Nymox

+1 looking for a female at the moment, so adodge Id love to get one off you! Ill PM you what traits im looking for, p.s. if anyone else has some nice females PM me, Zev needs a new GF, my current female fighter is too close to me, I dont think shes going to accept him ever. And besides shes of unknown origin, would love to get a nice butterfly delta or halfmoon that matches Zevs already beautiful colours.

OMG you lucky blighters! There just isnt enough money in my bank to be on this website lol. Everyone has such lovely fish, birds and reptiles. Some kind of reptile is my next adventure though, would love something active and aggressive.

Careful with drilling holes in any bottle to keep fish secure, the drill leaves burrs that can be quite sharp, I had my female fighter split her fin this way, Been using a soldering iron with much more success, But this method works well, if you notice the fish looks stressed in the bottles, cover 2/3 's the way around, so they have a space to escape the eyes of the other, perhaps more dominant fish.

sure sure..

lol I can understand that entirely, Ive done my stint of 9 - 5. Now its a matter of making things work for me, why i decided to become a ranger, love the enviroment and want to protect it, and love messing around in the bush all day, so its like I get to play all day

Even a very Hapu female wont lazy round the bottom of the tank unless somethings up, mines about as Hapu as they come and shes active as. Try giving him a lil shelled pea, they love it and it helps them poo, if it doesnt help him then it might be something more serious then constipation. EDIT: Also, on a female you get the omnipositor too so without that and looking Hapu even with a female id be a lil worried.

like +100 for envy! wanna live in Tauranga instead? lol strait up swap, my goodness your lucky! I needa make a name for myself and perhaps consider working, I want your farm!

OMG lol, I spend ages carefully chosing my words here! Here you guys are talking about......GRRR

set it up as a terranium and buy LA's baby blue tounges

Its why when building my tank stand Im making sure there is a lip on the stand itself. so it would take the entire stand to fall over for anything to happen.

+1 theres nothing Id like more then an oscar, and have thought hard about making one the feature fish in my 4ft (210 ltr). But when it came down to it, I wouldnt want to provide one with the minimum, I wouldnt go less then 400 ltr, I know many people will have them in much smaller but personally I wouldnt. I like happy fishies!, they make happy fishy owners!

Iva few differnt fish types now, as far as I can tell nothin eats em. Shame, coz mine are, as i guess most peoples snails are the same, were intruder stow aways, Apart from picking them out every time i can see them I dont know what else I can do to get rid of them.

My only suggestion is to talk to Barrie!

WOW that really is a sea of green! Nice My AR plants grow very well, but the algae grows better!

LOL I was gunna come down today, aww, my one chance to acually be able to make fun of you rather then you making fun of me! I know what your xmas present is! (WD40)

Id still go with linseed, most cases when it goes moldy its because there was either not enough initially or it hasnt been kept up. Its not hard to keep up with, as long as your already polishing your wooden furniture its the same, just polish with linseed. After time you wont have to polish as often too, If you dont want to polish then I wouldnt worry about oils at all, Id just polyurathane it. Using oils isnt really a 1 application and walk away kind of deal, best methods Ive found is first to use a paint brush and paint a thin layer on, leave it for 8 hours and then using a cotton cloth rub some more in, and rub quite vigourously too, the heat and friction build a fine film that will repell water to a certain extent. My grandfather made the majority of my Mums and Nans furniture, alot of that has been oiled with linseed, its been 10 years since he passed, and no linseed since, just Mr Muscle or something like that, no mould, still looks and smells great. Its really up to you how much time you want to put into it, linseed requires a bit of time initially. There are other oils as people have mentioned, I dont have any experience in them myself, i dont fix what isnt broken but Im sure they will work just as well if the same effort is applied, and might provide a different finish.

+1 for planet catfish, failing that and you dont have access to a camera, google pleco images and find one that looks the same, then post that pic and the guru's will be able to help more.

white mairi is nice though, very sappy and when polished well it sparkles.

Yeah Stella i know what you mean there. Unfortunetly my uncle whos house I ripped up the carpet, removed the tar and started sanding back while he was working, didnt agree with me...lol But it was beautiful remu and white mairi. Once he got over it though and seen the finished product he soon changed his mind.

aww thanks LA lol I think I might be ready to progress from Crayons to Felt tips now too! Thinking about adding to my career by doing animal handling course next year too, after all this study and extentions to my extended holidays, might finally be ready Would love to do zoology but my brain just doesnt work well enough for that kind of intense learning.

Yup +1 Linseed Oil is great, bring out all the lovely grain, specially in a wood like Oak. Best thing for something like this is a little elbow grease and nothing more. Sand it back, and rub in the linseed. If your really worried about waterproofing it then get a few cans of clear cote polyurathane, I find its best in the spray cans but brushing it on works well too, just have to sand it back a little between coats.

Its how he shuts us up, completely stumps us and leaves us blank

And bigger goggles, the ones you have now already make your eyes look huge lol reminds me of that 80's movie 'the fly'

This is that plant I got from Rotorua that came with the whiptail stowaway. Those pics it is pretty close to just bought, about 3 days in my tanks. Cept the one with the guppies thats one of the many 'offcuts'

This is it http://www.el-camino-real.fr/aqua/cabomba-caroliniana.jpg Hard pics for you to I.D. from sorry but you helped alot, but googling the mentioned names I could see which were closer to it. I have ambulia (though it got munched back a fair bit) but I can see the differences now