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  1. Found this online and found it interesting, so thought I would share with the cacatuoides enthusiasts out there... link where you can read full research paper (1951) http://www.aquaboards.com/content.php?58-Female-cacatuoides-color-discrimination-in-Breeding I wonder if this extends to red tail vs. orange tail variants as I suspect my red tail female is not interested in my orange tail male...
  2. Our hot water was also coolish on Sunday. Made me wonder if the power people were fixing something as I have had the water go inexplicably cold before, even rang the landlord to complain before I thought to ring the power company, and sure enough they had turned it off "for maintenance". Tho if yours is leaking it needs replacing regardless of how hot your water is.
  3. Sunbird73

    Just got...

    interesting.....
  4. Sunbird73

    Just got...

    Did you buy it new? Just wondering if it comes with any media cos HFF have it on special ATM :smln:
  5. Seachem Prime. Great stuff :thup:
  6. What are some good US fishy store sites (other than ebay) to browse while the dollar is high? Anyone made any good purchases lately they want to brag about?
  7. If its raining can you put a bucket outside and collect some, you would be surprised how quickly you can fill a 10L bucket! May not help if you need some today but HFF have online shopping http://www.hollywoodfishfarm.co.nz/detail/view/seachem-prime-50ml/m/1176/ I would imagine it wouldn't take long to have something small shipped. Chicken pox is no fun at all
  8. he is gorgeous :love: congratulations!!
  9. North shore tapwater still the same at around 7.8-8.0 (but we do have low TDS here too tho) did you clean your test tube out well? I would retest....
  10. You could get some elder cones (should still be some on trees this time of year) and boil up some tea?
  11. ooh have some lumbersider in the gge, might give it a try, thanks!
  12. I have had a guppy that I bred that got to be HUUUUGE, her first drop ended up being about 3 months later than some the same age. But when she did drop she had a LOT of fry. We just called her fattyfattyboom-ba :sml2:
  13. And he is lucky that you weren't right, one of the few times when we don't mind being wrong
  14. I can't see a tear either. I can see the internal demarcation of an organ (swim bladder? I am guessing) that has been pushed up by the gravid spot. If there was a tear that went full thickness as you would expect if the internal pressure was too great, you would also get some of the internal organs hanging out, so would look more like a growth coming off her side (hernia). From the photos, I can't see anything abnormal. I think because she is a blonde guppy she is more translucent than a other guppies.
  15. typical man! Go with your instinct, better safe than sorry. It supposed to hit at around 9am so kids can easily go to school at 9.30am afterwards if all is well.
  16. Do a water change tonight and she might drop in the morning. I can't see anything of concern in the photo.
  17. excellent It appears your fish challenges are contagious cos my filter appears to be cycling again in my main tank too, after being established for a year :facepalm: Guess I cleaned it too well last time :tears: Hopefully that also means that my new pair of cockatoos will spawn next week
  18. +1 I left my fish for a week with people feeding every 2nd day and they were all very sick, and some dead (which went unnoticed by the people feeding them) when I got back. Next time even if I have people available to feed them I will just leave them with no feeding.
  19. +1 !!! :love: :love: :love: red dragons !drool:
  20. Sunbird73

    My new plec

    just beautiful :love:
  21. Sunbird73

    Gah

    Ouch. Cories are looking less cute for you today I bet!
  22. Exciting! Congrats :thup:
  23. whats the plant with the rounded leaves on the far left front?
  24. Can you walk on a treadmill? You can keep your arms close so no risk of pulling, and you could just do hill walking? If you hired a treadmill and had it there in your house it wouldn't be weather dependent, cos its just too easy to say "oh, it looks like rain". For that reason I had to join a gym, cos I knew I wouldn't get out. Also lunges? Work out the major muscle groups (butt, legs) without upsetting the surgical area? Figure out things that you can do without damaging yourself and do those religiously every day. I feel your frustration, so much of weight loss is breaking bad habits. I haven't managed to break mine yet, and its so easy to slip back into bad habits even if you found good ones for a while. It is very very easy when someone tells you can't exercise for medical reasons to become fearful of doing anything at all - I pulled a hip flexor and got into a bad cycle of not exercising cos the faintest twinge would put me off, afraid I would do some damage. Examine very carefully the things you actually really aren't allowed to do and be honest about the things that the surgery may be an excuse for not doing. And make a list perhaps, so its all out there in black and white what you expect of yourself. I am sooo good at giving advice, but never take my own :roll: I slacked off and didn't go to the gym today But am definitely going tomorrow. I might go and re-read Dr. Phils Ultimate Weight Loss solution and actually do it this time. It is a good book.
  25. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iFeH4-U4og :sml2:
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