kim

out of towners :lol: oh thats right your a jafa as well all jokes aside thanks alan everyone had a ball and enjoyed the meeting

at that price i would get it as i cant get my hands on them , importers dont want to bring them in as the price is so high.

just had our meeting with Alan giving us a fabulous talk on breeding fish and he had a few bags with stuff he uses to breed his fish in/on , it was great not having any members fall asleep Alan so we will happily have you come and talk to us all again. I would recommend you as a great speaker to any club. next month we don't have a normal meeting its more of a party , eat drink and have fun meeting.

good luck hope it's fine , if not you could always set up another tank and have fish that like higher ph's

:lol: yes i no what thats like i want things now all the time :lol:

you can check the ph of the wood by putting it in a tub of water for a few weeks , test the water when you first put it in and if it goes to high after a few weeks i would leave it for a few months then put it in.

some of the best bits of wood are found on the beach , as it is not from the sea you can use it . waterblast it if you like , i do that when i get mine that way i get any bugs out of it.

if you feed your kids candie they will not eat the veges you put in front of them so feed the fish up then be strong and dont feed him for a few days then feed him dry food , if he doesnt eat it take it out , then wait a day or two then try again.... he can go for weeks without food if he is a big one. if this doesnt work let me no i have more idears

this tuesday's meeting!!!!!!!!Our guest speaker will be Alan Wakelin, aka ALAN Alan is a back yard breeder from Whakatane. Alan breeds all kinds of fish, but Killifish are his passion. Alan has a lot of tanks and has a fish room that most of us would only dream of having. Alan has told me he has been keeping fish since Adam was a cowboy. If you have any questions, write them down, he is more than happy to pass on any information. if you can make it we would love to meet you it doesnt matter if you belong to another club you are always welcome to see how the other half live 8)

it was good to see some different fish in the show

no one put any discus in the show so thats why you wil not find a pic of one

its funny i sell 50/50 slabs and cubes, people like one or the other , i use the slabs but i break it up and put it into an empty dip container (good size to keep in freezer and its always keeped good.

wait until you see caryls photos they are great her hubbie spent hours and hours getting them just right , i cant wait to see them

it says no photos in this album but just click on it

ok i only have a few pic's but you can go and have a look now also a few pic from the napier aquarium click on my photo page to see them caryl's will be lots better than mine but i know you all want to see them now :lol:

GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! kongs got there bloodworms today!!!!!!! maf must have backed down 8) its great news for fish keepers and the fish i was lucky and hadn't run out but i was getting close

ok ok i am loading up some pics to my photo page!! keep an eye out as it takes an hour or so, only a few fish from the show and the aquarium.

thank you Kevin and Warren for asking me to be head judge it was great!! as i said i had a great team of judges that worked as a team and i would happily judge with anyone of you again! you all worked hard and well and at the end of a very long day the best fish won, you all need a pat on the back!! (pat pat) as that was the first show that i know of that they didn't have a protest. and as Kevin said without everyone that entered we wouldn't have had a show so THANKS! sadly one fish didn't make it Rob's dwarf loach. thanks to everyone for a great weekend and it was great meeting everyone and catching up with some old friends

alan in the top fish your Jordanell floridae, alan's (cant remember his last name) ram and a gourami oh and the midas all got top marks it was a hard call on a few of them but at the end of the day we all had fun and alan if you had won best in show your head would have been to big to walk out the door :lol: as you won so much , when we judged we didnt know whos fish they are all the tanks are done by number , i still dont no who owns over half the fish in the show :lol:

yes and do you know how had it was to do :lol: pick the best fish in show when you have over 200 fish and you have to pic the best, its hard enough to judge 6 fish and pic a winner some times

just got back and im buggered but it was a great weekend !!! they are talking about doing it again next year and if they dont i think it might be up this end of the north island!! lots of photos have been taken (every fish in the show) i took a video but dont no how it will come out, also took it with me when i did behind the scenes of the national aquarium thats a must REALLY COOL the fish that one best in show was a MIDAS CICHLID he was lovely and all of us judges couldnt fault him!! i was pleased to be head judge and had a great team of judges, they worked really hard and we all got very stressed but at the end of the day we all had fun,

dont make it to wet!!! try feeding them lunchen or put dog/cat biscuits in water or milk for 5 mins then feed them wet biscuits they love them

i have lots of babies and a really pissed off dad ..... this time the dad looked after all of the babies in the nest but yesterday i had to take them out because im going away today..... i didnt want them going up the filter when they came out of the nest in a few days .... my olds are looking after them. oh they are so cute at this age

i love the shovelnose 8) , i had a chance years and years ago to get one but i didnt have the room so sadly i didnt get it, they are such a cool fish . at the time i had a redtails cat and i didnt want to part with him , but as he got to big and i moved to a smaller place sadly i had to sell him cool cats

sorry andrew but alan wants them all , so in time when he has breed them you might be able to buy some young ones off him