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i am not moving those aros again until i get a bigger tank. so it will have to be observation and pulling out the eggs i now know the behaviour that precedes the egg laying so will just have to pay attention the geo brsiliensis were the main culprits so might try catching them working on a miniature speargun to shoot them with

looking good stella well done

thanks for the heads up love the signature

they tried to ban palms as well, stirred up plant breeders so they backed off pet shops should be upset as this will slow down sales of related products the "experts" they used on the palms were cting studies done in hawaii to justify banning some species in nz.

couple of pdf's off the web listed below that might explain the auckland ban if you have a look there are more reptile species on there as well you aucklanders guys need to be contacting the local councils and talking to someone http://www.arta.govt.nz/shadomx/apps/fm ... teName=arc http://www.rodney.govt.nz/services/Pest ... t-Plan.pdf

letting it go is not an option for either the environment or the possum permit and tb testing is required to keep it, it can be a carrier even though it seems healthy

at the size this one is a 3 footer will hold him for a while (6 months) bigger ones are a real problem they like to dig under things and are incredibly powerful, collapsing stacked rocks, digging up U.G. filters etc they can push lids off tanks, so some heavy weights are needed i think from memory a 3 foot octopus can manipulate himself through a 3 or 4 inch hole an octopus is very intelligent and can suffer depression in a fish tank and just give up and die, that is why the younger you can get them the better they settle to tank life

sorry wasp thought you were talking about the big pool the small rockpool has part of the flow from the filter running through it the anenome live on the tideline and at full or lowtide they are open while the waves are smashhing them they close up have seen them regurgitate the shells of paddle crabs, they open up in the rockpools and wait for things to walk or swim into them, they open up to about the size of the palm of your hand

ira's bottom has an I.Q. of 184 so it is very smart

running a para pool pump on it fish think that surfs up was doing it daily but have had off for a week while i sorted out new plumbing pump on it all the time through sump is only about 10,000 lph

speak up gannet, you are whispering rumor has it person person wanted to give a gannet away

also running a coarse river sand as well don't give up, the girls were really fat for quite awhile feeding oxheart mainly with frozen shrimp and flake

built a rock pool, outside but under cover its between the 200 litre drum thats the filter on the big salt pond we have, and the main tank put a layer of cement down then lined with pond plastic got some dahlia anenomes, clingfish and triple fins for it today coral sand bottom stirred up the big pool and the skimmer is doing overtime

they do eventually clean the tank out getting them young seems to help with the houdini complex they have all the ones i have had from small have stayed in their tanks really well

they have pretty high requirements, especially as to water parameters amazing to have in a tank they get really tame as well

probably need a resource consent to let it go

i hope the ornates were watching just registered on there david thanks for tip fairly new tank hans, lots of driftwood, and had just done about a 30% water change straight from tap, our tap water is soft here

yea right, to that advert it is a big rip off 8) can't even keep let alone sell monkeys in this country

i remember an old thread about an unusual pet

last one i kept for 2 years was the size of an old 50 cent piece after 1 year was 4 feet across the tentacles his name was doctor octopus doc oc for short

has it been tb tested ? if so we can give it a home

went rock pooling today and found an octopus that just covers a new 20c piece when stretched out in a standard fish bag and looking angry now trying to assume the colour of the bag

senegals spawned in the big tank, well i think it was them the senegals were cosy for the last 2 days and twining around each other and the grey female is thinner came in this morning and noticed the geo brasiliensis picking through the java moss wondered what they were doing so had a closer look about 30 white eggs about 2 t0 3mm amongst the moss, went looking for a bucket etc by the time i got back they had cleaned the lot up next step is search and destroy mission on the geos and better luck next time

won't be anything to protect on the mainland after the un regulated cats, mustelids and dogs have their way

tank is looking really good cam have you got a generator to kick in when the power goes off