answered my own question. i really should try answering them before i ask them.
still - original question - what is the pleco that david posted and i reposted above?
good question mahn. unfortunately they have to be specifically named on the list by scientific name to be allowed into NZ.
sweet, thanks for answering that question for me mahn.
no worries mahn.
turns out most of my shrimp were disappearing not just because of the cichlids eating them, but because my cat was catching them. seriously! that darn pussy! always ruining things.
i have recently put a heater in said tank and kept it around 28c. i saw a live shrimp in there today and yesterday. that makes a good 2 months it's been in there for.
gonna get some more soon and put them into the same tank now it's heated and see how they do. will take the cichlids out before i do.
gonna jump on the hate wagon here. parrots are retarded. have seen some so badly crossed and inbred i felt sorry for them just because they existed. i wanted to put them out of their misery.
hybrids = yes, but parrots = no
well, at times he has a chauffeur, me. but most of the time he drives it himself.
it's an old school chrysler, dark green just like that one.
tai-hoe, i'm trying to find a picture.
do not use apple snails or mystery snails. i have had a group of 4 of them completely clear out a tank of 40 small to medium size "guppies" in a matter of weeks. so i kept putting the little fish in there and the little fish kept disappearing and the snails quickly grew bigger than snooker balls. but i never did catch them in the act. how they managed to catch fish, is still a mystery to me.