Caryl

Tell her it would be a good pet for the baby

Depends on what she is wearing A lot cooler here today thanks to a ESE wind blowing at 15.8kph (Grant got himself a weather station for Christmas). The other day I found 35C a bit hot :roll: A pleasant 21 here today. Just nice. Only 39% humidity too.

Good productive meeting last night - finalised a lot of plans for conference. You are in for a great time if you attend this event. Some very interesting stops in the bus tour and good food. Sorry you didn't make it Mrs Frog Keep an eye out for details (next month) about the next FNZAS conference. We will have registration forms you can download from this site. "TOP OF THE SOUTH '08" Queen's Birthday weekend May 31 - June 2 Tahunanui NELSON There will be information in the February Aquarium World - COMING SOON!! (in February actually :lol: )

What is the pH of your tap water? I am relieved to hear you have a pH after all :lol:

No idea but I would be interested in the answer if you find out.

and a lot of us are wives who also know, care, but do it anyway

pH nil? How can you have nil pH?

What an interesting and thought provoking question! I don't know the answer but interested in the varying replies.

Hi and welcome John.

I too remove carbon and replace with other media.

It would be easier to use a siphon

Back in my day (insert elderly smiley here :lol: ) we got good old A, B, C or D and either passed or failed. None of this "credits" rubbish! :roll: So were your results good wilson? I can't tell :lol:

Our pump is in the pond but the filter is outside... It is in the tall wooden structure behind the waterfall. It is a proper bought filter, not homemade. Water sprays in through holes in the pipe, like a spraybar, then trickles through foam and other media before returning to the pond over the waterfall. We had to drill bigger holes in the underwater end as it kept clogging too quickly. Raising it several inches off the bottom helped too :lol:

Hmm it appears to be in one of the cases I cited above... We used commercially available superglue (Loctite super glue gel)

Superglue has been used in fish surgery "Superglue in Surgery Superglue has also proved to be a life-saver. During the Vietnam War soldiers were issued with tubes to seal stomach wounds in the battlefield. A redefined formulation is now used to seal post-operative wounds worldwide. It has also been used in veterinary care. A tortoise who cracked its shell after falling from a second floor window was successfully glued back together. Racing pigeons have had their feathers superglued, fish have had their fins re-attached and horses have had their split hooves bonded together. " Reefers superglue coral and polyps together and I found this reference too... "I have used superglue to good effect on fish. We used commercially available superglue (Loctite super glue gel) as an alternative to suturing an incision (25-30 mm long) made to implant acoustic tags in European eels (Anguilla anguilla)- following Baras & Jeandrain (1998). Not surprisingly, we found that the key to successful adhesion was to ensure that the surface was blotted as dry as possible. We recaptured one of the tagged eels ca. 3 months after release and the scar was only just visible. In fact if it had not have been pit-tagged we wouldn't have identified it as a acoustically-tagged fish (as the tag had died). There are cyanoacrylate glues available for surgical usage which are far more expensive than the regular superglue you can buy in the shops, but are less aggressive to the fish's tissues. '

But what I am saying is an unheated tank is not necessarily a "cold" one. I have an unheated tank in my lounge that is sitting st 28C - room temperature.

Define cold. In an average well insulated home they are probably fine. Not below 18C. They can live colder than that but it isn't ideal

Help you? What? Get more tanks? :lol:

Mine destroyed one plant but I can't remember if it was a sword. Looked similar.

Well, when our patients die, they get carried away in boxes :lol:

Did any of you get the noro virus or chicken pox? Hope you had a good time. Interestingly, having shown those pics to people overseas, the overwhelming comment has been - "Wow! All that beautiful green space and so few buildings!" They say it is nice to see such readily accessible nature areas without high rises and crowds everywhere.

I am female too but do not want to squish spiders. I think the furry ones (like tarantulas) look cute!

I found mine can damage some of the more tender leaves. Not deliberately though.

Never heard of that! What sort of fish? Over what period of time did this happen? Just one fish or several? Any other symptoms?

Yes, now is the time to do it. I would float them in a container to equalise temperature then slowly release them. You might find the pond is actually warmer than the tank! I know my pond was.