David R

I was at Wonderworld on Sunday, and they had a heap of marines, including about 4 young emperor snapper. Does anyone have any experience keeping them? I know they get huge (I remember the big one at Jansens in Botany, anyone know what happened to it?) but what I want to know is how fast? I could comfortably house it up to around 20-24", but I'd want to be settled in my own house before committing to an even bigger tank. Its just a crazy pipe dream really, but they're amazing looking fish!! :lol:

Most race cars have brake bias adjustment (including the BTCC Accord I mentioned earlier). I'm talking about the new V8 commodore ss thingys (no idea what model, I generally loathe them (the new road going ones, not the race cars or classics, probably more to do with the kind of people that drive them)) that have got huge aftermarket rotors and callipers on the front, and equally large ones on the back. I've never seen a proper race/performance* car with brakes of equal size front and rear, so was wondering if it is to do with towing heavy objects, or simply a penis-extension. I guess if utes have a bias towards the rear then its feasible the big brakes on the back could be for towing or carrying heavy loads, but I'm not sure if its necessary or just cos it looks cool... * by "proper race/performance car" I mean one that has been built by someone for motorsport or performance purposes (as yours has been), not just some rich guy who ticked the 'brake upgrade' box at the dealership because his neighbours ones got the big brakes and he didn't want to be left behind.

After having a $6000+ new greenhouse roof almost-ruined (leaking like a sieve anyway) in a matter of weeks because of roaming cats dancing on it I agree with Alan. Roaming cats are vermin, plain and simple. And who ever said you could say the same about people is alro right, roaming teenagers are just as annoying...

Thanks, its been 3 years since I left Carters, I knew it was one way or the other... :lol:

Do you still have a job? :lol:

Yeah I understand that, but on the track the vast majority of the braking is done by the front brakes. A friends dad owns an ex-BTCC Accord, it runs 19" rims because anything smaller won't fit over the front brakes, the rotors are huge and it runs TWO AP 4-pot calipers per side on the front, but the rear brakes hardly look bigger than stock. I realise that on a road car you want it a bit more balanced so the rear end isn't so twitchy under brakes, but the huge 6-pots or whatever they are that are the same size as the fronts just seem excessive. What I was asking is why the rears are the same size as the fronts. I thought it might have had something to do with towing boats... :lol:

Thats awesome, its great to see people thinking long-term about the preservation of species here, if only people would do the same with tortoises!! I'd love a reeves, I didn't realise they stayed small until recently, so might have to look at setting up a tank for one or two of them.

Are they aftermarket Wilwoods, or are those big HSV callipers that you see on every flash commodore, like a factory option/upgrade thing? The reason I ask is because I've always wondered why they bother putting such huge callipers on the back as well as on the front? Sorry for the sidetrack, but its bugged me for years... BTW a friends civic has wilwood 4-pots and 310mm 2-piece wilwood rotors, its stripped out and probably weighs close to half what your commy does. I've been around Ruapuna a few times in it and it stops on a dime. Its still got the stock LXi drum brakes on the back too!

Simple. Get rid of snowball. I doubt it will get much better, cats aren't really um, schooling animals. :lol:

how deep is your tank? I had silica sand in a 3'x18"x18" tank with cichlids and I had to move the intakes for the canisters to just below the surface to avoid sucking the sand up when it got stirred up. Another option would be to put a fine sponge over the intake of the filter, but this might reduce the flow.

There's a big difference between selected hybrids that were created for a reason and are an 'improvement' on nature (like the dragon bloods, flowerhorns etc) and just random/unplanned hybridisation by careless or clueless fishkeepers. I don't have a problem with hybrids being created intentionally and sold as hybrids, but random crosses that just dilute pure species and create confusion with names are a problem and should be avoided. IMO of course.

Ring the tenancy tribunal first thing tomorrow, it should have been sorted long ago. Did you move into another rental? If so did you pay the bond on that with cash, or get it transferred?

Downsides are its very fine and easily stirred up, and all the crap sits on top of it so its impossible to keep looking clean. Make sure your filter intakes are 40cm+ above the substrate so they don't suck in stirred up sand.

Yep, but a good business plan could be hard to produce if the numbers don't stack up. I was talking to someone in the industry about new laws for quarantine. If over 25% of the shipment die then they are allowed to take one of the fish, euthanise it, dissect it to try to find the cause and check for other health problems, and then send you a bill of around $800 for lab fees. Imagine if you'd just imported 10 asian arowanas, that plus payments on a $40k loan plus all the other associated costs would have you one a run away train heading for bankruptcy. Don't get me wrong, more power to ya for trying Charlie. All I'd suggest is that you don't quit your day job/school. As others have said, if you want to make money there's a million better ways to do it than by importing fish. If you can meet the loan payments with income from the fish room and stay in the black then you'll be doing well, but IMO you'd be crazy to rely on it to put food on your table...

Especially for something that is very borderline on being viable as a business....

If my limited knowledge of genetics is correct (and applies to turtles, I know its true for plants), crossing two pure species together will generally yield fairly consistent looking young. But crossing two of the hybrids together will result in varied and unpredictable offspring with some looking like more parent than another (in both directions) and just about anything in between. This is why all hybrid plants like roses or camellias are grown from cuttings (or "cloned") because if you pollinated two hybrids the seeds would produce a huge assortment of random flowers. I can't see why the same wouldn't be true for animals, but I'm not a geneticist so I might be way off. :lol:

Given how cheap sand is from a building or landscaping supplies place I certainly wouldn't be willing to risk it. Could cost a lot if something wiped out all your fish, not to mention a fine from DOC...

The colours on them are amazing, you can't beat the sun for lighting, no tank raised fish would have colouration that good.

Hot house; in the auction you say "Don't miss out on being the first to set up a breeding colony of these. A successful purchase will have first dibs on any males produced this season." Is it really a good idea to be breeding these hybrids with other hybrids? I understand what you're trying to do by breeding the cooter hybrid back to the pure cooter to breed out the red-ear. But if you took two cooter/red-ear hybrids and bred them together their offspring would probably be a very random mix of the two original species. IMO the best thing to do would be to sell the female hybrids and only females. keep the males purely for breeding purposes so you can get close to producing a pure cooter, rather than letting people who don't know much about genetics breed two hybrids together thinking that the young will look like their parents. Not challenging you or trying to start an argument, just sharing my thoughts.

There's a couple of threads in the Arowana forum on MonsterFishKeepers that I thought people here would be interested to see. Posted by a guy who works for an arowana farm in Singapore. Harvesting Red Arowana Harvesting HBRTG You don't need to register to see the pics. Teaser:

If its that well sealed I don't think it matters what kind of treatment the timber has. Polypannel sounds like the way to go.

It could only be a few weeks before the convict parents start breeding again and push last lot of fry away. If you remove the babies it'll probably just encourage the parents to breed again.

I'd use H3.1 treated timber (usually used for outdoor stuff like decks) to be on the safe side. I wouldn't use kiln dried LOSP treated (H1.2 or H3.2) timber for in a damp humid environment like a fish room.

Why not go with a steel building from someone like kiwispan if its going to be a fishroom? Timber + humidity isn't a great combination. Insulate it with thick batts, then gib aqualine or treated ply, and then put poly over that to keep as much warmth in as possible.

Shouldnt you be more into biology than physics then?