Caryl

That is a male in the pic. Females are not as brightly coloured and have a round tail shape

We have never had a planned power cut last longer than originally stated. Most have been quite a bit shorter!

Commonly found in lfs in NZ. A beautiful fish.

Not at the moment but if I toss mine out into the pond over summer again I will have hundreds in the new year

Our driver licences are made of a plastic material and are the size of a credit card, but not as thick. They are quite bendable. The Sex Expo is held yearly, I think, in the main cities. It is just a get-together for all the sex related industries to show their products - some of which, I must admit, I had no idea what they were for!! It was fun people watching

The "stick thing" is called the gonopodium 3 males and 2 females is not good. You need 2 or more females for every male or the females will eventually be harassed to death. As to the spasms of your male, it is not breeding behaviour. Sounds like a neurological problem to me (perhaps he got knocked on the head at some point?).

I was at a club meeting last night talking to a couple who have been having trouble with their bore water as the drought meant a higher concentration of minerals and stuff were in the water and it killed their neons.

I wonder if the cloudiness is a result of you replacing all the filter pads and creating a minor bacterial bloom which, hopefully, should clear as the bacteria count goes back up. That filter ought to do the job. What fish do you have in the tank? If the tank is well planted and not heavily stocked it should clear. The green will be the excess light but not sure what to suggest if you can't move the tank. Are you able to cover any of the sides or top cut back the light? I get the green spots on the front glass in winter as early morning lower sun gets directly on the glass for a couple of hours each day. They are very hard to get off! Many suggest an old credit card works best.

Mahurangi do it and I think they are done via correspondence or through the Nelson/Marlborough Institute of Technology. The certificate is the Certificate in Companion Animal Services and has a number of specific options including "aquatics" and "advanced aquatics". A number of people here have done, or are doing, it. Contact Dave Cooper at the Mahurangi Institute or ring 0800PETQUALS (0800 738 78257) or [email protected]. Members of FNZAS affiliated societies were offered full scholarships for all except the advanced aquatics module. (Not sure if this offer is still open)

A simple box filter works well. Keep the lid off a bit so the fry can swim in and out of it. Fill with filter wool and a couple of stones to hold it down. Someone recently posted a thread on how they made their own I think. They are not hard to make but also very cheap to actually buy one.

Thank you all for your kind words. Now I have settled down I realise it is not so bad (could have been a LOT worse) but I still feel violated and am most upset about my bookmark and book. Realised this morning I also have to buy a new hairbrush :roll: I have cancelled the library card. That was funny actually as I went in and said I had just had my bag and wallet stolen so could they please cancel my card. The man said that wouldn't be a problem and he could issue me with a replacement immediately. Then asked "Do you have some ID on you?" "No", I replied, "It was stolen, I just told you that!" He laughed and said he should have realised that. Luckily I am a regular at our library and one of the other librarians vouched for me. I have heard of people's video hire cards being used to steal videos and game players but I don't have any of those cards. It is all the little things that are most upsetting plus it was my favourite black shoulder bag! When the insurance company asked if I wanted to make a claim on the bag I had to laugh (and so did she) when I told her it was a freebie from a Sex Expo I had been to so it didn't matter. It advertises one of ChCh's sex shops. The policeman thought that was funny too. :lol: Caper, you can get a plastic holder for your drivers licence and the holder attaches to a key chain. I don't always have my wallet with me and since you must always have your licence on you when driving I know I have it if it is with my keys.

I had my bag stolen at lunchtime. Lost house, car and work keys, wallet, a couple of books and my gloves. What is most upsetting is I was in the good part of the book and my place was held by a Harrods bookmark that had been a special gift from a dear friend Have reported to the police, cancelled cards etc. Got a ring later in the afternoon to say the keys had been handed in. A great relief as my drivers licence was also on the keyring and I was concerned something in the wallet had my address so I would have to change the locks. Luckily I had little cash in the wallet (about $5 at most) but cancelling everything is a pain and I am feeling very stressed. I don't know how people can do things like this :evil:

Yes goldfish in ponds semi hibernate. Once the water temp drops below 10C their digestive systems shut down. When the water warms again the systems slowly kick back in. Not usually a problem in an indoor tank.

I wondered if there is something in the water the old fish have got used to (assuming the water swap was done slowly) but new fish can't handle.

It is important to allow for substrate, rocks and decorations when working our volume. I will assume the white spot was a result of too many fish to start in a new tank otherwise it is also important to know why they got white sopt in the first place. If you do not correct the cause, they will get it again... and again... and again...

Got any pics?

I would be packing tinfoiled spuds near that :lol:

Hi Linda, bigger is always better when it comes to aquariums. The larger ones are easier to keep stable, require less maintenance and you can play with the landscaping a lot more. Keep an eye out in garage sales, Trade and Exchange, Buy, Sell and Exchange plus auctions. Plenty of bargains to be had. It is cheaper to get a tank from a glazier than to buy from a lfs.

I think you will find the majority online were bots

Quite right, I didn't like your title so edited it. An eye popping out can be from an internal infection. I am not up on the different meds so can't suggest which would be appropriate. Hopefully someone else can.

We have been in ChCh for the Ingram Micro Roadshow and had a very good day. They had 3 main lucky draws. You had a card you had to get stamped by 10 different vendors as you went around the room. Once full, it was put in a box for the big draw (one entry per person). This comprised of about 16 (I didn't count) coloured boxes of different sizes and the person named on the card drawn from the box had to answer a simple question then got to choose the size and colour box to find out what they had won. Two of them had booby prizes in them. The first draw I was the 2nd name called out and won a 160Gb portable hard drive. The second draw I was the 1st name drawn out and won a Sony Ericsson Z310i mobile phone (takes photos and all sorts of stuff apparently). The third draw was Grant's chance and he won a Samsung CLP300n colour laser printer! This created a problem as we were in the MX5 :lol: In one of the smaller draws (where you put your business card in various boxes at vendor stalls to win stuff) I won a Laser Groove Mate V10 MP3 player. At that point Stu, the announcer, suggested I go buy a LOTTO ticket (which I have done). We were also given (along with all sorts of other stuff) some Phillips headphones so all in all it was a good day 8) I bumped into wilson a couple of times too and he seemed to be enjoying himself. You should have seen us fitting all the stuff into the MX5 to get home! The printer box was too big so we took the printer out, flattened the box and put it across behind the seats, and broke up the surrounding polystyrene. The rest of the stuff then got crammed around it, or shoved behind the seats. I had one bag of goodies (mainly the food we had picked up from vendors - jellybeans, chocolate, mints etc) plus a poly box of fish between my feet. At least they kept warm on the trip home. All in all it was worth the trip. We got to see our son and his partner and go out to dinner with them, I got to buy a pile of books from Borders and we visited Eddie in hospital. I also managed to get to Bubble and Squeak and Organism but ran out of time on the last day to get back to Organism to buy more fish. Got some from B&S though. On reflection, I am not sure where we would have fitted them anyway!

Some woods will leach brown tannins into the water forever and others only for a short time. I believe carbon in the filter will clear it. A lot of fish like the tannins and feel more secure. I have been lucky and never had one leach.

Sounds like it might be.

Hi and welcome Jason. We have a number from Hamilton in here. Is there a reason you ask?

I think I might make him a big Get Well card (A4 size) and cut and paste everyone's messages on it so get posting Eddie friends as we leave tomorrow so the card will be finished off tonight! Luckily he had cataract surgery last week so his vision has vastly improved since.