Carlos & Siran

Updated pic: Have since added DIY CO2,(copied Joe's double bottle idea...thanks Joe) 5mls Flourish Comprehensive per week + 3 Oto's Have ordered: 1kg Monopotassium Phosphate 5kg Potassium Nitrate 1kg Iron Chelate Should be here next week. Oh, and 8 blue Cochu tetras coming next week too. And finally tracked down some Cobomba, stuff's hard to find and expensive ATM, hopefully be here tomorrow.

We've lost 3 cherry barbs in the last few weeks, Siran noticed that they all have red gills, so she's done several water perimeter checks over that time and everything seems normal. Our initial thought was Ammonia, the test was very slightly elevated the first time (perhaps 0.25 or less) but has been 0.0ppm the last 2 times, Nitrates 0, nitrites 0 and PH 7.0 - 7.2, temp 26c. We've been doing 50% water changes every second week. Stocking consisted of 5 cherry barbs in a heavily planted 172 ltr tank at the time but we've since lost 3 barbs and have added a peacock eel. The tank has been active for over 10 weeks, we fishless cycled with stresszyme. Our filtration consists of the in-built AR850 trickle filter and a 2215 Eheim, this has created a fare amount of current and we've noticed the smaller cherry barbs are having to work quite hard. We have a bubblier with an air stone for surface agitation but we've decided to aim the Eheim wand at more of an angle in hopes that it will increase surface agitation and decrease the current. Could it possibly be gill flukes? we have no idea what we're looking for, any ideas? We have a furry pic of the red gills if needed. Cheers

We found ourselves in Auckland a few days ago and popped into Hollywoods for a look see and came home with a peacock eel. He's settled in really nicely and feeding fine on bloodworms, I've read that they're also partial to earth worms, my question is, do you need to dice the worms up first or do you just pop them in and let the eel do his thing? I found a smallish worm and just popped it in, he went beserk and went for it, but it seemed like it was too big for him and after a while he gave up, will they munch away on a large worm or do we need to find wee worms?, they're hard to find atm, as it's quite dry.

Every other day, eel every day.

Can I sit next to you girl? - AC/DC

Boulevard of broken dreams - Green Day

amphibians Books or TV?

Sex machine - James brown

Fish Beer or bourbon?

Hi and welcome

Did anyone see John Cambell's interview of Ken Ring the other night? I'm not a big fan of the doom Sayers and conspiracy theorists, but I was appalled by JC's methods, As a dairy farmer I've known about Ken Ring and his moon/ weather theory, and during the drought last year his predictions that we'd get rain came and went with regularity, so I'm not a big fan of his, but he certainly didn't deserve the treatment he got on Monday night. And the statement he made that you don't know anything unless you've been to Uni boggles the mind, I know many people with next to no formal education who are successful businessmen and I also know of a few uni buffs who are useless..

War pigs - Black Sabbath

Get on the snake - Sound Garden

She got the jack - AC/DC

Life is a long song - Jethro Tull

Houses of the holy - Led Zeppelin

Sweet child o' mine - Guns 'n' roses

Closer to your heart - Clannad

All of my love - Led zeppelin

Welcome to the machine - Pink Floyd

OK, new game. I'll say the name of a song and the next person posts another song with at least one word in common, EG: This town ain't big enough for the both of us - Sparks Dirty old town - The pogues. Living in the past - Jethro Tull

If any of you guys just want to get away from it all after this is over you're more than welcome to crash with us, just a airbed on the floor of the spare room and crazy kids everywhere but I'm sure anything would be a nice change.

yes, no results, thanks

I have some cousins in Chch that I've not had contact with for years, I've tried to find them via facebook and oldfriends but had no luck. If anyone down there knows Jean Kelly or her daughter Charlene(charlie)Kelly could they please PM me, thanks.