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Size doesn't matter A pic is worth a thousand words

Just cut it off and replants the tips.

Some parents manage to come up with some really dreadful names for their poor children to be saddled with :roll: Try to avoid weird spellings of common names :facepalm:

Shrimp are usually fed to fish when newly hatched as they quickly lose their nutritional value.

I think the preserving jars were 1 quart so about 1L This site may help; http://www.ewsinton.co.nz/shop/glasswar ... ving-jars/

I saw them in a lfs in the UK and was not impressed. Their colour was uninteresting, as was everything else about them.

Burning is recommended I believe. I guess dried out and chopped up on the compost heap would also do.

There are a lot of noxious plants growing in waterways around NZ. It is impossible to eradicate it all but it is still illegal to collect it. There are 4 types of Elodea in NZ but one of them is legal - Elodea canadensis. Same with the other, which may be a type of Myriophyllum. Some are illegal but others are not. Not sure if the average hobbyist (or MAF employee for that matter) would be able to tell one from the other. If you collect plants from waterways, and there is a chance it may be a noxious species, be very careful when disposing of it.

Not only photos but I assume you are also doing an article for the Aquarium World magazine?

One of the timing crews had that with them on the Silver Fern Car Rally and they had fun setting it up at each place they were stationed. It created a lot of comments!

I am sure many kids drink, or swallow, the water at public swimming pools and there will be a lot more than just chlorine in that! :-?

Exactly. The pictures on the packaging are very misleading.

Boiling the water is unneccessary and added work.

But it revived the game. It would help if people thought before they offered a new word bearing in mind another has to be created from theirs. mastodon

You want it to look something like this...

I guess the old preserving jars aren't big enough. You can get them real cheap at recycling places.

Hi and welcome

Without the sponges you may find your water clarity not as good as you would like. I only clean my filters once a year or so. I can get a 2L container full of black gunk out of the baskets

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but brilliant!

Perhaps I ought not say that Kelly is dressed as one of the 3 ho's of Christmas (ho, ho, ho)

If she is working to pay for her shopping habit she should be pleased to work stat days with the extra pay. Have a family "Christmas Day" on another day. If you are not religious it shouldn't matter on what day you celebrate. Grant has been called out (and you get no warning) every Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years and, come to think of it, pretty much every weekend this year, for the past few years now. This year we are going to his sister's at Okiwi Bay - no cell phone coverage :lol:

Hi and welcome. With that number and type of fish, I assume you are planning to buy a bigger tank in the near future?

I love it too. It was Kelly's idea but not everyone gets the connotations attached

Since when has Santa worn a halo? :-?