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If you're wanting something healthy and low maintenance you shouldn't have gotten goldfish. They're messy and dirty, they're deformed, mutant products of thousands of years of inbreeding. They're always getting diseases and illnesses. Tropicals are usually much cleaner, much healthier, much lower maintenance. My tank the only thing I need to do, over the last few years, was water changes and occasionally cleaning the filter. And don't put them in a tiny little tank like a 30L. Bigger tank->less maintenance->Healthier fish->Lower maintenance.

What car is it? I wouldn't be surprised if it can be switched to english and there may be instructions floating around on the net somewhere. You could try looking for a button that says "の言語" which is "Language", may be under a menu named "のセットアップ" which is "Setup" I'm just plugging stuff into google translations, I have no idea if the they're the right results though.

If you want an exact species, good luck. You'll have to start counting rays on fins and find out where they were collected But if you want a "Common name" This would probably be sold as a common pleco. This would probably be sold as a redspot.

Trying to make them look like this...

*Turns head 90°* *Looks 2 feet away* Yup, Goldspot.

There are native ones. There was a thread about them a while ago. http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=48787&hilit=triops http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=18405&hilit=triops

Yep, no guarantees on the quality on that one, but if you can get it cheap it should work as a starter.

You could go with something like this, Parkzone cub on trademe at $250. http://images.trademe.co.nz/photoserver/26/130252426_full.jpg They have a good reputation for being pretty forgiving and you can fly it pretty much anywhere that's not windy. Also doesn't hurt anyone if you hit them.

You can't even get a mid grade transmitter for that cheap. Buying stuff locally it's easy to spend $100 on a small electric motor, another $100 for a speed controller, $50-100 for a battery, $50 for receiver, $120 for 4 servos etc. All those components are reusable and good quality. If you're getting an entire setup for $200 the parts are probably cheap and unreusable. You crash the plane you throw everything away. You can get reasonable quality but a bit of a gamble parts from Hobby City in Taiwan, but it's about $30+ for shipping. My first electric after what I used as a trainer cost me about $600 just for the electrics, the airframe was secondhand. I think I got maybe 10 flights out of it before the elevator servo came loose and it lawndarted. :facepalm: Most public parks you can, some they're banned. Don't be a moron and you should be ok. Don't fly when there are people around, especially when you don't even know how to fly.

That's a very cheap price. What are you getting for that and from where?

Or in the case of my last crash, Watch out for the inside of prison fences...

You realize, I hope, that those are far from a beginner plane, right? Most noobs buy a plane totally inappropriate for a beginner, think "OMG, I have this awesome plane this is going to be so cool!" Crash the plane after about a 2 second flight, demolish it and then give up. I've been flying for about 7 years and I'd be a bit unconfident about flying those. Go to http://www.modelfly.org.nz, click on the clubs link on the left hand side and find a club near you. See if you can get someone at the club to give the plane its maiden flight. At least then they maybe can get the plane trimmed out and help you fly it. That way you'll hopefully at least not be fighting a plane that doesn't even fly straight while trying to learn how to fly.

Whrere drid yrou bruy irt from? I'd have it blowing in, otherwise you're sucking damp air through the fan which can corrode it.

Yes you can. Just click the link.

Ordered a cheap scope and mount from the US, even after $40nz shipping it's $220nz less than here.

It's not a lack of having calibrated it. It's the setting drifting over time. Sure you can recalibrate it occasionally, but that's still adjusting it. I've found mine seem to stay roughly the same until right towards the end when they die. Not really surprising, you get little fatigue fractures in the bimetallic strip, maybe corrosion etc throwing it off a little over time.

Are those ones heirless because they're sterile or have they just not given birth to an heir yet?

A lot do. Also BARF diets, organic diets, etc. Most fishkeepers don't. They just buy the cheapest flake off the shelf. Most of the remainder buy whatever's made by a company with a good reputation. People on an enthusiast messageboard will tend to select for people who are more enthusiastic about a hobby. The vast majority of people with fish don't even know there are fish MBs and the extent of their knowledge is "Feed them and change the water or something."

Nope.

The d#$* gravel they dumped on the wet pavement is worse than the little bit of slush. :an!gry

I suspect the light from them will be very monochromatic, but worth a try I suppose. Are you sure the ones you're looking at from Ebay will work with 220V? If not you'll have to pay more for a transformer. If they don't work and they are 220v at least you can throw them on your house and use them for what they're intended.

I survived snowpocalypse 2011. :thup:

Yeah, Bunnings/Mitre10 all should have it.

That means I should have...About 40 stars.

There's a lot of things that work, of hugely varying complexity and cost. But most people believe that if two things work then the more expensive, complicated one must be the better one.