Sophia

I had stick insects when I was a kid, now I just have a husband

what sort of noise does a lizard make?

!drool: !drool:

They aren't 'big' spiders though are they? I think I've had these on windowsills in the garage and the spider body is about the size of a middle finger tip. Total size about the tip of a thumb.

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email MAF and they'll send you the sticker and all manner of propoganda, that's what I did.

Moving country costs a lot of money, add up whatever the things you can definitely cost out, like how much rent you need in advance, cost of food, basic household items you couldn't bring, travelling to work for the first month or 2 etc etc, then add more for however many months you think is a generous contingency plan, and then add more for everything you haven't thought of. Unless you have access to someone who will lend you money that is, and then I envy you haha. But if you're living day to day it's difficult to save so you would likely be starting off your new life in debt. I know the feeling though, I've moved house and city a number of times over the past few years and I'm still paying it off.

nice photos :thup:

I am old :sage:

Top 10 reasons why a dog is better than a girlfriend: 10. A dog's parents will never visit you. 9. A dog loves you when you leave your clothes on the floor. 8. A dog limits its time in the bathroom to a quick drink. 7. A dog never expects you to telephone. 6. A dog will not get mad at you if you forget its birthday. 5. A dog does not care about the previous dogs in your life. 4. A dog does not get mad at you if you pet another dog. 3. A dog never expects flowers on Valentine's Day. 2. The later you are, the happier a dog is to see you. 1. A dog does not shop.

I went to the local Highland Games and bought some potato scones... yum :cofn: thinking about continuing with my sewing project

I'll eat 12 muffins and then do a bomb in there. Then you will know if the pool is structurally sound

his ears remind me of this picture are you getting just one bunny?

Just for you Anthony (or your missus) here is an old one that I received the other day: 5 tips for women 1) It's important for a woman to have a man who listens to her needs, 2) It's important for a woman to have a man who buys her presents, 3) It's important for a woman to have a man who makes her laugh, 4) It's important for a woman to have a man who can fix things around the house, 5) It's important that none of these men know each other.

cute attack! :nilly:

Cool, thanks Alan I will do that now. You can have the next plant if you, no worries.

here's a photo of it now, I tried to limit the spread of the longest root by wrapping it around, it's now in a figure 8 :gigl: There are 3 roots now, I'd like to plant it in the empty space while the crypts are still sulking - do you think I could snip the branch and then bury the branch with the sword just sitting on the substrate so the roots can find their way in themselves, or will they crawl over the top instead and should be planted? I see Alan says it should be 'way bigger' but the plantlet itself isn't way bigger yet.

it's impossible to say if it's of use until you have decided whether to go low tech or high. If you go low tech I'd say no, leave the ferts out, or just put a few JBL balls in the substrate for the plants with roots. If you are going high tech then you get a :dunno: from me

thanks Liam, I will also read it later, my brain is full at present

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Liam I want to see that article too, I didn't think it was possible. ---------- Those tanks are cool but they all look like high tech tanks, it would take probably a number of months for a low tech to grow as thick as that unless you planted lots and lots of plants to start with. My loach tank has about 11 watts of light from a clip on aquarium light that covers the tank from front to back rather than it's length, it's on 6 hours a day with only a short time of sunset light late in the day. The plants are slow growing (except anubias, puts out lots of new leaves) and there are no stem plants (only crypts, twisted val, anubias nana), but there is not a spot of algae. When the room lights are on the lighting looks like a shady nook in the forest compared to the brightness of those photos (looks brighter if the room lights are off). The CPD tank seems bright with an 8 watt bulb that runs the length of the tank and is also on for about 6 hours. That one has various algae that comes and goes slowly enough for me to catch and kill or remove and the plants grow faster in there than the other one. I had riccia floating in that tank originally and it did very well for a while, grew very fast and then got a light brown slimey algae that incidentally didn't grow in others' tanks when I sold some, but it blocked the light and some of the plants underneath suffered. I tried plastering the riccia to a rock with plastic netting but I wasn't patient enough to wait for it to grow and the netting looked un-pretty. The crypts in there did really well (till I disturbed them :facepalm: ) and the swordplant and twisted val is also taking off now. Have now added some aponogeton undulatus which looks great, really green. Supasi also grew that in his low tech tank that you'll find in the search. As Jennifer instructed me ( :sage: ), for low tech you have to have little or no ferts, short light period, but probably any light fitting/brightness will do when you control it time-wise. In the beginning you'd have to start out with say 6 hours and see how it went for a couple of months, if no algae you could increase it and so on. To match it you have to get plants that don't need high light requirements, but saying that many will still do alright if you are prepared to wait for growth. I have balansae crypt doing slowly but well that is supposed to like high light. I never tried glosso or many of the stem plants for those reasons. In short - if you want the lush look with low maintenance and low tech then get lots of plants to start with so you don't have to wait for the growth. Black background will be fine if you get a light fitting that runs the length of the tank so it's lit from end to end. My loach background is blue like the CPD tank but in the corners it's so dark it's almost navy. You need to come and visit Auckland and see my tanks!

the long finned driftwood fish... seen here in all its glory :smln:

found it, thanks.