Crooky

The Waikato Aquarium Society will be having a club meeting on Thursday 3rd March 16 at 7.00pm at the Waikato Commerce Club located at 197 Collingwood Stree Hamilton.
At the March Club Monthly meeting, we have decided to up-size our normal sales table & make it into the Great Aquatic Swap meet. 
GOLD COIN ENTRY for non financial members.
Come along, buy, sell, trade or swap anything aquatic or aquaria related. 
We are really excited to hold our swap meet and encourage you ALL to come along & bring your unneeded aquatic stuff - unwanted fish, aquatic plants & any aquaria accessories. Be prepared to take some items home as bargains will be readily available. Best to bring cash if you wish to purchase items.
So come along have some fun & bag a bargain!

See you there

Nope, none here AFAIK, crazy expensive, and 270L is probably a bit on the small size. Best bet would be the P. scalare "Peru Altum", a very nice altum-ish form of the regular angelish.
Check out my post here; http://aquariumworld.nz/forums/topic/42426-2000l-tank-nearly-one-year-on/?page=5#comment-566828
Locally bred by Hovmoller on this forum. I think he has a few more to sell too.

270L...I would have a nice number of bottom dwellers eg sterbai or panda Corydoras, or something in the loaches department like dwarf chains, have about 6 good looking angels (silvers,  platinum and Philippean Blues),  have a good number of 2 different types of shoalers,  probably harlequin rasbora and glow light danios, then 2 or so fancy plecos in for good measure-- probs blue phantom and queen abaresque tho L140 is also nice. All with a hardscape of a nice piece of driftwood,  probably spider root, covered in needle leaf java fern. 
OR a species only brackish tank with a few figure 8 puffers,  with a 'mangrove forest' sort of feel to the scape. 
OR something that revolves around African butterfly fish,  upside down catfish and Congo tetra 

Red severum, green severum, 2 bristlenose plecos and 6 giant danios.

7 different discus, 15 rumynose tetras, 8 different types of cories, 2 German blue rams. 
This would be my dream aquarium stock. 

http://m.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/industry-environmental-groups-unite-as-approval-sought-for-carp-virus/story-fnkfnspy-1227706477874
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jan/13/fishers-and-conservationists-urge-release-of-herpes-virus-to-kill-murray-river-carp
 

Dam you ! Now I have to do this to my tank. my Mrs is gona be mad at you haha
Looks cool nice work

Hi Guys,
A couple of months ago I started working on my new native tank. I bought a secondhand tank on trademe - which turned out to be junk and the only half decent thing was the stand (the silicon state was terrible and lied to about on trademe, the top brace was cracked). So I got a new tank built by Tanks2U and then ordered some new aquarium lights online. 
The tank is 1220 long, 450 deep, 600 high. It's about 330L. 
I was fortunate enough to go up north to see Kiwiraka a while ago and managed to grab some awesome aquarium rocks, found a piece of driftwood at the beach and got some nice gravel as well. 
I've been wanting to use a 3D background for a longtime and I finally decided to make one out of polystyrene and tile grout (thanks Shilo). It took me about a month to fully make it.
I used a big sheet of insulation polystyrene and took a heatgun (though a hair dryer works too) and shaped it. My first attempt used a wirebrush but the heatgun gave it a more consistent surface and was nicer and tidier. I attempted to use a cement first to cover it though it didn't adhere well to the polystyrene. When Shilo came up to grab my giant kokopus he gave me a couple of pointers on making it - this was to use tile grout. I tried it out, and it worked incredibly well. I plastic sealed it with a spray on enamel coat though if the grout cures for long enough this isn't necessary.
Due to the shape of the tank I had to cut it into 4 pieces and then siliconed it into the tank. I waited a few weeks before introduced some fish. When I did this I used a pre-cycled filter from another tank and introduced about 40-50 inanga from Mahurangi Tech and 2 redfin bullies myself and kiwiraka caught.
I also wanted to have a planted tank with the driftwood covered in moss. So I got java moss from a friend introduced that alongside some fissidens from kiwiraka. 
So far it's looking really good and i'm pretty happy with it. I'm planning on getting a crayfish and some more bullies for it.
Will upload some more photo's later today, just cleaned it so it's a bit murky.

I think a lot of the public are blind or just don't know what we have here in new zealand. I stoped eating whitebait once I set up my native tank at home. I have met people that didn't know we had native fish! so I signed the partition in hope that it will raise awareness of at least what we have then how to protect it.
I hope whitebait farming takes off soon to ease the pressure 
That's my 2 cents anyway