Carlos & Siran

How bout rummy's then? no one would doubt they're fast.......nightmare to catch

We're putting a BGK in our South American tank along with some blue tetras(cochus), do you think they'll be safe? Too nice a fish to lose as live food.

Nick from Rotorua? I liked that young fulla but I haven't seen a post from him for ages, also what about Caper? Whetu? Tinytawnykitten? Vinnie? BronzeDragon?....

We were just discussing Siran's niece who got a 35% average and yet still passed because of her class' over all average....makes no sense at all, can someone explain how that works?

Crikey....why does everyone hate Tui so much.....Mangatanoka is my old stomping ground, I grew up on the stuff and still love it!

errrmm....still Achilles last stand, that's one long song.... 10mins 23secs

Ramble on.......Achilles' last stand-Led Zep

Ohhh, I've only ever used the additive twice a week for 2-3 weeks then added fish, never had a problem, maybe because we add the fish slowly?

I see your Stairway, tangerine and No quarter and raise you Kashmir and Babe I'm gonna leave you

Honky cat - Elton John, Tiny Dancer - Elton John

I just wanted to say regarding driftwood.....after weeks of searching the farm and other places for a nice piece I finally decided to take a walk down at forest pools (local swimming hole in the Puketi forest) and to my amazement I found 3 spectacular pieces within 5 minutes, just by wading in the river, and fossicing around the downed trees and big piles of drift wood you always find in rivers. Of course you need to be very careful in these areas, especially in deeper water, very easy to get washed underneath it all. The major bonus is this wood has been underwater for ages and will sink straight away....so take a look down at your local river, you'll be surprised.

Use cycle or stress zyme approx 2-3 weeks before adding fish. There's other ways, by adding small amounts of fish food but I'm a bit simple and find all that too complicated, I prefer the ease of biological additives.

Shouting

We have two 2215s and they're easy, if you turn the taps off before you crack them open it's just a matter of reattaching them and opening the taps again and you're off.

The only complaints we have of ours is the hoses, they're very inflexible and the bendy bit that you're supposed to clip on so it bends over the edge of the tank is laughable, and the suction cups go hard and brittle fast.

Hi Jen, we'd be very interested in hearing about this plan, with my limited google skills I was unable to locate the plan itself, just people talking about it. Thank you for you time.

what model is it and how much do you want for it?

Harvest moon - James Reyne

Happy New Year from us and the kids!! Hope its a good one.

I think as long as the wee ones can't fit into the big ones mouth you'll be OK, we had a similar problem, we caught 6 wild ones and all but one died so we bought 2 smaller frogs from the LPS, and we had no worries.

It's really not that hard to do yourself. Just draw a detailed drawing of the stand both front and end view, first mark in your over all size: height, width, depth, then you have to take into account the thickness of the material you're using. for example, if your cabinet is 900mm long and you're using 21 mm MDF then your base would be 858mm long. Remember that if your tank is over about a meter long then for safety reasons you need to have a center division that goes all the way to the floor and supports the top. usually your cutting list would look like this 2 x Ends 750x450 1 x Base 858x450 1 x division 700x450 1 x top 900x475 and so on and so forth, the height (or width for horizontal pieces) is always listed first. The same concept applies if, like Smidey, you decide to build a timber frame stand. Hopes this helps. Carlos

Thanks Sam, we used to live in Umawera, but unfortunately work is scarce, not to mention that basic services are all but nonexistent. Okaihau is about as far north as I'd like to be. Ummm, not that I'm arguing with you or anything but according to that NZ eel website, the average weight for the NZ longfin eel is 24kgs and they live to about 34 years for the females....120yrs just seems a bit out there....

We're hoping to the north....at least that was the rumor

native one looks much nicer