David R

I agree with Stella and Repto, its not ideal but until someone comes up with something better then its best to use the 1080 and keep the possum population under control. They have been using cyanide in the pine forest where I go mountain biking 2-3 times a week and I'm amazed at the number of dead possums there are...

Nice looking fish Luke! Price seems reasonable too considering they're new and not exactly easy to breed. Simian I'm not really sure why you would want to cross them back with normal rams, other than to undo all the selective breeding someone has put a lot of effort into. If anything people who breed these should be selective about the fry they sell, making sure they are as good (or better) than their parents.

No offense to anyone who works at animates, but IMO buying anything from there is a last resort. I don't even care if they're cheaper, I'd rather support smaller stores like Hollywood who stock a decent selection of fish (catering for the enthusiast rather than just the easy bucks selling community tanks/fish to newbies) and actually have staff who know a bit about what they're supposed to be selling. In these tough economic times I'd encourage others to do the same, don't make price the sole factor in deciding who gets your dollar, support those who support the hobby (not the big chain stores or dodgy trademe parallel importers).

Don't even start on the whole "true green terror" debate!!! They actually come in as Aequidens rivulatus, the common name is irrelevant. In reality they are probably just Aequidens Sp., the true A. rivulatus is a similar looking fish, grows a bit smaller and isn't quite as colourful IIRC, but even that is up for depate as there are two different descriptions for the species A. rivulatus from two different locations. It never ceases to amaze me how many people on mFK will argue to the death about what is a "true green terror" when green terror is simply a common name which cam be made up by anyone and applied to anything.

Find a taniwha?

What about tiles? http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... p?t=250971

The 3' tank they were in wasn't big enough to continue growing them out, and I wasn't confident that my big ornate would get on with them having been on his on for so long now, he certainly didn't like my palmas when i first got him and the size difference wasn't anywhere near as much as it would have been with the dels. It would have taken years to get them up to a size where I'd be willing to even try mixing them and I couldn't devote the tank space to it.

I'm not really sure what you're getting at, I know the Cancer Society isn't government funded, what I suggested is that it SHOUL BE government funded because of the essential nature of the service they provide. I'm not really moaning about the amount of tax we pay as I am about the wasteful inefficient way in which it is spent, and the fact that charities like the Cancer Society even need to exist while we have government funded belly dancing courses!

We were just talking about that island [i'm pretty sure] and apparently its a hot spot for gay people... I've been to Rome and down the coast to Sorrento, its a beautiful part of the world and I will return some day to spend much longer there, I even threw a coin in the Trevi fountain to make sure of it...

Mystic that looks more like a variety of P. palmas rather than delhezi, couldn't tell you which one though, I'm sure someone on MFK could though. Nice fish, I wish someone would import some more. Fruju the eels should grow quite quickly on a good diet if there aren't too many other fish to compete with. As with most larger fish a bigger tank will yield faster growth.

Wait til you get out of uni and start earning a decent salary and see how fast your ideas about more taxes change. My partner and I both earn a reasonable salary, and between us contribute around $1200 a fortnight (>$30k p.a!) to the general coffers (and thats just PAYE! Never mind GST, petrol tax, ACC levys, GST on petrol tax and ACC levys, etc), which is a similar amount to the payments on our $425k mortgage. We still have health insurance because of the lousy public system, and Hannah had a close to $50k student loan to get her degree (and she worked part time while studying too!). I simply cannot believe that there is a need for charities as important as cancer research to be out on the street begging for money, and as cruel as it sounds I refuse to give a cent to anyone like that because I feel I am already making a big enough contribution. If they want more money they should be pestering the government to sort its books out, stop wasting money on things like night classes for belly dancing, hip hop tours, the excessive number of paper-pushes in government departments etc. I am convinced that if someone had the guts, brains and public support to tear the current system down and start from scratch NZ could have an efficiently run government providing first class health care, education, infrastructure, and law enforcement without robbing the working public of a cent more (and maybe even being able to give some back). But I agree it would be nice to support causes like this, I just think they're begging to the wrong people...

No I'm dead serious, they really do take that much from every dollar I earn!!!!!!!

You'd be taking a big risk putting a 10cm delhezi with a 20cm ornate. HFF have got 5 small dels and they look good. I used to have four dels but sold them to Henward. They're now in a 1200L tank with an ornate, 2 palmas and an albino, but you won't be able to see pics of them here... ps. if anyone has a normal senegal [not albino] for sale let me know...

I most certainly am, $0.33 for every dollar I earn in fact, and then a further $0.125 cents for every dollar I spend...

Bichirs can survive for a long time if kept damp as they are able to breathe air. Is that what the story is about?

You're better off just skimming the surface using an icecream container, I've found thats the best way to get rid of it from my sumps.

Tente usar o tradutor da língua do Google ... http://www.google.co.nz/language_tools?hl=en

If you hit your kids hard enough to leave any sort of mark or evidence then you deserve to be prosecuted IMO. If you don't then you've got nothing to worry about.... 8)

^ I grew up in Maungatapere and have seen/heard kookaburra out there.

Strange about the red being so aggressive, my greed doesn't like my biggest dat but seems to ignore everything else. Maybe plant his tank up and try him with a school of neons...

HAHAHA!!!! Looks awesome Phil, would look even better with the red in there!I'd love to get my hands on some cheap discus to try with some of my fish, let me know if/when you have any spare fry.

Its over-stocked when the filtration and water change schedule can't keep up with the waste the fish produce. You've only got 6 times turn-over per hour (thats if the canister is working at the optimistic maximum claimed by the manufacturer, whuch it probably isn't) so if you're worried you could add more filtration.

The sinking carnivore would be a good start, probably a bit more palatable than cichlid gold for fussy predators.

And its more of a white-ish colour, not silver? Try to get it eating pellets asap, I've found they can be harder to train than the AT's.

Twice a day when younger. My 13" IT usually has a big feed every 1-3 days (will only eat shrimp) and my smaller one ~7" eats shrimp and massivore 1-2 times a day. Have a look at this chart and tell us which one it is. Will be either an indo or american.