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Yep that's sea lettuce/ulva. looks good too

Sounds like ulva which will be fine

...humour aside, I had to remove the post due to implied swearing... clicking on it confirmed that were some strong swear words not suitable for a family show..

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could get a siamese algae eater

what did you do to it?

although I can clearly see the reason for no amphibians being imported (global fungus epidemic), why can't we get chameleons?

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The licensing system, although a good idea for larger countries, probably wouldn't work because the numbers of people getting one in NZ wouldn't pay for the cost of running the system. We don't know the internal systems of MAF, it's a pretty big ministry. They don't ask for funding, they get assigned a portion of budget. One person who doesn't know how maf works will get nothing done. It takes a large organisation eg. one NZ organisation wanted to bring in dung beetles from overseas to do what dung beetles do. The university research said that we already have ~11 species of native dung beetle, research said it's pointless to bring the exotics in. Federated farmers and other large organisations objected to the exotics. Maf reluctantly said yes. Now we have an invasive exotic dung beetle that isn't doing what the original group wanted and it's now competing with the native. It's not rocket science, no kidding, it's ecological science, which works on a much bigger scale with far more variables and less known about it. You probably need a degree to work for MAF on anything you want to influence. Is there a system and clear cut regulations on what reptiles you can keep in NZ..............NO Yes, it's called a whitelist, If it's on the list you can have it. If you consider all the undiscovered species and the ones that haven't been researched for their effect on the NZ environment, It's far easier to whitelist. Who should be in charge of creating one............................MAFAnd universities and DOC Has it been suggested...............................YES Would it be hard to do...........................NOExtremely, Each species has to be checked out Would it take long/cost alot of money.............NO x 2It would cost hundreds of millions to create a blacklist. What can we do to change it........................bitch about it on the forum Or go to Uni, do postgrad and help with the research and get something done.

Something may be popular worldwide, but if worldwide is Asia and the US, they have a large illegal pet trade. Basically, if they are a breach of CITES you can forget about it. Anyway, no amphibians will be imported while there is a fungus killing them off world wide as we don't want to kill our 3 natives which are endangered as it is. There is also the risk that people use them for their toxin and harm people. Even if they are harmless in captivity there isn't any assurance that they can't sequester their toxin from an imported food. If you got the risk assessment you would get objection from the zoo's and universities across New Zealand. My suggesting Devo is don't waste your money and get prosecuted. Varanophile, if you think MAF are inherently lazy and not the brightest, you do better, with the budget the government gives them it's easier to decline an application than spend thousands on a few frogs.

My thought would be thats lots of feed for big mouths :digH:

I would love a mantis shrimp !drool:

Does it have a sulfur smell? if it does it could be anoxic bacteria

Stunts

Is that a Hilux? Good to see you came out of that ok.

Everyone I know who knows what they are doing with computers and myself use Microsoft security essentials. Low resource use, rates highly and isn't obtrusive. I also use good ol' Spybot search and destroy for catching malware and tracking stuff. If you want a paid one, get NOD 32.

Pet bus?

Where are the bruises? :slfg:

Yes, My one the same size had to be 12mm because there was no bracing in the middle.

I just bought some Dickies shorts from america that cost me $77 nzd including postage for two vs $60 for one here. Good Shorts too, my original pair that I got in 2006 finally wore through last week after lots of wearing.

Maybe this?

Looks like it had a common ancestor to the shag. Almost none of what are around now, but everything we have now had common ancestors from back then.

QFT

Angels are more on the aggressive side.

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