coelacanth

gravid is the same as pregnant BUT in specific terms egg-layers are gravid NOT pregnant. So a live-bearing animal is pregnant (gravid may be used but the terms are generally kept separate in biology) An egg-laying animal is always gravid (NEVER pregnant)

Live-bearing (viviparous) animals are pregnant. Egg-laying (either oviparous or ovoviviparous) animals are gravid. Its very simple.

its a Syngonium. Its actually a house plant but is quite commonly seen for sale as an aquarium plant. Because its not actually an aquatic plant it won't last long underwater.

suckers aren't plecs, they are not herbivores. Feed them on bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp, flakes, anything like that. Some people say their suckers eat algae etc but it is not and should not be their primary diet.

yes, frogs change colour or shade according to temperature, temperament, etc.

Litoria raniformis (note spelling) is actually the commoner of the two green frogs in NZ. Its found over most of the country. Everyone in the South Island who catches their own frogs rather than buying them from pet shops (who seem to mostly get North Island frogs for some reason) has L.raniformis.

they should do.

do you actually read these threads before posting?

your arguments are circular

I agree it would seem more likely to be live rock rather than live corals. However in terms of the illegality of it, the actual coral species are still prohibited from import so whether the corals are live or dead is irrelevant to that. Which is to say that without a CITES permit you can't bring in the skeletons of protected coral that you find on the beach on your holiday any more than you can bring back a stuffed sea turtle or tiger bones. In this case it would appear the major thing is the number of other (potentially harmful) organisms contained in the shipment

yes they do eat plants

that's a pitiful fine. That's the problem with the courts here: people get caught doing crap like this and the judges either can't impose proper punishments or simply don't see it as being as bad as it is.

is that the excuse frog-owners use for not going to the gym then?

ah I see what you're saying now. Yes that does sound like a good plan.

are you breeding the leopards? And follow-up question, how much are the babies?

actually the species that are already kept legally are also the ones that are smuggled in most often because it is easier to pass them off as NZ-bred animals

your opinion of animals appears to be that if you can't feed it another live animal then it is worthless. To say that NZ's fauna is dull and uninteresting is to display ignorance on an epic level. Everywhere on Earth has animals that are amazing, and NZ happens to have a higher than usual ratio due to the conjunction of various factors such as being an island, being isolated from other land-masses for 80 million years, the lack of mammalian influences, etc etc. To live in NZ is to be the envy of many zoologists or naturalists from other parts of the world. Just off the top of my head I can think of many fantastic NZ species which could by no stretch of the imagination be called uninteresting, such as live-bearing geckos, bioluminescent freshwater limpets, a predatory alpine parrot, the world's largest springtail (1cm long!), alpine flies with "solar-powered" wings, giant crickets bigger than mice. Going back just a millenium, before the arrival of humans to the islands, there was the world's largest gecko, largest eagle, tallest bird and others. It can't be doubted that a scarlet macaw is more brightly-coloured than a kakapo but the latter is the world's only flightless parrot, the heaviest parrot, the only fully-nocturnal parrot, the only parrot that has a lek system for breeding (as well as being the only flightless lek bird). To suggest that the parrots here are boring because they aren't brightly-coloured is to show a shallowness worthy of a supermodel. And as for the survival of snakes, please don't comment on things of which you are profoundly lacking in knowledge. There are literally dozens of species of snake that would survive perfectly well in NZ's climate. The latitude of snake distribution reaches to 69 degrees North in Scandanavia and 45 degrees South in Argentina. Just in Australia there are several species that could potentially establish populations in parts of NZ. I'm not really sure what you think you mean by "perhaps spiders and arachnids would survive in nz wether, but even that, is unlikely".

well said firenzenz

here's my new attempt at a post. Yes it is a clawed frog (or clawed toad, the names are interchangeable). Probably Xenopus laevis which is the most common species but some smaller ones are also sold in pet shops (um, not in NZ lol). Do NOT keep it in your community tank or your fish will start disappearing. They are fully-aquatic but also very good at escaping. Make sure the lid fits well. They can't hop on the ground like regular frogs but do a sort of belly-flopping across the floor and end up drying out and dying under the sofa or somewhere. They eat anything that moves or doesn't move, so very easy to feed.

snookie's on to it. Perfectly safe in a community tank.

wow that's your second post in three years! yes, I didn't notice the country of origin and had to quickly edit the post (because I couldn't delete it) to avoid the shame. Oh well. That is all. Now I go hang my head.

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I think that's probably most of the people on here (no offence to those who do know!)

I just saw Redwood's fire eels the other day. They look awesome. Still got three. $160. I'd say about 35-40cm long. Now if I just had a tank at home big enough to fit them all in......

any luck with rounding up large arowana livingart?