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Bah, forget it, I'm not going then! (Just kidding!)

Caryl is really a 6 foot tall goth chick with 20 piercings.

Are you sure you don't have a leak or something Warren? I've got three 404s and never had any trouble with them getting air blockages and no more trouble priming them than any of my other filters. Well, the only time I had a problem actually was when I'd swapped the intake and outlets on the piece that mounts on the back of the tank. The outlet, I think is made a bit differently so it lets air in if they're backwards.

I don't think they'll be that strict if you show up and aren't technically a club member yet.

The standard dose is, I think, 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons. I don't think discus are unusually sensitive to salt so I think you could dose it with 10 tablespoons the first day then if it's not making a noticable difference in 3-4 days dose it with the same amount so you've got 1 tablespoon per 2.5 gallons. In my experience 1 per 5 has been enough whenever I've needed it, so if it's enough in your case there's no point in stressing the fish with 1 per 2.5. Though, I don't think it'd be a significant amount of stress.

Wife(Still up for trade for Shellies) and I will be getting to Napier early Saturday. Thought we'd probably stop by the aquarium? and then head off to where everything else is afterwards. If we have enough time.

I've found the most effective way to get rid of duckweed is to be really slack on the water changes and let your nitrates get up to about 90 ppm. They just kinda shrink until they disappear. Of course, there are disadvantages to this and it does take quite a while. Got yelled at for saying that on another messageboard.

I haven't found any of my cichlids to be what I'd call agressive. Though, none of them have a reputation for it. Well, one of them is kind of agressive, but I think that's more sibling rivalry because he chases the other Geo. Jurupari around and noone else. They all, of course, do the normal, "Go away, my blood worms!" type aggressiveness.

1.5-2grams per liter. Hmmm...That actually seems like a hell of a lot. The last batch of aquarium salt I bought came in about a .5 kilo bag, I think. So at 2 grams per liter that would be almost the whole bag going into a 200 liter tank. My 400 that would be a little over a bag and a half. I'd think that would be FAR too salty for anything but a brackish water fish. Although, maybe the bag I'm thinking of was a lot more than half a kilo. I think the recommended max dose for treatment purposes is about 1 tablespoon per 10-15 liters...I'd go and weigh a tablespoon of salt, but I'm out. Wait, table salt should be close enough...Ok, 20 grams of salt per tablespoon, so that'd be about 10 liters at your rate and a little less than the max I just mentioned. Never mind me, guess the bags of salt are a lot bigger than half a kilo.

Vets in general are even more clueless about fish than they are about birds. If it doesn't have 4 legs you're usually better off researching yourself than trying to ask a vet what to do.

If you could get some good pictures of fish with the most common diseases, that'd be good.

Don't look at me, I haven't been anywhere near any Hawera teenagers.

They'd just look like normal fish when the lights are on. So no uglier than the natural strain.

The way I see it, if the end result isn't cruel, then fine. I don't consider a glow in the dark fish to be cruel. Only disadvantage to the fish I can think of is it would need to eat more. Well...And maybe worse night vision if its eyes are glowing. It's not even really anything new, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of bioluminescent saltwater fish.

I disagree, I don't feel there is a difference. One is just quicker and more direct than the other.

I've never thought of guppies, bettas, etc as being unethical. But they're basically the same thing. Only difference is that the guppies and bettas have been significantly modified through breeding while those fish only produce a tiny amount of an extra protein.

Of course not, we're taking her car and I'm not allowed to drive it! If she knew she definitely wouldn't drive. (More fun taking a turbocharged car on a long drive.

My fish already beg for food when it gets close to dinner time, so they're halfway there.

Not sure where or how much, or even what species. But I'll take a dozen. Especially if the bioluminescence is inherited by the fry. Here's the EXTREMELY short article... http://www.wired.com/news/photo/0,1860,46678,00.html

Hahaha. I bet that guy plugs his power strips into themselves too.

Could try pulling it off with your fingers. In my limited experience with algae on plants, once the algae has grown on the leaves, they're a loss. Even if you do get the algae off the leaves underneath are transparent and dying.

For sale at auction in Napier: 1 Female homo sapiens, answers to the name Bridget. Willing to trade for a dozen Neolamprologous ocellatus.

I've learned that either I'm totally wrong about a lot of things(Ok, I don't know everything, But I think I've got the basics down) or there are a bunch of people on other message boards that are totally and completely insane. I think that is quite a good thing to learn. How people can get their ammonia levels up to 6PPM without killing all their fish and then say that they can't change the water because it'll slow down the cycle...I'll never understand. The few times I've had ammonia levels get too high fish started dying at 1ppm and 1.5-2ppm the survivors were bleeding with their fins burned off...Then there are the "Don't change more than 15% of the water per month or you'll kill your fish..."

I'd think you'd be ok feeding dog roll as part of the fish's diet. Make sure it's one of the good brands though. There are some that are really crap...Like the one that killed a lion at the wellington zoo.(I think it was the wellington zoo) I think the best is supposed to be...Ummm...Well, I was going to look in the fridge but the dog roll is all chopped up. Pedigree premium? Comes in blue, gold and silver rolls.

This particular crispy critter was a glass bloodfin. My killies are all happy and alive...Well, they would be if I hadn't put them on a diet, they've all got enormous bellies. Fat little fishies.