Stephanie

So after looking at them every time I went in to the LFS I bought half a dozen Longfin Danios. I bought them home, set up a spawning tank and within 24 hours have hundreds of eggs in a tank. Today we ended up going back and cleaning out the tank, ending up with a nice school of 15. I am most impressed with these fish and wonder now why I didn't get them sooner. They're apparently getting in some pearl danios, and I may be able to get celestial pearl and giants in. What other types can we get here and has anyone had experience breeding other small egg scattering tetras or barbs (not cherry, they're already getting a breeding tank) as they're putting in an order tomorrow apparently and i'd like to order more fish asap as it's fairly hard to locate anything here! Cross your fingers my fry survive!

Massive dormant volcano I can deal with. Big waves not so much.

Feeling lucky we don't live near any beaches just in case. Earthquakes are already moving north in New Zealand. I have always believed somethings going to happen in 2012, but now i'm completely convinced. Laterz life.

Hahaha. Oh my god. The giraffe/duck one never ever gets old! It makes me laugh every single time. :facepalm: :lol:

Your babies look awesome! Sorry to hear about your loss. It's always horrible losing them. We lost half a dozen recently when we shifted. We're down to like 5 females, mostly too old to breed. I was so attached to all of them. Best of luck with the new generation though!

Ah I want PKs! We lost our two in the move. I am absolutely GUTTED!

There's a few people in Auckland who have good quality ones, it's a shame they're so hard to find around the rest of the country. We recently moved to Taupo and lost a few of our nice ones and i've completely given up my hunt for now. I miss them being so easy to find!

We just fixed our horrible fence with the brush stuff. It works wonders. Our fence is bars though, we used it to make it more private. Living on a pretty busy road and right across from a dairy and petrol station means you get weirdos staring at you when you sit outside for a cigarette. Easy to put up too and you can easily take it down again if you have to.

Would love to see pictures. The humble old guppy is always going to be a favourite of mine! I'm not a big albino fan (red eyes freak me out usually) but I have seen a couple of nice ones around. I'm on a mission to grow some big guppies. The guppies i've seen recently are tiny compared to what they used to be!

We were informed about this one recently!! Eek so excited! We'll definitely be there as soon as it opens!!!

As it turns out my great grandmother is maori. Tuwharetoa actually which of course means Taupo/Turangi. So if we go back i'll claim rights to my fish pond hahaha. I have paperwork. :roll: :lol: Still alive and doubled in size already!

Guess what? I don't want to curse it but they're all still alive. Have slowly acclimatised them, now i'm going to set up a proper tank for them to grow up in. They're super fast and much healthier than your average fry. I'm really impressed with them. I love mollies and I kept some for a bit when I was like 15 but the ones you see in shops are so sickly looking now I haven't given much thought to keeping them. Keep your fingers crossed!

They would look nice in my tanks. You know it.

Yes Adrienne they made it and thanks! All but one survived the trip. We lost a couple of swords and goldfish on the way down and a few fighters have gone in the last two weeks. I'm pretty gutted but now i'm keen to breed what I have left and work from there. Mr. Dragon is still with us, has a pretty good nest and a super keen lady friend so cross your fingers for me!

I know I started a topic about this awhile ago, but as it ended up going completely off topic, here I am again. Now we’ve moved to Taupo, found a house and jobs and almost have our fish set up (nothing pretty yet! Lol) I am interested to see who out there in Taupo and the surrounding areas, keeps and maybe breeds fish. We lost a few on the way down, which is unfortunate but I guess to be expected. I’m hoping to have everything set up and breeding asap. Now life seems to be as exciting as working, cleaning the house and walking the dog, we haven’t really had a chance to do much else, so it would be nice to meet some likeminded people, maybe swap fish around, and find out who keeps what. Please don’t hijack my thread of awesome. I miss having fish people (Josh where are you?) around! Ta.

Oh my god someone from Taupo!! :happy2: I need fish people in my life! Hahaha. Selection is average in Taupo. We have the basics and i've bought a couple of really nice fish recently, but it's not like being back in Auckland...yet!

I know someone who would buy them... :lol:

Last night the Taupo Aquarium Society (aka myself, Allister and my little dog Roddy, wishful thinking we actually had a club here huh?) went out to find out more about the infamous molly swap. As it turns out it took 45 minutes to get there, it doesn’t look far on a map and I’m not terribly good when it comes to planning anything, so we didn’t arrive until close to 8pm. Allister claimed he couldn’t see anything, but being the master fisherman I am I hunted until I found them. You could see bigger ones near the middle of the pond, but as I had no desire to get my feet wet, and I was wearing white shoes I let them be. I looked under the little bank I was standing on (carefully, the idea of dying in hot mud doesn’t do a lot for me) and there was hundreds if not thousands of fry. All it took was a scoop of the net and I got a bunch. I ended up leaving with 8, because I’ve heard stories about them not living once they’re in a tank and I don’t believe in taking much from the wild, even though they shouldn’t be there they all look so fat and happy, and they’re not doing anyone any harm. So here’s a couple of pictures, the swap looks pretty yuck. I can see why it could be hard to find, I personally wouldn’t have stopped for a fish if I hadn’t known where it was. The photos of the fry aren’t the best, but they do have that molly shape to them, the biggest is maybe 1cm long including it’s tail and they look to be all female. Here’s hoping fry are more adaptable and I can have a nice tank of mollies in the future. I’ll add these guys to the masses of fry we’re already growing up and cross my fingers. Would be keen to go back if there is another hunt on in the future.

Jealous. I need a new fish club. If only it was closer to Taupo.

If you ever want ramshorn snails I think Allister has some in his tanks. Apple snails are cool though. I have two at the moment but want more, I keep them in coldwater with minnows outside and they're growing so fast! They go mental over watersprite if you have any, it's like a drug for snails I think. :roll: P.S - you can come guppy fishing any time you're down this way. Out of control! :lol:

Yeah, if you want to sell any more pandas the others would be super happy.

Yeah...right ha ha ha. Keen to try and locate some more pandas I am.

So tempting now we live in the middle of nowhere!!

That's intense! Which I hadn't watched it though, now I feel all itchy and yuck haha. :-? Going to have nightmares about massive bugs. &c:ry

Mine were always on the bottom of the tank and they've all developed ventrals and they've been on microworms everyday. I wouldn't stress too much as long as the bottom is spotless.