Caryl

Depends on whether you want to see the pretty colourful fish or not. Goldfish are pretty much it as everything else is too hard to see.

Good to see you made it home safely Sally. When I saw more unrest on the news and that tourists were being attacked I was concerned about you. Good to hear the fish survived as well 8)

All my driftwood was just picked up from the beach, washed and scrubbed, then added to the tank. Never had a problem.

egg scatterers

Our first tank (not counting the ones when I lived with my parents as they were their tanks) was a 2ft. We killed guppies like you wouldn't believe! Turned out the nice dark red gravel we had bought from the garden centre was actually meant for African set-ups and would raise the pH to over 8 :roll: We couldn't figure it out and kept adding pH Down Once we found a fish keeper who figured out the problem we changed the gravel and went from there. Tried to tell the shop about the gravel but they weren't interested. :evil:

It works with certain African species.

I would concentrate on getting the water parameters correct and see if that fixes it. Perhaps this fish was more sensitive to the water quality than the others.

Not sure if there is any treatment since symptoms are vague. If it was only one fish I would leave it and see what happens. If it is being harassed by other fish then separate it. Could be a female with PMS perhaps? :lol: Slightly bloated could be it is constipated or a female may be getting egg bound. This happens sometimes and I don't think there is anything you can do. If constipation, try feeding it a bit of cooked, shelled pea.

Ohh I see another article :lol:

I didn't mean for this to be a "Let's slag Telecom" thread. I merely wanted to give you the heads up on this particular deal as we have had a couple of customers sign up without fully realising what the low cap meant in real terms.

Just a heads-up for those signing up with the Telecom $16.95 per month get you going on broadband deal. Did you realise you only get 200Mb data cap per month and then you are charged at 2c per Mb? If you downloaded the latest AVG, for example, that would cost you $9 once your data cap was reached. Prior to that it would have used up roughly a quarter of your allowable bandwidth. If you know anyone signing up to this plan, warn them!

Only when it isn't weed growing season

At least you can say you tried You do not have to be a FNZAS member to write articles for the magazine

Hi and welcome to Jacqui, Lily and Herman

Hi and welcome. You ought to join the Tasman Aquarium Club for more local advice. They are hosting the national FNZAS conference Queen's Birthday weeked. There would be a chance to meet LOTS of knowledgeable fishkeepers (many from here too) If interested, send a PM to AMAZONIAN.

We'd be too embarrassed after seeing your pics :oops:

I would mesh the filter as mine were good at finding their way into the filters :roll:

No way to tell without any visible symptoms. Know anyone who can do an autopsy? That is the only way to know.

and are real escape artists!

No but they don't want a crazy person flying on their plane either! :lol:

and conference is Queen's Birthday weekend May 30 - June 2. Not this weekend but the next! :bounce:

Never had problems but never told them I had live fish either. Carried in a soft sided chiller type bag. Have also carried axoltls in an icecream container. I didn't know any internal flights were X-rayed.

Stuffed thermostat. Needs an electrician or whiteware maintenance person to fix it.

I couldn't see why everyone raved on about it. A friend who is a Dr at the hospital, thought it was hilarious :-? LOTR in 5 secs was more interesting than the films.

You are allowed to mention Trademe you know. It was a temporary glitch that removed it one day. You just can't put links to it Nice to know they do listen sometimes.