Sophia

Here are some photos Unfortunately difficult to see the other bugs as they are so small but good news - I caught only 2 waterboatmen, there are now 3 extra mini boatmen rowing about! Tank from the front tank from the left side (hard to get a good pic without a light inside it - note to self, take killie light for next batch of photos!) Shrimpville - spot the eyes on tank patrol

I was just wondering the same thing

mine just 'do it' in front of the kids

A-Town, I think the moss in your second picture looks like the stuff I found in Meola Creek viewtopic.php?f=41&t=49850&start=30 possibly illegal but plenty more there - this was attached to rocks, was yours?

count me in so you also need to develop the Low Tech range I know that defeats the object of Low Tech but still...

2 monster tanks: 33L killie tank as of yesterday I now have 2 tanks as there is a 22L freshwater bugs tank

Merry Christmas hopefully in Summer I will be coming and see your fishy friends

are they just hatching in the tank with the adults or did you save the eggs and hatch later?

Today's update: 1 freshwater river shrimp is the latest accidental inhabitant after it escaped the killie watching eye yesterday. I'd put more in but I worry about them eating the eggs. Also got some microworms today, tiny they may be, but they keep the fry busy for ages, hunting them down and chomping them. The beauty of it is that the worms are so small the other bigger fish and fry are not interested so the small fry get a meal all to themselves for a change. Current fish menu - dried daphnia, dried and frozen brine shrimp, white worms, grindals (when they take off again, these I don't have too much luck with), frozen bloodworm, tropical flake food with dried mystery worms. Soon hopefully some live pond bugs when that tank gets going.

melting crypts haha I have some of those

all remaining shrimps now in the bug tank and apparently OK - they hang out in the corners swimming up and down in groups and run all over the bottom not caring which bugs they tread on haha it's a very busy little tank, but it seems like a 1200L tank compared to the size of the inhabitants

ready

:bounce:

thanks Shrimpo is alive in the killie tank, likes the back wall where the algae is

go on P44, list all the crypts you have in there... I know you know them

my deepest apologies for interupting the flow, I was not thinking of the ontology of the thread ontology

You're right about it being difficult to tell one from the other. What is the acceptable method of disposal, should that day arise? I guess dried out and chopped up on the compost heap and nowhere near a storm water drain? This morning the peat had settled quite a bit so I siphoned out the tap water from yesterday and carefully put in my collected rainwater. Have tied the moss to a stone and used that to anchor the plants into the peat, and also put a layer of fine black grit on top to help keep the peat tidy. Leaves are in, all are on the bottom except one that wants to float straight up and down. Water is a cloudy tea colour and I will take some photos when it settles some more. I have all the bugs in the tank now except the shrimps. They were out enjoying the rain a moment ago. They range in size, mostly about a centimetre long, there might be 15 of them - do you think that is too many to keep in 22L? The daphnia changed colour while in the bucket (silver coloured) this week, they went from brown to a pale colour, I suppose so they would be less conspicuous. They are currently running all over the bottom of the tank like it's hot underfoot. Next job is go and catch some more bugs from the trough.

pretty, lots of colour

ewww

that isn't a word by itself!

cool

Those plants have been in that creek for many years, I'm sure Auckland council knows about them and is doing nothing about it. The bugs sure love them anyway. Do you think I should get a filter for the bugs tank or just put the shrimps in and see how they get on? I caught the shrimps thinking to feed them to the fish but I don't want to put more in the killie tank and find they become livestock or just die later. I should either give them away or keep them alive and I'm not sure how to do the latter - will they be OK without a filter or do they need one?

I think I killed it. :roll: Unless someone wants to make up a new word?

Dammit I put a shrimp in the killie tank for them to have for dinner, and they didn't see it, or ignored it and now it's roaming about looking evil. Also tried 2 water fleas which zoomed straight to the bottom and didn't get eaten either. :facepalm:

make the cloud settle so I can put my bugs and rain water in it!