Caryl

You did but unfortunately they came out too blurry Billaney and Chris have photos too. I have copies of them but it is not my place to put their photos in my photobucket so hopefully they will upload theirs soon.

Different splotch patterns. Basically creamy and greenish/black. males usually have darker colours than the females who tend to be paler with less splotches

Google Phalloceros caudomaculatus Leopardfish are fine with other cold water fish a similar size.

Well that was a first with the Kapi-Mana group. Whenever someone suggests and organises it! :lol: By the way sub.z, your log is at my son's place wrapped in plastic but may need to be re-waterlogged when you get it home. Please contact him forst to make sure someone is home.

They will need a few details first like what size is the pad to be and how much power is required? They helped us many years ago and I understand someone contacted them more recently so I am pretty sure they still do it.

Here we are Back from left: Paul Billaney, me, Tim, Sarah & Chris Downs Front from left; Adele Billaney, Tanya Rowe, Grant (husband of me) and here's the rest http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v144/ ... ?start=all

Ira is mistaken (according to Grant). If you double the voltage you quadruple the power from Ohm's Law where power equals the square of the voltage divided by the resistance so your 40W heater would in fact be trying to deliver 160W for a very short time before it went phutt. They will do it all for you but in our case they supplied the wire and they crimped the connections onto the resistance wire and correctly sealed the connection. Grant built the actual pad. He has electrical qualifications so it wasn't a problem.

The fish will be even more stressed with the pH swings you are creating. I have heard of pH crashes but can't remember what causes them. :roll: What else is in the tank? I had a tank of cichlids and the pH always dropped to 6 - 6.5 whereas the community tank stayed at 7.0.

We built our own under tank heat pad. You can get the required parts (wire, attaching plugs and heat sealing etc) done by Argus Heating in ChCh. I don't know about the US ones but would suspect they aren't compatible.

I bought LOTS of books :roll: (none of them aquatic related either!) Got a couple of light controllers on special for $5 - saved about $70 on each. 3 cheers for Animates' bargain bins! :bounce: At Organism I bought a male odessa barb to replace the ones cooked when the thermostat broke. My 3 female odessas have big grins on their faces this morning. And I also bought 3 dwarf loaches - Botia sidthimunki I think. The other thing we bought was lots and lots of food over the weekend. Shop crawls are hungry work! Got enthused about getting a 6ft tank again - Redwoods have a large shoal of torpedo barbs in a tank there. Must contact TM :roll:

Even though you have no pics, would someone please write something about the trip for the AW?

Home safe and sound. Fish still alive and released in the tank. I assume the others are happiy ensconced on the ferry. We had a great time and it was fun to meet so many fishroom members and put faces to names. :bounce:

Fair enough. Ferry was late so they are not here yet but only about 15 mins away. Lunch is ready and waiting. In case you're wondering, we will have soup (chicken or pumpkin), garlic bread, pizza, pizza bread stix, savouries plus some freshly baked bran muffins (or poo pellets, or fluffin muffins as my kids called them) :lol:

Will you? Don't forget the get together is SUNDAY night

To get picky if it will house only killies then it will not be a community tank. Most killies like 6.5 - 7.0pH but you don't have to be exact. What is it out of the tap? How do you plan to 'set' the pH? Don't use chemicals to do it. Peat will lower it.

We need more information fishylover. How big is the tank (dimensions please, not gallons)? How many fish and what sort? How long has the tank been running? What sort of filter does it have? What sort of lighting and how long are the lights on? Have you done any water tests? What are the ammonia, pH, nitrites and nitrates levels? What sort of algae is it?

Sexing mollies is easy and the same as for other live bearers. The male has a modified anal fin called a gonopodium. Mollies pretty much breed wth no help from you and will happily eat their fry too. They like a little salt in the water.

Then I am sure once Stu has bred heaps of them you will get some back in appreciation of your help

If you are so excited you are weeeing Loopy, it is a bit of a worry! Try doing more Keigel exercises

Will we see you at any of the shops scalare? Not sure where you are working these days.

Search your local beaches

Well you can still come to Loopy's on Sunday night. It isn't as if you haven't been to Organism before 8)

It does. I am sure the fronts wil be very happy.

Look at the fins too. Are they upright and perky or lying flat against the body? Clamped fins is a sign of something wrong, be it stress or disease. Is one shoaling fish not joining in with the rest?

We can queue (and kick wilson out of the way) :lol: No idea how many will join us. There are 8 coming to ChCh in our group but I don't know how many others will join us once we start the shop crawl or how many are coming to the knees-up at Loopy's on Sunday night. LOTS I hope. I love putting faces to names of people I talk to in here.