Caryl

Okis are reliable too. Email Grant if you want advice on options as he is always up on the latest reviews on these things. Too many people look at buying price only and do not consider running costs - which vary considerably.

HPs are expensive to run though

I siphon round my plants without them getting upset about it. The mini vallis even get the siphon totally over top of them. They do use the muck certainly but you still need to keep the levels of it down to a reasonable amount.

You still use a printer with "one colour suits all" mix? You poor thing

Sounds promising. Shine a torch down on them from above. Their eyes will reflect in the torchlight.

I use warm water.

I have to say that living in an area without chlorine or fluoride added to the water supply, I always clean my filter stuff under the tap.

The magazines will be posted Monday morning to all except those in Nelson/Marlborough and south of Christchurch Have run out of cyan toner and supplier is temporarily out of stock :roll: Hopefully new stock will be available within 2 days. Thank you for your patience FYI: Have had new printer 2 days and have printed 5304 sheets already. Am on second black toner and used all the cyan plus 75% of the magenta and yellow. For some reason we go through a lot of cyan (that's 'blue' to those unfamiliar with colour toner) :lol: When we buy toner it is up to $1,000 worth at a time and I buy paper 40 reams at a time. So next time you gasp at the cost of a cartridge for your little deskjet type printer, spare a thought for others 8)

It sounds good. I have the TFH Handbook of Fish Diseases by Dieter Untergasser. How would you say the books compare? I like the pics in the TFH book, very helpful, but do find following some of the chart to med links a bit confusing. Plus a lot of the meds talked about are not available here or are known under different names.

Very nice colouring.

I assume you are trying to raise infusoria to feed the fry? The cloudy stuff in the container is the infusoria. I have never bred paradisefish but have a book here that says to feed the fry brine shrimp so I wonder if infusoria is too small for them?

Why weren't you expecting it? Breeding is all your fish do every few weeks. :roll:

Pond paints would be safe. A lack of colours though :-?

Shadowfax, if you put the thermometers beside each other do they still read 2 degrees different?

It is green moss 8) Why don't you try it and see? Digging a bit up and then totally submersing it will not work though. Try growing it as a bog plant and go from there.

Not sure if they still use these classifications but: Class A: It is illegal to possess these plants Class B: You may have these plants but CANNOT pass them on Banned: Not allowed in the country unwanted organism: One that will be detrimental to our native flora and fauna

Oooh now there's a thought. Better yet, let's sell it on TradeMe. It will be unique as it is a special limited edition! Almost finished printing and have folded, stapled, wrapped and stamped just over half so far.

Perhaps a cheap source of CO2?

Warren actually got his when he stayed here at the beginning of the month Is that favouritism or what?? :lol: Actually, we did not realise at that point that getting a new printer to replace the faulty one was going to be such a long drawn out saga :evil: as we thought the rest of the magazines would be able to be printed the same week as they would normally have been. :roll:

They probably give the fish bad breath and make them fart :lol:

Shows he has good taste. :lol: Have almost 200 printed so far. Should be all go Monday.

Guess what!!!! Finally got the print run underway!!!! YAY Hopefully all will be posted Monday morning so will just make it within November 8) Of course, it didn't help that the budgie nibbled 5 pages of one book :lol:

It can be a genetic fault or a sign of old age sometimes.

I have had large BNs out of the tank for over 2 hours before finding them and putting them back in the tank - none the worse for wear 8)

The first lily has flowered... The fish keep doing their thing and we have managed to catch a few fry and dump them in the other pond. The rest will be survival of the fittest. Off to Christchurch soon for more plants.