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  1. My friend and I were showing one of the international students from school around Nelson's Natureland Zoo and we came across a morphed axolotl in their aquarium. The sign read axolotl but It had no gills and they had given it land access. It was definitely an axolotl though, I own one myself. All the staff were busy so I was unable to ask if they had done anything to cause it to morph or if it was just by chance. I had always been under the impression it required specific chemicals in the water. Any thoughts?

  2. I have a small hillstream tank which is just under 50 litres. I have 3 hillstream loaches (Gastromyzon ctenocephalus) in it at the moment and would love some white clouds. The powerhead is very strong though 1200LPH! (Trademe mixup) The hillstreams love it though and they have fantastic blue colours in their fins and are very active. I am thinking about adding a small school of white cloud mountain minnows to the tank but do you think the flow rate might be too high for them. The powerhead powers an undergravel filter to create a bit of a river effect. I also use another internal power filter too.

  3. I picked up a freshwater dwarf puffer from Organism driving through Christchurch the other day and currently it is in a bare cycled 27L aquarium. I would like to turn this tank into a biotope aquarium and am going to be using a JBL plant substrate with burnt Sienna gravel on top to replicate the red, iron rich substrate from their natural environment. I am unsure on what plants to use and still need to purchase a lighthood (anyone got a small one to sell?) so if anyone can give me some ideas on what to do that would be great. I might do something with the excess narrow lead java fern in my community tank and might purchase some Cryptocoryne. Any general tips on dwarf puffers would also be greatly appreciated.

  4. Been thinking.

    I don't know much about programming or app development but I have used this software called nyagua before on PC . Surely it could be ported over to android as it is open souce and written in Java (same as android apps are). It does pretty much all the stuff that has been mentioned by everyone else including a fish database pulled from the fishbase website.

    I host my nyagua database file online on my Dropbox account so I can access it from any computer. Dropbox is already available for android so if it were ported I could use it on the go and sync it with other computers.

    I suppose the only problem with doing this is that you wont be able to sell it and make a profit as it's open source software.

  5. The powerhead that drives the built in wet-dry over top filter in my aquaone 850 (165L) aquarium is rated for 1000lph and is starting to show its age with some wear and tear and is loosing output pressure. Would there be any technical problem with replacing it with a higher output powerhead, say 2000lph? There are some smallish fish in the tank but they should be able to handle the increase in water flow.

    Thanks

  6. I purchased two giant kuhli loaches AKA Myers loaches today and their markings are completely different. I'm pretty sure they are not normal kuhli loaches as they don't look much like my 8 kuhlis but are they both Myers loaches???

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    They are both still quite small so they are in my leopardfish tank 22c-24c until they get a bit bigger than my angels mouth.

    Higher res images can be found here:

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    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23217920/Forum% ... CF2143.JPG

  7. 8.2 should be fine for an axolotl. Last time I checked our tap water is was about that and my axolotl is fine. Unless you keep fish with very specific water conditions then messing with PH usually just causes more problems.

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