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Looks great P44 You can blame me if the bars are not quite perfect, I did try my best for you!

Don't do it. Not unless you have seperate enclosures to be able to move them to when the fighting gets out of hand. They have a large territory too, so you are much better off keeping 1 skink per 4 foot enclosure, rather then having a larger 8 foot + for multiple skinks. Even the free roaming house skinks will still fight and they have a much larger territory, you must have the means to seperate them.

What do you think they started out with? The same will happen here if the right people have the right animals.

Considering how long they have been available, and unless you had them before you were supposed to. I would put a good majority of that down to luck.

With out the grammar there really is no way to understand the intentions to any post, let alone one that is trying to convey specific information. I have also been watching trademe, as I too am a huge fan of leopard geckos, and keenly interested in the gene pool in NZ. I feel at this stage most leo breeders are going to give the species a bad name as being sickly and difficult to care for in the long run, there are however some exceptions and my apologies for naming but Alanmin is one of those exceptions. The difference is he understands the bigger picture, experience and dedicated research mixed with good intentions and a true passion means that his animals will be the best leo's in country, regardless of morphs. I would be ashamed of myself :sick:

Hermit Crab shell change. http://youtu.be/_x2W2JLrJ2k

Sunset Wrasse in cold water. Oblique-swimming triplefin Mediterranean fanworm

The warehou were caught underneath jellyfish. And photo 3 post 2 is a sea cucumber, took the opportunity to get those interesting mouth parts photographed

It's a bobtail squid, at times a silicone blobtail. :roey:

Young Warehou And a few more various images

I think the $2500 cost is "grossly overkill" for the average hobbyist. I do think it is a neat system, very cool indeed. Thanks for sharing David. I have never had such dirty filters that needed so much maintenance so I would sooner put that cost towards a larger volume of water. I can see it's use in over stocked tanks, and tanks where food is "power fed" to try and increase stock size.

Hmmm I wonder if I told doc thats the standard rate they would pay me more.... :dnc1:

Oh geez Ira, I should have thought they would end up being in someones back yard! I think I should get ya some dosh to catch me a couple and send em to me

I've turned over rocks and logs for the best part of 30 years now, I have only ever seen them 3 times including this one. I really want a vinegaroon, but am not prepared to live in America for just one crittter, so next on the list is a peripartus! Although that would only be observation, I wouldn't want to remove one from its habitat.

My new friend, I have always been interested in centipedes, and have wanted something from the scolopendra family for a very long time. Well I got lucky when out hunting for reptile food, I found this wee chappy under a rotting log. He's already eaten a mealworm, so seems happy enough. Sorry for the picture quality, using a cell phone camera. I tried to put a pen next to it so the size was comparable, but it got very aggressive towards the pen and I didn't want to stress it out. He's about half his adult (8cm) size maybe a lil more. My best guess is male, as his is terminal legs are long and slender, as is his body but I want to capture another few to get a real understanding of the difference. Maybe Ill post a care sheet as I learn more 8) I hope you enjoy seeing it as much as I do, although I think its a taste that is acquired.

I have no more fish and only one huge tank and stand left. If you want the big tank and stand pm livingart. Its 6x2x2 on stable stand with heavy duty castor wheels. Never really been used 2 holes drilled for a sump.

Sounds like you are being impatient to me, time is the best thing you can add to a local marine, and NSW. How big is the tank? Are you running a chiller? Are temperatures stable even if a little high or do they fluctuate? Keep it consistent, keep up the water changes, I do 10% twice daily water changes on the time times if I can, otherwise just one at morning and one at night. Nitrate is weird on 10 when the others are on 0, try collecting the water sample from the top of the water level at the front, at the rear, Mid water level, and low water level front and rear and see if there are any differences. This should also rule out any human error as there should be a patten develop.

Do you have a substrate or is it just a bare bottom? You need something to drive the water on the bottom of the tank so mulm doesn't build up in the rock. Without a skimmer you NEED to be doing daily water changes. If your planning on changing the set up later on in the year then I would sell the live stock and just keep cooking the rock. It is after all life we are talking about. Marine takes research and patience.

Current setup has plastic plants for fresh water tanks, and is covered in algae. New tank so I kinda don't mind letting the algae do its thing. And the plastic plants are for the sea horse as I won't be able to keep the natural alternative alive for her. A photo would be embarrassing at this stage. The idea is that once the cemix back wall has matured these guys will grow all over it. Still a very very new tank, good things take time.

She didn't eat it, killed it and pushed the evidence into the dahlia anemone. If the prawn didn't have a big hole in it and she hadn't moved in next door I would have just presumed the dahlia got it. It will be interesting once its full grown, quite a creepy wee thing with the eyes on stalks watching you all the time. Thanks to the invention of the sun I can have a local marine down south, a solar powered pump and light to keep the water moving well and a buried sump for summer. I could even move it to the cellar if that didn't keep things cool enough. I'm going to add to the battery bank and get another solar panel just as a precaution but it seems to be running tank outside nicely here. L.A. will have to Mantis sit for me till I have a cycled tank set up down there, access to the coast isn't too far away and I have far more land to keep a lot more water so it works out very well. Yay I get to keep fish! :bounce:

That is one of the few certainties in the world. :sage:

Well, Miss Mantis is a strange one.. Too much attention went on Mr Painted Prawn So she moved in next door to him... Mr Painted Prawn is now just a few pieces of shell

Trick is finding it in conditions similar to the tank already. That piece was at the top of a waterfall completely submersed, in good sunlight. It had L.A. written all over it. So a 3 hour hike carrying a piece of moss while the tourists contemplated if it was a local delicacy, then strait to the village and into the tank, I am glad it is doing so well.

What a bunch of Hotties! !drool: Some wild pork for the raffle this afternoon. :thup:

He'll be a big boy when he matures, very nice bird though and its great to know that birds can become birds again even after being humanized for so long.