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heat pads under sand and that unnatural astro turf, need to keep pads dry as possible have clearlite on back and roof and roll up clear plastic fronts mesh floor under sand in case they burrow, they dig well could try solar panel on roof and alkythene pipe under sand for heating as well go outside in oct back in about march or april, when they slow down eating lets you know when to move them you could do indoor / outdoor off conservatory or house or shed the back garden is your oyster, no disrespect to any shellfish on this forum intended

beardies blue tongues and water dragons summer bach at the beach haven't installed the deckchairs and cocktails with those funny little umbrellas yet

if the tank is 92cms and the pacu grow to 90cms how long before they get too big for the tank

i have 150kgs of natural sea salt available if your interested

go the whole hog and put them outside with the bromeliads

should have asked when you were down last I have 2 baths out the back 1/2 full of dirt, planted with a frame over top with flyscreen and mesh, cheapest gecko enclosures i ever built also a smaller enclosure made to recommendations to go

should have asked when you were down last I have 2 baths out the back 1/2 full of dirt, planted with a frame over top with flyscreen and mesh, cheapest gecko enclosures i ever built also a smaller enclosure made to recommendations to go

tiles would be good heat pad underneath would maintain temp so long as they didn't get too hot how do they get on cleaning them?

my large ones are in with 12 millimetre liomheads, yellows etc plenty of hidey holes though

giraffe male 18 to 20cm about 6years old

go with natural or artificial mix during drying a lot of goodness is lost speaking from experience here

P.S. Got the whitebait too

when you've been given too many at that size ryan i'll have a go too i have hot water bore and a digger lol

your call depends on the dragon, can compact in the gut and cause blockages sometimes, especially if temperature is down a bit and gut has slowed down, they dont digest sand or bark and have to pass it through the system smaller dragon, smaller gut. small particles have a greater effect than in an adult in the wild they do eat the odd foreign matter, but in the wild mortality of juveniles is really high lizards constantly test their environment by licking substrate rocks etc sticky foods or a partially squashed insect can have large amounts of sand adhering to them Once saw a large saltwater crocodile suffer badly then die, after autopsy discovered 15 kgs of stones and a handbag in its gut as repto said at 5 hundy better to be safe than sorry, but that is your call

copper sulphate kills crustaceans in marine and freshwater systems will therefore kill some parasites used to kill fungus etc. on outdoor plants used it once never used it again

sand and bark are hard to digest why take the chance if you can limit it

nice job, good photos good descriptions well done

landscape supplies, warehouse, mitre 10 etc try to get the softer one, shop around a bit, prices vary Repto might have other options

Good one Repto I too use astro turf, easy to keep clean, have 2 pieces the same size. let crap dry and vacumn up and hose down when too dirty. get edges hemmed or melt with lighter to stop little fibres escaping. extra piece under food dish means catch ffod from dish can put heat pad down, then sand then astro turf you dont have to worry about them ingesting substrate accidentally if you fix sides stops bugs from disappearing too

Hi Paul you have a strange situation i dont have an answer just some thoughts on it if it was poisoning, i would have expected all your fish to have gone the same way. Unless the 2 females were a different strain, younger or the most robust fish in there as they are still alive. can you try some young guppies or other fish in there to see if they die, it will possibly let you know if tank is alright. From memory i had a similar situation a few years back, i used new charcoal in an air filter and lost approx 10 fish in the tank then it all settled down and i didnt loose anymore. in the end the only thing i came up with was i didnt wash the carbon media first and thought maybe really fine particles were suspended in the water and clogged some fishes gill asphyxiating them. sorry there is no answer just more questions cheers mark

surely they have a list of species they are going to check all it takes is some time to do some internet research or MAF buying some decent books on fish, so they know what their looking at some people just do a job for the payslip at the end of the week

Hi in our birds and animals even hedgehogs the albino is a sex linked trait. Is it a recessive trait in fish?

Well done Sharn and Afrikans hubby, the main worry is some other people turn a blind eye some of the time, hopefully not through want of profit but this sort of action can damage the hobby and give the wowsers even more ammunition to lobby the politicians and beaurecrats to cut the list of allowable importation species even more less fish, less custom for shops maybe COMMON SENSE MUST NOT BECOME AN ENDANGERED SPECIES

ultimately the importer must be held accountable as they are visually not a kuhli, and the importer nust have some knowledge of fish and what they are importing. some other species have come into nz as young fish and they can be hard to tell apart from allowed species when immature from the photo supplied they are definitely an eel species and to label these as Kuhlis, glass or otherwise was poor judgement, sadly this misnaming is then passed on to shops and then the customer. Bio security is a necessity to protect our unique and fragile native species from the further introduction of unwanted organisms that could compete and maybe decimate them, I just wish that more knowledgable people in MoF were checking shipments when they came in and making our laws rather than unfeeling beaurecrats I don't agree with some of the decisions that authorities make but is it not better to miss out on a few hobby species than to possibly lose what native species we have left

Loopy's probably looking for chocolate fish. they melt in my tank!