phoenix44

That's my one!!!! I love it too!

Upset? Don't flatter yourself mate, I just don't care any more.

sigh. why do i even bother.

yeah, yeah :lol: Eventually... I've got all the equipment I need to support a planted 8ft tank. Ill just grab another 2 lighthoods if I get a tank that large in the future. Tank will be wider than it is high, or the same width and height. A larger tank would be so much easier to maintain as well...

So why overlook mechanical filtration then? The price difference between a 305 and a 405 is not vast, and the benefits of having a larger filter that could be used at a later date on a larger tank far outweigh the marginal cost difference. most people will over stock their tanks, simply because the term over stock for most parts refers to the biological load your tank can handle. how is that even relevant? I use the redundancy concept for my tank. gives me greater flexibility if things do ever go wrong. Always, always get a filter that is larger than what you actually need. it beats having to get a bigger filter next time around just because you have either too many fish in one tank, or the smaller filter is not cutting it, or even for a future tank upgrade.

ha ha thanks! but you see the RHS where all the polysperma rosanvig is? the plan is to take all of that out and replant it with Ludwigia glandulosa or tiger lotus, so I have a canopy on the tank, only without the dense root work. Then underneath that canopy there will be a vast amount of empty space (not including the plants on the ground, where there are crypts and a few swords). At the moment all the wood in that corner is hidden and all you can see is a very dense network of plant.

Not overkill at all. I would have suggested nothing smaller than a 405. I run 2 405's and an eheim 2028 on my 200L(+/-) planted tank. you can order the spray bars for any fluval filter, just speak to someone who can call the supplier to find out more. There is no such thing as over filtration. You can adjust the way the water flows in any tank of reasonable size with a little common sense and planning.

hows he doing?

Thanks! In a few weeks, ill tear down the RHS and do something different with it. its formed a canopy which is nice, but i am planning something else for that part.

Does the quote function not work on your browser? In a week or so i may have some hygrophillia polysperma, and polysperma var. rosanvig you can have.

mythology

they are flame gouramis too!

on a few leaves! i killed them today! :lol:

Update.

Im hoping to breed red eyes, but I need a male :lol: Good luck and keep us posted!

That be good! :lol:

you like breed everything now. What is your secret? :lol: Might be worth moving up to Hamilton just for their water I think.

Yeah, kiwibank and the accounting practises used under IFRS make kiwibank a very attractive balance sheet item for the NZ Government. The labour government is very good at raising public sentiment using emotive words but in practise none of what they say actually holds. The bank inquiry for one is a much laughed topic. great at making the public outraged at ludicrous fees etc, but yet empirically inept. The NZ Govt. needs to separate itself from kiwibank as currently kiwibank holds a wholesale funds guarantee by the govt itself. This means it can raise capital on an international market, and its funds guarantee is secured by the NZ government, and thus the taxpayer. It is the only bank in the country to do so (and one of the few in the world), and is a protectionist measure for fear that kiwibank was going to be squeezed out of the market when it first started. What the current government is suggesting is not a sale of the assets, (although I think it should be on the table and privatised, as should many other govt. sectors including ACC) but a partial sale of business to investors to raise capital, enhance the financial security and liquidity of a bank that on its own holds no where near enough capital given its current level of risk. On its own kiwibank is not in any position to hold extra capital to make up for its vast growth in assets - as residential home loans, funded by very short term liabilities in the form of current account deposits. This mismatch is tricky for them to manage and is certainly an expensive process as kiwi needs to hold large amounts of govt. stock in its tier I capital... only... wait - this is the kicker. since they are owned by the govt, it is no different to the govt. holding its own stock. It is sooo easy to get swayed by the comments that some political parties are making, as the strike a nerve with many that listen to them; but in reality not one of those claims have real evidential support. its all hearsay. Standards and Poors themselves said kiwibank only had its current credit rating courtesy the NZ government. Then there is the added problem of separating post shop and kwibank's business. The task is near impossible given how the 2 businesses account for assets and expenses. Ponder this - if someone was to sell kiwibank; who gets the land asset (the branch) - will it be kiwi bank, the post shop or the NZ govt that owns NZ post; or will it be a mixture of all three? how do the staff and salaries get split? what happens to kiwibanks staggering branch network? I would not want to be the person overseeing the sale of that asset.

Skux you mean! I think its awesome!

The term geographic isolation is ambiguous in that it does not refer to a span of distance as a minimum requirement A friend of mine is a population geneticist currently doing her PHD up in Auckland. She has given me the following example - It is thus possible for populations to exist in the same area, in close proximity, and yet be geographically isolated. Our native geckos here often live in a tiny amount of space for the entirety of their lives.

:lol: yeah. :oops: That was a present for my clown loaches. Apple snails can and will eat any and all plant matter. I miss the african tank.

Either ways... you can't just make up a new species. Axelrod has the same chance of splitting a genus and 'creating' a new species as I do - Zilch. You need data, findings, research and analysis to do that. I'd be more interested to see why / what is Konning's theory is behind a monotypic genus.

I can has that tank? Plzkthx

I don't think it is up to an individual taxonomist to decide whether the fish belong to a certain species or not. Once the theory gets put out, there needs to be scientific research done on the matter. This usually involves DNA testing among others. Then the scientific community gathers and agrees or disagrees on the matter. It can be a long and winding process and can take years if not decades. If Axelrod states that "there was taxonomic revision done to the genus" - then rest assured it was not conjured up by one person.