phoenix44

I have a thing outside that has been getting larvae almost all the way through winter as well.

Yeah, that's probably the most likely outcome. it does look good. I like skewed aquascaping; even if I don't like the silica sand :lol:

You do have flair, ill give you that. I personally would have had the path going from the front right, to the rear left (not extremes of-course, just offsets); wide at the front, narrower at the back. I think it looks great though. Well done. I do not do highly organised tanks very well.

See how its going pink? That's what it does when it is dying. I would keep up with the excel. I do like the substrate. You might need a thicker layer if you want to have broader sword plants in there. Also rethink the positioning of the plants based on what they will grow into; and not what they look like now. A while ago I set up a similar tank at work spending a fraction of what I would if I was setting up a tank at home. Here's a pic - http://i403.photobucket.com/albums/pp11 ... 010253.jpg Notice how I stuck to the green plants because of the juwel stock lighting. Crypts, green swords and green stems are your friends in a juwel tank.

Well my hands are all wrinkled from pruning plants and readjusting the height at which some plants were canopying at; but tonight I'll take some pics for you ok? Easier to take pics at night because there is no reflection from the window that is just behind the tank.

The black alage is not a problem. It is clearly dying. You'll need more plants in there.

Get a filter that you think is a size too large for the tank, if you are happy to afford it. Glosso needs very good and strong light. You can regulate your flow with strategically placed pieces of driftwood etc.

I don't have any spare at the moment. But IME crypts don't ship too well in this cold weather. Simon (supasi) occasionally has some for sale. Nav in CHCH had some a while ago as well.

Do you get those apps that let other ipad users connect? sort of like with bluetooth but with wifi? Then you can meet and stuff :lol:

On joining this forum, we agree to its terms of use. Now there is some leeway given for certain topics. But this particular one had to be restrained not once or twice, but three times. Why on earth would any one in their right mind let it continue?

I'd go for wendtii green / brown

yes. precisely.

As in you just transfer them to other tanks? I meant I thought it was quite a drop in temp for the temp to drop 1.5 degrees in an hour.

Really? I actually thought that was quite a drop in an hour or so. Can't say I'd want to test the theory though

That is very very cool Simon!

Sorry, I didn't mean or think that you had made that up; I thought that is what your text book would have said.

You don't. :lol:

It is a statement I would expect to read in a very low level economics text book. While conceptually correct it assumes ceteris paribus and thus cannot be applied to the real world. It reminds me of a horse wearing blinkers to see only the path ahead and nothing else. There would be no decrease in aggregate demand given the strengthening NZD and the increase in disposable income given the tax cuts - even if you offset the tax cuts against the increase in GST. As shown above, the average person is marginally better off. Now assuming ceteris paribus; demand, if any thing would increase given the increase in the disposable income that would range from 0.5% to 3%. Bit more than that if you take interest effects and compounding into effect. Then there is the added implication of the OCR on interest rates and its effect on the NZD.

Yeah, no substitutes. They should still be able to be ordered in. A store will have to call the supplier and speak to them directly.

The flaws are pretty apparent.

1. Never ever feed your fish during a power outage. It's the best way to deplete O2 levels. If they start gasping you can do a water change in the hopes that the new water has more O2. Colder water holds more O2, so it is a trade off between temperature and O2 levels.

NZ has spent more than it earned for decades now. The current account is in shambles and we finally have a govt in place that can deal with the disaster that Labour left NZ in after the 80s. No one likes it when things cost more and more, but this is what NZ is like. Small economy, few jobs, geographic isolation, small capital market. Put them together and you have the perfect recipe for expensive living.

:-?

The tax cuts for the average family will exceed the value of the increase in GST for the average family. some win, some lose, but in total the tax cuts > 2.5% GST increase. The increase in GST is how most of the funding for tax cuts is being accounted for.