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  1. Life in cold blood

    in Reptiles and Amphibians

    Posted

    Hey ive just finished watching the new series from Sir David Attenborough and thought it was awesome just wondering if any one else has watched it yet?In this series they were the last people to ever film the golden frog from panama it real cool they wave at each other lol all of them had to go into captivity coz of a fungus i think kitrid(spelling) neway well worth a watch its meen.

    kyle

  2. Hey All

    in Killies

    Posted

    nah no more cichlids havnt had any for nearly a year now the ones at work i count as my own neway as i seem to be the only person who cares bout them lol.Hey barrie would love to come and see your collection but wouldnt be able to get nething till july as i am going to africa for 3 weeks so none of my flatmates wuld b able to look after the babies. Damn i want killies now lol but hey i can wait patience is a virtue specially in fish ae

    cheers

  3. Hey All

    in Killies

    Posted

    Hey

    just thought id say ive rejoined the killi club and will be hopefully keeping killis very soon probably in july as i am going to Namibia end of june for 3 weeks.Only killies ill be getting near are nothobranchius caprivi, as i am going to the caprivi river ill see if i can find there locations and hopefully there will be some water left but i think its the wrong time of year unfortunately. I have seen Notho Orthonotus(spelling) b4 tho in Mkuze game reserve i think there the largest notho in the world they were pretty bign awesome.Neway just wanted to say im back :)

    Cheers Kyle

    NZKA# 263

  5. Ph and its relationship to breeding activity

    in Killies

    Posted

    lol i didnt actaully even read it i thought it may have answered barries question sorry. I think harder ph does increase activity aswell my australes used to go nuts in ph of 7.2 but real slow at like 6.8 nothos were the same and the nothos would not look happy at lower ph. remember in the wild theres no peat its mud and i think were korthausae are found on korthausae island? the ph is like 7.8.Btw stu im gonna join the killi club this week coming sorry for the wait but ive been short on money.

    cheers kyle

  6. Ph and its relationship to breeding activity

    in Killies

    Posted

    Scheel's Water Chemistry

    Scheel had what might be considered today some unorthodox opinions regarding water chemistry. He felt differences in salinity, or total dissolves solids matters very much, but that pH changes could be safely ignored. Given this observation was made over many decades of working with killifish it's a pervasive argument. Here are the relevent passages from Rivulins of The Old World:

    Page 25

    "If you move rivuline individuals from a water containing much dissolved mineral matter to water containing little such matter, these individuals probably soon will be swimming at he surface and they soon die. If you inspect the gills under a microscope you will realize the reason for this. You will find the gills completely ruiined. The many brittle cells of the gills burst shortly after the individuals bhad been placed in water of low salinity, because of the large difference in osmostic pressures. If the fishes are moved from water containing very little dissolved minerals to water containing much matter nothing will usually happen.

    Page 26

    I spawn my non-annual species in rather small tanks (about one gallon of water) and the tanks contain nothing but a mop and the water. Females are separated from males for at least one week, while both sexes are heavily fed. Only one female is placed with the male in the tank, because one female may eat eggs when the other is spawning. As my two types of water have similar salinities I can move the individuals right in and right out of one type of water without any harm. Differences in pH values, even from 5.0 to 8.0 have not produced any harm when individuals suddenly are moved from one type of water to the other

    For what it's worth I havn't measured pH in 25 years - I ignore it and only pay attention to total dissolved solids and temperature.

    If you want to read the "Scheel letters" - correspondance between Scheel and various aquarists, have a look at at http://new.killi.net/articles/by_Author/Scheel/

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  13. Tell me a wee bit about yourself

    in The Off Topic Fishroom

    Posted

    Name: Kyle

    Age: 18

    Occupation: full time jansens mt eden

    Books: nah magazines

    Car: Nissan Pulsar Gti-r Turbo :evil: 0-100kmh 5 sec 8)

    Hobbys: cars,fish, cricket and used to play hockey

    Family: still live at home but not for long :(

    Location: Auckland Da Zoo lol

    Favourite food: Kebabs are nice?

    Music: Blink 182, sum 41 ,+44, Limp bizkit, Offspring anything punk rock really or rock not so much hip hop coz im white lol

  22. Corydoras melanistius (black sail cory)

    in Catfish

    Posted

    Hi

    I just got 12 of these guys today.Just wondering who else has them and if theres are breeding i am going to try and breed these guys.They will hopefully be the first cory's ive bred. any advice part from feed them up and the coldwater change lol. I wil be keeping them in a tank with parameters of ph 6.5-7 temp about 25c filtration sponge filters and substrate silica sand.

    cheers kyle

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