Joe

My Eheim hasn't even lasted a year... For some reason it just stopped producing the amount of air that it used to. It only produces a few little bubbles (that is with the outlet fully opened and the airstone removed). The Hailea air pump I have now is a lot more noisey but it works better.

Oooooh the kitty is so cute :love:

Excellent work

Great work on the killifish eggs Sophia :thup:

It doesn't. There is a designated building for the pigeon club to use that has a fridge, electricity etc. and it is big enough for all the people who were attending the meeting. Why couldn't they have all gone there? :dunno:

While I do agree with your second point, I should at least be able to feel secure in the house that I live in don't you think? It's not like I am legally old enough to buy my own house or rent etc. If that was the case then it would be a different story

Oh my goodness that is incredible! !drool: Thanks so much for sharing with us

I was not winging. If you read my first post on the subject it was just a small rant, like people have on here occasionally. This is the "What's Up?" thread, after all. So are you saying if someone broke their lawnmower, crashed their car or got made redundant and had a bit of a rant about it that they are "winging"? :roll: It wasn't their friends; it was a whole lot of random people. There were about 20 people that were coming round, all of them that I didn't know. All coming to the house that I live in. I get incredibly nervous around large crowds of people, and usually view the house as a safe haven. So how do you think that made me feel? And anyway, this all has nothing to do with what I said in reply to Caryl's post. I was just explaining why I hate pigeons. So your response to that post was uncalled for.

Well it doesn't fit this situation. Any anyway, who are you to tell me to toughen up? If I'm not all "tough and manly", so what? :-?

Sorry I misinterpreted. But I still don't appreciate one liners like "toughen up". It's so old, rude and pathetic, and it is just a pain when people go round telling others to "toughen up". You know what, NO!

I don't appreciate your sarcasm and stupid one liners :-?

You should probably get some more tetras. They need to be kept in groups of at least 10, but about 15 would be better. The pet shops say that five or six is fine, however from experience I do not agree with this. I'd go with at least 10 for your tank. Glass cats are a shoaling species and need to be kept in groups of about 10 too, and one on its own isn't going to be very happy, and also your tank is too small for them. I personally would sell the glass cat and get a couple of otocinclus instead. Also, if you don't already have plants, the fish would appreciate it and it makes them feel more secure and makes the tank look a lot more natural. Ambulia (Limnophila sessiliflora), Java fern (Microsorum pteropus), Java moss (Vesicularia dubyana), dwarf hygrophila (Hygrophila polysperma) and Indian fern (Ceratopteris thalictroides) are a few cheap and commonly available plants that are easy to care for that you should not have trouble growing.

Yes I was, and I appreciated what dad did. But I realised what a waste of time, money and labour the pigeons were and I wanted to get rid of them and use the cage for my other birds which were colourful, created less mess and I could make money out of them. Also, when I got the pigeons I was very young and I saw some at a guy's place and we had never had any other pets other than cats at the time so I wanted some "birdies". I really should have done some research beforehand because I had no idea of what I was in for. It basically started off with a dovecote with two pigeons in it. I got a few more but I never had any more than 10 at a time. They used to just waddle around on the lawn and go back into the dovecote when they felt like it. There was no need to train them and it was an enjoyable and stress-free hobby (well they were more pets than a hobby really). My enjoyment and passion for them only started to deteriorate when dad got the pigeon club got involved. Dad then became more involved in MY hobby, and built and bigger cage and we got more birds, which then meant disease, lots more mess and higher feed costs. Dad got very angry at me for the price of bird seed, yet I told him not to buy the expensive seed mixes and in 20kg bags but of course being a hypocrite he went and bought it anyway so he could yell at me for how much it was costing him. He also got angry at me a lot because he didn't agree with the way I was training them for racing and sometimes I slacked on the "routine" and things like that. Dad's anger and frustration from what he turned into a relaxing past time for me into a messy and stressful hobby for the both of us caused me to basically just give up with the pigeons. I was already making a bit of money from my finches and parakeets and there was no mess, training and expense involved, so I wanted to use the cage for them and just go back to having a couple of pigeons in the dovecote. After a huge fight dad declared that ALL of the pigeons were staying and that they were "now his". I then had to look after them while he was working in Nelson during the week, and since then my interest for them decreased, then I started to hate them and I stopped looking after them and mum took over instead, and every time he comes home from work at Nelson all he asks about is how the pigeons are and he is always going on about pigeon racing. Every time he goes on about them he just won't shut up about it, and it brings back those horrible memories and makes me upset. The Green Neons are $8.90 each and the Axelrod's are $7.90 each at Organism.

Exactly! I have no problems with my parent's friends because they never invite them all at once and I know all of their friends anyway, but the pigeon club people are all really strange and are a bit crazy and they can't understand that the majority of people don't like pigeons and view them as pests, and they get really annoyed at people who don't like pigeons.

:slfg: Mum took me to my grandparent's place so I made myself a nice salad with smoked salmon and lots of other yummy stuff and mum picked me up when all the random people had left

Ehhhh there are all these people here for some stupid pigeon club thing :an!gry I hate it when I feel like a stranger in my own home. Because our house is so small it is incredibly difficult to avoid anyone unless I just stay in one room which is impossible because I need to use the bathroom, get a drink and food from the kitchen etc.

Hahaha she is trying to convice me that it isn't as bad as it looks and that it will be fine, so I am going to fill the tank up and see what happens and if it doesn't leak then I won't get it replaced in the near future (but I will eventually replace it) but if it leaks then the panel will have to replaced promptly. Either way, yes, she is going to be paying for it :lol:

Got a reply from John and he has aeound 15 Green Neons and around 10 Axelrod's so I am going to get all of them :happy2: On the bad side of things mum chipped the corner of one of the panels on one of the 50x45x40cm tanks so I will probably have to get the whole panel replaced :an!gry

I am addicted to Green Neon Tetras so I am buying some more from Organism :thup: Might get some Axelrod's Rasboras too.

Awesome! Tell Grant I say thanks I'll definitely want to have a play around with it in the holidays when I have a bit more time. I might have to plan a trip to Rainbow Ski Field and take pictures of the alpine insects and plants up there. There'd be a lot of opportunities there for some cool macro shots.

Same. I wish we could get those here too

Well before I start saving for new lenses I need to buy a new camera because I have to give this one back eventually because it's on loan to me

Oooooh they're so cute :love: :happy2: Thanks for posting that link

So awesome !drool: I really want some!