. We call those middle of the room flies
  5. if mustards in the fridge don't be making hot dogs for dinner
  6. got told that fridge trick about 45 years ago by johnny walkers pet shop upper queen st auckland
  7. fridge helps to slow down fungus and axie giving you more time to try things to fix have had one in the fridge for 6 weeks to fix it
  8. water changes should help put it ib a bowl of water then put it in the fridge, cool it down don't freeze it though keep changing water daily,so you will need 2 bowls of aged water only my opinion
  9. Xmas B.B.Q. in Tauranga for forum members and local fish club members Sunday the 21st December start at 3.00pm, eats at 4.30 tp 5pm free entry to park B.Y.O. The local club were unable to do their end of year function so we thought we would have an informsal get together for local fisho's etc would be good to put faces to names Pm to let us know you may be able to make it
  10. lucky its only one of the bones i'm just a layman with a lifetime with animals
  11. nice splint job, may have to leave it longer than stated, up to 6 weeks depending on type of break if it comes off before a full mend it may be weak IMO
  12. i have some nylon bird netting that i have used in my big filters can send you up a bag of it too try it is used to keep birds off fruit, you should be able to find a supplier in auckland that will have offcuts donaghys supply it
  13. do you know what happened to that spider model thats my kind of garden art i could put it in the fernery and tell those poorly managed kids if they don't behave it will get them
  14. you could use 1/2 the water out of your established tank add ph buffer then put in tang set up
  15. remember to keep the filters full of water
  16. full cycle depends on temperature and food supply
  17. yes my ornates just sit there as well fish go missing or are attacked and the ornate just smiles but isn't hungry
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