blueether

welcome along

The UNIs new toy?

+1 for that If you have to shoot in jpeg, or want the previews to look ok get yourself a sheet of 50% grey plastic and set the white ballance off that at the depth you are diving at

that would be about it I would think, temp dependent. I think the first lot (Cran's bully) last year hatched in I think it was about 28 days at 17 deg. The others I think were down towards 21 days at 18 or 19 deg.

just two shrimp, and if i'm going to try and raise bully fry they will end up as food for the kokopu

Whitestripe anemone, what's the best way to get rid of them. I want to try and raise some bully fry and they need to 'go to sea'

better than reporting it to FB would be to report it to MPI and get them to go over all their property with a fine tooth comb, although MPI might have better things to spend their time on.

Three of the other big males are guarding nests, one common and two Cran's I think. Not sure if they have eggs in them yet but the females have been in and out today but haven't turned that light cream/pink yet.

yes they are native, but it is illegal to release/return any aquatic animal/plant into a waterway under (I think) the biosecurity act. What it means is that once something is removed from the waterway (not the water) you can't return it without DOC/MPI/etc permits. What size was it?

One of the commons spawned the other day right after a full tank teardown and rescape (mostly to remove most of the gravel substrate). The tank was still only at 14 deg, lifted the temp to 15 yesterday.

There will be glossostigma sp. in the waikato river in the Tron, the other bet could be Karapiro or Arapuni Lakes. The problem with wild is that is will be used to much brighter lights than what will be in your tank - so might pack a sad for a while. Also note that it is illegal to disturb a river/stream/lake bed

I would think you have an almost unfair advantage ps I didn't even have to look at the photo details to see which was yours

In my ~50L planted I used a double first dose, and slightly burnt my fissidens so only used the standard first dose on the 160L and mostly got rid of the BBA

The tank that my kuhlis are in is 1/2 river sand at the back wher it is planted and 1/2 small river stones, the loaches spend all their time in the stones.

Their young are fabulous little fish to keep, but grow fast. caught some back in the early 80's as a kid.

Cool, where did you get the Amarinus lacustris? I haven't found them yet...

Mine just get what ever the fish get that day, flake or crushed granules

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For bullies I would say you could keep 3 or 4 adults (1:2 or 1:3 or 2:2 m:f) in a 2x1x1 ft tank, you might be able to get away with 3 males with well placed caves rocks but it would be better to keep the male population lower so the dont bicker too much. for any of the galaxiids I would say a 3ft length is the minimum. I have an inanga that is very deformed after swimming into the end of the 4 ft tank at high speed. any of the large galaxiids I would say 4ft would be the mim (banded kokopu, giant kokopu [even these will outgrow a 4 tf], koaro, shortjaw kokopu [i wouldn't recommend keeping shortjaw as they are much harder to keep and there are they are in serious decline])

Welcome along to the native side Have a good dig around the native section. Most natives aren't that suitable to 'small' tanks, so ask about what you want to keep and what the ideal size is - even little whitebait grow to atleast 100mm (inanga) and some will grow to 300-450mm (all the kokopu and koaro) and they are all powerful swimmers. Bullies may be more suited to smaller tanks but will still grow to around 100mm depending on species. The problem with a tank that needs fixing is that it would almost be cheaper to buy one that doesn't need fixing...

um... I wouldn't, but then I almost never quarantine new fish :fshi:

all ready done you just have to know where to look... although that will include some mysids(?) shrimp EDIT: Using the scientific name not common gets these results: This is all from NIWA's freshwater database

definitely a liverwort of some type...

I agree with sophia about just scooping them up. If you do want to go down the trap then algae tabs might be worth a try, they are detritus/biofilm/detritus erates. Oh and it is illegal to keep gambusia, and even more illegal to return one to the water when caught.

Yep I have some as well, little red wriggly worms is about right (probably a midge larvae?)