David R

Sell your road bike and buy something with knobbly tyres so you can get out and explore places like Whitford and Maraetai forests, plenty of ponds and streams to poke around in out there...

And by the same logic many things will not go ip. Price-point items that are $9.99, $49.99, $99.99 etc aren't suddently going to go up to $102.12.... I'm happy, means I have more money to pay off our mortgage. And if one more moron moans about how it "favours the rich" then I'm going to slap them. Yes a person earning $120k is going to benefit more from a tax cut than someone earning $35k, thats how percentages work. Now go calculate how much tax the "rich" person pays after the tax cut in actual dollars and compare it to what the person earning $35k pays.....

Unless you're using second hand (and wet) gravel from another tank its not going to introduce any diseases. Yes sand or gravel requires a little more work than bare bottom, but if your filtration is set up right it shouldn't cause any problems unless you're lazy when it comes to maintanence. And I'd like to know the meaning of life. I don't think anyone really knows for sure, although there are a lot of theories floating around I doubt if there have ever been any proper scientific studies done. My theory is that its mostly to do with genetics and is/can be aggravated by environmental factors. Silvers are the most prone to DE by far, and are also the most heavily captive bred aro and have probably been bred rather unscrupulously because there haven't been any efforts to improve colour [as there is with asians], and also because in a pond environment the drop eye would be minimised. I believe that silvers are more genetically predisposed to it than other aros, and that factors like bright lights above the tank, poor diet, and high tanks can and will make it worse. There is a guy on MFK who has experimented with putting his large silvers in a pond over summer and IIRC he found that the DE improved after the time in the pond. If you compare their natural habitat with an aquarium its not hard to see why, they spend a large part of the year cruising through a flooded forrest with filtered light scanning the branches above the water for food.

Yeah I'll try just about anything land-based, but for some reason when it comes to seafood I'm not that keen. I love fresh fish [snapper, tarakihi etc] and scallops and calamari, but thats about it. Don't like salmon, don't like sashimi or anything raw (apart from the stuff in coconut cream)...

Yeah Henward told me about them, I'm never ordering anything with fish in it at Yum Char...... :-?

Jeez you've nearly got it eating pellets, don't go and spoil it now!!! :lol:

Shop is at the end of the South Eastern Highway on Ti Rakau drive. And yeah I guess they're eatable, as Henward said, Asians will eat anything....

Yeah Tai Ping. Great for cheap fruit and vege, and a good range of noodles, sauces and spices. Usually I'd walk past their butchery/seafood while holding my breath trying not to vomit, but the bright orange fish stood out...

Didn't sound like a question to me, I was under the impression you already had the tank... Agree with Henward, shorter and wider would be better, but if you can do 2.4 long and 80cm wide then thats even better!! Al I love the violet fusions, anything with blue in it would do...

Yes and no, depends completely on the other dimensions....

Yeah, was going to get back to you about that. Shy fish + lots of caves + my crap photography = fail....

They also had "goldfish" next to them, you can see one in the bottom left of the pic, they didn't look like actual goldfish, more like another invasive species that I've seen on a poster but can't remember the name...

Spotted at the local asian supermarket... :-?

Have you actually got it, or are you still setting it up? :-?

You'd better hurry up with that 6' tank, I don't know how long 2 jasgs, 3 texas and a GT are going to co-exist in my tank!!! :lol: Need to thin the festae out a bit too, should have a female for ya...

Have they completely closed the aquarium part?? I was there a few years ago and it said "under renovation" and I haven't been back since. Sucks if they have, Auckland needs a decent public aquarium...

Shape is more important than total litres with arowana, 60cm wide is ok, but it won't last for ever. You'll have to look at something 75cm+ wide eventually. *edit* just saw your post in the other thread, is it 70cm wide or 60cm? :-?

Haven't seen many big ones around unfortunately, other than the big pair that was on trademe a while ago which sold for a pretty cheap price. I've got a single male, he's a real pig and catches all the crumbs from the aro chewing up food sticks, so he should grow quickly. Duncan7 has a few, maybe he'll get around to checking this one day...

If your dad is going to frame up the wall then surely you guys can work out the stand! They aren't that hard if you can cut and measure accurately. The ambient air temperature will be similar to the tanks if its well insulated (you felt how warm my room was!) although if it drops it will take a while to warm back up if the tanks are the only heat source. Having a fan heater on a thermostat set a couple of degrees higher than what you want your tanks will mean the heaters only run when you add cold water. You could probably do away with heaters in small tanks, but IMO its not worth it. What are you going to do for filtration?

The room in the garage sounds good, less building and it will also have power. I'd insulate it with poly (cheaper and cleaner than batts), and line it with coreflute which will also help with the insulation. 1.7M isn't very wide though, but I guess it depends how wide your biggest tank is. You could have a bank of tanks up to 600mm wide on one side and still have a reasonable amount of room to work, but if they were narrower it would be better. Fish rooms are great, its so good not having to worry about the carpet when doing water changes!! :lol:

oops :oops: maybe next time he'll proof-read his post and add in a bit of punctuation so its easier to read...

Its a little late for that now! :oops: Scam baiting is a fairly popular "sport" and I'm yet to hear of any Nigerian scammers who are also expert hackers who manage to steal your bank details with spyware. I think if they had that kind of technology they wouldn't build websites posing as tropical fish exporters or write big stories about being royalty looking to escape the country with their fathers fortune... A friend just made a good point, if they're going for credibility, why on earth do they say they are from Nigeria??? :lol:

Wonder if he'll buy it, or if he'll figure out he's wasting his time...

Actually its not, thats a pretty good starting price for a red aro (well one thats actually red, as evil_elmo said the lower grade ones are usually orange or pink), you better be sitting down if/when King gets back to you with a price for the VIP..... Bang-for-buck colour you can't go past a basic RTG. Look at Henwards, yeah the colour doesn't go all the way to the top row of scales, but its still a really nice looking fish for $1.5-2k-ish. If your budget doesn't stretch that far then your best choice would be jardini if you're wanting a solo fish, or black if you want tankmates with it.

Only if you don't already have another tank up and running though. I haven't cycled a tank from scratch for years...