tHEcONCH

I think Ms South Carolina sums it up:

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If you are talking about a 'normal' tropical tank with a few small fish then fine (its just a big goldfish bowl), otherwise with bigger fish its a bio-bomb. Like above, I think the peat has a big enough surface area and porosity to act as a filter pad would.

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Put a Deltec on the tank as well

American humour? Oh, and sub-atomic physics - is light really a particle?

There is an interesting dilema associated with tattoos. Most people who have them claim some sort of significance or meaning associated with the tattoo, rather than it just being some sort of doodle, but then they get a little unhappy when other people also assign a wider meaning to them. I think part of the 'problem' 'issue' or whatever you want to call it is that to the person with the tattoo, the tattoo (usually) has some sort of specific event or personal experience liked with it, whereas to everyone else they just look like some ugly tat of a dog/rose/skull/anchor, whatever. To those of us who have been around a little longer, you can also see the link between certain groups in society and the kinds of tattoos they get (or don't get), which kind of contradicts the whole 'personal expression' idea. Nowadays lots of trendy middle class kids (in Christchurch, anyway) have got celtic or japanese derived tattoos in the small of their back or on their shoulder, and in doing so they have (perhaps unwittingly) joined a group that will be judged by other groups in society whether they like it or not, because it can't all be about personal expression - in fact to other groups it looks a lot like conformity. More than that, some people get tattoos exactly because they want to conform and will be judged by them - why else get a cultural tattoo unless you want to be associated with that culture? Tattoos have always been social markers - some cultural, some of class. To older generations tattoos were only worn by criminals or military men (there were no tattoo parlours on the corner), and it was fairly obvious to which group you belonged. I don't think people should be suprised or offended if older people still view them that way. In fact the link between certain tattoos and certain groups in society is as strong as it ever was, regardless of any personal significance they might have to particular individuals within that group. I think open mindedness means people with tattoos need to be aware of the significance they might have to others, not just themselves. Isn't that what 'each to their own' really means?

It all rotates around the funding formula for your area. Most GPs (not all) will reduce your charges to that of a Funded patient if you Enrol with them, even though they won't actually get funding until the beginning of the next quarter. If the one you have chosen won't do that, you can either enrol and wait until you are actually funded at that clinic (probably 1 April), or else shop around (especially good if you are prepared to go to a doctor in a relatively poor area - they get funded more generously)

Do you mean these ones? Just let me know your itinery and we'll sort something out.

Yea, that might be the way to go I think. I'll have to find out more about how to do that, but it would be great if we could contribute to the understanding of what they require. Quite apart from breeding, it would be good to know more about how people can feed adults in otherwise unsuitable tanks.

:lol: He can experience the unique Organism delivery day lunchtime rush! Elbows out, head down!

Coolies - I work in the centre of town, and could perhaps drive over and meet you at lunchtime - I take it you want red and / or purple ones? Organism is between you and the airport too - maybe I can leave them for you to collect there?

I'm sure we can arrange something

With respect, none are worth bothering with if financial gain is your primary consideration. Breeding fish almost always costs more than they are worth (people seem to like to forget about water heating and feed costs), so unless you gain some other form of enjoyment or satisfaction from breeding fish, I wouldn't rush into anything.

White vinegar, and a good rinse.

:lol: No. I'm not a big fan of Daphnia really - a lot of roughage, but that is about it. Blood Worms are where its at for Freshwater, and Enriched Brine Shrimp for Marine - assuming you can't get a decent population of live food, of course.

Yep, they grow quite well in there - but judging from what I've found out, I'll need a ton of them. I can't really harvest enough from my tanks - Witt was actually getting all of his by filtering NSW

I'm afraid tattoos have become a bit of a tacky cliche around Christchurch - they got very trendy and commercialised up until a year or so ago, especially Celtic style stuff. Now every calls them 'tuff-stamps' and mock people who have them - they have really fallen out of favour. I guess that's the problem with tattoos - trends change, but they don't.

You-a donna' now-a' whadday-a' say!

They are way too big for a Mandarin. A Mandarin's staple diet consists of organisms that can be measured in 10ths of millemeters, so they are very unlikely to accept Daphnia, dead or alive.

Here's a nice one of me

They'll be free to those who help provide greeblies to raise them

Thanks Matt Video of the mandarins gett'n jiggy widdit... http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee22 ... I_1209.flv

Don't worry about hijacking etc in my thread - I think good threads are like good conversations - they wander around a bit as people explore topics and that means sometimes they go off on a tangent. I think that is a good thing and adds to the colour of it all, so anyone can post whatever they wan't in this thread, so long as it is either about tHEcONCH's RSM, or other 'stuff'

Video of the mandarins gett'n jiggy widdit... http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee22 ... I_1209.flv