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I would think nose to tail would be the way

:nfs: I suspect that he would beable to eat just about anything he came across in the stream, even not so small trout

Cant think of the ad off hand, but there was another that I have seen recently with a goldfish bowl & comet

If it's going to be open like that on then not a lot :digH:

Hi, good to see some more people from the waikato around

ok, I'm so I'm not a biologist...

Please. If I can remember the distribution of G. maculatus It doesn't extend that far north in South America (looks to only be about 35deg south)

Looks to be: cress (Nasturium officinale) - introduced or yellow-button (Cotula coronopofolia) native a Renaunculis spp, could a native buttercup looks to be some sedge, rushes or reeds of some sorts

Yes I know that, but the L50 isn't instant death either. The math was very rough :sage:

Got around to doing a water test just now: pH 6.8 Total ammonia <.25ppm* Nitrates 10 - 20ppm** * this tank never seems to test at 0ppm for ammonia ** This was the reason for the good sized water change, looks like the denitrification in the DSB has stopped

no carbon either Yes, I guess that chloramines would be produced...

should hope not a too big a one, but then I guess that any water change or disturbance of the substrate will cause a mini cycle even if we never see it. I think I can remember seeing online that the L50 of nitrifying bacteria is about 2ppm so even if the tapwater was was at 4ppm given the amount of organics that would be suspended in the water column there shouldn't be too large a die off, maybe 30%? Given that they can double in population in 24 hours (@ ~pH7 and temp in the mid 20's) they should be back to normal in 3 or 4 days given that the temp is 11.9deg

Smelt like below 17 deg (sometimes in the whitebait catch) G. fasciatus, banded kokopu, like below 18 G.maculatus, inanga, like about 18 G. brevipinnis, Koaro, like below 18 G. argenteus, Giant kokopu, like below 18 G. postvectis, Shortjawed kokopu,like below 18 See Thermal tolerance and preference of some native New Zealand freshwater fish pages 6 & 7 So short answer is don't do it

Just the two smelt, still leaves 6 of them. I thought at least one of the inanga were go belly up when I went off to the shop. I got the only brand on the shelf, aquaone water conditioner.

Last time it was after a lot of rain and the chlorine tested (at the local fonterra plant) at max allowable, so I do suspect that the levels are back up again even though we havn't had that much rain in the waikato

Just did a ~60% water change (normally do upto 50%) only to find that some of the inanga and most of the smelt were going spastic about 30min later. Rush trip down to the LFS to get some conditioner (never had any before/never used it*) and by the time I get back 2 smelt are floating upside down, one still breathing, and most of the smelt/inanga looking very stressed. 30ml and 5min later the fish are looking much happier and no more have floated to the top. * only ever had fish show stress from chlorine once before on a sunday when I lost all my smelt from a water change. :sick:

Have a look at scamp mini scaffolds much better design than the above one for the use that you want. You could then straddle the whole tank setup with ease You could even hire it (used to work for waipa hire, the cost of one for a day was $36). They go an extra level up and the braces can either hang (like in the pic) or support (like what you would expect) See http://www.equiptec.co.nz/products/Mini-Scaffolds

That there could well be the problem, shouldn't be any old food left after feeding. this might have caused a bacterial bloom

Even Hovmoller's join date doesn't work out to 4 years... p44's?

You aren't that much younger than me and I can remember Basil We wont believe you without photographic proof :digH:

Calibre is a good program (and open source*), but they had to reverse engineer the propriety formats so that you could have such a useful tool. * I am an advocate (and user) of OSS, open patents, copyleft (or shorter copyright)

Nice fish. Must get out and find some banded kokopu this winter/spring. There are so many places that I want to look in still around here

:smot: A kindle isn't an e-reader, it is a proprietary lock in to proprietary formats that keeps you sucking on the teat of big business. Sorry for the rant but I'm an open standards supporter

I did something similar but without the hole in the side, so that the water just flowed over the rim of the container. I found this very hard to adjust the height to get it running well, it was either running dry all the time or wouldn't be skimming the surface. The hole idea could make it much better.

I have a single 23w cf above mine atm and was running ~36w of cold cathode tubes. The 36w was plenty when you aren't growing plants, and it didn't light the whole tank up white - left shadows etc