Caryl

Someone asked if we had seen any funny signs recently. I have seen two... A local health shop has a board outside the shop proclaiming "Returning soon! Prostrate manager!" Sounds like the poor manager needs a longer holiday, or to recover from one :-? One of the chemists had a chalk board advertising "Invisible Gloves! As seen on TV!!" :lol:

I too have never had trouble with the AquaClear range. Not used any other brand of HOB filter so can't compare them to others though. A tank that size with those fish would be fine with an under gravel filter too.

Did you not get a shot looking down on the Ross goldmine? It is fascinating - and so big! Nice pics. I will send a link to my parents. I waved to my relatives in the cemetery :lol:

I meant the back door of the car! :lol:

and here's me thinking he was sitting in front of a heat pump :lol:

Just had a measure up. A 6ft would fit but there would be the stand too. With the slope on the back door we might be pushing it to fit both in. Especially as I haven't thought about depth and height of tank or stand as yet. More measuring to do :roll:

It has suddenly occurred to me that if I re-arrange the computer room I can fit a 6ft tank on the wall that backs onto the bathroom. As we are about to have the bathroom remodelled, it would be a good time to have a tap put in on the tank side of the wall for instant water changes! A drain at the bottom will have a pipe go to the drain outside the outer wall at one end of the tank. :bounce: If I put the proposed new tank where the African 4ft used to be I am limited to a 5ft tank - and no tap. Now I need to see if I can fit a 6ft tank in the back of the Odyssey as I will get Tim in ChCh to make it for me.

A hard lesson to learn I find daphnia die very easily in small containers with no water movement. I don't know why since they appear to flourish in small puddles of water left over in old stock troughs!

Our budgie, Bud, does similar things. He is free range in the evenings and has developed a fondness for ears. He imitates the phone too but luckily is a slightly lower pitch so we can distiguish between the two! :lol: Bud will attempt to drink anything from your glass as long as it isn't hot. He learned his lesson there! For a while he enjoyed just about tipping himself upsidedown inside an empty mug then making burping noises. I think he liked the echo :lol:

Oh I would but I am so sorry - there won't be any left Grant got home today saying "The hunter gatherer has returned with his kill!" and dumped a frozen leg of wild pork on the bench :lol: He had been over at the neighbour's helping him with his computer. He is a regular hunter and pays us in various foods - wild pork, venison and seafood. The venison today came from another happy customer down the Sounds :bounce: PS. Also out of heat pads 8)

I am sitting here trying to format the Year Book (difficult when some club information is still outstanding :evil: ) and have a venison casserole cooking in the slow cooker. The smell is delicious and has wafted right through the house!

That was my problem too Phantom. Plus, arthritis in the fingers means they don't work as fast as my brain so I often get letters reversed like ew instead of we. Er instead of Re is another one I do often because my left hand is worse than my right

Totally Tanked will have a stall there so look out for them!

I do hope you mean a fish there Simian :lol:

I often refer to Curt's Plantgeek site www.plantgeek.net

Net Speed: 39 WPM (words/minute) Accuracy: 95% Gross Speed: 41 WPM (words/minute) Not bad for only using 2 fingers on each hand. I can type faster when I am doing my own words, not copying what is on a screen. I wish I had taken the commercial course at school as I would have learned touch typing (which both my kids can do at great speed!) instead of the professional course. I am finding typing more useful than French! :roll: In my day (before computers were invented) you couldn't choose individual subjects, you chose a block "course" of subjects. At least I was able to pass individual School Certificate (ye olde NCEA) subjects. In Grant's day (even older than mine) you didn't get School Cert unless you passed all 5 subjects. Math, English and Geography were compulsory too! :lol:

Plants are just a higher form of algae (or are algae a lower form of plants?). I think some of the types of algae look really nice, if kept under control and not smothering everything.

Welcome to the fishroom

Have you actually explained fully to the new people that you have such a violent allergy? Keep sneezing and coughing on them and they should get the message.

You mean cabomba or ambulia? The two look very similar so either one would give you that bushy look. It is a plant I have never had luck with. Probably due to lack of light in my tank :roll:

Hi and welcome Beau.

Best to have lots more females than males. Most male livebearers will chase anything that moves - male or female :roll:

Welcome to the fishroom. I too am a fan of bristlenoses 8)

I don't know if all Binn Inn's have a grinder. I have halved the sugar in most of the recipes I use and try to use sweetner instead if something is required. American recipes (my son loves recipe bazaar) always have waaaay too much sugar in them! Anyway, back on topic... :lol: I haven't actually tried the new Cadbury as I objected to the new packs being smaller but the price didn't drop :evil: Considering they said it was much cheaper to produce, using palm oil, we ought to see a reduction in price!

I am aware two of those mentioned are colour variations of the same barb but would still prefer to see more of one colour. I like golden barbs as they are bigger, very colourful, and always on the move.