Fionasye

2ND hand aquarium in good condition all working
All in one tank,
T5 marine lights
Bubble Magus HOB skimmer BM QQ
Over 15 kg coral rock

A log for recording breedings of Siamese fighters 
From https://www.facebook.com/groups/150909571710093/?fref=nf

Monique Piket Red dragon hmpk x blue dragon hmpk. 
Date hatched: 26/06/18

We would like to welcome our first online club to the Fedration of New Zealand Aquatic Societies
It is the facebook group NewZealand Reef Keepers https://www.facebook.com/groups/nzreefkeepers/
They represent the marine keeping side of our great hobby and being an online club also represent the FNZAS moving into the more social media pathway our hobby as taken over the last few years.

I am not sure, if relevant to the problem sorry but i was just reading about them and found this out.
Millions of years ago, a small, unremarkable fish called the Mexican tetra started swimming into the caves of eastern Mexico. In the all-encompassing darkness of these limestone caverns, the tetras’ eyes, which take a lot of energy to build and maintain, were useless luxuries. Over several generations, the cave fish lost them entirely. Today, they are born with small eyes that gradually waste away as they get older.  The tetras’ eye sockets, however, don’t go to waste; they can use them to store fat. Blind cave fish are stockier than their cousins that live on the surface, and some have fat-filled humps

I am not sure, if relevant to the problem sorry but i was just reading about them and found this out.
Millions of years ago, a small, unremarkable fish called the Mexican tetra started swimming into the caves of eastern Mexico. In the all-encompassing darkness of these limestone caverns, the tetras’ eyes, which take a lot of energy to build and maintain, were useless luxuries. Over several generations, the cave fish lost them entirely. Today, they are born with small eyes that gradually waste away as they get older.  The tetras’ eye sockets, however, don’t go to waste; they can use them to store fat. Blind cave fish are stockier than their cousins that live on the surface, and some have fat-filled humps

Upper Hutt Aquarium Society meets this week wed
Our meetings not being held at the usual place so if you would like to come please let me know asap
Meetings are normally the second wed of each month and we are Wellingtons only aquarium society 
If you want to become a member or you are interested in any of the benefits like the breeding scheme or having a discount from our local supporters The Pet Centre then email [email protected] 
You dont have to join to come to a meeting to see what we are all about! 
Hope to see you there fishy friends 
For more info see www.aquariumworld.nz
 

Hello there people.
I'm a software developer living with my family in west auckland, and recently got into fishkeeping.
Have always been into fishing, and have often wondered what it would be like to re-home those 3 inch snapper that sometimes show up when the day sucks out on the water. I will continue to wonder tho, as it was after I got established in freshwater tropical that I first went to Hollywood in mt Roskill and saw marine setups. Yeah not yet.
Anyway, I started with a 50 Liter tank I won in an auction, that ended up being just plain toxic looking so didnt even grace it with water for fear it might summon some sort of plague from its scratches, so that went in the skip and I got a 70L from animates. about 2 weeks after that I dug 2 50L plate glass tanks out of my parents shed up north and set them up. Then for my birthday I went and got a Rio 180L because a) I'm addicted, b) I'm bad with money c) I wanted to create a ridiculous guppy world and d) it was such a good deal.... It was but mostly a and b.
So now I have a continuous guppy machine happening in the 180, sword tail babies in one 50L, younger swordtail fry that cant have parents around in the other 50, and a little community tank going in the 70.
So far, have had gold barbs, the female got dropsy and passed. a chinese golden algae eater (returned because he liked the taste of neon dwarf gourami), the neon previously mentioned who couldn't recover from the affection and was my second loss. Then got siamese algae eaters, only got 2 because wasnt told, so then returned one and the remainder got better but ignored the algae. Got cardinal tetras, rummy nose and lemon tetras, then penguin tetras who went back in a few days as they were just violent ( had 6, apparently not enough). Lemon honey dwarf gouramies, a silver/orange dwarf, a sunshine dwarf, and a chocolate dwarf. The wife likes the dwarves. lastly bristle nose albino pleccos. which I understand are catfish. Long fin and short fin. both types are awesome but think the long fins are more like ghosts.
I've dealt with ick, hard water, brown algae, currently snailing it up. attempting to teach the guppies they can eat snails. altho that whole tank should probably live behind a bike shed.
I want to try shrimps at some stage, and Am planning on trying to breed cardinals once the swordtail fry are old enough to leave the segregation tank.
Hello
Oh also started with planted, then left it because annoying, and now planted with one species, indian fern or water sprite i think, some planted, mostly floating, spreads like guppies. unfortunately, that also where the snails came from.

Here is the template for clubs to use to fill out for the clubs capitations and they need to be in by the 10th July please, Thank you
 
Capitations-template.xlsx

Well done to the Hawkes Bay Club for a very successful 2018 AGM, amazing effort by tem to organise this and it is much appreciated.
eldat the National Aquarium in Napier.
THANK YOU
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Here is the template for clubs to use to fill out for the clubs capitations and they need to be in by the 10th July please, Thank you
 
Capitations-template.xlsx

Tank 1700 litre
now local marine
 

I've been pretty bred with my tank lately, to the point of contemplating shutting it down even, and it wasn't until Facebook reminded me that it's been four years since we built it that I realised why. In the twenty years I've been keeping fish this is the longest period I've ever had one tank continuously running for. And further more, it's nearly been three years since I sold my aro and went down the 'monster community' route with angels and tetras etc, which is the longest I've ever kept a single "theme" (for want of a better word) going in one tank. Part of the problem is that the tank is downstairs in it's own room, but I think a big part of the problem is that time has flown by far faster than I've realised and it has become stagnant.
I pulled down the big pile of wood to give it a thorough clean and to do stock-take on my plecs (still got 6 of the 7 tiny gold nuggets that I put in there nearly three years ago) and contemplated where to from here. I think a change up of the livestock is in order, hopefully that might reignite a bit of interest in it. Anyway, here's some pics as it is this morning, is three years a long time to keep an aquarium basically unchanged, or do I just have a short attention span....
 

Where's my food!  Its been 2 hours since you've fed me!!!! 
 

Its fine with the others.  As above the GK is the boss of the tank and even tries to take food out of the eels mouth - the eel just ignores him.  Bullies move out of the eels way but only when they are about to be pushed not because they are scared of it.
My fingers are another matter as it can bite when hand feeding because my fingers smell of food and its eye sights not the best  (doesn't hurt).  Interesting to watch him feed because when hunting for left over food it will start to swim straight past a piece then back up and grab it.  Think he approaches a piece of food as the smell increases then when it starts to diminish he can pinpoint which side it is on (via nostrils sticking out either side above his mouth). 
P.S. the white line on its back is just something stuck to its slime coating.  Thought it had ich the other day only to realise it had grains of sand stuck to it.
Butch also wanting to be fed despite a stomach stuffed full (better count my Inanga's again).