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Sorry to hear that Mitch. Your club has lost a valued member. My condolences to the club and Val's family. She will be sadly missed.

Sorry to hear that wok. I know it was done with the rest! I got one returned today (not yours) with a sticker saying "Insufficient postage". I had forgotten to put the stamp on it :oops:

Why have you got a clown loach in an African tank? Clowns prefer acid to neutral pH while the Africans like it very alkaline. I have never had to treat fish for whitespot so will leave that to someone else who has to advise you. Whitespot is most likely caused by stress. I would remove the clown and treat it separately - they need half dose meds I believe.

If angels have grown up together they are usually all right. A bottom feeder or 2 would be good. I recommend Ancistrus sp. (bristlenosed catfish) or a trio of corydoras.

Hi Souxsi, You username is familiar. I am sure I have seen it somewhere else 8) Get the angels. Don't forget the tank will have to cycle properly (sitting with just water and plants in it for 4 weeks does not mean it has cycled) so don't go adding lots at once. My angels are with rummy nose tetras and other small tetras with no problems.

and in Auckland too :lol:

I think I saw one at Redwoods in ChCh.

I saw that Mythbusters too. Many fish recognise their owners, no matter what they are wearing, and can differentiate between them and other people.

Thank you all and thank you to those who contributed. The more who do so - the easier it makes my job - and I don't whinge quite so much. Billaney, I suggest you read the excellent article on photographing fish. You might learn something Nice to hear Wgtn got theirs, they are often the last to get them for some reason. :roll:

The Aquarium World magazine is free to all members of affiliated clubs. So, you either join a club, or subscribe. Often cheaper to join a club Subscription is $21.80 for 4 magazines (it is a quarterly publication Feb, May, Aug & Nov) 40 pages, A5 size, full colour. Subscriptions go to If you subscribe, send me a PM when you have paid so I can check Janey got the money then you will be added to my mailing list. Click on the FNZAS logo top left of the page to go to the Home Page which has a place to click for a list of affiliated clubs in NZ and their contact people. If you do not get a reply from a club, please let me know so I can kick A** :lol:

Why do you guys always get yours so fast? I think you are first every time and they all get posted together. You must have a really keen postie! :lol:

Already started Alan :roll:

I am pleased to report the Aquarium World magazines were posted this morning, along with the Year Book. Membership cards will be sent to all club secretaries for distribution ASAP. I have them ready to send to Janey who then has the exciting job of filling them out. :-? To let you know a bit of what's in the August issue; Peter Cottle talks about his trip up the Jorai River in Bengal to catch wild danios. Learn a bit about blind cave tetras and the plant red lobelia. There is a conference report, complete with pics, and Paul Billaney gives us a few tips on how to photograph fish. For the salties, we learn about Acropora lianae and harvesting wild banggai cardinalfish. Check out the jobs you should be doing to get your pond ready for spring and summer and find out how to treat fish ulcers. There are other articles as well so look out for your magazine, coming to your letterbox soon!

My electric yellow (Labidochromis caeruleus) keeps dropping fry but some of them aren't like the others. Is this common or is someone else getting in on the act? Sorry about the poor pic but the glass on this tank is badly scratched. See the back one is bright yellow, like the majority, but the front one seems to have stripes. The other fish in the tank are C borleyi, possibly A jacobfriebergi and this little brown striped fish.. I assume this fish is a female something but have not seen signs of her holding or tring to get out of anyone's way (or not eating).

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/kids ... nfish.html

If you look at waterfalls in nature you will see they have algae growing on them too.

It refers to the bubbles coming off the plants when CO2 is used.

Java fern and water wisteria.

Hi Swede. Good luck with the tank hunt.

A pond doesn't have to be clear to breed anything. In fact, they do better in green water

Note the edit (thanks Alan). I meant you should NOT need tablets to keep a pond clear :oops:

Obviously you should have asked for more 8)

Be nice if you took the capslock off please IOU1, we aren't deaf! The water in a pond will go green if too much sunlight or too many nutrients. Ways to help keep the water clear are to make sure about 2/3 of the surface area is covered in plants. Shade cloth over the pond helps too. It is almost time to start feeding pond fish again (I hope). Goldfish semi hibernate once the water temp drops below 10C so do not eat during this time. Once the lowest temp overnight doesn't drop below this, it is time to slowly start feeding small amounts again. Wind movement will do nothing for or against algae (or anything else), unless your pond is hit by a tornado. In which case you will not need to empty the pond as it will already be so. You should NOT need to use tablets to keep a pond clean. How large is it? A filter may help. The fish will spawn in the summer months. If the tablets are to kill algae then they will also affect plants as plants are just a higher form of algae (or algae is a lower form of plant ) You can try the barley straw trick too. The Feb '04 Aquarium World had instructions in it about how it works and how much you need. Whitecloudes and leoparfish will survive warmer months in the pond but for many areas it gets too cold in winter, although covering the pond would help. The trouble with both these species is they are small and hard to see from above so tend to disappear when viewed from above in a pond situation. Leopardfish particularly are hard to see in a pond because of their colouring.

This has been answered before. I just hose mine down thoroughly and give it a scrub with a nail brush, using an old toothbrush to get into small cracks and crevises.

Well done. If you don't ask you don't get! :bounce: