Caryl

Don't tell her you are visiting them all. Tell her you are just visiting those recommended as best. She needn't know that is all of them

I had trouble keeping dwarf gouramis with the full sized ones but others didn't. :dunno:

I hope sister gave you permission to try it out

Pics need to be on an online hosting site like photobucket or imageshack etc

We stayed in Nathan Rd too and walked to the fish markets. Arowanas everywhere! Selling for $5 each

Don't go making any hasty decisions. You may find your feelings about it change and you do decide to keep on with it. While you are still vacillating I would not do anything you might later regret. My condolences on your loss.

Welcome and yes, you will need a bigger tank for those angels. What a shame :facepalm: :happy1: PS - MTS - Multiple Tank Syndrome. A disease where infected people can't fight the need to buy "just one more" aquarium. :slfg:

http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/nppa

. Welcome. You may find the fish selection limited to what you are used to

We mothers are not stupid

Not all bogwood releases tannins so you may not have trouble with tinted water. Some leach for a while and others always do so, no matter what you do. A matter of luck, or perhaps the type of wood. I collect native timber driftwood from the Hokitika beach and have never had one leach but one I bought with a tank (from up north) leached continually.

From what I can see it is.

Feb, May, Aug and November. I think having more marine content would encourage more members to give them a go. Look how many native fish keepers we now have thanks to Stella's excellent help on the forum here and in her articles in the magazine It doesn't matter when an article is sent as I just include it whichever magazine is being worked on at the time.

We welcome all fish keepers here and as long as they follow the rules we are happy for them to post. If a person then PMs members encouraging them to join their own site we are not impressed but this has happened in the past and seems to be a practise followed by some. We often recommend other dedicated marine sites to those having trouble with their saltwater set-ups. We are not a marine dedicated site so welcome any advice from experienced salties. We also love to see pics of their fish and set ups. We do not like to see other people abused and I do not care what goes on in other forums. If you do not have something nice or constructive to say about whatever is posted then keep your opinions to yourself please.

I will hope it is on TV on demand somewhere.

I found this on someone's Facebook and thought it interesting Anyone age approx 35 or over should read this - copied from a friend ... Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I apologised and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days". the clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations". She was right about one thing--our generation didn't have the green thing in “Our” day. So what did we have back then? After some reflection and soul-searching on "Our" day here's what I remembered we did have.... Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles repeatedly. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day. Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 240 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house --not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Wales. In the kitchen, we blended & stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen. We replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we older folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then? 8)

There is the suggestion that with the heater at the bottom and the thermostat at the top, you get a false reading of temp as the hot water around the heater rises and the thermostat thinks the overall water temp is higher than it is so switches the heater off. If you angle the heaterstat this problem is alleviated.

I didn't see it

It will be I am sure.

That poor fish is not "mental" he is terrified. Hopefully he will now calm a little with a cave to hide in.

and it is Friday 13th too

Not any of what? A senior merely means an adult, not a senior citizen.

Last time one of our members did that her breeding shed was broken into and her best breeding fish stolen. She no longer breeds fish &c:ry :an!gry Why did you not start the ball rolling?

&c:ry &c:ry