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I 100% stick with every comment that I have made in the last few days about the hats!

8th isn't last when there is over 10 teams in all forms :facepalm: 2 of which are test playing nations. And here I was thinking you would of been smart enough to pick up my sarcasm and lovingly adopted nickname for the hats.... Maybe not huh :dunno:

In ten years time they will be world beaters, they are an asian country who love the sport. They are hard to beat on their home soil, but still learning their trade outside of it. Look at what the kiwis did to England over here in the tests. They have a great bowling unit building for the future with great depth, a batting stock that is looking stronger with Ryder playing in blak again, cool heads like Williamson and Wattling through the top and lower order and as much as I don't like his style of steering the ship a very aggressive tactical captain. All positive signs for the future of NZ cricket and they deserve the dark horse tittle playing on home soil. :thup: For sure! Are you sure? I would of thought that the multipul shirts, hats, flags and other apparel I have at my house said hats not caps. Who'd a thunk it.

I read that as a team on the up. Look at the current talent we have going round, dark horse for the world cup next year.

Define underachieving. They have just gone 2-0 up in the test series and 2-1 up in the ODI against a team who is ranked above us. Who are you judging them against?

Dam it, you got in before I did.

Go you good things go.

Yeh that would be work. Just sand the edges so its not sharp.

Loving the two viewing sides.

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Tap phosphate is between 0-0.25. Time to find a K+ kit I guess. Thank you for all your help and informative information.

So I got a phosphate test kit, its at 10.0. What is the optimum level and does water changes lower the level?

OK, I have been using carrot and apple. Will try the banana pel, no point in wasting fruit n vege I can eat when there is a different source of moisture readily avilable.

Please explain the yeast and banana peels.

Cool thanks, was thinking a sieve as well but I would of turfed out the old stuff. Thanks for the tip. Will use up my oats and then get some brans thanks. The mould has now stopped since I changed the lid. All learning curves going on in this house.

How do you change out the old/eaten oatmeal for new stuff? It looks like mine is all but eaten so time for some fresh stuff. Thanks

Thanks that is really helpful, the video on you tube is something I would possibly like to mimic. All of that sounds great, except I am unsure if just frogs would get the kids attention ( this may not be a bad thing however). A beardie sounds good, I have also been told that blueys are good with kids. I will get hunting on youtube, when I get some spare time. Thanks I have not read anything about fire belly newts, thanks I will look into that as well. Thanks for all the ideas and help so far, much appreciated.

Would they go ok in a riparium/paludarium type setting with a bit of humidity?

I have a tank that is 1500x700x700 and water tight and I have decided to give reptile keeping a go in it. I would like to be able to grow plants in it preferably emersed, but this is not essential. I do not want to do turtles as I have kept them before and they did not really do it for me. I like the idea of doing something like a full eco system, plants, water, mist, frogs, lizards maybe fish. Or the opposite dry, hot, lizards/skinks, low water plants etc ( I hope you get the idea of what I am looking at). One major thing to consider is I would like kid friendly as it would be nice to be able to "pet" the animals with my kids so something of a decent size would be good as well, but not essential. I have had a look at all the care sheets a few times and I am still unsure, so I thought I would ask for some advice from people who have kept them. Any info would be nice to help me make my mind up. Thanks all and merry Christmas :cr2:

I am dosing a rounded spoon level As an example 1.7g is 1/4 tsp a day or 14.6 is getting 3 tsp. Converting grams to millilitres and then rounding up or down dependent on the measurement. I am dosing daily at the rounded number per day. I am using spoons as opposed to grams as my scales I got for this were not accurate enough so went with measuring spoons. Nitrate is sitting just above where it should be (day before water change day), phosphate kit has been ordered for the new year. planting is becoming more dense as I am still adding more plants where I can fit them in, mainly just swords. Co2 is reading what it should and is stable. I was not aware of this. I measure it all in a container, mix it with water and then add to the tank.

I am doesing EI at double the rate, I am doesing all ferts daily. My thoery on that is it doing it every second day means there is more ferts to go round, doing it every day would give double the fert to go round for the plants. Not limiting one of the vital componants and all that. I have added some more star grass to help suck it all up and a few more swords,excel a day as well. adding 10ml of Will drop the light down another half hour, get the otos, add more water movement and tackle it all again once all of these things are doing there thing. I have dust algae so will start a three week no water change to fight that algae and then once the other stuff arrives start on the others. Will get on that forum now. Tanks for your help.

+1 for me that is cross breeding and the fry would be hybrid.

My dosage is listed above but I do not know if what I am doing is rite, time will tell. I bought 1kg of everything except for calcium carbonate @5kg and magnesium sulphate @10kg because they are used the most. There is a good thread on hear stikied in the plant section tittled how to grow plants and minimise algae orsomething like that give that a read. So just to clarify this, if I DO NOT do any water changes for a few weeks and continue to does at the rate I am with pot nitrate every other day the dust algae should disaper and there will be no adverse affects on the fish? If so I will do my weekly WC tomorrow and start a 2 or 3 week non WC period.

I agree with Ryan regarding the fresh cut wood. Becafuly with some of the sharper rocks, you may want to dig the edges in the the substrate, other then that good plans.

Pull em out and vent them.