blueether

Different moss than what is in the tank, the stuff in the pic I collected on sunday from a local peat lake and wetland

Break the wife, break the man?

Torrent fish can be hard to find untill you get used to finding them. You can turn rocks over with a net downstream, but this is hard work in the sort of flow that they live in and they are powerful swimmers so more often than not they will just swim up stream unseen. The best way I have found to find them is with a good torch held just above the water line pointing up stream, at maybe 30deg. The best place is at the end of a pool where the water is just about breaking up. The best depth I have found is from about 200mm through to about 600mm. The seem to come up out of the rifles into the bottom edge of the pools at night

very good Joe

Just did a quick water change on the 400l native setup and took the opportunity to grab one of the koura out, and she is in berry :happy2: Sorry about the quality of these two

Just a quick update on where this tank is at. Bullies all look ready to spawn, and I think I had a single fry survive from last spring as I have seen a small bully on occasion. One of the koura is in berry :happy2: Down to 5 Inanga, all are about to enter their third year of life so not doing too badly. Darn comet is still in there, and is getting bigger by the week. Must love all the high protein food that the natives get. The kokopu have grown heaps, as have the torries and bullies. The moss is growing slowly, but is looking better now that I have lifted it up towards the light and have the 3500l/h pump blasting it with water and air from a venturi.

:smot: Driving an airtrek with a evo7 engine and turbo, 50ml would get me off the forecourt

I love my SWMBO (wife), and like my fish. I think she would win out... and I've been wife keeping for 14 years and fish keeping for only 1 1/2

if they were Pangio anguillaris then they are on the current(?) import list. Pangio anguillaris look to have definite barbels in most photos, but one here does look much like the original post http://www.loaches.com/species-index/pangio-anguillaris

Across the top should be fine, aids in aeration. Are any of the fish looking stressed with the flow? What are the tank dimensions, and the rated flow of the filter?

I liked the look of the first wood (and layout), just a shame that it was pine and would rot too quick

I like the Fissidens tree

I would love for my native tank to look like this when I get around to doing it http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2010/show76.html

I'll try and remember to take the camera (does HD video as well)

I agree with Ira, even if the tank is 3 arm lengths away from where you are sitting at the computer desk :facepalm: (where is the soggy floor emoticon?)

you forgot newtoy.

I did buy my bro and sis-inlaw a copper fish many years ago, I think it was an anglerfish or something like it.

reminds me of those wall butterflies of the 60's and 70's /me darfc

But if you are usually carrying around your forearm how is any one else supposed to use it to measure there pleco?

fish :digH:

they will take about 3 weeks or so to hatch, have a read of http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=55357 from last spring in my tanks. I didn't think any survived from any of my spawns but last night I saw a small, what looked like a common, bully in the 430l tank. I'm sure I've not put any bullies that small in since last spring so I'm thinking that I had one fry survive all the hungry mouths in there.

looks good, love that bit of wood.

I so need to find a redfin male for my females.

congrats, have you had a spawn before? I think one (ok, two) of my bullies may have spawned 2 weeks ago, one of males went as black and one of the females went real pale and I haven't seen him much in the last few weeks.

Water parameters ok, temp? Something on the fern rotting? food caught behind the fern rotting?