Caryl

Magazines were posted yesterday at about 3pm. Let's see who gets theirs first this time

They may have been referring to the Chinese algae eater. Neither it nor the BNs are true cold water fish though can cope with temps down to 18C. That doesn't mean it is ideal for them though.

YAY! Good luck to you. Ask Warren if he can visit your meeting and give a talk about the FNZAS Have you tried to get hold of that woman I told you about?

Nowhere in Whangarei as yet but then, there is no local club member to ask at lfs if they are willing to give discount. Ask and ye may receive Gotta belong to the FNZAS first - not just registered with this site, you must be a member of an affiliated club.

Yes I think so. You used to be able to. Chemist will have it if the supermarket doesn't.

I wonder if the hormones fish secrete add to it as well.

The fish are doing it We used to have 2 tanks identical in every way except one had guppies and the other had acaras. The guppy tank was always 7.0 but the acara tank dropped 6.5. More fish poo.

Do a Google search for Epsom Salts baths. That ought to clean it out. I don't know the dosage offhand.

I have the FNZAS archives here as I am their archivist - it is not a personal collection I also have over 200 aquatic books for reference. Some mine, some the FNZAS's. Plus hundreds of fish magazines taking over. I have 3 bookcases just for fish books :roll: Will copy the article for you Stella. It is basic and short :lol:

Welcome (sorry I'm a bit late) 8)

Sorry Stella. My archives start around 1955 I only have two NZ Aquarium Bulletins (and not whole ones either) May 1945 and June 1945. The May 1945 front page article is on kokopu, Galaxius fasciatus

I send copies of all the AW magazines to the Hocken Library. Let me check my archives for that Aquarium Bulletin.

Many of the traps are designed so the babies can drop through a V slot in the false bottom. It also means the fry can swim back UP into the main bit where mum eats them

Just cos it is natural doesn't make it safe I understood it was highly toxic if overdosed (but I might be thinking of a different product). Melafix is tea tree oil if I remember correctly. In proper dosage I don't think it harms filter bacteria.

Don't forget conference (Queen's birthday weekend) is in Nelson this year so a good opportunity for getting fish brought down from elsewhere with attendees

How about you two trying to get a club going in Queenstown? I am happy to help you.

Of course the food side never registered with billaney at all :roll:

21 different food stalls Adele The choc was for the workers only. Olle Bolle Scalloway Cherries Whitebait Papa Mac's baked spuds Rosti (Swiss fritter topped with cheese and/or bacon) Antipasto platters Gelato ice cream Garlic scallops Paua patties Seafood chowder Wild venison burgers Wild pork manuka smoked bacon Wild pork burgers Wild game shanks BBQ honey smoked bacon, avocado and mesculin salad with foccacia roll Regal salmon Cherry and praline chocolate truffles Sagai sushi Beef, chicken and pork kebabs Green mussels and watercress fritters salmon caviar Smoked salmon venison (with caramelised onion) Strawberries and ice cream local cheeses Middle Eastern BBQd lamb wraps marinated lamb shanks Esargots waffles croissants German sausages oh yeah, I think there was some wine too

Very possible she was constipated. Also possible is she had a small batch of fry and then ate them all. Easy pickings in a breeding trap.

As a matter of interest (or maybe not :lol: ) I walked 10.7km at the wine fest and took 12,726 steps Just as well since I also ate 2 Olle Bolle (Dutch donuts - loose translation is "oily balls". Deep fried fruit bread dipped in cinnamon and sugar, split in half and filled with whipped cream), a marinated lamb shank, 4 mini Pinkie Bars, a mini Crunchie, a mini Gold Moro, a hot cross bun and 2 banana choc chip biscuits 8) :bounce:

But it is waaay different to the original. Not as funny.

Danios can cope with temps down to 18C. This means they can live in unheated tanks in warmer places, it does not mean they are a coldwater fish - despite what the lfs tries to tell you. They should not be kept with goldfish either.

That was The Sooty Show Nat. I loved Basil Brush when I was a kid (Boom! Boom!)

Just a single day. Tickets limited to 10,000 these days, unlike previous years when we had 20,000 crammed into a relatively small site :roll: All sorts of related activites go on in various places throughout the week though with wine tastings, gourmet chef stuff etc. Only 57 of the local wineries participated in the festival itself, out of several hundred.

I remember my husband having a good laugh at a Consumer magazine test for computer monitors. The "Best" and "Worst" in the test both came off the same assembly line in the same factory but just had a different brand name sticker slapped on them at the end