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so is it illegal to collect a species of animal that is not described in NZ? Wished I lived further north, going on a sea dragon hunt sounds like fun

Yeah, I'm trying to find out what a mu is, so far I've found that its 0.06 hectare :-? . Either wrong measurement or a really big bag

Was looking to buy some fish bags and was wondering what thickness I should get? I see on a certain site that can't be mentioned that there are bags 30mu thick. Is that thick enough?

Are you guys who have seen one in and around NZ sure that is or similar to what you have seen? Thought NZ only has spiny sea dragons which doesn't have the leafy bits hanging off

are you guys talking about these? or is there another type of sea dragon?

I would say amphibians importing would be banned to protect native frogs especially against the citrid(sp) fungus

Was trying to cut off 100mmish, it wasn't straight so one end was 100mm and the other end was 70mm Was using the edge of my table which ran the whole length Anyway I have a piece of glass to practice on now if I "start from 1 mm in from the edge but continue the cut off the edge at the finish" which end do I start the run from(I've given up on the snap over the edge thing hoping the run from one end to the other end works better)? Is the tenique the same for a big piece of glass say a cut 90cm long?

Why is cutting glass like a lottery for me? I've seen it done a few times, but when I do it sometimes the glass snaps along the score other times it will go half way and then go off in another direction usually through the part I want. How I do it, score glass then sorta drop on the edge. Sometimes its a good clean break most times it's a mess. What am I doing wrong?

not that it affects me...yet, but any word on the movement of blue tongues? Like can an Aucklander go to anyother part of the country, pick on up and bring it back home?

Cool if it happens, but scary at the same time. Doesn't Napier aquarium have a croc? or is that not real and I wasted 1/2 an hour waiting for it to "do something"

I don't see anything wrong with cat biscuits either. Turtle pellets are virtually the same thing but in a tin with a picture of a turtle on it. I've feed my turtles on them for years, not everyday and not exclusively. I do avoid the biscuits with mammal protein and try to keep it towards the fish protein type so its more geared towards their natural diet. They also get veges as part of their diet.

I'm guess cost, who pays to send it back? Disease, don't want to introduce a foreign disease into the wild population eg something from NZ etc. In some cases how would you know where the animal came from if it passed through several ports before reaching final destination. They do sometimes send them back home, according to ERMA's new organisms incidents sumary "Arrangements were made with the Indonesian government for the return of one blue tree monitor." This was the same incident where "In December 2007 MAF destroyed 8 green iguana, 2 emerald green tree monitors, and 5 Chinese water dragons."

You could just use cat bistcuits and supplement with some fresh veges

Look by your house hold garbage if it's outside, go door to door asking if you can go through compost bins, quick visit to the beach, lots of sand flies there, visit a dairy farm, leave a porch light on at night to attract all sorts of bugs.

I've got 3, 2 don't come out of the water and third used to bask in the sun with the RES and sometimes uses them as stepping stones to escape. But with the current weather they've all disappeared for winter.

Thanks for the ID, compost it will become.

It looks like it but not really sure. Bit of info, it grows almost like a weed in my guppy tank, it sheds needles/leaves when I pull it out. Any ideas?

Go as deep as you want, but a minimum of 40cm. Have a decent fence to keep the turtles in.

Sorry slevin, she isn't for sale, just got her.

I has a turtle take off on me once when I was cleaning out the pond. I ended up sitting very still in the garden for 2 hours listening for movement. It paid off though. Snake neck got out the other day, but I was watching it, she didn't know. Smart thing, climbed on top of a large female res basking in the sun to make her escape. Looked very planned almost in a mission impossible way

A few RES of various sizes and as of today this girl, about 25cm shell length, her neck is almost as long

Mine live perfectly fine in 5L clear containers I have an empty tank outside full of old turtle tank water (insert green smilie) in a sunny sunny spot. Goes really green really fast. Add that to the daphnia when it goes clear, about every 2-3 weeks. I have a suppy of daphnia all year, less in the winter but my cultures seem to survive the cold and bloom in the summer.

I tried with a bristlenose and a baby turtle, poor fish only lasted a week.

Warning, this video is of an arowana being fed a live mouse. I know a lot of people feel their fish live food, but some people may not want to see this.

Where would I be without MS paint :oops: Pump size will depend on "x". For example if x is 1.5 metre, a pump that has a maximum head of 1.5 metres will NOT be good enough. As the head height gets higher water flow goes down, at maximum head, as mentioned before, the water flow will be almost 0. Bends in the piping back to the tank as in the pic will also reduce water flow. Find "x" and add about ~50%, then find a pump that can life to that height.