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  1. It does look like a kokopu, it will need cold water best below 20deg and lots of oxygen and water. If you are in the waikato I have a native tank that it could live in, and others around will have native tanks as well, if you cant house it your self. You are not legally allowed to return it to a waterway without a permit. PS After finding a larger container, to help it heal and stop infection you could add 1/2 teaspoon of salt per letre of water - dissolve the salt well and then add it slowly over a hour or two
  2. alright for those that got signed copies
  3. um, I don't know any other drugs that start with er... error
  4. *(for above post that I forgot to add) Stella, in your book you wonder about the heimlich maneuver, one of the inanga got a bully stuck and I couldn't catch said inanga. Some 18 hours later, four attempts to catch it and it looks like it has managed to get it down - or it has died under a bit of drift wood
  5. Oh so cute :love: About 10-15mm caught about 10, 1/2 went in the 400l native tank (under 20deg) the rest went in with a newly morphed green & gold bell frog (about 23deg). Didn't want to put them all in one tank as the inanga/smelt might eat them (and have*) or I was afraid the frog tank might be too warm, although the stream where they came from was well above 20 deg DSC_8130 by nzbeeman, on Flickr
  6. It gets even weirder than that with dihaploid offspring of bees (I guess ants/wasps etc can do the same). Male bee, one mother, no father, one grandmother and possibly two grandfathers Bee genetics is cool and slightly strange. 15 years of beekeeping
  7. /me slaps stella "get over it, cant be as bad as man flu" I do hope you get better soon
  8. My guess would be a mold or bacterial colony
  9. weird thing about NZ stick insects is I believe that there has never been a male found, make of that what you will.
  10. Too much... I try and get live food for my natives once a week, that will mean a trip out to the olds to skim their pond for mozzie larvae, backswimmers, zooplankton etc. thats 30min in travel and another 10-20 with the net, then I might visit the stony stream just up the road - add another hour... Water change once a week - another 30 min at least, more if I move driftwood... 10min a day to feed them - have to cut up the ox heart etc then there is the 6hours a day that I should be working that I'm too easily distracted by the fish :oops:
  11. dig out the old testament... ichabod
  12. after they have aged X weeks in fresh water they wouldn't be young fry any more would they? If they are any more than a few 10s of km could they be still classed as whitebait? I think Stella posted (on here or another forum) that you should beable to identify the fish you are catching to help avoid the "whitebait" tag if you are out of season.
  13. Did you know that they can also be found on land if the conditions are favorable, or the conditions in their home range are not?
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