[Can gambusia mate with guppy’s?]

Hello! I am thinking of getting guppy’s for my 600liter outdoor pond I am in Taranaki and hope it’s warm enough for them I am just wondering there are a lot of wild gambusia in my local river and I know they are pest fish and it’s illegal to sell them. I’m just woundering if I can breed fancy or normal or maybe even endler guppy’s with them and Make them more hardy in the cold water and sell them for profit or just try some things with them or is this illegal? Thanks very much!

[Paradise tank mates]

Hey there I have an outdoor 23 gallon tank 

with 2 hillstream loach’s heavily planted and moved all my wcmm and danios to my current 40gallon tank and now have this tank practically empty.

I am thinking of getting guppies danios and a paradise fish to this tank 

maybe 3 guppies one male then I can move baby’s to my other 5 gallon tank and 8 danios and one paradise fish maybe a. Male but will try get an orange and blue one as apparently they are a little less aggressive.

does this sound ok? Or shall I give the paridise fish a miss and get 5 guppy’s and 8 danios?

I like these fish as they are more cold hardy and apparently wouldn’t mind the temps of my outdoor tank.

thanks

[Can I put a paradise fish in my outdoor wcmm tank?]

Thanks how about now that it’s winter highest now is 23c 

and lowest is 15c

[Can you sell nz native freshwater shrimp?]

Can I sell nz native freshwater shrimp I have to many?

[Is this vallisneria banned in nz?]

Hey there I just bought some vallisneria spiralis of this guy on face book and was woundering if this plant is illegal in Nz?

as I know some val is.

he said he doesn’t thing it’s the banned version as he said He bought it from a pet store and couple years ago.

what do you think?

thanks very much!

 

 

[Peppered Corydoras outside in nz?]

I have a heater set to 20c

and substrate is flourite black a gravel ish substrate did some research on the substrate and that should be fine.

[Peppered Corydoras outside in nz?]

Thanks very much! 
my tank does have a heater in it set to 20c and has shrimp and wcmm in it here is a photo

it is in full shade in the morning and is in bright Sun in the afternoon 

its also right beside the house thanks

[Peppered Corydoras outside in nz?]

Hey there I have an outside 20gallon tank with wcmm and was wondering if I could put in peppered corydoras in there?

the temp is usually at 20c but in the winter drops down to 10c.  I have read people (in nz) have keeped them in outdoor ponds through the winter and they have even breed rapidly some people have even had them survive with 2 inches of ice over the top!

I have heard peppered Cory’s actually like the cold. So what do you think?

thanks also are there any other hardy coldish Cory’s? Thanks

[Can Danios live outside in nz?]

Sorry I meant it stays 20c most of the time but in the winter the lowest I have seen it go is 13c

[Can Danios live outside in nz?]

Thanks a lot!

I have heard that Danios can survive with ice over the top.

and I have a lot of surface agitation so it definitely won’t freeze lowest I have seen It go was 13 degrees c

but mainly stays at 20 degrees c do you think that’s alright?

Thanks

[Can I breed Guppies to survive winter?]

I have been breeding  white cloud minnows for money  for a little while and there aren’t much people who are after them 

so I now want to try guppies. My parents made a rule no water inside so all my tanks /patio ponds are outside.

I know that there are no really cold water guppies. But I saw a topic on here about you can slowly breed them to cold water is this true?

And how would I be able to do this? Thanks!

[Can Danios live outside in nz?]

Hey there I have kept white cloud minnows in my outside aquarium and pond and they have breed crazy!

I kind of want to get a new species of fish but it’s hard to find a fish that can thrive the conditions of Nz 

so I heard that danios can survive with ice on top of the tank/pond and was wondering if I can keep danios with my white cloud minnows?

in an outdoor pond and tank the temp is around 23 degrees C most of the time but drops to around 15 degrees at night.

I can’t get the zebra danio as my closest pet store stoped selling them only the normal danios I can get now like the Cadillac danios etc.

could this work?

Thanks!

[Why do my aquarium plants keep dying?]

Hey there I just got plants 5 days ago and they are already starting to die.

I never really had luck growing plants only elodea and hornwort.

I wanted to get some different carpeting plants so I first thought I should get some nutritious substrate so I bought Seachem fluorite black substrate.

and I also add liquid fertiliser twice every week 

and then I got plants: different types of liliaeopsis and some Rotala.

my tanks outside and I heard these can even go in ponds.

but after 5 days some leaves are starting to turn yellow.

and I’m not sure what to do I’m not sure if it’s the light but the sun does shine on it in the afternoon a lot.

thanks!

 

[Can nz least killifish live and thrive with white cloud minnows?]

Ok thanks but can they go in there?

[Can nz least killifish live and thrive with white cloud minnows?]

Sorry like the nz ones that are in nz stream etc

[Can nz least killifish live and thrive with white cloud minnows?]

Hey there I have an outdoor 20gallon tank with 8 white cloud minnows 

and I was wondering if I could find some nz killifish and add them in there?

it is very hard to find a cold water fish that won’t eat white cloud minnows.

the temp drops to possibly 5 degrees c. 
and Will they eat my minnows? 
thankyou!

[Will a nz common bully eat adult white cloud minnows?]

Thankyou but do you think a bullie would immediately think a minnow is food?  

[Can 3 Nz freshwater shrimp go in a 2.5gallon?]

Yesterday when I was catching shrimp for my patio pond.

I caught 50 in one scoop.

I was wondering if I could add a few into a  2.5gallon tank I might set up no filter no heater.

just cramped full of lushes plants?

I can’t have any thing more in my room 2.5gallons is max Im allowed (parents rule)

thanks!

[Will a nz common bully eat adult white cloud minnows?]

Yesterday when I went to get freshwater shrimp for my little patio pond I saw tons and tons of nz bully’s everywhere and when I caught the shrimp there were the bully’s in the bucket I set them free but was wondering if I could add 2 in with my White Cloud Mountain minnow tank outside?

it has current witch is good for the bully’s and cold water 

I was wondering if an adult bully will eat an adult white cloud minnow?

Also is the tank big enough? It’s a 20gallon.

thanks!

[Can I put a paradise fish in my outdoor wcmm tank?]

Thankyou so much!!!

if I have a school of 10 wcmm and 1 paradise fish would it still harass them a lot?

If so would the wcmm not mind it so much since they are in a big group?

[Can I put a paradise fish in my outdoor wcmm tank?]

I was wondering if I could add a paradise fish to my outdoor 20gallon white cloud minnow tank 

the temp stays around 20-21degrees C through the day and drops to 15C at night and max around 26degrees C on a hot day

so what do you think? Im just worried about the temp.

Thank you so much!

 

[cockabullies...]

On 1/3/2007 at 7:30 PM, Stella said:

I missed the initial part of your questions: LEGALITY.

 

YES it is legal.

 

PROVIDED YOU DO NOT:

sell them

take from reserves etc

move them to a different waterway to where they came from

move them between islands

Take crayfish from lake taupo and surrounding waterways (iwi property)

take juvenile galaxids (whitebait) outside of season

 

*That is a rough guide* and it took months of pestering various experts to find it out.

 

Pay attention to the one about moving to a different waterway. Even if the same species is there, you can stuff up local genetics. DoC does care about all of the above and will come down heavily, even without that, it is about caring for the environment on a number of levels. If you want to release them in the future, please take them back precisely to whence they came. (a small pond is ok, if isolated from other waterways.)

 

Stella

hi there I really really want to get a bullie for my outside tank I have spent hours and hours trying to catch one but I just cant I have a little creek that is full to the brim with koura but no fish I went in different creeks but still nothing at all can you help me where I should search or anything will help?