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The poly also serves the purpose of nullifying any pressure points due to non-uniformity of the surface that the tank sits on. You should have the poly directly under the tank

Yeah, but more people play rugby than do martial arts

I feel for ya mate. It's pretty obvious to anyone that reads your posts that you put an insane amount of care and attention into your fish, so it really sucks that something like this should happen to you. I hope you get it sorted and can get back into breeding as soon as possible.

I believe you're supposed to chew and swallow the worms before regurgitating them and allowing the wee bird to peck the bits out of your mouth. hope that helps

the reality is there is no right answer to this. if you asked the best photographers in the world what the best cameras are they wouldn't all give the same answer. for an entry level camera any of the main brands (canon, nikon, sony etc) will give good photos.when i got my dslr i went through the same thing. several different "experts" all with opposing opinions. in the end i figured that i'm not a professional photographer so it probably doesn't matter if I don't get the best camera in the world. i based my decision on price and availability of lenses (went for the canon 400d). i used to do a bit of ski photography and this produced good enough pics to go in a few mags. i'd say your best bet would be to look at the options you can afford (and if possible try them out) and go with the best value model that works for you. whatever you get will be fine to learn on, and if you take it further you're going to have to upgrade anyway (both camera and lenses).

It'll be at least a year before I can get another dog of my own (just moved for the 4th time this year, and will be moving again in 6 months or so, will wait till I'm a bit more settled). Till then I will have to make do with stealing mums dog

Dog sitting for my mum. Molly is a 7 week old border collie

Pretty sure fish poo isn't instantly lethal in a tank I grew up on tank water and used it in many fish tanks. We had a filter hooked up to pull out any nasties. Worth doing for yourself and your fish

Which is exactly the point. You want a few fish at $30 to $50 each. Hardly worth a commercial business doing an import for. When an import costs thousands of dollars you showing up with you $100 isn't going to make anyone jump to it. Bottom line, getting new species into the country cost a lot of money and noones going to do it unless they can make the money back (and a profit). Even saying you'll pay up front won't do anything because the money you are talking about is such a small fraction of the importation cost.

It's all very well saying you won't keep silent, but bleating about it isn't going to do much either. If you're as determined as you say you are, put your money where your mouth is and organise your own import (as others on this forum have done). It's very easy to say the importers won't be taking much risk, but you don't seem willing to take it yourself

If you're doing it to create something cool I don't see much of an issue (so long as it's done ethically) but selling mongrel hybrids as decent fish should be a hangable offence. Obviously the Liger fits into the first category and such a project should be started immediately

what you're not taking into account is that forgetable music from the past has already been forgotten. of course old music is going to come off better if you only bring up the legends. yeah the late 80's gave us nirvana, but it also gave us tiffany and redhead kingpin.

Pretty sure there's not a lot of empirical evidence where dinosaurs are concerned.

Man or mouse - millencolin

Also illinformed. Maybe a bit more life experience bring both wisdom and modesty

Can't get enough of your love, babe - Barry white

Another brick in the wall - pink floyd

mind eraser, no chaser - them crooked vultures

Where is my mind - the pixies

snowblind - black sabbath

Before making any decisions you really need to know exactly what the requirements are. I did a bit of work for a guy who was setting up a quarantine room and the regulations were fairly strict. I'm not certain but I'm pretty sure the room had to be fully lined and painted and he had lino with a 150mm upstand around the entire room to contain any water spills etc. there's no point in setting it up and then finding out it has to be done differently.

Batts needs to be lined (or at least covered with something) as it is pretty unpleasant. You can fill the gaps in poly with expanding foam.

Bullet with butterfly wings - smashing pumpkins

Gimme three steps - lynyrd skynyrd

We Threw Gasoline On The Fire And Now We Have Stumps For Arms And No Eyebrows - NOFX