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Pretty cool - and true!!

I log on in between writing quotes and setting up charter tours for the bus company I help manage. Makes a great stress relief. Shhh... dont let the Boss know, he thinks I am looking up more tour venues :oops:

Cool T shirt guys. Of course you cant please everybody with the animals on it, or not on it, (like seahorses... :roll: ). Let us know when they are avaliable. 8)

not really a favourite, but I can remember the magic roundabout, felix the cat, basil brush, sooty and sweep...

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THE UTE?? Hey it looks awesome! Well done, great to see it has been of some use. Fabulous turn out for the open day today, I was thrilled to see so many people. I didnt realise that driveway was so long, especially with vehicles parked all the way down it and up on the road as well. Well done to you all, I looks like you have beaten the big hairy monster (finance companies) after all. Congrats on the achievement. :bounce:

Congrats to you both and all who have helped. It just goes to show that there is certainly plenty of good people still in the world. As for the ute... I think we can live with the zebra stripes. Hope it serves you well. Will catch up with you both shortly. In the mean time... ENJOY!! LOL :bounce:

Good morning everybody. We have our truck with a load heading from Broadlands - Taupo to Living Art this morning. It will be in Rotorua about 10 - 10.30am. Using Old Taupo Road and heading to Tauranga Direct Road. If you have any donated items you would like collected along the way please PM me ASAP so we can organise where to collect - or meet the truck. This is a personal 'courier' as such for a huge donation Mystic and Lucid have organised. The more we can get on the load, the better. I know it is short notice, but if you can get to the truck along the way, it would be much appreciated. Hope to hear from you soon.

I am waiting to hear back from Mark to see if he hasnt organised a local trucking company first. I am currently trying to get more feed donations from several other stock food companies to get a decent load as one trip. Any suggestions of who to contact for more feed to be collected.

Have spoken to my Husband and we can certainly organise the truck to collect the feed. If we can rally more feed or something else to go on the truck and make it a decent load, all the better. We can carry 4 ton inside the truck - any suggestions? If you need we can do the run during the week and pick up extra things along the way - ie from Rotorua, Edgecumbe, Mt Maunganui, etc. Have a think about what else we can collect for the trip. Back to you after 3pm.

Hey guys, we have a 9 ton horse truck in Kawerau - not too far from Taupo (about 1 1/2 hrs tops). Could use it to cart stock feed if it is in a quantity to warrant the use of a big truck. Let me know. I'm sure we can arrange it for a weekend if the stock feed place is open then. Have also emailed campbell live.

VERY COOL!!

Thanks for the encouragement dj. I am looking to replace her, but not with another SH as they are too hard to get at the moment. Do you think something like a yellow tang or something similar will be ok in the tank with the 'surviver'? The is always that small amount of green hair algae growing, although the snails seem to keep it under good control, and I would love to see seom colour and 'brightness' in the tank again. If not a yellow tang, then any other suggestions? Tank is 150 litre, and sitting currently at 26 degrees. I will certainly try to decrease the temp to help with any 'nasties'. Thanks guys, you support is really reassuring, I am glad to see that I am not doing anything terribly wrong.

Changing the water by 30- 40% about every 4 weeks. It is a 150 litre tank and seems to keep very clean. Have never had any test readings out of the ordinary, just changing as a routine. Removing seahorse poo and shrimp and snail poo as often as weekly with a small siphon and just topping up the water that I remove with new water. Have a steady supply of mixed water ready for any 'unexpected emergancies' - I am ready fro a tank crash if I ever have to face it... :lol:

Sadly, my little girl has passed on to seahorse heaven. My other adult is still in the same tank, but is still spritely and happy. Could she get the same thing/ Should I treat it as it has been suggested?

Tropical Kuda, it looks almost like a fungus, it has the look of peeling sunburn, but without the actual 'peel'. Have done a water change. Have uv sterilizer unit and had that on for last couple of days. I am turning off the tank lights during the day just incase she gets too hot on the surface under the lights. Any clues?? Unable to download a photo, dont know how.

I'm not sure, but do seahorses get whitespot like goldfish, or is it something more sinister. My young girl has been hanging around the top of the tank over the last few days and has grown a few white marks over her tail and doral fin. She seems to be having trouble getting to the bottom of the tank again. I though it may be gas bubble disease, and hope for the best, but these marks have appeared. She is still eating on occasion, but not as veraciously and she settles at night. Is there something more I can do? I have changed nothing, but the filter wool in the filter canister maybe a week ago, but I have done nothing out of the ordinary as I have changed it many times before. Pulling out my hair over seahorses!!

Hi Gannet, Did the course via correspondence a few years ago and had a couple of visits to BOP Poly for practicals, anything I can help with. Spent 4 1/2 years vet nursing...

Boo Hoo. Baby has died. She was doing so well, but over the last day or so she was less and less active. When I got up this morning, the other two were in a corner they dont frequent. Looking for Baby, she had died in their 'bed' plant. Thank you to those who have helped me thru this, I know we can feed them by hand now and that they will survive, maybe she had some internal dmage from her paralysis that finally took her. I had tried to encourage her to eat on her own and only hand feeding her once a day, and that may have contributed to her demise, but I dont think I would have ever known if she could survive on her own if I hadnt tried. Once agin thank you to all that have offered their help. I have two lovely girls to continue with who are vibrant and happy. :bounce: On a happier note, I think I have mastered the art of live shrimp. All are well and eager to feed. A couple have molted and are looking bright and shiny so all going well I should have youg ones to help feed my girls.

Thanks Wasp, the live rocks have been in my small tank for nearly two months now and have been doing a great job. The only problem I have with them is the GHA that I am trying to get rid of. The smaller rock isnt too bad, I was going to put it in first and then clean the larger rock once I had transferred the horses and could use smaller amounts of water around that rock to keep it clean until i was satisfied to put that also in with the horses in their new tank. They dont produce much waste, probably one or two poos a day and I only have three. The only real waste is if they leave food. I pretty much have the food quantity sorted although they do manage to call my bluff of occasion. Paula

:bounce: :bounce: My new tank is an AquaOne 830. Cant find it anywhere on the net, but the closest is an 850, holding 150litres. Just started it up yesterday, have external filter (canister?) ViaAqua - which I have put in PhosEx to help keep the algae under control - hopefully before it really starts. Seem to be jumping the gun, but liverock has Green Hair Algae, and want to make sure it doesnt grow. I have to transfer my two(!) liverocks slowly so as the seahorses still have one at a time for their own small tank. Do not have a protein skimmer, but the filter on this thing seems to be very good at circulating the water already. At what stage of the cycle should I put the first liverock in? I have primed the water with 'cycle' and 'prime' to start the cycle, but dont want to kill the inhabitants if the water is not yet safe. Should I also get some noodles for the tank or should the liverock do the job? I know they are small (fist size and then rockmelon size) will they do it? I have noodles in the simple filter of the small tank, just a bit unsure about transferring these as I want to clean all the ornaments I am going to transfer, but these are unable to be cleaned properly arent they? With two halfgrown kudas and one nearly full size kuda in the tank, what clean up crew should I have for that size tank? Tried glass shrimp, but havent gotten past the night of collection without them dying - before I even try to acclimatise them to salt. No sucess there - although I found one with eggs, that I have thrown into my tank with brine eggs hoping they may survive and hatch Anyhow, yellow tang? Lawnmower blenny? Banded shrimp? what do you think? My horses are well adapted to feeding from a bowl now, and hunt the peices that float away, but they now beat me to the bowl and demand. Oh yeah, baby is still going, alot more energy, but still not feeding on her own. Still crashing into things, but at mealtime, she comes to the surface and waits for me to feed her seperately now. Still not taking mysis, but will sit there as I blow baby brine into her mouth with the syringe. I hope I dont have to do this forever, although she has a great personality now and seems to have me wrapped around her little tail!

Read up on keeping tropical seahorses a little more in depth and not listened to the shop attendant who said it was just as easy as keeping goldfish!!! Wouldnt give them up tho.

Hey guys, have some good news. Baby SH is just about up and running as normal, but with one fairly big handicap. Whatever caused her 'paralysis' and made her fall over has seemed to come right, but she seems to be blind now. Her eyes are moving as normal, no milky look to them, but she is moving extremely cautiously and bumping into things all the time. She will not hunt. She will not feed on her own. I still have to pull her out of the tank and put her in a small one to feed her with a syringe of tiny live brine. She wont take mysis at all unless I actually force it down her throat - something I dont want to do as it will eventually go wrong and hurt her. She is not losing weight anymore, so I must be getting a certain amount into her. All I can do is hope that maybe she will get her sight back. She wont even hitch to a plant to sleep, she just gets to the bottom of the tank and if not proped up, she lays on her side where there isnt too much current. If I am careful at night, I can get her to settle in one of the plants but she is suspended under her throat on a leaf or similar. Wont hitch with her tail - which, by the way is now with full motion again. I am trying a new way to feed her. She is in a very small container which I have place the food for all three horses. She is swimming in the 'soup' - not too rich mind, and then I am releasing her into the tank with the others and feeding them from her container, the rest of the food. They are a little peeved that they have to wait their turn, but no adverse affects on them otherwise. Thanks for all the help. I have 'harvested' as much of the GHA as I could, and have been routinely placing the snails on the bits left. Good news on the tank status. My Husband has bought me an Aqua One 830 (150litre) for my Birthday. I will get this next week and cycle it for a while before introducing the girls to their new home. Hopfully I have rid of the green hairy algae by then and I hope to find some glass shrimp to go into it to help over all.

Would you be interested in selling a few of your glass shrimp? I need some cleaners for my small seahorse tank, and I am sure they would go well.

No, not hydroids, definately GHA. Will start removal ASAP and try to bring phos down in water. Is there a manual way to RO the water, or remove phos before mixing salt up? Baby did six laps of the big (32litre) tank today before settling to the bottom to 'sleep'. She is slowly getting better. Phos causing problems I wonder. Others arent worried. :bounce: