matt_man

try here http://www.harlequin-aviaries.com/ look under nursery

looks good Wok

I'm in Western Australia at the moment (flying out tomorrow very early) These guys are so lucky with the amount of wild parrots they have. We have been to a couple of small zoo's with averies full of the different types. Everyday since we've been here we've seen flocks of 28's, Corellas, Black cockatoo's, Galahs and lorikeets. It's almost sad we have to leave.

pay a visit to natureland in nelson, they got some tuatara, some geko's and some turtles

how about a picture ?

just a ramdom photo my wife to the other day of our pet conure. Gave him a nice bowl of clean warmish water to have a bath in but nooooo. He wants to bath in my nice cold glass of water. By the end of his bath I was probably wetter than the bird.

join a union And it's 62c cent per Km travelled and they cant take tax off that.

Hoki's an awsome place. good luck with the move.

18th this friday comming

My wifes done the dog one. She said it was easy all the answer were in the book provided . And the girl she works with is currently going the fish one.

I know. Thats one species i wouldn't mind myself.

i doubt you'll find any in this country the species seems to have died out a few years back

I'm sure you'll be able to sneak away, if not drag them along. the more the merrier

to be a Politician you have to be a good lier.

So do the University of Auckland get jack boots running down there paths a 7am ???? how about having there fish removed and tank filled with chlorine ? NOT LIKELY :-?

Just thought I'd post a pic of my latest harvest N. Eggersi

well i guess i better get some more shallow trays. i guess you cover the trys with plastic still to keep moisture in. im looking forward to hatching out my fist bag of fish i've breed myself

hmmmm thats a good idea i think i'll do that with the next batch. would be a good way to monitor there development to

ok so what I've done is seive the sand through a 600 micron seive and anything that passes through it is keep for the spawning medium. when its came to retreaving the egg's i submerged the seive in water and poured over the sand and lightly shake the seive all the sand past through easly leaving only the egg's on the mesh. the eggs were just to hard to try to pic off the mesh using tweezers. I ended up tapping out the seive over some paper then picked the eggs off that and put them on to the peat.. and now they've been bagged and put into storage. cheers

ok thanks i'll try that. had a quick count and gave up at 50 eggs and there was still lots more sand had only been in there for a week

Ok so i decided so spawn my N. eggersi in fine sand. Now it's time to collect the eggs I've got a fine seive that will let the sand through but not the eggs. now my question is whats the best way to get the eggs off the seive without damaging them ? cheers

chick wire is a good start, use a morter mix with a poly fiber mixed into the mix and also a water proofer like sika 1 witch is also mxed into the mix. the higher the cement content of the morter the beter (less water penatration)

I'm sure that thers a few of us locals can help you move

putting a small mirror next to the tank can help

very good the more the better.