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

I'm looking for a little advice on starting to grow some crypts emersed. I'm thinking I'll put them in my brown tree frog tank, which recieves regular misting and has almost fully submerged deep gravel that has good water circulation (thanks to a pump in the gravel in an upside down pond basket). So my questions are: How do I do it? Can I just take a currently submerged plant and plop it in the gravel? Or do I need to gradually lower the water level on it or something? As far as fertilizing goes, I'm assuming their needs are pretty similar to when they're submersed. I currently dose with PMDD, and would do the same while they're emersed. Maybe throw a JBL ball underneath it. Anything else special that it needs? Flourish Excel wouldn't have any effect on it emersed since only leaves absorb co2, right? What are their light requirements like? Similar to submersed, again? How would they stand sunlight? (the tank isn't in sunlight, but just wondering) Thanks in advance

We can get Madagascar lace here. At least someone's imported it in, not sure of the legality of it. He was having trouble reproducing it though.

This is all good advice for a good co2 mixture, the only thing that I would add would be to add some baking soda to your mix - this helps prevents the pH getting too low and killing the yeast, just makes it last a little longer. This is what the "stabilizer" is in the commercially available Nutrafin system.

I've actually done a similar thing before using Daphnia (they're not native though, obviously). Had a small pump taking in water from the cloudy aquarium into a plastic jug with the Daphnia and then overflowing through some mesh back into the aquarium. Cleared up the water in three days.

To access the settings press enter, there's plenty to mess around with. I've got it so that it only turns off with key presses, rather than mouse clicks. You can have it cycle through tons of tanks automatically as well, or just stay on one :bounce:

Yeah in the full version there're three tanks, plus you can use custom images as the background too. You can add pretty much an unlimited number of fish, too. The Dalmatian mollies are pretty cool because their spots are randomized, so no two are alike!

Some of you may have seen this before, but I just discovered Dream Aquarium - it's an awesomely realistic virtual aquarium with tons of fish. The fish they have right now are: Dalmation Mollies, Swordtails, Black Widow Tetras, Harlequin Rasbora, Torpedo Barbs, Congo Tetras, Tiger Barbs, Cardinal Tetras, Zebra Danios, Bosemani and Crimson spot Rainbows, Blue Rams, Kribensis, Jewel Cichlids, Auratus cichlids, Electric Yellows, Demasoni, Chocolate, Pearl and Dwarf Gouramis, Archerfish, Killifish (looks like a blue lyretail to me), and a fiddler crab. You can download a trial version with some of the fish for free...I ended up buying the full version after I tried it just because of how well done it is. It's awesome to go back to your PC after being away and find a planted tank there instead I'm pretty obsessed with it, I think it's rekindled my MTS lol (I only have a mere three tanks right now...a record low since I started fish keeping!)

Whistling tree frogs are another option, and they're very hardy. A quote from http://www.nzfrogs.org/NZ+Frogs/Introduced+frogs.html:

Yeah, that's not going to work like that for the reasons mentioned. If you're trying to grow it in direct sunlight I'd suggest having a tap constantly feeding new water into it. That way they always have enough nutrients, and a constant temperature. Some of you will remember Henry (aka. Plantsman), he used to grow java moss like this, he had four or five containers overflowing into each other with a tap feeding water in on one end and overflowing into a drain at the other.

I've had a specimen of this plant for about two years, before I had it it was in a 2,500 liter tank that's about 4-5ft tall (the display tank in Animates/Jansens Botany). It's now in a 2ft tall 500L tank with 2 39W T5's and a 40W T8. It's grown to the top of the tank and puts out a new leaf every few months. There are plenty of other plants in the tank: java fern, java moss, anubias nana, amazon swords and literally hundreds of various cryptocorynes. I fertilize it regularly with flourish excel, flourish and plant gro iron. I haven't done a water change on the tank in years - due to the high plant volume and low stocking density nitrates and phosphates are always 0. I top up the water about every 6 months.