Caryl

Mary Poppins

To be fair to the mods and others. This is in Off Topic and people cannot resist a little humour. You did not get anything more constructive as it appears nobody here has the answer to your question. My brother was in the army for 15 years and all he got out of it was alcoholism and a 2 pack a day habit. Thankfully he has now overcome both but it was a long, slow process :-?

I thought the same thing as you when I read that but we know what they meant - it was not seen here. "Invented" was the wrong word.

A lot of this was true of the 60's as well! I can remember getting an orange for Christmas and it was a real treat. EATING IN THE FIFTIES Pasta had not been invented. Curry was a surname. A takeaway was a mathematical problem. A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower. Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time. All crisps were plain; the only choice we had was whether to put the salt on or not. A Chinese chippy was a foreign carpenter. Rice was a milk pudding, and never ever part of our dinner.(see Wok? I told you! :bggrn: ) A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining. Brown bread was something only poor people ate. Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves and never green. Coffee was 'Bushells Essence' and came in a bottle. Cubed sugar was regarded as posh. Fish didn't have fingers in those days. Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi. None of us had ever heard of yoghurt. Healthy food consisted of anything edible. People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy. Indian restaurants were only found in India. Cooking outside was called camping. Seaweed was not a recognised food. 'Kebab' was not even a word, never mind a food. Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold. Prunes were medicinal. Surprisingly muesli was readily available....it was called cattle feed. Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a real one. Water came out of the tap. If someone had suggested bottling it and charging more than petrol for it they would have become a laughing stock. The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties .. was elbows!

Good thinking Adrienne! I was too busy thinking about the temperature, not that the goldfish would eat the smaller fish. :roll:

Some people actually keep goldfish in tropical tanks and overseas the goldfish breeding ponds are all in tropical countries. My understanding is the reason not to mix them is that goldfish can carry different diseases that can be transferred to the tropicals but I am not sure if this is so. Keeping them in the tropical tank short term would otherwise be fine.

Seeing how suitcases are handled, I would not be putting fish in my baggage! Hand luggage only.

They are becoming a major problem in some places here now They are also the reason you no longer see any other species &c:ry

Just wandered down the road to see where all the police and fire engines were headed. House on fire next street over. It is a dead end street and a poor pizza delivery boy had gone up there to deliver but can't get back out as the fire engines are blocking the only exit.

Not all of them are done like that though. Mostly the cheap ones, apparently.

I had been given a large bunch of stargrass. It disappeared overnight thanks to barbs.

Tomorrow we will find out how many small poly boxes you can fit in a Holden's boot :thup: (Along with 2 large and 1 slightly smaller than that boxes)

We recently flew in and out of Auckland and our hand luggage was not X-rayed, nor were we asked what was in it. In fact the only time my stuff has gone through X-ray was when flying overseas. I have heard others say otherwise though.

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I have carried these 3 bags as hand luggage various times with no problems. I have never thought to tell anyone what was in the bags and nobody asked either. In fact, I seem to remember my sister and her daughter taking 2 of the largest bags each on board from Blenheim to Hamilton (full of cichlids incidentally) with no questions asked.

Do the links work now?

We need to fix it first

Hi and welcome. You will see we have a native section and there is a lot of information there on setting up cold water natives, with pics too! Have a good browse, as most of what you need to know is there. Main thing with natives seems to be temperature requirements. Stella brings out her new book on native freshwater fish in December. I suggest you buy it and read voraciously!

I would appreciate the Aqua Clear 150 impeller please Adrienne. I have one of those I use as a spare, or on Q tanks as required.

I hope to be sending some down to Trilobite shortly - for free :bggrn:

I have travelled a number of times with fish (and once with axolotls in an ice cream container) as hand luggage in one of those foldable cooler bags.

Because he won't like being trapped in there, unable to reach the females he can see but can't get to. These fish also like to swim forward, not hover in place.

I always found females stressed out in these boxes. Much better to provide plenty of plant cover so fry can hide. Putting the male in there is fine but he can't stay in there too long.

Are you in a hurry for them? I think I know someone who will be heading down to ChCh at the end of the week. My sister's partner also drives trucks to ChCh and back on occasion. I could send several down wth him next trip if you want spares.

I have a garage full. If only you had asked early Sunday, I could have filled my daughter's car when she headed back to ChCh. :-?