Sophia

those sound like the things Stella posted in another thread, but mine don't move. I have poked at them many a time from various angles and they won't play

thankyou (didn't realise I'd made a naughty word selection till you posted :oops: quick keep it moving or I will get told off again :nilly: )

isn't I could see you could have gone on like that for days

I think I must have the first kind of limpet, these haven't gotten any bigger and about 2-3mm max, quite transparent. They don't like being removed either, I think they die. At least when I took one off to inspect it, it didn't turn itself back over like a snail-snail. I didn't realise the backswimmers were a problem till too late, and I think they ate each other as well. At one point I had 5 and all but one disappeared. I posted naively earlier that there was one swimming around with an ostracod on it's head but at that time I didn't realise it was a backswimmer, I thought it's legs were underneath. Now I know it must have caught one and was swimming about eating it. If I can't get the bugs to grow back I will have to go trawling again, but I had sort of promised myself that I would not look like a crazy person with a fish net in the middle of the park again :roll: ... I'm sure I will be able to justify another trip soon :lol: Charles, does the moss have those white blobs on it still? I am watching some that are growing on the glass, and on another strand of moss, odd things they are. They look like miniature cauliflowers or a roundish coral. About 2 mm around and the one that's on the moss is about twice that size. I don't think they are a hydra at all now. Stella, I'm waiting for my library's copy of your book to arrive, I think it's been long enough by now. Did you also get a request from Auckland Uni as well?

pasta

Your cat certainly does like your showboat, he likes him for his dinner :lol: Your vid is the first time I've seen a fighter in a tank other than a goldfish bowl or one of those prisons like at the petshop, but yours looks good. Nice colour choice too.

A moving shark fin like at Treasure Island adventure golf near the airport? Trouble is the water level must have gone down a bit because in certain parts of the cycle you can see the stick it's attached to coming out of the water

Today's update: Have removed all suspected predators that I can identify and am now left with 2 shrimp, rotifers, daphnia, a few ostracods, a couple of snails and some things look like miniature limpets stuck to the glass. There is now a lump of bog wood with some baby java fern plantlets attached, and most of the native plants now removed. What I find odd/interesting is that the ostracods seem to have mostly died out, and most of the small daphnia. I'm left with a group of about 20 fat daphnia from about 40-60 after the last trawl in the trough. Wondering whether the suspected predators got the small daphnia (backswimmers and mites) or whether they died naturally?? I haven't found a way to feed the tank successfully yet (still growing greenwater) so maybe everything starved??

lengthy

You can laugh but I icky sticked a dying guppy I had with a pin once.

thanks

Does all this essentially still apply if you want to start a native coldwater marine tank? If you keep within the fishing and collecting rules can you bring a piece of rock with an anemone or a mussel on it home to plop in the tank?

real

those floofies look a little surprised to see you in the first picture, possibly not very pleased

a few of the subjects in this thread might be interested viewtopic.php?f=16&t=46007 8)

have you asked these people? https://www.ubsbooks.co.nz/bookweb/start.cgi They often have 2nd hand texts. If their delivery is costly I can go and get for you, put em in a box and post. (any excuse to go shopping)

I think Barrie had albino gardneri at one point, he may still have a few

oh lord, you don't watch that terrible show do you hahaha it's ok, your secret is safe with me Caryl

I think maybe seahorses might be my 3rd tank, in my next life

:nilly: then I will put some of that water in with the bugs and see who is interested. Though how do you tell if an amoeba with legs is interested in anything? Yesterday I put the jar outside partially under leafy cover and there is already some green in there.

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which word are we to answer on hmm?

very nice, how many did you end up with? do they shoal like fish?

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I like it. I don't know what the fish will think about the tribal background cloth though haha