Munkii

I'm looking for pest snails as a additional food source for my clown loaches. Keen to pick up from around central Auckland. Thanks!

I'm looking to get ~4 twisted val plants for a new setup of mine. I'm based in Auckland and would prefer to pickup, but happy to pay for shipping if that's what it takes. Thanks in advance!

You could try some old under gravel filter panels maybe. Li@m, where do you find awesome rocks like that?

Thanks for the tip! I assume that means I need to pick up a hardness test kit at Hollywood this weekend?

Hi all, sorry for the possibly stupid question. I recently acquired a glass CO2 drop tester, but the instructions that came with it are all in Chinese. I understand that it works by measuring the pH of the water in the little ball at the end. So my question is, do I need to make sure the water I put into the ball is perfectly pH neutral? I know my tap water has a pH of 7.5 and I am worried this will effect my CO2 reading. Thanks in advance!

Awesome shrimp. Is that stream publicly accessible?

Looks great It that Java moss on the rocks? How did you attach it?

I'm thinking of using a reptile humidifier get moss growing in a dry start tank. Something like this: Has anyone tried this before? Does it work? Does anyone have a humidifer that they want to get rid of?

In the past I have heard that native shrimps will eat black beard algae, but I don't have any experience to verify it

Be careful. My outside trough changes from 21 deg during the day down to 16 deg over night.

Ahh! The Bullys are actually eating the shrimps I need to find a home for them quickly :facepalm:

Shrimp Pictures Click on each image for a large version (and again for an even bigger version) Free swimming. About 1 cm long They often hang out at the base of the rocks Size comparison with a bully. The bullys chase them a bit, but I haven't seen any actually get eaten Another fish pic since he posed nicely. They're super bold considering they were wild caught

Depending on who else you have in the tank the eggs will be fine to stay where they are. I kept corys with dwarf gouramis and they bred and raised young just fine (had to plug the filter inlet though). In my other tank the angel and clown loach eat the eggs almost immediately. I don't even have time to try and get them out.

After not finding any shrimp last weekend, I decided to try a different spot to see if I would have more luck. I found a little stream flowing though the back of New Lynn along the back of Olympic Park. It was much more over over grown with vegetation than the last place I looked but still full of road run off. I had a good look around before dipping my net in. I saw a bunch of little fish, but nothing that looked like a shrimp. I waved my net through the vegetation to see what I could find and I ended up catching about five tiny little shrimp. They're so small that I initially thought they were mosquito larvae, but after checking one out closely in the bucket, they are indeed shrimp!! :happy1: I spent another half an hour wading around and managed to catch a few more, but they seemed to go into hiding after a while. Still, I managed to get just over 10 in a small patch of stream, so they seem to be pretty plentiful. I'll post some pictures of them tomorrow. The water in my tank is a bit cloudy at the moment from all the stream debris that got caught along the way. There were also several patches of glosso growing in the stream. I paid $6 for a tiny little pot a few weeks ago, so I grabbed a chunk of that into my bucket too. I'm thinking I'll experiment with growing it emersed in a spare tank.

These fish have been taken from a stream last weekend, put into an empty tank which I filled up with the water I took from the stream, and have only been there for a few days. Do you really think the "no release" rule applies to these fish as well? I find it hard to imagine that they would have any diseases which weren't present in the stream before.