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livingart

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  1. parents were adult when wild caught don't know life expectancy though longest i have had one was 4 years
  2. didn't even realise they had bred till cleaning out tank feed live mysis and pods once a week
  3. have some local crested blennies that were bred in the old FOWLR system we had running eldest coming up 2 years and 3 youngest now 1 year old original tank was coldwater marine and couldn't catch the blennies out of the rock when we converted to tropical adults died after one year at warm temps when we pulled tank apart to put aros in we found 7 young cresteds in there so have kept them tropical since
  4. sump for me too larger surface area, more media
  5. if you are serious about raising young take reptos advice spend some money on a decent incubator and start breeding vast quantities of live food
  6. it is good seeing people getting into natives what they need now is a good book on keeping them
  7. glad to see your in the dry
  8. i hope they didn't use water colours on that "Muriel"
  9. good luck peoples weather is knocking us around too from 2 to 4am last night was spent trying to move Cockatoos from the patting zoo seven of them in the office this morning meant the alarm clock was not necessary
  10. to do cheap and big you need to build yourself this is 2.4m x .8 x 1.6m high approx. made from mdf cover sheets - from timber yard, ie: soiled sheets glass was most expensive part inside of MDF polyurethaned to stop any moisture damage male beardies can fight or create dominance issues found this a while ago, don't know where i got it though
  11. that may actually work wilson it could be the best pick up line in the world success depends on the delivery, timing, how the deliverer is percieved by the recipient and the amount of alcohol consumed by said recipient
  12. I've got your name tattooed on my backside you need to have "your name" tattooed on your backside though
  13. thats an original pickup line repto don't thinl it will work though maybe it has a connection with margarine
  14. heaven is missing an angel and shes here with me
  15. i prefer the rough diamonds, that are forged in the fire of their lives well done sandysme learning through experience then giving your knowledge back to the younger ones is what life is all about
  16. welcome to the forums snorkel
  17. is good beardy dude, we are all here to learn and when you learn something you can then pass it on to others
  18. i was given a 10mm glass, 2 metre x 50cm tank with a crack the length of the bottom went to glass merchant, $40 for a new 10mm insert for base, 1 tube of glue and it has been a reef tank for last 9 months a tank with no leak is worth more than a leaking one
  19. the name sand monitor/goanna is used in australia by laymen to describe a few different species of Varanus, some include the lace in that most of the sands (Varanus gouldii ) i have seen have not been as well marked as the one in photos looks more like a lace (Varanus varius) in its defined markings, but then i am no expert
  20. yeah its fun down here heir watersports anyone ? 8)
  21. that was fun just lost a $6,000 12m x 6m pvc top on the baby animal pen soaked thru to skin again animals are now all in the office
  22. Just came off the mount maunganui beach, 3 diehards were surfing sand being blown hard enough to sting my legs and face had trouble standing up in the wind waves up past the high tide mark i was there looking for puffer fish washed up, didn't stay long soaked to skin in about 4 mins
  23. how long did that take to develop ? how are your water parameters ? maybe some form of microsporidium http://www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/h ... tist.shtml
  24. without seeing fish it could be something in your water parameters affecting their slime coating try a large water change maybe add stress coat or the like to tank
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