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Ohhh awesome! Chicken people! haha My Rooster's name is "Esos" which stands for Evil Spawn of Satan. Because the first night I got him he crowed literally all night and kept everyone awake. I currently have 2 week old Araucana chicks in my garage that I hatched. And I have Ancona, White Leghorn, Barred Rock, Silver Laced Wyandottes, Rhode Island Red, Light Sussex and Barnevelders currently in the incubator

Why can't I see a face? I guess it kinda looks like a macro photo of a fly's face.... :-?

Do what I do! (note: you will need an incubator for this) and possibly lots more time than 3 weeks, but that is sufficient time to hatch the eggs. You go on trademe and buy eggs from heritage breeds of chooks... at like $30.00 a dozen and then you hatch them out and sell them for $30 a hen (less for a rooster) but, 6 hens = $180 and then what you get for the roosters usually covers the eggs, postage, power and food until they are old enough. This done on a large scale = $$$ =) it's all I could contribute...

hahahaha good stuff

Bird auctions are fun :bounce: I went to the South Auckland Huge annual auction a month or so back! Very exciting and if you're into birds hard to control yourself lol And birds are like fish (and in this case, pringles)... once you pop you can't stop.

yup all my big girls had different patterns, different colour variations. Nice shrimp.

Call it "a Dog" So you can ask people "Have you seen a Dog?" and they'll be like "No, but I've seen your cat..." and be like "yeah, that's a dog" and then people will be like "That's a nice cat.. what's it's name?" you can say "it's a dog..." Hours of fun :bounce:

Get red ramhorns... they're much smaller though. Lighter on plants

That's really sad to hear. I love doves but my cats would annihilate all of them within an hour if I bought some.

Pantodon buchholzi !! :bounce:

Possibly a blackspot barb?

I think you're talking about Denisonii or Red-Line Torpedo Barb's (google images). I hope you have deep pockets as they generally cost close to $50 each depending where you get them from and need to be schools of atleast four. We have them, they're awesome fish.

You can get all sorts of live insects here; http://www.ak.planet.gen.nz/~bio/

Awesome tank! But what would you do for an hour a day.......

ohhhhh! Thanks! haha yeah they are nice... can't believe how fast the friggin thing grows! Co2 probably doesn't help!

Hey all! So this random plant was a tiny speck when I found it floating around the tank and decided to plant it... Low and behold it's taking over... I quite like it, and will be moving it to more of a centre position when I change everything around in that tank on the weekend though I have no idea what it is! Have some pics... Anyone know what it is ???

That's the one!! WOOHOO Thanks!

Hullo Well I don't have a picture to ID but I can't remember the name of a finch that pop up every so often in pet stores. The male is Black with a greeny sheen. Female looks more like a hedge sparrow. Discribed as "Tui like" Think the name starts with a J Any ideas?? Thanks! :bounce:

They could breed. If they all weren't sterile.

Just catch them when they land with your fishtank nets and feed them to your fish? My fish love them lol

They all look like excellent food for my Butterfly Fish. 8)

Bigger the numbers the more active I have found them to be. I have 6 and I often see them out and about. :bounce:

Water boatmen and Back swimmers are completely different. However, they are both in the Hemiptera order of insects which has around 80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, stink bugs (the ones the STINK when you're doing your gardening) and other certain beetles. There are over 500 known species of water boatmen in the world. Over 90% of these are herbivores! I realise you got your information from here; http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/W/Water-boatman/Water-boatman/en But I still dissagree with this! haha call me stubborn but I'm yet to see NZ water boatmen eat anything more than plant matter! Just my two cents worth. Cheers.

Interesting. Never heard of this before.

:roll: Water Boatmen of New Zealand are non-predatory, dining on aquatic plants and algae instead of insects and vertebrates. They use their straw-like mouthparts to inject saliva into plants. The saliva digests the plant material, allowing the water boatman to suck the liquefied food back through their mouthparts and into their digestive tract. A few species of water boatmen are predatory, but the majority are herbivorous. New Zealand ones however, are not predatory. Damselfly nymphs are carnivorous, feeding on daphnia, mosquito larvae, and various other small aquatic organisms but usually not fish.