Caryl

Good on you for actually reading the magazine Good also to see you were inspired by one of the articles Good on Paul for sending in the article :bounce: White clouds are easy to breed as you just add a group to a well planted tank with good water quality and food and eventually you will get fry. Be aware their fry are very very small and often not noticed for a week or two! They often cling to the glass or are found among the leaves if you look down on the tank from above and shine a torch in there. Their eyes reflect in the light.

Lean over the tank with a small clear container handy and yell "Cowabunga dudes!" and those little ninjas will all leap voluntarily into the container

I don't see why not. You would have to make sure the frame was well made and the pond not able to be tipped over if a kid leaned over it etc. Not sure if it might cause trouble in the way of condensation inside the house though. Paddling pools aren't very deep

Frogs often go to a pond whether you want them or not :lol:

Is it cheaper to buy pond liner or preformed ponds? Depends on the liner and pond size. They vary greatly in price. Can you heat a pond efficiently? Why would you want to? Especially in Auckland What can go in a pond apart from goldfish? Paradisefish (but I don't think they can share the pond with other fish), white cloud mountain minnows, leopardfish. These last two can be hard to see in a pond though. In summer you can have some barbs out there too, like golden and ruby barbs. They can tolerate down to 18C. How do you run power from the mains to the pond? From a weatherproof socket via an RCD

Good on you Alan. Breaking the cycle of violence can be difficult, especially if you have been raised to know no other way of life.

You wear your boxers around the house?? I am sure there is a law against that. I hope you stay away from the windows

What is the floor covering smcoleman? (and don't say the ground either :lol: )

I asked my dad about this as we used to live on a farm with a stand of macrocarpas on it. He said they never let any calving cows or lambing sheep near them as the "fry" died. They had a pig farrow under the trees once and half were born dead and the rest were sickly and died. He said it seemed to be the leaves that were the problem.

I have it all ready to go wok! I hope you find it worth the wait.

Good to see you finally got him clean again! I doubt Bud would have let me wash him like that!

I see. Lying about doing nothing eh? :lol: Congratulations, I hope all is well and stay that way.

I would like to thank you all for keeping this subject well controlled. I was going to immediately remove it as, since it is based on a law and involves a referendum, that makes it political and therefore against the guidelines but you have all shown restraint and I hope you continue to do so. Discipline is a great thing but it involves a lot more than whether to smack or not. We now have a generation or two of children who have always been told they are wonderful and great (no matter what their behaviour) have never been told in school they are not working hard enough (not allowed to lower their self esteem) believe they can leave school with no qualifications whatsoever but go straight into a top level position with top wages (because they are wonderful, great and everyone loves them and you don't have to work hard to get anywhere) and think the world owes them a living (I breathe therefore I am brilliant!). I have 2 children. The eldest was one who always ended up getting a whack on the backside (after everything else failed) as she was one who pushed the boundaries as hard as she could to see how much she could get away with. Her younger brother was never smacked in his life as he rarely did anything naughty. When he did do something bad (and it was only ever a minor transgression) you only had to frown at him and he burst into tears. The eldest is now a prinary school teacher loved by children and parents. The other is a deputy registrar in the Children and Young Persons Court. Both are fine, upstanding citizens (with the eldest having had minor run-ins with the law - usually for driving after curfew on a restricted licence as she was sober driver for her mates), honest, kind to animals, considerate of others and nice to their dear old mum (especially when they want something :lol: )

I heard that on the radio this morning too! :lol:

Tell him it has taken advantage of cheap fares and gone to Aus for a holiday. After a few days post a postcard to your son, from the fish, telling him it has decided it likes Aus so much it has decided to stay :lol:

I don't think so Ira as a guppy is not a ruminant. It doesn't kill all animals, just calving cows so I would give it a trial with a couple of fish and see what happens as I am sure it would look great. It is popular in furniture as it doesn't leach but by that I suspect they mean it doesn't lose colour in the sun, rather than it doesn't leach tannins out. :-?

I have not used it in a tank but the problem with macrocarpa seems to be the isocupressic acid. It is this that causes abortions in cattle (but not sheep). Something to do with different rumen functions in these animals. Now, since fish are not ruminants, perhaps they will not be affected? The site I was reading from here added that "Other symptoms including severe depression prior to abortion and in some cases animals will die if severely ill." I was wondering how you can tell a cow is depressed since they always look that way to me! :-?

Friends of my parents had a cockatiel that loved diving into the sink when they were doing the dishes. The bubbles didn't seem to bother him. They used to rinse him off then dry him with a hair dryer. He would fan his wings out and turn so the warm air dried him in all the right places :lol: You're going to name your budgie Whitey?

That looks great Phil. I had seen photos of it but the video gives a better idea of the size.

I don't keep fighters so can't help with that but to answer your air pump question... yes they can run quite warm and should run 24/7 if attached to a sponge filter. Make sure there is plenty of air flow around it.

Neat idea Zev! Quiz evenings are always fun.

Oh come on, conspiracy theories are much more fun!!! (Aliens did it)

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So the new bigger tank will replace the old one? If so, just swap all over, including the filters. It will just be like them getting a good sized water change. Run the two new filters in it as well then after a month you will have spare filters to set up the 100l as well somewhere else

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