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you might get away with white cloud mountain minnows give deeper water in shallow water frogs can pimg the fish, any thing that moves

correct shadowfax, colours slightly brighter too

some fish will nibble on the frogs and the frogs will eat fish

probably wild guppies, how warms the water?

i believe DAMNBUSIA (gambusia) can not be taken from a waterway, kept in a tank or sold. DOC can destroy them in a small enclosed waterway ie pond, by electric fishing or poison, but these are basically impossible to eradicate in a flowing water situation you can let your local DOC know just in case they don't know they're there cheers

Hi Stella i don,t have any ideas on the earthworms but i feed our natives mealworms and waxmoth which can both be grown indoors if thats what you are feeding

breed your own blowflies amazing to watch the frogs stalk then leap and eat them lucky frogs aren't 6 feet long

had some of our frogs on property measured, weighed, skin swabs etc by otago uni students who were doing data recording for final assignment, we talked about pet trade in frogs and tadpoles, the only concern they and i would have would be in the possible spreading of chytrid fungus around the country as david said dont release pet frogs

thanks for links kapo signed up with caudata.org for more feedback on this axy cheers mark

hi stella good to see there is someone on the spot also good to know the brief salt dip works, thanks for info mudfish can damage all fins by pushing completely into fine gravel. the streams on our property were once full of untreated rimu sawdust and runoff from this still filters through to waterways during wet weather, mind you though they are springfed as well. there are amazing populations of galaxiids in waterways. sawdust is from old rimu mill on property and is between 50 and eighty years old ( so basically a peat substrate, but the water running in streams is springfed so very clean,) thats why i raised the question of filtration on the system sorry i can't be of more help as have only had one problem with a very large giant that had fin rot, i suspected dirty water and temp too hot from being in tank inside so i increased filtration and did a 50 percent waterchange 3 times every 4 days, fish was clear of problems in 14 days returned to stream when cleared up good luck with the muddies

mud fish little buggers are prone to diving into the substrate, so might be getting injuries to fins from gravel etc wouldn't use salt myself, just in case, i might be wrong though

i had mudfish some years back used mud from habitat on bottom and put sump filter on syystem to keep water clean haven't used peat before though

is this in new tank you set up with peat ? if so how long have they been in there before fin rot shown what is ph level was it same as water they came out of do you have filter on syystem have they damaged fins during netting or move is substrate hard or sharp

she has spawned ran with white and a golden male some eggs are white, some are white with dark, some are dark wait and see now i suppose she looks a bit slimmer now :lol:

thanks firenzenz bigger fish do look darker are both imports from different sources ? if so some from each line would be a good thing the solid blue ones look nice on the overseas sites

Good arguements on both sides of hybrid or mutation seem to be 2 sizes for sale in the lfs, is that from 2 different importers, any one know ? maternal mitochondrial dna has been done to prove as dempsey on the mothers side, http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/p ... ?blogid=97 has anyone come across any mention of paternal dna testing on these? these seem to support it being a dempsey colour morph at least on the mothers side

next time you see her, tell her you've been talking to the animal handler from witherspoon & smythe circus

tuis and fishing a great combination repto always guarantees a hookup

hi fishy is that run by a lady, caroline, who used to do film work?

seems funny you don't know you need a lisence to have a zoo do you do any fishing ?

fish are like humans henward and take a while to establish their order in the tank took the beaten up aro i bought a month to settle down, then the jardini a week to come right after his move across country generally speaking they are agressive fish being predators, but individual fish may have different levels of agression splash out and get a 1,000 litre plus tank so you can keep more big fish, you still might have compatability issues though

our one eats anything that disturbs the top of the water, or anything i hold in my fingers he still waits for the aro to feed first

a friend has just had an application approved for palms to be put on the list, took nine months from start to finish paperwork and referencing was the longest part of the process

also were the bodies damaged, if so how ? when it happens it is usually only very large clowns that will attack other fish other fish will also nibble on a fish after it dies

Hi Stella how is the nudfish setup going ? any updates, cheers mark