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If I was going fake, I think I'd much prefer the fake stuff from TV shows like Tanked than this one. Wouldn't be much fun to watch when nothing moves though.

Certainly what I do on my algae scrubber. Seems to keep the tank pretty stable.

The Killing US is the same case over seasons 1 and 2, so probably equiv to season 1 of the dutch one. I enjoyed them all, saw yesterdays ep last night

About to watch it now! Just finished watching the first ep of the new Top Gear season. What a great episode. The challenge was filmed in NZ.

I would like to join back up again, I was NZKA #340 until we had earthquakes that made a mess of things. I realise your meeting is probably only for current members, but if new / renewing members were also allowed, I won't be able to make it on that date. Flying to Aus on the 20th. Doesn't change the fact that I'll join back up ASAP.

Off topic, but it still exists. I've been in it for 4 months and no one else has joined in that time The chat thing has been mentioned, but it is a lower priority. You can do this with Skype.

Not sure about that one. I want to say el nommer instead.

I see the tails of mine sticking out all over the place all the time. Kind of cool to play spot the zebras.

Living Reef is open Mon, Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun now. Shame he doesn't have much stock at the moment, although the mystery wrasse is cool!

All I was trying to say is you can learn how fast your tank builds up nitrates. Pick an absolute maximum level and see how long it takes for them to build up. That would define your absolute maximum interval between changes. Remember, if your tap water has 0ppm nitrates and you change at the very latest when it's up to 20ppm, a 50% change would leave you with 10ppm nitrates. It is best to do water changes as often as practical though, but it doesn't have to be religiously once a week etc if your tank doesn't build up nitrates that quickly. The smaller the tank, the more often you'll have to do changes as parameters can change quicker. Same goes for increasing bio load. Having plants in the tank may reduce the nitrates and extend this timeframe. I have found that many people I know got out of fish keeping because they were told they have to do water changes once or twice a week and they found it too much effort. I tend to advise people that they need to learn how their system runs and ensure that they do what they can when they can, but don't stress if they miss a week if they know their tank can handle it.

Really? I've always gone on 40 as being the max safe level. I generally change earlier than that though. I was also of the understanding that many places in NZ have tap water that has at least 20ppm nitrates in it.

I don't do them as often as others say here, but I do have larger tanks, lighter stocking, have plants and use purigen. My rule of thumb is to keep an eye on nitrates. 40ppm is the absolute maximum I would ever let them go to. Once I know how fast they build up, I do 50% water changes at an interval that won't allow them to build up that high.

Maybe, but what hooked me on the killing was not knowing who did it. Watching it again won't be the same. But I might do it anyway

Just reading the plot, the US version is just a copy of the same thing. Guess there is no point me watching the Dutch one then.

Ooo, do you watch the US one? I'm addicted to that. Let me know if it's in Dutch.

I thought that Heartland and Kidzone didn't use public funds. Most of TVNZ's revenue comes from sources other than the government.

I really want to re-join NZKA. I'd happily be part of it. Currently don't have any killies as I had a lot of tragedy post earthquakes, but want to get back into it in summer once our house is fixed up.

IT crowd is good. They've just done a US one and it's terrible. Trying to do a 1:1 replication of the British episodes.

Sorry, I was meaning Brit stuff has the stupid stuff. As per the post above, things like Mrs Browns Boys. I do like all those shows mentioned above, especially Curb!

*Joins the club* I also can't stand brit humour. Possibly because I don't particularly like their accents. Also, to me it's just about them doing or saying stupid things and then having an audience laugh. To me, while it is full of canned laughter, I find American humour to be a bit more realisitic. I'm also over 30.

Another vote for JBL. JBL is the only brand I use for dried foods. My plecs have always seemed to like the Novo Pleco tabs.

The other thing you can do is hang them in your cabinet so they're not vibrating against anything. Did that with one of mine many years ago and it made a huge difference.

Probably depends on the type of filter. HOB overflow style ones are quite noisy on tanks that size.

She already has 2 tanks in her lounge. She mentioned on facebook that maybe the couch could go

Ooo, we could vote using that and Amelia wouldn't be able to tell that I've already voted on Facebook :bggrn: :nilly: