KrazyGeoff

I recall reading somewhere that the female will actually Cary their eggs round with them if necessary, something particular to the pandas. There is a hollow faux rock, that has been used before by Kribs etc, and that's where they would have been. Now I have to check the filter tomorrow, given that they are playing around the filter inlet.

Isn't Mother Nature cool. Get a few panda cories, chuck them in the community tank with some loaches, GBA, gold nugget, samiese algae eater, and 20 various tetra's. Keep them at 26-27 degrees. Have a really good water maintenance routine. Wait a few months, and hey presto, I just saw a couple of <1cm panda cories. Awesome!

Maybe if it was smaller, or if it didn't know what a belt was for...... Either way, I was thinking "we'll done Sam".......

:cophot: :gpo2: :iag: Gotta have fun at work.........

Good one Sam. Although it looks like 2 wigglers and their reflections. Makes me want to ask if they are GBA's :bggrn: :rolfl:

Most fish don't have a filter going when they get transported from overseas etc. Just get a powerhead and set it about 1/3 down the side of the tank. Turn it on hard out and point it to the surface of the tank. As long as the ammonia and NO2 are under control then they should be ok. Cheers

Maybe for picture 1, but for picture 2 & 3 it is a L142. Count the number of dots on the leading edge of the left pectoral fin on pics 1 & 3. These are different fish. The actual fish is the later pics. Reading the sellers comments A bargin for $80.00 It's easy to keep them small/med but quite hard to get them big. Cheers

I wonder if, now I know their name, they will breed faster? Usually works with the ladies, to know their name......

Forgive my ignorance but what is a dub?

That seems a bit elitist. I don't have to be a member of the FB society to see the HFF FB page.

I have to log in to face book to see it???????

KrazyGeoff speaking skills: "he could talk the chocolate off a chocolate fish" .............. Not sure if that would look good on my CV? :dunno:

L270 = chocolate zebra pleco L129 = Colombian Zebra Pleco (although technically as it is scientifically described the L129 is not used) Are actually two different fish, so your vote did count, just not in the right "column". :dunno: Thats why we have plecos though, kind of like the Schrödinger's cat of fishkeeping, is it there or is it not there.

That is not the kind of whine I was thinking of, but still works :lar: :f77:

Ohhhh I had a good idea, We could set up a support group for the partners of fish keepers, you know, cause they put up with some quirky things eh........

Herein with lies the great conundrum, the million dollar question. Before "TI" (The Internet), people joined clubs to share information, learn, etc. Now that we have the Internet, that seems to be somewhat obsolete. (I know I am making a generalization here, but in this city of a million or so people, there are less than 10 who are members of the AFA) Take any group of people, who hang out with each other. Might be once a week they catch up for a beer, or once a month or something. When they started hanging out they all had something in common, perhaps they went to school together, or perhaps they rode bikes, or motorbikes, or played in a sports team. I know that some folks who ride motorbikes go up to the Puhoi tavern on a Sunday for lunch. They don't necessarily talk about bikes, they don't meet up at a bike shop, but bikes is what they have in common. That's the seed that started their friendship, or comradery. So we have fish keeping as the thing we have in common. We may all be nice people even. It used to be that if you needed help with something you ask at the meeting, or ring someone from the club etc. Now all you need to do is post on the forum, sorted. I don't see the point in having a meeting for having a meetings sake! That didn't seem to work last time. Really I personally think that the club needs to have a purpose, a value proposition, some reason to join. Something that you can't get from posting on a forum or talking to your LFS. What that is, I'm not too sure yet. So at the moment, I think we need to gather up a few people and then just figure out what it is we want to do. I mean anything that gets me out of the fish room is a good thing :bggrn: I looked up your location calculator, and figured that a summer day having fish and chips on the beach at Maraetai could be an outing? It's been way too long since I've been out that way. I'm sure some of you have kids, and Wok and I bake, so we could have a stall at a school gala, or take some home baking to an old folks home. We could have "east vs. west" go cart racing, go to the movies, arrange a super discount night at a LFS, have an aqua scape competition. We could even talk about fish..... Just a thought. Anyone wants to discuss it more, in person, could come along to a meeting. Cheers

I have seen pictures from the states of the blue eyed ones. Well to be more correct I have seen fish that were labelled and sold as blue eyed. If you want my opinion they look just like what we call GBA, which by the way seems to be a NZ possibly AUS common name. I think that some slick marketing person took the "B" from GBA, and said well that really dark, black like colour, which I am going to call really really really dark blue (so dark in fact that 99.99999999% of the population will call it black), but I'll call it blue, and hey presto a new variety of fish. This fish, in the URL below, has blue eyes (you need to copy the bits between the URL tags as the quotes in the address are mucking up the linking feature) http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/ima ... ge_id=8264 Just my opinion, but if I was being sold a fish that was being marketed as having blue eyes, then I would want it to have BLUE eyes Cheers

I'm not sure Wok makes the kind of cake you eat in the car park of a bad food restaurant. But hey, you give Sam $20.00 and Wok gives you a slice of cake. I'm thinking we could wander the 4 corners of Auckland north, south, west, east picking up members like the pied piper. So if this meeting is more to the south, so be it. Everywhere is a long way for someone........

LA, you are not supposed to say that out loud Hope no one is listening :cry1:

Another Four Aquarium keepers?

But we did have fresh cake and made the important decisions in about 4 minutes. Exactly. :dnc1: :dnc1: :dnc1: And we have some good fundraising ideas: like a raffle, Limited $10.00 tickets, win a hypancistrus zebra.

JBL, mmmmmmmm

The bottle says "will remove x parts of ....... Per y litres of water ...." Where x is a number, which most people can't measure, and y is the volume of water being de x'd So if you are doing a 50% wc on a 200l tank then you are de x'ing 100 litres of water The instructions do not mention anything about removing x/2 parts if using with 2*y the volume. Even though logically they imply this by just using 2* the amount of product if you have 2* the amount of water. As a manufacturer it makes sense to both have the user use more product by doubling the amount of product used (in the example of a 50% wc above), but also it may protect the manufacturer from some liability claims if only using 1/2 the recommended amount. (Isn't it an American product?) At the end of the day it really is as simple as this: Some people read instructions and follow them (no comment on whether or not those instructions make logical sense) Some people read instructions and don't follow them, Some people don't read instructions. Just my 2 cents....

If you are changing 160 litres per change and have the capacity to treat the 160 litres before you put it in your tank, then you only need to treat the 160 litres. If you are putting the new water directly into your tank then you need to treat the whole 320 litres. The reason for this is that the prime is diluted to the total volume of the body of water, and then takes effect. It is virtually impossible to overdose with prime. Just use 10 ml directly into your tank and you will be fine. Note my bottle (250 ml) has a 5 ml cap. There are other topics here discussing whether or not the things it removes are in the NZ water treatment systems, so there is some personal preference about water conditioners. Cheers.

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