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Is that something to do with IronMan?

:slfg: So true. "Celibate? I said CELEBRATE!" Many Christians have taken some verse and twisted it to their own means or agenda. This is human nature, not just Christians. Often in a religious discussion you will find a non-Christian quoting something from the bible. Turn the other cheek is a common one. This works both ways. Many non-Christians will say that the Christians did this, or the Christians do that. So many blame all Christians for the actions of a few. Yes, some actions were very wrong, but some were very right. The Catholic Church may have hung and tortured scientists, but they also started the first university and kicked off the documented search for scientific proof. I am not trying to say one makes up for the other, just pointing out that you can't think of us as all the same. You wouldn't throw tropicals and goldfish together (or at least I hope not!) I try to listen. Some people are infuriating, I'm sure they say the same about me, but I at least hear them out. I always found it interesting that they honestly believe they can change someone's mind by bugging them on their day off and not leaving. That would put me off finding out more.

:nilly: No wonder. I blame Fishguy.

From what I was reading, there is a small species of the genus called Pelvicachromis Kribensis which is where the common name came from.

I'm yet to find that anywhere. I'm not offended. People are entitled to their free will. Many Christians forget this. /AGREE :thup: Proof defeats Faith. Hear me out here, and try to keep an open mind: When God created all of the Angels, they were aware of him and loved him. Praised and Glorified him. How long until you get sick of that? You don't play a game to win every time, you want a challenge! So... Lucifer gets power hungry, gets kicked out of the fan club, and now every Friday God and Lucifer sit down for a drink and say "So, who do we tempt this weekend?" Free will is God giving us a choice. I met a Scientologist who is married to a Christian. She was discussing the teachings and faith with her inlaws. They said "There is a road going one way and a road going the other way. one way leads to hell, the other way leads to heaven. Knowing this, how can you choose to walk the path to hell?" She replied "God gave us a choice. We don't have to follow him. I choose not too.... By the way, there's a rope over there, I'm taking that." There is a theory of an old world, that is repopulated. This could explain dino's. Evolution happens. There is no doubt. I don't think we evolved from Monkeys, but there are introduced birds around NZ that have evolved into completely different species, to the point where they can no longer breed with their "cousins" (for lack of a better term). Throw in a bit of mythology here. Who HASN'T heard of Dragons? Phoenixes? Unicorns? I doubt this was one kid with an overactive imagination. Too much evidence, but buried deep. (Sound familiar?)

Kribs are harmless. It's the Pulchers that have given them a bad rep... It looks like the mum has the red tail too, so that's made the breeding form easier.

From being crossbreeds?

:slfg:

They got a TV ad.

No2 is what the customer could afford after paying for a consent for no1.

Hi guys! I came home this evening to find my Kribs had spawned! :happy1: :happy2: Mum and dad are guarding what looks like 50-100 fry. I have borrowed a book from Fishguy that the wife was reading to let me know what to feed the fry (They're loving the darn staghorn algae). I noticed that there is a dwarf rainbow cichlid (P. Kribensis) and a medium rainbow cichlid (P. Pulcher). The daddy of my fry appears to be Pulcher, not Kribensis. The mother is Kribensis. I wasn't planning on crossbreeding, but I found it odd that I bought the dad as a Kribensis, and I didn't even know about Pulcher. What do I list the breeding as? Images to help: (Sorry about the quality. The quality on a cheap phone is better than the quality on the dead camera.)

The bowls interfere with the fishes sensory... or something. Something about the curves of the glass reflecting the fishes senses and driving the fish crazy. I didn't read too much in to it, because I knew I would never keep fish in a bowl.

Don't want to step on any toes here.... If you're offended, stop reading now.

:facepalm: Not helpful. Remove the fish first, put it in a nice big tank, THEN hammer the bowl. :thup: I don't mean this to appear as a silly / not-helpful response, but you owe it to the fish to get them out of a bowl and into a tank or pond. Fish don't like bowls.

I found by reducing the lighting period my bristlenose had a chance to clean them up. If you're careful I guess you could try scraping them off yourself, but they generally stick pretty damn well.

Bus?

bother. Oh well.

Hmm, maybe I am looking at this wrong. Would increasing the volume of water that the wood is soaking in, or increasing the depth that it is soaking at, speed up the process?

As long as it's not rotting, it should be ok. Different timbers will release different amounts of tannins into the water, so colouration can occur. I haven't heard anything about pine being a no-no?

Tried that, been waiting for two bits to sink since March. The bottom seems saturated but the top still seems almost completely dry. it hasn't lowered much into the water since I started. I tried using cobble stones that I had lying around, which weigh a fair bit. But the boyancy of the wood normally moves the stones and they shoot upwards. Good thing I had them in a poly box at the time or else the stone would have shattered the tank. :nilly:

It would be much longer if they never saw them

Yes I know, it's an old thread. My daughter has been to the beach and collected two large bags of driftwood. Some look ok, so I said sure, we'll stick them in a quarantine tank (four of these now :happy1: ), get the Java fern to attach, and then move them into a bigger tank. So what do you use for weighing down driftwood until it sinks? Some people say lead, like fishing sinkers, but I would expect you would go throw two or three bags of sinkers before these stayed down. So what do you use?

Would need to be a bare bottom tank, otherwise people won't see them, and therefore would not be able to buy them.

Most do. Would love to, but don't know where to source parts.

Check out Lighting Plus also. Might not be as cheap as Bunnings, but could be higher quality.