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Hi all, I will be looking to get my hands on some of these in a couple of months.
They are on the import list, so just wondering if anyone knows how readily available they are from stores, or if anyone here would have some available?
cheers!!
Matt
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This might be too late to be useful, but there are banded kokopu in the waterways of Ataturk Park and Mapuia Park. I believe there is Koura in Mapuia park too
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Haha! I had that exact thought myself after I checked another spot today with gambusia and goldies
at least this one was the right temp! -
Interesting this thread just popped up - I haven't had any fish for over a year, but have recently re-caught the buzz. I always wanted to check out the Reporoa guppy rumour, and today got the chance to jump in at two of the spots shown here. The records are from 1984 though... the streams I was in were nowhere near the 30oC recorded, and I only caught gambusia
There is also a post in the forum that is a about 10 years old which mentions they were at Golden Springs...
May get a chance to check out a couple of the other spots in the next week or two, but would be interested to know other peoples experiences
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interesting content, but could have been presented in a much more engaging manner
People like you and me that are interested enough to read it all probably know most of it anyway
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took this photo mainly for the eggs, the colouring was darker if you looked more from the top.
as you can see, the 'colour' is just deposits in the shell, with the shrimp being mostly clear still. the gold bits were down the 'nose' and at the joins of the tail segments. Got a bit darker than this, but not much.
going back to what DR A said about females - In my experience it is normally the bigger ones (therefore probably female) that are more likely to get some pigmentation like this. Being older could mean more time to accumulate pigment between sheds?
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there was this hilariously bland one:
I certainly feel educated :yawnn: they have them at the national aquarium as well
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My red fins have spawned for the last two years. Haven't attempted to raise the fry - in a mixed natives tank so ended up as snacks
very cool to watch the different breeding behaviour though
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pretty much to do with diet I think
Had a couple of bigger females go nearly completely black with gold bits when I had an outbreak of black hair algae - looked awesome!
What Dr A said about pink - normally cause they have been slightly cooked by the temp change. If it doesn't kill them they will go back to clear over time
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I have an older Eheim 100 - looks identical to the new ones in shops. I find it is only a little bit quieter than my small Blue Planet one
My Eheim also died on me - Opened it up and the magnet had broken off the arm that works the diaphragm. Still need to get round to gluing it back on, but should work fine if I do... that might be what is up with yours Vervo
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yes they do
as I understand it - more protien when they are small, then getting more and more plant based as they grow bigger. Mine also loves algae wafers
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:gopo: :iag: don't double up on that social media content!
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RE: catch and release -
Most of the rules are set up out of concern for the introduced sports fish :roll: so catching and then releasing back into the same waterway is fine (think a trout fisherman catching a trout, posing for photos and then releasing). But you cannot transfer the fish to another natural waterway, or put it back where you got it from if you have held it in a tank or pond. Basically if there is a risk what you are doing might introduce something new (disease, etc) to the waterway you can’t do it.
If you clean your nets and dry them out completely before fishing in a new waterway you will avoid any potential contamination or transfer that way too
I’m not too sure what you will find in you area, but always keen to help ID anything you might find
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yea, good call - bit of an over reaction on my part haha! better safe than sorry.
Hadn't heard of us having any other freshwater bivalves in NZ - learn something new every day
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mind you if you think it looks more like this http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/pests/asian-clam
you should get in touch with MPI via the number in the above link... apparently the 'overbite' is a distinctive identifier
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hmm, I haven’t seen anything like that before... doesn’t look like our native ones - normally black and much bigger.
could be a juvenile one though:
although it looked a bit rounder in shape?
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over the course of a week?
you mean how much per week, or you are only looking after them for a week?
If you only have them for a week, and don’t mind going looking, any bugs you can find
As a more reliable source go for ox heart. They will definitely go for blood worms, but not really that nutritious, so should feed something else as well. you might get them to take processed foods after a while - only about half of my fish will eat commercial food though
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same with ours, seems strange that they make them like that if the cats wont drink it
this is all it took for our cat: food on the left, water on the right :roll:
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Ok, cool - looking at your area on the NIWA freshwater database, there are common and uplands recorded in the Halswell River - so your guesses are defiantly in the right ball park!
One way to narrow down which you have could be to count the first dorsal spines - the commons normally have 7 (may have 8 though) and the uplands have 6 (although they can sometimes have 5 or 7)
The commons will also have pores on their heads, whereas the uplands won’t - but that would be harder to check. (This info is coming from Stella McQueen's latest book - she is a member on here so might be able to positively identify them for you.)
With that in mind I would say that your fish are as follows:
1. Female Upland (could be a male common, but the spotting nature of the patterning, particularly on the lips makes me think upland)
2. Female upland (6 dorsal spines)
3. Male upland (as you said it has an orange stripe on the dorsal - can’t quite tell in the photo. Males are normaly darker paterned in my experience also)
So a real nice group if I'm right
might get some breeding!Streams are so much fun to go poking around in , never know what you are going to see
Not sure what the clams are? Surprised the Koura didn’t try and make a snack out of it! We have freshwater mussels in NZ, but they are normally a reasonable size, so not sure what you have. Got a pic?
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Nice pics! cool patterning on that Koura
Not too sure on the IDs, but they don't look like quite like commons to me - normaly would expect some hint of 'whiskers' on the cheeks - so they could all be uplands, depending on your location? Mind you that second one looks like it only has 6 dorsal spines, which would indicate it might be a giant... normaly wouldn't get giants and uplands together though haha!
some info about your location and where you caught them might help in identifying, I can check in my book when I get home and see if I can narrow it down a bit more.
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one thing I learnt about cats the other day is they don't like drinking water that is near their food.
My cat never touched the water in her bowl (found many other creative water sources) so I moved it to the other side of the doorway and she now drinks from it all the time!
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this one was on stuff recently: http://vimeo.com/66839739
original article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/9881817/The-learner-driver-fish-it-will-bowl-you-over
I am supprised someone is trying to move it out of the random experiment area and into an actual product :fshi:
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Did you think he was getting crabby?
I had my suspicions
WTB - Spotted Blue-Eye / Pseudomugil Gertrudae
in Private Trade and Exchange
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Hey, unfortunately not - pestered the local stores for a while but nothing came up on their lists so moved onto other things
let me know if you manage to get your hands on any!