David R

I didn't watch it but have seen highlights, and amazing as it all was I couldn't help but wonder if that $60bn could have been spend on other things like helping the huge number of people living in poverty in China. Oh well, they impressed the round-eyes, never mind the smog, or Tibet. :lol:

Here's one of my males, the humps are bigger now.

How about Winston, he seems to be good at getting donations! :lol: :lol: :lol: If the Jardini (and tank) still needs a home I could try talking very nicely to the Mrs....

Me too, they might finally come down to a reasonable price!!

they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...

The impression I got is that the finance company wants their money now but the bank won't lend them money until the council approves their subdivision, so unless someone can make a large six-figure donation then they're snookered. Is that correct Mark? BTW I wasn't suggesting you needed a new kidney Mark, I was wondering what I'd get for one on TradeMe... :lol: I would offer to help house some fish, but we'll probably be moving house [again!] very shortly, so I'll wait until then.

South American killis??? :-? Keyholes, rams, or a few different apisto's would be the best occupants for a planted tank. Geophagus all like to dig, so don't usually get on too well in heavily planted tanks. BTW you do know that lush planted tanks aren't really "South American" eh? I bet someone is going to point out some corner of the Amazon system that does have dense plants just to prove me wrong....

Sorry to hear it Mark. If there's anything we can do to help (short of selling a kidney) let us know. Its a shame I never got to visit

Males will be larger, have longer fins and have a hump on their forehead. I'm guessing you got some off Afrikan? Mine have grown fast and are already obviously sexable. For the sake of keeping the bloodlines healthy and to avoid problems associated with inbreeding etc, I would recommend getting either males/females from different parents rather than breeding brothers with sisters. Firenzenz has some that have recently bred, so you could possibly get some from him. I have a male from Afrikan and a female from Firenzenz that I'm planning on breeding once they get a bit larger. I'm going to be pretty fussy with the fry and will only sell males to the shops so they [hopefully] don't end up being indiscriminately bred like convicts with no attention paid to the size/colour/quality of the parents.

oo yeah, that too! Can't really decide if I like pulp fiction or snatch more, so first equal!!

Rubbish. In Emma Turners article in May PFK magazine she says young clowns will grow at an "amazing rate if given space from the word go". I purchased six clown loaches to grow out in my 5'x2'x2' tank about 7 years ago. In 12 months they had gone from small 1.5-2" little things commonly seen in the LFS to fat healthy 5-6" clowns. That might be slow compared to an arapima or red tailed catfish, but for a clown loach thats good growth. Since then I have sold them to a friend who kept them in a 4'x18x18 tank for about 2 years, then in a 3'x15x15 tank for a year while he was away, and then back into the 4'. I still see them regularly and have hardly grown since the day I sold them. The whole "clown loaches grow very slowly and don't usually get over 6" in captivity" thing is a myth that has risen from improper keeping. If you put 20+ baby clowns in a 6' tank with strong filtration, water slightly acidic and around 28C, fed them a good diet I think they would grow very quickly.

Snatch.

50cm clown loaches?!?!?! :lol: I'm yet to see a pic with a ruler of a clown loach over 30cm. However, clowns need to be kept in groups of three at the BARE MINIMUM, but IMO 5 should be the very least you would want to keep. I have 8 all around 6" and they're fantastic to watch interacting, and I can't wait until my 14 smaller ones are large enough to go in with them! A tank as small as yours could very quickly lead to stunted growth. Most people think clowns grow slowly, but that is only because they aren't given the room to grow. even a 3' long tank can restrict the growth of a small loach as they are active fast swimmers from rivers with strong currents. It won't be in "years to come" that the clowns need rehousing, more like months. What you may not realise is that in the realm of online fish enthusiasts, a 100L tank is tiny to most people. At the end of the day there is more to stocking than just the number/size of fish in the tank. Filtration, feeding, water changes etc all play a role in how many fish you can get away with. Care to post a link to the site you originally posted on?

Tell me more! Both my tanks have blue silicone (I thinks its just part and parcel of keeping clown loaches, its bound to happen some time) and I haven't had any problems yet. But I suppose thats what the Irishman said when his horse died, "ah, its never done that before!" :lol:

I struggle to get it off my skin. The silicone in my tanks seems perminantly stained, and even the driftwood takes a while to lose the blue-ish hue. Unless you can soak the carpet in water for a few weeks I don't think there's much hope.

Me too :oops:

I think its the mother. It is in botanical Latin (for plants) and I would expect it to be the same through-out.

Ah, I know the tank, didn't realise your worked there. It was cool when it had the big emperor snapper in it! If ever they decide to sell the loaches PM me! The latin name of the hybrid parrot fish would depend on the parents. If its an inter-generic hybrid (ie the parents are from different genera) then the convention is to have the genus name as a mix of the two, with either the mother or father first (can't quite remember). Eg if it was Heros severus crossed with Amphilophus labiatus, it could be called Herolophus 'Parrot Cichlid'. The origins are a bit of a mystery though, and its not really that important because it is a hybrid.

Eric ,2500L tank, where's the pics!! Parrots are fairly tough and easy from what I've heard. Should be fine with most medium-large size fish. BTW I presume we are talking about the hybrid parrot fish, not the true parrot cichlid Hoplarchus psittacus...

How about some facts instead of a kindergarten-level "yes it is" "no it isn't" round and round argument?

Or you could just buy this; http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... ermanent=0 (This should be allowed right, as the OP is genuinely interested?)

Tanning - http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... hp?t=26657 Jim which species are you referring to?

The List And as Dixon said, importing yourself will be very expensive unless you're friendly with someone with a quarantine facility, don't even bother wasting your time investigating it. Just contact Hollywood or Wonderworld and show them a big wad of the folding stuff...

Pics of the lizard?????????????????

Talk to wondreworld about when the next lot of asian arowanas are being imported, or hollywood fish farm in Auckland. you may need to pay a four-figure deposit, and don't expect the price tag to be under $2k. Have a 5'x2'x2' tank ready, and read the arowana forum on monsterfishkeepers.com about tanning regimes. For the record, there are six different species of arowana; Heterotis niloticus, the African Arowana Scleropages formosus, the Asian Arowana Scleropages jardini, Australian Arowana S. leichardti, Australian Arowana Osteoglossum ferreirai, Black Arowana O. bicirrhosum, Silver Arowana Of these, silvers are the only ones commonly available in NZ. Asians are occasionally imported and probably are the next most available. A group of jardini were imported somehow and there are a few kicking around, but they aren't on the list and can't be legally imported. Blacks used to be available 8+ years ago, but I haven't seen one for sale in about 5 years. To the best of my knowledge, african aro's or leichardti have never been available here.