lmsmith

Is type 1 the diet one, or the stabby one?

It is still alive?

They're pretty! I love mine too, but I have to say, they're pretty shy and I don't see them much!

BBGs are very aggressive. Puffers like to feel secure, so you should always introduce them into the tank first if they're small. Take everything out, rearrange the tank, put the puff in for a few days, then add the BBGs again. Make sure there are places that the puffer can hide - they come out much more if they feel they have somewhere to hide. http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=38614 That thread has lots of info about puffers.

I play online poker and have made a few thousand in less than a year. It's pretty easy, you just have to learn not the be greedy.

Absolutely agree, I have saltwater tanks for the crystal clear water, and a heavily planted tank that is pretty yellow, very overstocked, overfiltered, and underfed. All the fish are fat and happy, and I do 1 water change every 6 months or so.

Ok, we went and had a look at the place today; the pool is 15m x 7m (ish), about 1500mm deep. It's awesome, sunny, perfect size for us. Newly painted, great condition and great landlords. We're moving in on Saturday!!!

Nope, I google earthed it, and it's actually a decent sized pool!

Update - we have a property on hold for us. It's in the area we want to live in, in our price range, and has a SWIMMING POOL!!!

That's what we're thinking. We both work in Porirua, so we still want to be close. It's up on the hill in Churton Park too, so it gets lots of sun.

Churton Park

Went to the flat viewing this morning, and it looks pretty good. It's nice and bright and airy, no backyard to tend to, and in a good quiet street. We got to talk to the current tenants, who said the house is warm, sunny and doesn't get the wind. Water pressure looks good, and he said it was good as well. Now I just have to fill in the application and fax it to them, exciting!

We'll be moving into an empty place and it will just be the two of us. We have no intention on getting anyone else, but I'll make sure that it's on the agreement that we can sublet.

My partner and I have to move asap. We currently live in our parents houses, but due to his family situation, he has to move. We were planning on moving at the end of the year, so we're pretty much sorted. We're going to view a property tomorrow. Any tips on what we should be looking for at the property? Does anyone use Glo-Bug power or something similar? Would you recommend it? Also, in light of Phoenix's fiasco with his flatties, any tips on flatting generally? There's just going to be the two of us, but any tips would be welcome.

The best way is soaking their food it in. Droncit is a good wormer, because it doesn't have the extra crap in it that can harm fish.

It's temperature dependant. They are sensitive to light. 72 hrs at 28 deg, 4-5 days at 24. The parents will eat the babies, so make sure there is no gravel on the bottom (the babies will fall down the gaps and die), put sand on the bottom, and some broken pots so the babies can hide under the gaps. Or you can scrape the eggs out, but keep a good water movement over them and add some meth blue. To make them hatch, you can shine a torch at them after 3.5 days and they'll hatch. I've had a better success rate hatching them earlier. They keep their egg sacks for 5 days, and can only eat decaps, microworm or bbs for a few days until they get bigger. Remove any left over food, and do a water change every time you walk past and they'll grow quickly.

I had the same sort of prob, I introduced some from a different population and it hasn't happened in a while. We have a very small gene pool in NZ, so breeding the bad genes just make it worse.

don't be silly. A baby pig is a piglet, and a baby hog is a hotlet (actually, i think it's a piglet, but hoglet sounds better). Therefore, a baby hedgehog is a hedgehoglet. A baby duck is a duckling, so a baby turkey must be a turkling.

Guess what? A baby hedgehog is called a hedgehogglet.

The amount of bacteria on the glass etc is tiny. Thts why we use filters when we have a high bioload, because the bacteria in the tank cannot support the waste output of the fish.

Same thing here, which is why I'd err on the side of caution. I had a canister off not even 2 hours while I was moving a tank, and when I put it back on the tank it killed over 150 3-4cm angelfish. I think it depends on how dirty the filter is, and how much oxygen is in the water.

Some of them will be dead for sure. I'd take this opportunity to rinse the canister out before hooking it up and starting it again. Keep an eye on the fish for the next few weeks to make sure they look happy and healthy.

I did the whole blackwater thing to breed neon tetras. I just had tank with peat on the bottom (about 2cm thick) and filtered it for a few weeks. Then I used a net, and scooped out all the peat. I then got smarter and did the same in a big bucket, and volia, blackwater without the floaties.

I wanted mine to breed for ages, and now they just keep breeding and breeding. They're cool little fish.

I bought some black slotted steel from bunnings. You can cut them to length with a hacksaw, then buy packets of bolts and triangles to give it strength. They're really easy to make, and you can screw painted MDF panels to the outside, pop on some doors and you're done.