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I Love paradise fish! :bounce: My one is only about 3cm-ish and hes a boy, he's getting quite long fins and a fantastic blue with bright orange stripes. Can't wait to he's bigger as hes much nicer than the full grown ones in my LFS already. All the best with them outside

It's only illegal if we get caught haha just joking...

o0o0o I want a salmon! :bounce:

well that sucks... I don't understand that.... They're not even native or anything! stupid fish. lol

Hey all Does anyone know the legality around keeping trout ? I've tried google but it just came up with minimum lengths for taking them home and eating them. And I'm gonna be slightly ticked off if keeping them has more restrictions than natives! But I think they will as they're "game fish" ppit.

Ohhhhhh I want some for my outdoor lil rock pool thingie!! I never thought about them outside just got annoyed I can't keep them with my Goldfish. And my LFS always has heaps in stock o0o :bounce: exciting :lol:

Stella is the expert in this field. During day I always use my hands for koura but another way is to place a net just down stream and disturb all the rocks etc and often the koura just flick backwards into the net. Or chase them round the rocks with a net 8) works good too. OR, get a piece of meat and tie it onto the end of a string and when the crayfish comes out of hiding they clamp down and u can pull them right onto land! usually I use this method for deeper water where I can't quite get in.

Yeah ive caught them in kune too. Pity I don't live there anymore otherwise I could show you all the spots up there. The Makara River and the Makotuku River are excellent if you can find them on the map. Do you know where the Ruatiti Domain is??? Theres plenty there and it makes an excellent day out/picnic. :bounce:

Legal to catch and keep. Illegal to sell or put back in the wild. Hope that helps.

also, you can often buy some daphnia on trademe, which will be enough to start a culture :bounce:

Drive up to Raetihi...less than an hour away up the parapara's. the streams up there are full of them. Thats where I grew up. :bounce:

:bounce: Sounds like a plan! I want some too! 8)

most fish fry benefit from algae or is it just those cichlids??

link doesn't work... wonder what I did wrong... I copy and pasted it ?? http://bear4luvn.stumbleupon.com/tag/cichlids/

Hey everyone~ :bounce: Don't know much about em' but just curious what the Cichlid in the top of this site is?? the one with the red fins??? http://www.bear4luvn.stumbleupon.com/tag/cichlids Many thanks!

All these fish have been listed in the private trade and exchange bit of the website!! if your interested please check that out and get back to me. cheers.

thanks for that guess its lucky we're getting rid of them all then huh ?

Thanks! :bounce:

Thanks! will do! and i'll keep that in mind as we probably wont be keeping them :-?

hmmm not too sure at this stage as we pick the tank up saturday.

ohk the fish are redstriped earth eater pearl cichlid 5 x red tail cigar sharks 4 long fin apollo sharks red tail shark angel fish talking catfish spotted catfish black ghost knife fish 4 x plecos and 2 clown loaches.

Theres 5! lol

hmm its alright. smaller than mine. think its about 300L. it came with heaps of other species.

Hey team! My flatmate got a new tank! o_0 exciting! :bounce: My tank is coldwater and he has limited knowledge about tropicals too so we don't know much about these species and I'm having trouble finding them in wiki so if you guys know if these fish have other names or if you know their latin names and any info at all really would be a huge help! Red Tail Cigar Shark Long Fin Apollo Shark Spotted Catfish All the others I know about. Great! thanks!

I saw a huge dolomedes when i was fishing for shrimps... (I hate spiders. FYI.) Scary thing, covered in tiny air bubbles and it kinda looked silver so I was like OHHH SHINY.. what is it?!? *poke* then it moved.... not so pretty anymore. THEN I screamed like a girl and ran off. :oops: