Dougstark

Maybe I am missing something, but I thought that the red chest tends to mean a male in water dragons. Also if they are a similar size and age I would also say both male as females are smaller than males.

I do not know how many were ever released to the market and from what I have heard there seems to be a fertility problem with some of them.

Is there really only two of us breeding these lizards?. I have heard that the coastals are only available in New Zealand and Australia (legally). One I got from you has successfully bred this year.

Is anyone else out there having any success with the breeding of these dragons?

Can feed them by teaspoon (wont risk fingers), can make them jump for food, and they have been known to climb my leg for food (not good when wearing shorts) but as for handling they are not so keen.

I have coastal dragons which I have running free inside an unheated glasshouse with water dragons and reeves turtles year round. I handled them from a young age and regularly hand feed so now they come meet me at feed time. Coastals are easy to handle but the waterdragons are very quick and less keen to be handled, but the female waterdragon is quite happy to climb my leg (not so good in shorts) looking for food. I do not keep inland dragons but I do not think they are suitable for out side.

Good to see. Someone bought up in another post on this site something you may have looked into, and that is the importing of sperm. There was no real response to that, I don't know if you have an answer to that? At the moment I have other priorities otherwise I would be interested in one of the River cooter turtles.

Not exactly fish but certainly unusual. At a guess they are freshwater. Shrimps with a difference.

I believe it is a heated room and since leopard geckos are nocturnal lighting is not so important. This is another facebook site which has some great reptiles. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Geckos-E ... ion=stream

Sorry to those who get stressed out seeing lizards they cant get but I thought these were worth seeing and dreaming, maybe one dayyyyyyyy. Breeder - https://www.facebook.com/PaulKentReptile

I was thinking about a Copperband for my tank because I have plenty of aiptasia and have given up trying to kill it. But after a bit of research have decided against it for now. The copperbands also has a taste for other types of soft corals which I have or hope to get in the future.

Dandelion plant may not be what you are thinking about but my beardies love them and it gives them something to graze on.

Check out this link. Great catch. http://www.care2.com/causes/smuggler-ca ... ecies.html

Wish mine were producing but have had no luck with males. The first one turned out to be female and the second one turned out male but appears to be infertile. Being in an out-of-the-way place makes it more difficult to obtain more.

Tried the Warehouse?

It is a common indoor pot plant available from most nurseries or even as baby house plants.

I had Ich on my Coral beauty angel. No treatment was needed as the cleaner shrimps did their job and cleaned it up.

Rice fish are not Gambusia but I have not seen rice fish around for many years. Just google rice fish and compare them to what you have. If you have Gambuzia then you need to get rid of them before someone comes knocking on your door.

I had a jeweled rock hopper fish in my 150 ltr tank. It did well controling algae on the rocks though it was not very keen on the hairy algae. Unfortunately my tank did not produce enough algae to keep it going and it would only take flake food reluctantly so I swapped it for what I think is called a gold headed gobi, anyway it has a white body yellow head with a blue stripe like indian war paint. It doesnt take the algae off the rocks much but constantly sieves the sand which keeps it clean though you get a bit of debri floating around untill the finest stuff gets filtered out, and it drags the coral sand out from under the rocks and makes mounds but that is easy enough to deal with.

Havent found anything that mates yet. Guess we will have to wait till I can catch one and photograph it.

Blenny shape as said but looked like glass. Smaller one you could see some of the internals but bigger ones almost completely clear. Will have to wait till summer to have another look.

Do you still have a cold marine setup. Maybe I could catch you some, just way too cold for me at the moment :tears:

I could try but would have to wait for summer. May be hard be hard though because of visibilty.

Has any one seen or know of native marine fish (looks more like a blenny than a goby) that is see-through like glass? They seem to get more see- through as they get bigger. And does anyone know what it is called? I have found them in Gisborne.

Have been running a 90lt marine tank with a canister filled with live rock for a year now. The intake on the canister is connected to a ventura style skimmer. I have 5 fish in the tank as well as shrimps and hermit crabs. I also have some soft corals which have grown so well that I dont know what to do with it all. I clean out the canister filter about every 3-4 months, the only hassle being not losing baby starfish and pods down the sink.