Adz

Hey there,

i'm totaly new to this tropical fish hobby and am a little confused about gallons. i'm from New Zealand so i'm use to reading letres. can you please explane how many gallons there are to a letre.

could you also please explane the meanings of herbivores and all those sort of words you use for each fish?

cheers,
Adz.

Jason

Yeah I had the same problem as I'm from Australia and a gallon is 4.5461 litres. You can get a conversion on this site on the Conversions link. http://www.fishlore.com/ConversionCalculator.htm.
herbivore is an organism that eats vegetation-plants/leaves etc..

fletch

where abouts in new zealand are you from? Im going to martinborough for a year in january. a whole year of summer!!!

fletch

please tell me you dont use kilometres over there cuz i dont think ill be very favourable with the police

Adz

Cheers for that link.

what sorta fish do you have in your aquarium? I've started off with the Zebra Danio's like it says on this website. I got 6 of them.

Adz.

Adz

Hey Fletch,

I Live in Christhcurch and yes we do use Kilometers, sorry to break the news to you like that lol

what sorta fish are you hobbying?

fletch

Oh balls!! will have to get used to that then, at least your petrol is cheap!!
I have:
3 dwarf gouramis
3 baby dwarf gouramis(2 months)
1 male sword tail
3 female sword tails
2 black widows
1 demasoni
1 female guppy
2 silver tip tetras
3 harlequin rasboras
1 peruvian ram cichlid
1 sucking catfish
2 white cloud m.minnows
5 peppered corys
4 bumblebee gobys
and a recently widowed dwarf aquatic frog

what do you have?

Adz

you've had your tank for a while then lol

I've only just had my tank going for bout 3 weeks, so i've got 6 Zebra danio's but i'm soo tempted to get more of them.
I love watching them swim in their schools.

Petrol isnt that cheap over here. where bouts are you on the globe? how much is petrol there?

fletch

Im from Corwall in England. I heard it was dead cheap over your way. Im paying 89 pence litre at the moment which is about 2.28 NZD. so have i got my hopes up on that then? how much is it?

Adz

you'l enjoy your holiday here then, its $1.40 here

Jason

Ours is $1.20 in Australia and I got:
2 Lyretail Swordtails (1male 1female)
1 Reg. Swordtail
2 Guppies (1m 1f)
1 Cory Sterbai
1 Red-tail Shark
2 Dwarf Gourami
2 Anglefish
1 Chinese algae eater
1 Bristlenose catfish
1 Synodontis Eurptus (Feather fin Catfish)
6 Neon tetrasl

fletch

ouch. thats cheap. weve got it bad here then!! whats a cory sterbai? is that a corydoras species?

Miss Mouse

Right! Who's up for mass emigration to NZ then? I'll be going there one day - just gotta get over my addiction to visiting south africa I've made a breakthrough though - I'm going to Canada this year instead Woohoo!

fletch

thats a good idea! Im getting a house here and one somewhere in wairarupa so hopefully if i go back and forwards every six months i'll have an eternal summer!!!!

Adz

Good Thinking!!

If you do make it to christchurch let me know

Miss Mouse

Bundle over to Fletch's house then! Got any space in your suitcase? I'm a bit bored of this eternal rain... I'm all bundled up in my winter clothes with heating on and it's meant to be summer!!

fletch

You should all head down to cornwall then. its tropical down here (well its ing it today).

Craig

i mean is it just me fletch! is winter comin early its freezin over here in NI!!!

Miss Mouse

Defo bundle down Fletch's house then! Lucky thing... its very cold in Norwich tonight

Adz

Fletch's house it is then, its winter here too

fletch

wow, the subject realy changed in here! alll welcome as long as i can get a free ride back in adz suitcase. It would save me a lot of money for a visa

Adz

sounds good, i'l just wear the suit, that way there will be room in the case for ya