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Well, found this on reef central. Some quite hard questions, I have absolutely no idea on quite a few. http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-01/rhf/index.php Give it a jam and see how you do!!! (no using the net while you do it either) 8) Haha, Im quite happy with that, got a long way to go though.

Just stumbled accross this article. Damn small fish. http://www.2loop.com/articles/smallfish.html

Do you guys get charged for water? I thought you had to use heaps of water before there were any additional charges.

Can a 34L house that many fish happily? (I wouldnt know just asking)

Haha, I just had a laugh about that bid from himself, how stupid can you be? Honestly... some people. :lol: And now the bid has been mysteriously removed.

I thought it was to prevent detrius buildup. I think the idea is that when the rock sheds you want to be able to remove it instead of having it gunk up in the sand. Not too sure though.

I think it would be good to ask the consumers institute about the fish / power off problem, see what they have to say about it.

When I was young, my parents had a tropical tank. A neon tetra had jumped out, and while I was looking for him I squished him under my big toe. I was a bit shocked ( I was about 7 at the time) so I chucked him back(he was buggered, but was still "alive"), only to watch him be devoured by the other fish. :lol:

Could these live happily in a tropical aquarium? Ie without eating the fish or being eaten themselves?

Do you know how many lights you would need to accent it? I suppose you could get really blue bulbs, to suppliment.

Electricity is a killer, (well to me at least) I do like the idea of the use of skylights as someone else suggested a while back. I would have thought in an inwall setup, perhaps it could be hidden well? Have you considered the skylight thing?

I'll be back in Chch on friday, I might go take a look, and possibly bring a camera.

Awesome, cheers

Chimera for aquascaping have you considered making your own base rock? From my small experience with diy rock, it would be perfect for tayloring an aquascape. I was thinking it would be good for building a base structure, perhaps raised off the ground so that detrius could be blown out. Then just stick real live rock over it. I had another idea that I would like to try on my reef tank (the one thats many years away) , I loved the look of crackers cube. I was thinking of having the bottom of the tank below the viewing area, maybe by 50cm, perhaps more. This would allow a BB, and you wouldnt have to worry about plumbing/pumps ect being seen(so you can blow the crud away) , and I think rock dissappearing into the bottom would look real cool. Kinda like a spire coming out of the gloom. Perhaps the walls below the line could be painted or something, whilst incorporated into the stand. (Forgive my crappy drawing ) I dont know how practical it would be though. Oh, and go easy on me 8)

I think its a good idea. I havent ever tried making a website before, when my tank is up and running I would like to give it a shot.

I dont suppose the place you can get farmed crays has packhorses?

A note on the reccommend tank size, 20L seems very small, I wouldnt put too much stock in that (i havent ever kept them but that sounds a tiny tank) I think a packhorse cray would be cool.

I think the vodka method isnt really too strict on the quantity of vodka you put in - slappers, I was under the impression that you start with 1ml per day, then take it up slowly to 5mls per day. Somewhere there is a thread possibly by Wasp? that goes into more detail. Ill try and find it. http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/1-vt9464.html?start=0 , Slappers its in your thread :lol:

Check out this thread http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/1-vt6838.html?start=0

By my quick calculations those yellow tangs are about $23 NZ.

Well, I don't really know too much about vodka, I think some cheap stuff may have sugar, but it should just be ethanol and water (40% ethanol is normal vodka eg Absolute) And the max you can buy ethanol is 96% or thereabouts?. So just adjust it by multiplying it by 0.416666 if you have the 96% stuff.

Yeah, I'm a student at Canterbury, going back on Friday. My parents just moved to Hastings - but hopefully will be moving the house back to Havelock. Havelock North is a really nice place, (especially compared to where I live in Chch ) Cant say I'd like to be buying property in HN, ridiculous prices everywhere. , luckily we were just able to buy a section before the boom.

Wow thats stuffs crazy. Do these all die or what? That massive tank is really cool.

So whats the deal with buying ethanol? I went to Clarkes Chemicals and they said I wasnt allowed to buy it from them, they mentioned something about fisheries, cant remember exactly. Struck me as rather silly beaucracy - I distill my own, its just that this is cheaper, - they have no problems selling 50kg of potassium nitrate to high school kids. What a wonderfull world. Anything on their chemical list anyone can buy - but not ethanol. Where have you guys tried? If you say its for filtration in a reef tank is that a good enough reason? Personally I want to make drinks out of it, homemade Midori is fantastic.

Hey wow another person from H N. 8)