Caryl

The full story was on here once but I can't find it. Husband and I were doing comms for the Silver Fern Car Rally and going through the Molesworth on day 2. I rarely drive the 4WD and never on gravel roads to when I hit an extra bit of gravel that had been piled up on a corner by all the rally cars, preceeding us at great speed, I overcorrected and careened down the hill. I did manage to turn (hard to steer as it was muddy) just before we hit the water and came to a halt on the edge. Then the bank gave way and the car toppled over :roll: As we were tail end Charlie nobody realised what had happened (no cell phone coverage) until Grant rigged up an aerial that got radio contact back to base so they called a tow truck for us. We had to wait several hours for the truck. While waiting, we dragged all we could salvage out of the vehicle and dried it out. Aftre an hoiur or two of no traffic a DOC guy came by in his truck. He checked we were OK then said he ought to fine us for improper use of a waterway (he was known to me and was laughing when he said it) or for fishing without a licence :lol: It is the only accident I have ever had and I have never driven on gravel roads since. Neither of us were injured and none of the radio gear got wet. We got back home, washed everything, got a WOF for the old 4WD (which we had replaced 6 months ago but never got around to selling) swapped the radio gear over and were on our way again the next day to catch up with the rally in Queenstown. Later in the rally one of the drivers ended up totally submerged in a river. One of the other guys looked at me and said "He did a better job of it than you didn't he?" :lol: Only I could manage to end up in the only water for miles to be found in the Molesworth :roll: :oops:

I always liked the Village People. Good songs to walk to when doing my exercise as they are a good beat and the right speed :lol: Perhaps your fighter is just not sexually mature yet?

You only have to report accidents if someone else is injured. This is what I did (and have never heard the end of it). Wrote off the vehicle. Not a mark on it on the outside but water went through all the electrical bits :roll:

I agree. I run a filter in an established tank for a few weeks and start it that way, or swap media in an established filter. No wait then.

They only tested it at the school because so many were sick - 47 out of 104 pupils or something.

Many thanks Helen. I am sure it looks good and response will be good as well :bounce:

My daughter's school has made the headlines... http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/ ... its-school (She is a teacher, not a pupil )

I am wondering if my 2 large male BNs took exception to the new arrivals but I have not seen them take any particular notice of them. They just chase other fish away from their food pellet but I have seen no evidence of them actually harming another fish but perhaps chased these hard into a hole in the driftwood somewhere :-?

Yes, the time is set by you. You need to go to User Control Panel then click on Board Preferences, then make sure the time zone is set for UTC+12, until daylight saving starts again.

They weren't in a bag, they were loose in a very large chilly bin. Another was dead this morning. Looks like it may have been the one shown in the above pics There is one left with similar, but a lot less, damage plus the others of course. I could only see 2 today but I suspect they are all hanging out at the back behind a huge piece of driftwood. Between it and the dense plants, it can be hard to find anything! :roll: I also spotted a banded cory and remember Jim saying he had dropped some of them in too. :bounce: All other fish are fine and feeding well. So were the corys, even the damaged ones. :-?

Jimr spent the night here on his way south and left behind, as thanks, a number of lovely Sterbai corys. I did not see them until I got home from work that night (as I had left before Jim transferred the fish). When I did see them I noticed 3 seemed to have an identical "injury" on top of their body in front of the dorsal. One died last night and also appeared to have been bleeding internally at the front end of the fish. Any ideas what it could be? It looks like a fish that has jammed itself into a tight spot but to have it on 3 different corys makes this seem unlikely.

Someone had better be taking good photos are preparing an article about this!!!

I feel sorry for the red hat guy in the middle. I hope he has a little LEGO chunder bucket beside him! :lol:

When I was your age we did not have computers and didn't have TV until I was almost a teen! Didn't have tropical fish either come to think of it. I am sure some people must have kept them but I don't remember seeing any, just goldfish.

Oh dear - hooked already :roll: :lol: Welcome

I thought hamsters only lived a couple of years. We don't have gerbils either - for the same unknown reason as hamsters perhaps? I was hoping to see some (hamsters or gerbils) when I was in the UK but couldn't find any.

Perhaps the secret squirrel doesn't want competition

Adrienne different substrates can alter the pH. When we first started fish keeping we killed large numbers of guppies as our pH kept soaring up to 8 and we would add pH Down (as per shop instructions) but next day it woluld be up again. Poor fish suffered in our ignorance! Turned out the substrate was meant for African set-ups to keep the pH at 8.0 :-?

How do you know he isn't the one on the left?

Products advertised as reducing ammonia (like Ammolock) can give false test readings.

I do like the fact that the woman has said it was entirely her own fault and has apologised to the owners.

That one had the most votes and has since been altered very slightly to make it more "printer friendly". You will have to wait and see what the final result is

Flakes are good.

Reviving an old thread... Ben, you said you were going to make a pumkin pie for the cafe. Did you do so and was it popular?

This Sunday, 2pm, at new member James' house next door to us at 10a Faulkland Dr. Feel free to park up the drive as there is plenty of room at both his and our place James and Emma have just set up their first tank and stocked it last weekend after a buying spree in Christchurch. He is keen to show us their efforts and the beautiful breeding colours of his kribensis pair. ALL WELCOME.