HummingBird

No, it just wouldn't work, might break it if you're lucky. You can't plug 110V things into a 230V socket and expect it to work

Yeah, I know I can I was just wondering if there were any suppliers I was missing that might have NZ plugs and might be a bit faster than shipping from Europe. Thanks

Seems like Hydor are the only brand of this type of heater available at the moment. Is that the case? If so, is there anywhere we can buy them with an aus/nz plug? I've found a lot of sites that ship them to NZ for good prices, but none that have aus/nz plugs. All the australian sites that stock them only ship to aus, and I can't find any local suppliers.

Oh it's doable, but if you get caught then you'll go to jail. A few veteran members of the forum might remember Henry - he was a nice guy, had amazing planted tanks, I bought a number of plants off him (nothing exotic). I was impressed to see that he even had a Madagascar Laceleaf. Then... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10445379

Daphnia is livebearing though :b (not that they would be in the tank in any case)

They're regular sized, it's just a very zoomed in picture To give you an idea of the sort of magnification the lens I was using is capable of, here's a good example:

I'd forgotten about Trumpets being livebearers! I'll just have to see if anything turns up I guess. For fun, here's a pic of some Ramshorn eggs that I believe the snail that I have atm came from:

That was suggested to me as well, but they roll around the bottom of the bucket freely, and I've tried to pop/disrupt some and they're definitely solid. Time will tell I guess - my bet is on Trumpet snail eggs, but the tank is only 3-4 weeks old so I'd be surprised that there are so many of them.

I did a water change on a tank with 3 Guppies, one Ramshorn snail and 3+ of what I think are Malaysian Trumpet Snails. Afterwords, in the bucket I noticed these tiny things sitting on the bottom. They're smaller than a pin head. Does anyone have a guess as to what they might be?

My parents have just moved into a house that has a caged area next to it that was previously used for a dog (we assume). They have 9 whistling tree frogs in a tank right now and thought it'd be cool to make the cage into a terrarium for them. The area is about 1.5m x 3m x 1.8m tall. Has anyone got a similar setup? Any suggestions for suitable terrestrial plants? There isn't a heck of a lot of sun because it's on the southern side of the house. We were thinking maybe some bromeliads, but are there any NZ natives that would work? It'll be quite humid in there because we're going to have a large water section and a waterfall.

I've got a Paradise fish that is seriously eggbound! I've had her for about five years and she has been well looked after, even spent a few summers outside when it was warm enough. She's getting really, really fat though and I'm not sure how to fix her - I've tried feeding her less in the hope that she'd reabsorb the eggs but she still continues to grow. She's always been fat (in fact my girlfriend has named her "Fat Tony" - without knowing it was a she) but over the past few months she's been getting bigger and I'm sure she's not comfortable. Anyone have any tips?

I'd test for ammonia again, it's quite possible that because of the disturbances your biological filter is out of sorts and not processing your fishes' waste as well. Ammonia tends to make pH drop, especially if your water has quite a low KH. As with most problems, a few water changes should bring it up a little and in a few weeks your biological filter will catch up.

I've got a Paradise fish that is seriously eggbound! I've had her for about five years and she has been well looked after, even spent a few summers outside when it was warm enough. She's getting really, really fat though and I'm not sure how to fix her - I've tried feeding her less in the hope that she'd reabsorb the eggs but she still continues to grow. She's always been fat (in fact my girlfriend has named her "Fat Tony" - without knowing it was a she) but over the past few months she's been getting bigger and I'm sure she's not comfortable. Anyone have any tips?

I'm a student who works 9 hours a week at Animates. I appreciate your sweeping generalization, but not all sales people are like this. Personally, I give people advice to the best of my knowledge (and I do consider myself an expert on all of the fish & products we sell) even when that means saying they can get something cheaper elsewhere, or telling them they don't need the product they're looking at. We don't work on commission. All I say to most people who wander into the fish section is "Are you okay there?" half the time the person will say yes and I'll walk away, but the other half they'll have a question about a product, fish, or some problem they're having with their tank. We can't read people's minds, the only way for us to know if they need help is to ask them. A lot of the time I'll be so busy they won't have a chance to approach me themselves, and in my experience a lot of people aren't forward enough to go out of their way to bother a salesperson.

Amazing specimens! Yes, that's the kind of thing I'm talking about! If supasi doesn't reply here I'll harass him on fishkeepers