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Yeah after much thought i don't think they will need food with them as they only feed every couple of days anyway. If i win them i will make sure the seller has feed them before they leave. Hey mincie thanks for that, i think that will be the go if i win.

lol, would feel a little creepy!! Yeah it's a little cold for i quick dip down there although we had divers come out to survey the ballast bags under the drill rig, full dry suits of course!!!!!!!

Hi guys, i need a little help with couriering newts from the north island to Christchurch. There are some for sale that i want to buy to give my lonely little guy some mates. When i got mine from up north they hadn't morphed so were sent in a bag, in an ice cream container, in a box full of daphnia and arrived fine. These ones are the same age as mine and have morphed. How could they be packed up for a courier ride to ch-ch safely, I know they would nee to have some live food like wingless fruit flys but it's packaging itself.

From memory, slightly smaller than a dinner plate. They do grow bigger than that though.

Hey whetu thanks for that, I have been on the net everyday for a longtime studying up on what i can and can't do. And looking at what fish may be "compatable" for what i wish to do. I Have aquarium keeping books at home so i will dust them off when im back in nz, Wednesday yeay!!! The tank won't be getting stocked until my partner and i have purchased a house.Once we are in a house of our own we won't be moving for a while so the tank will get set up then. I can't look after it fulltime as i work in aussie for weeks at a time so she will be doing the duties when i'm away.

the conch, please the kitchen!!!!!!!!! I'm a driller and went down there for 2 months with andrill. We did core drilling into the seabed to 1000 metres for the scientists to study global warming and other things. We got to go to crary lab whenever we had time off so i would go straight to the sea life of course! I'm not sure what the names for the creepy crawlers are, but i know the fish is a mawsoni cod.

I thought i would put up some pics of some sea critters i took photo's of while i was in Antarctica working. They are from Crary lad at Mcmurdo Station. The fish is a mawsoni cod, they are pretty amazing i suggest reading about them. And the others are sea spiders and bugs of some sort, i'm not sure, and a mollusc IMG]http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr31/aquanaut/DSCF0182.jpg

Hey romeo, Try going inland and looking. We use to find alot of small koura in the streams on the way to the westcoast.

Thanks for your help guy's. I'm going to make up a list of fish i like and go to some lfs to see what they have, can get and compatability of the fish i like.

I don't know if this has been asked before as i'm new to the site but, Has anyone caught one or tried keeping lamprey? They look really good when they are getting ready to migrate, a really nice bright silver-blue.

That is because we are very special and they only made a few of us

It is 100w-145h-45d, 240 letres. I wish i had bought a longer tank as apposed to a higher tank but i'm like a magpie and it was new and shiny! At that stage i hadn't planned on making it tropical but now i want to. I have read that larger cichlids are aggressive and eat plants and small fish/fry. Thats why i thought dwarf cichlids may be ok in a tank like that, more room for them and they aren't as aggressive from what i have read.

Hey there everyboby. I have just signed up to the site finally! Just a quick intro of myself, My names Ira and i live in Christchurch but travel between there and Perth for work. I currently have a Japenese fire bellied newt tank with one newt as the other one just died And an Aquaone eurostyle 100 series tank(240ltrs) with an eheim 2213 or 2217 filter, can't remember which one and i'm in aus at the mo! The Aquaone tank is currently empty, I had a cold water marine setup in it but dismantled it as it was to much work for my partner while i'm away. I wish to set it up again shortly as a tropical tank, Planted and communal. I know everybody asks this question but what can i put in it? After some research i have confused myself, I want cichlids but feel it is to small for the larger ones. So dwarf cichlids, bristlenose and what else? i want bottom mid and top dwellers. Thankyou muchly