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Someone is selling a fish they've named a Rainbow shark on trademe. Appears to actualy be a Cigar shark,Leptobarbus hoevenii, which obviously, is totally different and grows to about 2.5 feet. Anyone that can confirm I have the right ID for it? http://www.trademe.co.nz/structure/auction_detail.asp?id=25083455

What kind of lighting do you have on it? I'd imagine those anemones will need heaps.

Woah, Nice view!

Here's one more.

Cookie, it's not that much of a hassle, you're just screwing it up. Hit the img button just above where you type your post in. Hit the img puts the tag in, paste the address of the pic after the.

I think these have already been posted not long ago, and I'm at work so can't check what I have uploaded or do new ones, but anyway...

You can have mine for $10K!

Yup, it's good.

Because I'm terrified the algae WILL come back. You didn't see it before it all mysteriously disappeared. 6" thick carpet of hair algae covered with an inch thick layer of cyano...I suspect the algae is all just hiding and waiting for a good chance to come back and then it'll take over my whole house!

The thing that pisses me off, there IS algae in the tank on the back glass! Ok, tomorrow I might try pulling half the rocks out of the tank and try to catch him. You available on short notice Tuesday evening, Pies? I've seen heaps of references to feeding lawnmower blennies on the internet but no real specifics and a few cases of them eating just about any kind of food. Wasn't sure what exactly was going on.

What do I feed a LMB? He won't eat any of the green Nori I have...Don't know if it's the right stuff, dried green sheets, was labeled Nori at least. He's getting WAY too skinny and doesn't want to eat any of the algae on the back glass of my tank which is the only place there is any left.

You need to learn to be more of an optimist! Don't think of it as, "I destroyed a whole head of my hammer coral." Think, "For sale: Hammer coral frags! $10 each!"

I've gotta get me a fungia.

Was doing some swapping around of fish, Bridget caught a cory from one tank and put it into her tank full of tetras and other small fish. Then came to help me catch some clown loaches out of the cichlid tankwith the same net. A few seconds after she puts the net into the tank(About 7 cichlids around 7" and up) we hear this tiny little voice screaming in terror heading from the right side of the tank to the left side. We look in and Bridget says, "What is THAT?" Look closer and it's a poor little zebra danio that must have gotten stuck in the net when she dumped the cory into its tank. It was swimming around obviously terrified of the giant monsters it was suddenly surrounded by. Lucky for the zebra danio I caught him and threw him back in his own tank in one piece.

I'm been trying to use the boiling water squirted on them with a turkey baster. Not particularly effective.

Interesting. I'd keep them somewhere and see if you can grow them up, see what they turn into. They almost look like some kind of fry of some eel like fish. The one on the left definitely does. That doesn't fit with the moving like a leech though. They may BE a leech.

Ummm...Well...*Shuffles around* Yeah, it seems to be... :oops: But doesn't a sebae clown seem to go well with a sebae anemone? Even though I'd decided I didn't want a sebae anemone, I misidentified this one and bought it, stupid me.

Peekaboo!

I think he means as in it floats in water.

Then if you're using british gallons(I hate british gallons) it should have been 1 gallon of water=.7 stone.

Only about 2.6% more. So 1433liters of saltwater would be about 37 kilos more. IMO it's close enough to not matter. Water is also a bit mroe tha 8 lbs per gallon, not 10. but for the weight of a tank 10 would be better to include the weight of substrate, rocks, etc.

If I remember right, the requirement is for a MAF vet to inspect the shipment 3 times over the quarantine period. With freshwater fish to stock a tank, or a couple tanks, how many fish are you going to need? Let's just say for simplicity you're wanting about 200 tetras fish averaging $6 retail. That's only $1200 worth of fish to buy retail. Say you get the fish themselves for an average of a buck each, unless you can set up the quarantine for $1000 it's not worth it just to stock your own tanks. Marines, you could easily get 100+ pieces of livestock that would probably average conservatively $75 each retail. That'd be about $7500 total, Probably cost in the range of $25 each or less for you to buy them to import. Leaves $5K to set up a quarantine facility. Makes MUCH more sense when you're talking those kind of prices. Now, if you're doing it for reasons other than just financial, that changes everything. Uhhh...What was my point? Did I have a point?

I haven't gotten around to changing any of the fish's timers yet. heeheh...

Ok, I'll agree with that.

Awww, an hour, that's so sad...The nearest here which only has a few bits of livestock is about 45 minutes. To get to somewhere with any real marines is about...What? 8 hour drive?