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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!

Tiny is one of two young chinese fire bellies, they live with a lot bigger lonely female japanese. i like the fact that his face resembles a hippopotamus, just no ears

I clean my marine corals by hosing down with hard spray then leaving in the sun for a few days works better the longer you leave it

tried to make it bigger and blew it think its back now I hope i get better with practice

he comes out like that when my wife feeds him she took the photo

We call him Tiny because he's mi nute lol

I always wanted a massive tank, thought about a steel frame and then line with cool store walling , aliminium sheet either side of 6 inch polystyrene. could take off one side of walling and fibreglass the inside anyone got any thoughts on that cheers mark

ours are in outside pond all year round, some have been there 12 years, just watch a really hard frost can be amplified in a glass aquarium, on those nights just cover with a piece of shade cloth to create a small micro climate inside tank stops it from icing up

Hi Paul, Welcome, we are in Tauranga, started keeping fish in 1963 Here's to many years in the hobby for you cheers mark

I also try to avoid additives but Gannet bought lots of treatments with his tank used the TLC tank start cycle thing and seemed to run well, I try to avoid the rest and watch the fish for changes, lets me know when things are wrong the tingle in the fingers lets me know when the heaters broken, lol I think a lot of the worlds wild fish are swimming in chemical baths even marine fish in some areas are putting up with our waste products or amazon fish, deforestation changing their water parameters silt from up valley land developments have changed the inner harbour in Tauranga, they used to land light planes in one area now the mud is calf deep and they would have to dodge the mangroves

possibly getting ready to shed some shell, maybe

try trotting around the local glass supplies they sometimes have 2nd hand 8 to 12mm from replacement windows one of the local guys from glass place makes mine on the weekends for a cashie