blueether

dobsonfly?

:smot: So are road fines, got stung $500 because someone had taken my truck early in the morning (needed the large 4x4) and I hadn't taken my logbook out - I could do around 145km/h and be much more of a road hazard and only face the same sort of fine :an!gry

I would have no problem eating 'what was in the other thread', and may have in asia - it was something and I don't know what it was, but considering where I was it probably was.

The problem I have is I'm working too hard during the week and on the weekends I have a house to do up but I will be heading out to raglan some time in the next few weeks...

Sounds like a leaf veined slug, but I don't think there is an aquatic one - was it in the water or could you have knocked it off a near by plant?

Lymnaea auricularia What is it's status in NZ? I have found a few places that have called it invasive but cant seen to find anything about if it is actually classed as such. Any ideas where they are found in the wild? They look to have been in NZ as far back as the late 70's, are they sold in the pet trade (have found one old TM auction)? http://www.radleyvillage.org.uk/ourvill ... brates.htm http://home.arcor.de/c.schuettler/Suess ... index.html

They do range from brown to black, I probably shouldn't have said 'black' mud snail

They have not done anything to me, why should they?

They are Australians, what other reason do we need? :digH:

Big black/gold ones or the little brown ones? The black mud snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, is a pest in the USA and can breed up big in the aquarium (much like MTS?). I have a tank full of them, although they don't survive for long in the native tank. Looks like a good catch of shrimp. Is this the same creek that that moss you sent me came out of Sophia?

Maybe ask for all information that they hold on 'you' under the Privacy Act 1993, Part 5, Section 34?

+1 :gpo2: I use coarse river sand mostly in my tanks, and gravel/small stones in my 430L

Just as long as he doesn't take up Kitten Huffing with all the SPCA's unwanted kittens

I take it that that means they could become a pest then. Turned on the wave maker to lift some of the crud off the bottom and all the barnacles opened up and feed instead of just a few open.

HD video of Anemone feeding on BBS: LA got an ID on it? I'm guessing white striped?

If you cant find any in Ham's then head out to Raglan, most of the streams out there should have plenty. I normally get them from Ruapuke beach at the south end.

Hi and welcome here (and on reefkeepers )

Sure it's a slug of some sort Onchidella spp? O. nigricans?

It will be a while untill I add any more inhabitants so you may need a big bag of popcorn there

or turn some of the non-essential equipment off?

Was it one of you distracted guys looking at girls that did this to my car then? Truth be told it was on old person...

You are if you return them while catching them. You will beable to see if the females are in berry. I have had one or two that looked to survive dropping the larvae in my 430l native tank - that was before everything grew too big and decided that shrimp taste good.

Started to cycle my local marine setup (last weekend, 220 L) and went to see what I could in Kawhia harbor on the way back from the food festival. Stopped at the old bridge 1/2 way up the harbor at about 1/2 to 2/3 full tide and had a quick look on some of the rocks (placed there when building the bridge and new culverts). In about 10 min and in 5m of shoreline I collected (a few too many?) Blue-banded Periwinkle, Austrolittorina antipodum; two Smooth Shore Crabs,Cyclograpsus lavauxi; three Anemone (Olive Anemone? or White Striped? not sure as they have a striped column); Looks looks one of the rocks I collected must have had a couple of what look like Leathery Sea Slug or is it some sort of Chiton?; most of the rocks I grabbed (about 5 fist sized ones) all have Barnacles, Brown Surf Barnacles? and I caught about a dozen Glass Shrimp... One of the anemone immediately up and moved under the rock it was on another has moved down about 30mm and has stopped and the last one looks happy where it is.

Never seen a tubeworm that colour, Spirobranchus cariniferus? http://www.annelida.net/nz/Polychaeta/F ... iferus.htm

My god, I hope that there isn't a colony of them some where...