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... and not a fish was stirring, or at least not till about 9 o'clock when the ells first started to make an appearance then the shortjaw kokopu came out. This was Stella's introduction to the native fish life in a Pirongia stream as she rebooted the mind. We saw about 1/2 a dozen eels and about the same number of kokou at this site, then spotlighted on the track out of the bush on the way to another site where we found dozens of Cran's bullies, a few eels and koura. Then the rain came and we headed back home at about 11:30 as some of us had to get up at 5am to go to work :yaw1: First the eels: Then the Kokopu: Then the other night-life:

I would think the warmer colour (lower K) would look better than a quite blue 10,000 K. But then again shaddows have a cooler colour than daylight, about 7,000 - 7,500 K to daylights 6,000 - 6,500 K if I unforget correctly. It will be intresting what others think...

I would go for a combo of a and b. Fine gravel evenish across bottom (maby more at right hand end) and pile the bigger stuff at the left end. It will all get mixed up in the end

Stella, you are welcome to drag me out one night and I can show you some shortjawed kokopu up here, and maybe some giants... and of cause there are always the ubiquitous bullies. If you cant make it the 20min south of hams to pirongia I would be keen to be draged over to hamilton. You are most welcome to have a look at my tank as well while you are around these parts. PS hope you get the head rebooted

Is Ira from the north pole? Is he father christmas?

Hi, welcome to the forum and the habbit/hobby

Adrienne is right if we as a hobby/industry work with the bio security agencies we will see more stuff allowed in. It has been done for high risk areas before. I was lucky that the field I worked in for DEFRA has a very good relationship with them and we got a lot of support form the industry, made our jobs so much easier. Back on topic, there is probably very little reason that Marimo Balls or alteast the algae that form them could survive in the wild in NZ. Do we really want yet another species of algae in our waterways?

never carry cash on the underground in Europe, just a credit card in your sock/bra etc Would love to do africa

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs UK version of MAFF

Not bio security Former DEFRA inspection agent

How long did you work on that pun

Like these Cran's bullies? From Post http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=55357&p=604627#p604627 in this thread http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=55357

&c:ry Lost a smelt and another inanga, the inanga swam into the wavemaker when it started in reverse... don't by cheep hardware :facepalm: Old stand: New stand and scape (that will change undoubtedly):

I use my (android) phone for logging into my servers in Germany and the UK and I can also remotely control my desktop at home, I also use the GPS a lot

But think of the watts per gallon :digH:

Android, qtopia etc are open source software, android apps may or may not be. The neo platform, Openmoko, (and I think the greenphone) took it one step further and were (mostly) open sourced hardware as well.

No they weren't android but were linux based like android is. The greenphone (qtopia) wasn't a touch screen [edit] but the fic neo1973 was. Very little that apple does is new, they just place it in a pretty package and trim all the 'difficult bits' out so that apple users can use it :digH:

I think that if you look closely you will see that iOS was not released before KDE4, qtopia and neo1873, the fore runners to android styled interface

:smot: That is why she was made a mod, cant have been for her knowledge :digH: :digH:

I have just moved the tank onto a new stand on Sunday, looks much nicer than the old one. The new one even has doors Had to completely strip down the tank to move it. Removed all ~50-60 l of wet iron sand, man that stuff weighs a ton, and rocks. I have rebuilt the scape a little like in the mockups in the first post except the rise is at the other (right) end. Have added 2 x 5000 l/h wave makers and found that they lifted a lot of dross off the bottom for the CF1200 to hover up, these were added before the strip down. The poor fish have been very stressed with spending a few hours in a rubbish bin then having to contend with a new scape and poor water conditions. I think I have killed most of the bacteria in the sand/filter with it being off for ~4 hours and a good 75% water change. I have done an about 1/3 water change yesterday and today to keep ammonia down and to help clear the silt out of the water from the disturbed sand. Looks like there is a green water algae bloom forming and a bacteria bloom in the water as well as it has gone milky - but this could be from the well turned over sand :dunno: Really should have a test kit :facepalm: Had one inanga die, got trapped between two rocks and the glass by the looks, and one has an infection. Had 3 of them jump out of the bin on to the floor, silly things. I have added 1/2 a kg of rock salt and will add another tomorrow to help stop any spread. There is no way I'll be able to a single inanga to treat with a salt bath, they are just too fast. Cut the one that died open to see how much fat they are carrying from being fed a rich diet. The all look quite fat. No real fat visible, but his gonads were very enlarged and fill of milt. Will post a pic of the new scape and stand when the water clears, if it does...

Don't let Stella here you say that you are reading her book, we'll never hear the end of it It is a good read :cofn: All I can say is either ditch the tropicals or get another ~120 - 200 l tank for the natives.

Nope, most died over night and today, as did most of the eggs Lack of o2? too warm ~18-19 deg? (were at 16 in main tank) Put the remaining ones in the 1/2 wine cask on the back porch, see how they do if any survive...

Much better size I think I'd go for: a koura (or two small ones - but they do grow quite fast) 4 to 6 or so bullies, I would go for a ratio of 3 female to 1 male (redfins or Cran's) and 6 or so inanga or smelt, remember that they will get to about 100mm in a years time - mine range from ~85mm to ~110mm

+1 for the above, except I would think the cabinet would sell for more on it's own

By the 20th November none of the first fry that hatched were still alive Update 11/12/2011: Today I decided to change the tank stand to one I had made in the last few week so firstly caught the two bullies that were looking after eggs and placed then in a ~7l plastic bin with their rocks, then proceeded to empty the main tank out so I could move it. Some time later while awaiting a helping hand to move the tank I noticed that the next spawn had hatched :happy1: fantastic timing, I new they were nearing as it's been 3 weeks since the spawn. The two dads are still in there with the rest of the eggs and I have placed some pond weed in there for the fry to hide in, but the two dads look to be well behaved and aren't even looking at the fry. Here's hopping for better success than the last hatching.