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Video of two of the kokopu, sorry about the poor lighting:

well I went out to see F1shguy at the garden centre where he works, nice setup in the centre and some nice tanks in the fishroom/area - and a huge range of filters/pumps from littile ones to huge pond filters. We then headed to a little stream/wetland and had a good poke around and saw heaps of small banded kokopu, inanga and plenty of fresh run whitebait.

The fish that we saw had the gambusia shape (or any of the live bearers) fat forward half and thin back half, it might not have been white but it was very light in colour.

Torrentfish Feeding:

kokopu can be quite lazy and I'd not mix them with turtles, turtles would probably like it a lot warmer than the kokopu would.

Mark, I might pop by in the afternoon if you are going to down at the historic village? F15hguy, sounds good

I'll be over in TGA on sat. afternoon and if SWMBO is not there was thinking of having a look in a few streams around. anyone keen to show an ex east-coaster around a stream or two?

:slfg:

What are you planning to cross to get these fish reptiles? :cofn: Barnacle, my natives live mealworms.

It is, I suppose you want it back now that it attached to wood and growing so well?

there were pics? I want to see them...

Not enough Ca? just a thought.

Stripping eggs and milt are old technique and so is hormone injections to release them

Mikey, the goldfish was left outside in the 1/2 wine barrel :slfg: It is good to see them back inside. I have plans for the back and above water - riparian tank here I come. I have all the plants I need I think just need to attach then to a 'bank' and attach that to the tank. I was just going to put a background on the back like I had before - plain browns. As for flow there are two wavemakers, a 5000 l/h and a 10000 l/h, and I'm thinking of putting a 3000 l/h one at the other end to lift the crud out of the stones. The stones look nice but are catching a lot of food atm. I'll have to get a good population of snails going I think, although they never seem to last in there with the bullies. already getting a bit of cyano on the stones

thanks joe, it is slowly spreading to the other bits of older wood. I haven't really tried to propagate it yet but that is on the plan.

That is about a year and a half of growth just to 1/2 cover that bit of wood, man that stuff is slow growing, it's growing slightly faster in the trop tank but not much.

Fine: viewtopic.php?f=41&t=50025&p=662196#p662196

Update on the tank now that it has been set up again after having the carpets done a month or two ago. Fish have been living outside on the side veranda. The kokopu are doing well: Two of the torrentfish: Fissidens berteroi is doing well (as is the hair algae on this bit of wood): FTS: https://picasaweb.google.com/113298704761943818357/Fish#

Haven't seen any that big but have seen them to about 1 1/2 to 2 ft in pureora

Camera is in the car and its wet-out

After 10 years in the UK I was disappointed with moro on my return

poor shrimp :tears: The four fish would be bullies, probably common bully (the top one is in normal colours the bottom one is defensive "I'm bigger than you" coours) :

Got to love the colours of our jewels

PSY is a fishkeeper too?

Just moved all the fish back inside after 3 months living in a 180 l tank outside on the side veranda: Homer: about 110mm when caught early last spring 185mm, 101g, condition = 1.60 as of 18 Aug 2012 197mm and 109g, condition = 1.42 on 10 nov 2012 Smallest one: about 85-90mm when caught late spring last year 178mm, 82g, condition = 1.45 as of 18 Aug 2012 187mm and 98g, condition = 1.50 on 10 nov 2012 Med one: about 90mm when caught at the same time as Homer 182mm, 90g, condition = 1.49 as of 18 Aug 2012 195mm and 104g, condition = 1.40 on 10 nov 2012 Large one: about 120-125mm when caught late spring last year 203mm, 122g, condition = 1.46 as of 18 Aug 2012 218mm and 125g, condition = 1.21 on 10 nov 2012 (I think I weighed/measured this wrong as I cant see it loosing that much condition) 208mm and 125g would give a CF of 1.40 CF = W/L^3*100000 where W is in g L is in mm