Caryl

It took me a minute to find it! Put in on different substrate and it might look more like another picture somewhere

I see he is the smallest of the group and the mark is only on one side. I suspect he may have been rammed by another fish and it is a bruise. Not sure there is anything you can do except keep the water as clean as possible and make sure he is not harassed further, or misses out on food. If he worsens, or the others pick on him further, I suggest you separate him until he improves.

Yep. Actually it is an old drafting table from ye olde Post Office We have to put a board over it for the bigger puzzles though as they are 4cm too high :roll: Also it stops the puzzle pieces sliding on the shiny table top. Can't put it on a sharper angle as they all slide. 8) That is why we are doing the puzzle now - Misty used to walk over it and puzzle pieces would stick to her fur. When Bud was around he would pick up and throw the pieces onto the floor. Pepper would have flapped and scattered them all over - if he wasn't eating them :lol:

An update... There seems to be a fault in the design. I have too many pieces for the right hand edge and not enough for the left :roll:

Ah so it isn't the roast chicken that's so good but the contents of the stuffing in this case eh?

Well I think you might find they do not offer nutrient value to bigger fish. There are better live foods than these.

and send it all to me

Out of curiosity, why are you wanting to grow brine shrimp? As a source of food they are only good for a few days then lose their nutrient value.

With 3 kids you have extra hands (or a pushchair) to carry things!

Somebody has to since not many volunteer! :-?

I think those frogs are banned here?

Ah is that what she meant by a geyser? I thought for a minute she lived in Rotorua!

To save me going insane as I work on the new Year Book, I am ready to start on a new jigsaw. Called Amazonas, it is a 4000 piece 136cm x 96cm (approx 4' 5" x 3') Here is the pic I have to follow...

Maybe just overexcitement :lol: I remember several people being very interested in some of the plecs when we were in Organism at the weekend.

Email them to me if you like John and I will post them for you.

Please note the shop is called ORGANISM :lol: You missed a bit

Well hurry up or I will talk to zev and then you'll be sorry

I know I learned a lot listening to DonnaM's talk about her turtle rescue and rehoming and was horrified to hear a lot of information given to new turtle owners is not only wrong, but harmful to their health

Leaf fish? :lol:

No it doesn't last too well (speaking from experience) :-?

We brought lots of fish home from conference from ChCh to Blenheim (something we do a lot) and never lost a fish. They were double bagged at the shop with only a few per bag then we put them in poly boxes. When you travel your car is usally a good temperature anyway but I prefer to keep them in a box. I also use the soft sided chilly bins you can buy cheaply these days as, when not in use, they pack away in small places. We also brought home a large selection of cichlids once just loose in a chilly bin. Large chilly bins are good for fish too big to fit in a bag as well.

Don't forget the water temp in the buckets will not drop below that of the room so as long as you keep the room warm (22C minimum) you do not need to have to worry about the water cooling.

We have a $100 note?? :lol:

And of course you found it Ira :roll: :lol:

The shop had sold us a lovely red substrate. We did not know (neither did they and they stil didn't understand when we told them either) it was designed for African set-ups so the pH would rise to 8. The shop would sell us pH Down and we would pour it in! Poor fish suffered through severe pH swings. It took us a while to figure out why the pH kept shooting up and didn't understand much about it in those days. Luckily a local fish club started up and we got our answers there 8) No internet in those days either