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livingart

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  1. what are these guys? any ideas?
  2. there was a thread a few months back that contained some useful scientific facts on beef heart etc i think the fat content in heart muscle is quite low found it for you http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/1-vt28 ... sc&start=0
  3. went fishing about 25 years ago and pulled up an old fan belt with a pair of seahorses attached, into a bucket and then a tank at home with daily waterchanges, lived next to habour so was easy. No one else keeping marines so into the library, an old american book on keeping marines and away it went tropical marines started by swapping the local stuff i had to Harold in rotorua for tropical marines for his display tanks at the original wonderworld, thanks harold reefing started with gannet pestering me to set a tank up thanks gannet then thanks to all for the swaps and frags since then
  4. scotish- from the land of scote welcome Oh Great Moojin
  5. detritus feeders so will eat almost anything even algae not ghost shrimp different species - burrowing ghost shrimp is Callianassa filholi or the one in local water with red mark through middle is Palaemon affinis, or New Zealand glass shrimp,
  6. put ours in a coldwater tank and raised temp over a week period worked for us
  7. Paratya curvirostris is the one stella, if thats the right name i have found they live equally well in full salt or freshwater or tropical
  8. nice looking orandas have you been using plant genes (cauliflower) in your breeding
  9. they all ready have, you are dealing with dopplegangers now jim lad good to have you back afrikan
  10. those little brackish shrimp are as quick as Speedy Gonzales
  11. bk's advice is spot on don't get another one if you are going to until the other one is talking clearly, about 9 to 12 months to be sure of sexing get it dna'ed i sex all our young just as they get pin feathers and mainly take the males out as that is what most pet owners want afrikan alexandrines are the bomb as a pet
  12. sexing cockatiels, underneath of middle tail feather has barring on hens, clear on males lutinos have yellow barring albinos dna them
  13. join the herpotological society link below for information http://www.reptiles.org.nz/
  14. ornates look like a pair and senegals 1 male 2 females, but only time will tell the big ornate eats the aros prawns whole
  15. 6 pictures may take a while to load on dialup sorry 2 Arowana, albino senegal and ornate birchir mixed group including festivums lunch size difference ornates and senegal 2 aros lost there barbels in moving tanks but will grow them back heres looking at you
  16. if you are capable of doing the paperwork and research yourself that will save on paying the consultant at 100 - 200 per hour
  17. quite an eye opener isn't it add to that as you stated before most councils view it as a non complying issue, so neighbours permission is required and a resource consent will be then required with submissions from the general public 20,000 is astarting point evil
  18. isolation has worked for us maybe it is breeding agression over his "Nicaraguan girlfriends"
  19. also requires deep pockets and long arms
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