coelacanth

crustaceans are always too greedy. Give him a big bit of food that will keep him occupied while you get on with feeding the other things

they are just freshwater catfish (Pangasius). They used to be available here and there are probably some still around. Napier Aquarium had them at one time. The one from the Mekong is P.gigas which has never been in NZ and is endangered (P.gigas is the one that has featured in several threads on giant catfish on this forum)

well done....I take it you have not noticed the other people on here with Simpsons avatars then?

this may have been on here before, but if not... http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/p ... cle_id=586

I'll take one :lol:

If I had a zoo I would only be stocking it with tasty animals.... 8)

no different to eating a deceased relative :lol: As the great Homer Simpson once said, "its what he would have wanted"

I ate one of my arowana. Most expensive meal I've ever eaten.

nope. All natural flavourings

One of my black ghost knifefish died last week He was fine when I left for work and dead when I came home, so I popped him in the freezer for Christmas. Bdspider came round because she can't afford to let me get any further ahead in our friendly competition to see who can eat the most number of animals (friendly to us that is, not to the animals!). Knifey was a bit of a fatty but once filleted there wasn't much left, so I stuffed him with baby Stolephorus commersonii (sold in PaknSave as "Indonesian whitebait") and tossed in some pepper. I doubt knifefish must be eaten regularly in South America because we discovered that they are filled with teeny tiny bones as fine as hairs. First photo: Knifey with his dorsal fin out (something you don't see with live fish because it is permanently tucked away into the back fold). Photo two: in preparation... Photo three: stuffed with Stolephorus. Photo four: knifefish and chips Photo five: all done

you're actually open on Christmas day? Crikey, you're a glutton for punishment. See there was no news today so TV3 filled most of their news hour with stories about zoo-keepers having to be at work to feed the animals (and random things off You-tube!) ?

zebra and leopard danios are basically the same fish, and yes they will hybridise and yes the offspring are fertile (they tend to look similar to zebras). The origins of the leopard danio are obscure: they were originally described from specimens with no locality data -- there are suggestions that they came from Thailand or Cambodia, or that they are actually a mutation of the zebra danio bred in Europe. DNA tests tend to support the latter, but its really all up in the air. With regards to breeding the tiger barbs and danios in the same tank at the same time, might as well give it a go and see how it works. Personally though I'd just breed one of them, then when the breeding tank is freed up again breed the other.

better might have been to actually go up to the people while the sales person was still with them and tell them exactly where he/she was wrong with everything. Puts him/her in his/her place, sets the people straight, might make them decide on better shopping options in the future.....or you might just make yourself look like a complete ass -- but at least it would be fun.

frogs have permeable skins as you know and cannot tolerate saltwater. HOWEVER if he landed in the tank and you scooped him straight back out as you obviously did, and then stuck him in freshwater to rinse him off he SHOULD be fine (hopefully). Also I agree no need to be handling small frogs -- or indeed any frogs of any size. Frogs do not like being handled and do not become tame in the way a dragon or blue-tongue might. Best to leave them in their tank. (And yes I know I'm going to get lots of people telling me their frogs LOVE being handled etc etc).

awww, just like a little Rory Calhoun!

"As Gisborne cleans up, Christchurch residents might have thought their turn had come just after midnight. Seismologists say a magnitude 3.6 tremor would have been felt throughout the city. The quake was centred about 20 kilometres to the east, at a depth of 15 kilometres. "

sort of starts to make one a little nervous about even keeping fish with the thought of hundreds of litres of water being deposited all over the house! Not to mention the broken glass and the electricity coursing through all that spilled water from the smashed heaters.

no, do you even know what size they grow to and how much space they need? 30x30x30 is not big enough.

they'll bury themselves in any size gravel. They like hiding in holes and such better though.

might be better as a trio or more?? Two might be a bit more squabbly. I haven't kept more than one at a time so I don't really know.

the nose is actually soft and flexible not sharp, so it wouldn't be able to hurt the other fish by poking them. Its probably just curious of its new tankmates

I just quoted that because I liked tHEmODS sense of humour. Your move, tHEcONCH.

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lol, have a look at a map of the continental plates OscarBoy. NZ sits smack along the line between two plates. NZ was built on earthquakes!

Caryl beat me to it