Sunbird73

Sorry crappy camera, dirty glass

Just wondering - do the sleeper males develop the yellow tinge as well (like the females do?) I *think* I have a female. She is about half the size of the male, less colouring, more shy & she gets a yellow tinge when I feed her... Or can you really not tell with sleeper males at all?

I had golden apple snails in our 34L tank... they very very quickly outgrew the tank in the space of a few months, and produce loads of waste. They are cool to watch tho.

I have to agree with this. I live near North shore hospital, where its probably safer to treat yourself at home than go there

Well thats whats *supposed* to happen. But a lot of things will go up more than 2.5%. (ie. $2.50 will likely go to $2.60 instead of 2.56 - inc of 4%.) If you add up all the prices that go up 5% or more then thats a lot more than an extra $2.50 per $100. Because round numbers are easier to market.

Same :-? But paying new GST (and other inflated price hikes) on last months pay..... grumble grumble And the stores that saying they are not putting the prices up for GST put their prices well up 6 mths ago and have been pocketing the extra.

I am sure if you asked nicely the seller would keep them for you another week or two until you felt there was less risk with your tank? Tho it doesn't sound like you are far off with yr tank.... (if it was me and I wanted to speed things up a bit/reassurance I would get some seachem stability - but that depends if you have $17 odd to spare. )

Are you bringing some of these up too?

http://www.hollywoodfishfarm.co.nz/deta ... der/m/943/

excellent thanks!

looks fabulous What are the plants in there?

Good point. Very true.

P44 I agree with you. When I first started out with a brand new tank and filter - and made the standard mistake of fully stocking the next day :roll:, I used seachem stability and the tank cycled in a week. I think it does work to speed up cycling, but I don't think its worth the money - or necessary - to use it regularly. I would use it again for cycling a new tank if I had the spare $17 or so tho. I wouldn't rely on it, but would use it as a added extra I guess while following all the other guidelines for cycling a tank .

Don't know the answer to your question sorry.... but I am curious.... is pleco a dirty word? :lol:

interesting to hear this - did you catch fleas on a frontlined dog? Did you keep them to see if they died later? As finding fleas on a frontlined animal doesn't necessarily mean its not working, it could just be that your animals are continually being reinfested from somewhere. There is a time delay between a flea jumping onto the animal & being exposed to frontline and then actually dying. Can't remember how long, but think it is around 8-12hrs. Would be very interested to know if they were still alive a couple days after you collected them. I have kids that are very sensitive to flea bites, and I use frontline plus on our animals.

Great link Jen!

If you are fairly new to the house you may very likely have inherited the problem from the previous owner - like we did... :roll: Good thread, was planning to do this very soon to preempt problems this summer.

eeeyew to the boy cat bit A little bit OT but I heard that they now have cat doors that recognise a microchip so don't need a collar. Just program the number of the microchip in your cat and thats the only cat it will let in. Newfangled technology these days ay

ouch nasty! At least you know your cat was not the one that started it cos the bite was as she was leaving... Cats have nasty bacteria in their mouths, and their teeth act to inject these deep under the skin/muscle. So even if a bite looks mild (ie. one or two punture wounds) it can turn very nasty. Depends on where the bite is and how deep and how manky the other cats mouth is to how bad its going to be. I have been put in hospital by a cat bite (IV antibiotics for 2 days). Even after downing some augmentin as soon as I was bitten, and two penicillin jabs (in the butt!! :oops: ) the next day didn't stop the infection from progressing vy quickly. The cat that bit me had a horrible stinky mouth and was about 16yrs old, so not surprising. I also met a lady who got bitten by a cat, but then a couple of weeks later got septicaemia from it as she didn't take the bite very seriously. I wouldn't get all lynch mob on the other cat tho - all outside male cats fight at some point -even well cared for neutered ones - and it only takes one bite to cause an abscess. Only way to control it is to keep cats inside at night, especially dawn and dusk.

We often go to HB in summer - whereabouts can you catch them? Stopping at eskdale to catch shrimp sounds like fun

You could get it to pay for itself - set up a competition to see who can swim with the aro's for the longest and charge admission for spectators :lol:

They don't grow lightning fast. I would think it would take a number of years to get to be 8-10inches, my mother had one that took about 2yrs to get to 15 or so cm. So if you loved him you would have time to upgrade?

happy birthday for sunday 23 is a fantastic age to be .... live it up!

I got mine from Kings Plant Barn on North shore. I had to ring Daltons distributor to find out who still stocked it over here, cos our Bunnings doesn't have it.

Not very long if you used warm water to fill your tank