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i think tHEcONCH nailed it on the head... ummm to risk or not to risk, discus are expensive........ has anyone been on pacific blue recently? I guess I can always say I won it at a pet shop in auckland :-) who would deprive me of my prize... (sad look with puppy eyes etc). 40mm discus, 3 or so in 2 L container on lap?

do they scan you, do you just put it in your pocket? let them xray the bag? did they ever ask whats that??? :-)

maybe I can put my minnows in my pump bottle, infact, if the discus are small enough, they can go in too :-p

darn, yeah, was thinking of carry on, it'll be like 6kg, i should still have pleanty of room :-) i could kind of understand the liquid thing, esp now that you cant carry water on international flights, can also understand that if I had some sort of fisah that I could use as a weapon... however... these a small baby fish in a lunchbox (and they are still alive so cant be acid or anything in there).... ummm.... Yeah posting prob the best but it only takes 30 mins or so on a flight and it takes so much longer on the road... ah well, sounds like its not happening :-(

Anyone tried flying with pet fish? I've booked a flight from auckland to wellington for a function and was hoping to transport some baby discus / mountain minnows. I figured a 5L container for 4 baby discus and 1 L for afew minnows.... Just called up Pacific Blue today to check if all is good, wasnt expecting any issues but apparently they do not allow any pets on board (including fish).... ummm any thoughts??? a bit guttered :-(

Thought I'll add that I've had one of my gold fish fly out of the pond for a few hours baking in the sun / mud. I too thought it was the end of him, scooped him up and put him back into the pond (covered in mud / gravel). Didnt see any life so went to fish him back out. He spashed back to life as soon as he had left the water.... about 6 months later, hes still happy and alive.... my 2 cents

DJ, what insurance company are you with? maybe time for me to change too....

supprised that they dont have any images of the sunset ones on wikipedia, opportunity for you to get your name up there ;-)

Hey Lani, they do look good, maybe i'll try some of those as a in-between until I locate some meteor ones (once again assuming they are around and all). Do you sell off the babies? if so, I'll be up in auckland in march and would love to get my hands on afew in order to breed (wouldnt want to depend on luck of a petshop having some on the days i'm up there)

Wow Barrie, thanks for that, I think you have covered everything that I had wondered about (and that i have been doing wrong). I have had a look at online tutorials before tryiing all this and they make it seem so easy but do not describe in detail how you do it correctly (for example, not starting the cut over the edge of the glass). I will have to retry glass cutting with all this in mind and with a new glass cutter. through different trials, I have tried thinsg like scribing both sides, scribing over an existign scribe, tappi9ng on the scribed side, tapping on tehg non scribed side, using oil (cookign oil though), using the khooks/notches on nteh cutter to try to break try glass and loths of others....The one thing which I do remember trying (and thought it would work / was smart) was to use a hair dryer to heat the scribed area in hope that5\ it woulkd slowly create that stress on teh scribe and crack it correctly... didnt work either :-( Thanks for such a good writeup, will give it another go when I have more glass Matt

oh, back to the photoframe, I would think (though not visually confirmed) that you can get varses for flowers which resemble that frame, if not, I wonder how a $2 shop thin clear container would stack up ;-)

would really love advice / tips and tricks for glass cutting. Ive tried quite afew times (like a dozen or so) on random bits and have not had any luck at all (it always end up traveling out side of the scribed line). I see io as a art for now (until I master it and then prove that it can be done by anyone once they have the skill set ;-) )

Thought this post is better here then in private sales (since its not really a sale :-) )... I have been on the hunt for some meteor minnows and have come to the conclusion that: 1/ They dont exist in new zealand 2/ People who have them are hiding? If anyone has been able to confirm sighting in new zealand, would be great (doesnt have to be recent, if they seen it 10 years ago then its good to know theres hope to get these in NZ without importing)... cheers Matt

Just found this old posting and thought thats what I'm trying to achieve right now. I'm actually just got some small containers with a mesh over it (the bags that hold activated carbon rocks in) and a plant sticking out of the mesh to attract the little guys over. Trying to get my tetras to breed, they keep eating the eggs.... do you have updated links to the pictures, Would be great to see what works (my one doesnt seem to be doing all that well)