Alan

Carbon must come OUT when dosing tanks. It is used later to remove the chemicals if you want to. Redose the tank after removing the carbon filtration. Follow the instructions on the bottle, and don't stop the treatment until it says so, even if it looks as tho you have beaten the malady.

You're up early Barrie!! From what I have seen with the sex ratio thing is it is not the storage on peat or water hatching methods, which is used to ensure that all the babies are the same age, as they all hatch at the same time on peat. But what does affect them is the temperature. If the eggs are stored high in the fishroom, they'll be warmer than stored at floor level. This method of placement is used by some of our breeders to get more males than females. There is more value in males to the LFS, although if I'm selling to the LFS I always do pairs, and insist on it, and also cash in hand, NOT credit. You should be able to spend your money where you want to, not be forced to take the shops items in exchange. You can't buy new species with a handful of flake food. Yes the simple method. But make sure the wife or mother, or partner understands that you will clean up after you have finished. It cuts done the volatility of the peat and also sterilises it. It depends like I said, what the temperature is inside the house. Find the warmest room and go from there.

As you are a killie(virgin) I'll be gentle. Use an airline and syphon off the eggs, and put the eggs into it and floating a container, (ice-cream) using the same water. Now put a thin layer of you gravel, after it has been boiled, into the bottom of the tank, this will act as a protection for more eggs that will be laid, and you can easily retrieve these eggs using a gravel vac. Eggs should hatch in about 14 days, maybe sooner, depending on the temperature. If your house is warm, the container could be kept in the lounge, usually the warmest, and watch the progress from there. Amazingly, you can watch these little fellas progress right from a clear egg thru to two little black spots, eyes, through to a wriggling little fish trying to break out from its tiny prison. Or you could set them up on damp peat and then add water to the peat in 21 days and have them all hatch out at the same time. Now you can see why I have been so enthralled with these little fellas for over quarter of a century. Also in the same club, NZKA, for that period of time. Now I hope for a certain member that use to belong to this forum, that now only comes in as HIDDEN, will see that I do share my knowledge, as I have done so over the years.

You can now see why it is handy to have your locale when living in Auckland. It's not as though you will attract a stalker if you say Howick, Auck, or Browns Bay, Nth Shore. Try going back to your PROFILES and altering your LOCATION. This doesn't only apply to Aucklanders either.

That's why we try to refer to our fish with the hard to say/write name. Da scientific name. Learn them or look them up to use them, then there will be NO confusion. Common names are just that, - - - COMMON

Ahhh!! Gunna join the Nth Shore Club huh?? Nice group of ppl, and they listened well when I was a guest speaker there.

Where do you want to go, when and how often???

Just for a second, prolly less, then off to pair with the next one. Oh to be a opps (Censored)

I get it from the "Iceman" who is on the wharf down here. But if I run short, I get it from Pak-n-save and pay a few cents more. They are frozen whole as they come out of the water Graeme, and yes everthing goes. When they eat, say a blackbird, all you would see of their feast woud be a few feathers from the ends of the wings. Natural way to feed them calcium.

That would be fine Snookie

Doesn't say much for the rest then does it. OZZY Ozzy Ozzy Oi Oi Oi

yes they do

Yo Graeme, my ones climb over one another to get their meal. I feed mine any birds that have been caught by the cats, rats and mice also. But their staple diet is unsalted pilchards. Mine are stored in the freezer, and while still frozen, I cut them up into bite sizes, defrost them, then sprinkle the pieces onto the area outside their pond. They love it.

BBS = Baby Brine Shrimp

Make it two nets, it saves a lot of stress for the fish you want to catch, and yourself.

Maybe we could make one for Flemming to pratice his batting with.

I think his nick on here is Matthew. Going by the yearbook it is.

Some of the young ones prolly know how to do it, but we are here to prevent problems or perceived ones before they happen.

Old filters from Spa or swimming pools would come into that catagory. Pick them up on TM sometimes.

Why don't you use a plastic bucket with a lid on it.

Wok rocks out at Green Bay And yeah, he is a kewl guy too.

I haven't done that Barrie, as I keep all my species in their own tanks. But one of the most spectacular sights I have seen of killies in a tank, was a tank with only male gardneri in it. It was a faily wide tank, that gave it the ability to have a riverbank on the back wall with the pond or steam in the front. It was only filled about one third full allowing the plants on the riverbank to develop to the height of the tank. By having females, it allows breeding in another tank to raise your own males. A lot cheaper than the $25 asked for in the shops, but then, if you were a member of the NZKA you could probably score some at a fraction of the public prices. Pays to know who ya friends are.

animal_lover This is the Sig of the Pres. of the Nth Shore Club president of north shore aquarium club come along we can meet in person and the first meeting is free! its on the 1st tuesday of the month at 7.30pm Got just about all of that right Rogan. But Kim is a chick, opps :oops: young lady. But like you say, a very nice guyess. But going by that, their last meeting would have been the 1st May

EF 37, for a start, cut down on how much you feed at one time. Best to feed them 4 or 5 times a day than only one or 2 times. The same amount is fed over all the times as is fed with only a few feeds. Put snails in as the cleanup crew, then when you do have to vac up the leftovers, do it thru a net and replace any babies that take the pipe trip.

Just thought I'd let those members that haven't opened their emails today, that you will get a welcome surprise. The Editor was given a date line to get out the NZ killifish Journal, and he got it out, bang on time. What a job he did too. Welcome back Tim aka Aquanut. You have done an excellent job. Any members that have not received theirs, please PM me, and I'll get Tim or EJ onto it.