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You probably need to turn streams off to get it roughly where you want it but turn them back on again to get them to stick as the current usually stimulates them to play the game otherwise it could just sulk.

Often when they have been held in display tanks for a while they lose their 'stick'. I have found that you do need to basically keep them 'confined' with rocks, not too tightly, until you see them actually starting to stick onto the rocks properly. Do you know what kind it is? They all have different preferences as to where they stick eg BTAs close to light and flow with foot under a ledge, the tube type ones like to be stuck between rocks and not so much light, the sand anemones, down low close to sand, not necessarily in it. As you have probably already found out, if they can't travel by foot to get to where they want to go they inflate themselves and cast themselves into the current and go where it takes them - yayyyy!!!!!

A departure from the thread but was the PBT at death's door still there 'for sale'? The key to anemone's is to use reverse psychology - put them where you want them least and they should end up where you want them a bit...

Here is one old post, plenty of others if you scroll or search back. http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/trusty ... t2554.html My recommendation, having had tang or two with it: try to let them beat it the natural way first. Plenty of feed, good water conditions, low stress. Supplement food with FRESH garlic juice and add cleaner shrimps (to tank) if you desire. See Pies and Fay's posts. Hyposalinity works. You have to do it soon enough though so the fish has a chance of recovering from any WS damage. Its a pain to catch a tang but the best treatments are always outside of the main tank. Good luck!

A couple of country bumpkins were up in AK yesterday so they navigated their way around the rat race to see a couple of fish tanks. One was run by Cracker and the other Wasp. They were two tanks that were diametrically opposites in many respects but one thing they did have in common was the end result of a great tank to suit their individual needs with heaps of fish AND corals. I didn't quite so much come home and tear up the textbooks but I will certainly write a few question marks in the margins! It reinforced to me: listen to what others have done, develop a 'model' of how you are going to operate the tank, and then go and have lots of fun doing it. It doesn't have to be a nightmare to be successful! A lot of the positives of this 'hobby' are the people you get to meet!

I think young Slappers might be referring to certain banned individuals. A couple of whom are busy I hear getting the next shipments of critters for us to buy!!!

Just to add a few different thoughts...you are dosing vodka to put into your tank as much unadulterated alcohol as possible. You CAN'T smell alcohol! You immediately think cops and breath test - you can smell the OTHER bits of the liquor remaining in the mouth/throat not the alcohol! Which is why we have to get the most pure vodka we can get. So what are you smelling in your tank - the additives in the vodka or something your tank is generating? :-?

:lol: Tel, you really meant gutted (and limbed, and headed) when you said it!

Steve Wanna get into business exporting Rose BTAs - they are few and far between over here!!!

Yup, is a risk but I was going to rely on a non-return valve...

Thinking about the design of a new tank in the future, I intend to have an overflow/sump/return pump, closed loop, and a couple of streams. I have noticed a few top entry water sources (pipes squirting into the tank from the top). :-? Question - if you have a below-the-tank sump and want to reduce the head pressure as much as possible from the sump to tank to increase the throughput of water, where should the exit of sump return pipe be in the tank - squirting into the tank at the top or can it be through the bottom increasing flow around rockwork? I guess the physics question is - does it make any difference whether it is atmospheric/gravity pressure (top) or water pressure (bottom) resistance ie is the head height similar regardless of where it exits if the top of the respective water levels (main tank and sump) is the same?

One month on and PBT is doing well. Has 'sussed out' the tank dynamics and feeding regimes so is getting more of the share from his cousie the Sailfin. Both would eat nori until they burst and sent my tank completely green...

They are fine - just another bod taking some more crud outta the water for you. People call big feather dusters flash names and charge big bucks for them! Quite amazing what they turn up on...glass, powerheads... Buy a copperband butterfly, then they will disappear real quick!

KP, this thread ain't intense, you haven't even started to discuss what skimmer or coral enhancement system to use!!! One thing I have learnt - all the contributors do have something to contribute to our thinking and understanding of whats going on...

Okay, someones gotta ask - wots a plecochip? Google comes back in spanish and german....

I had trouble getting torches to get going in our tank. Their lights kept going out! Ours like moderate flow not too strong - so their tentacles wave in the breeze, not flap furiously. They like light but not too much. If you have a MH put them on the edge of the main MH light area. I squirt (with a big eye dropper) mine some of the frozen fish food mix a couple of time a week - the mysid shrimp bits disappear real quick. Bigger hammers will even eat half whitebait. You usually see a fairly rapid response (within an hour or two) of adding some of the coral supplements. Don't know why I get nitrate rises... :oops: I am sure not everyone will agree with this but it works for me!

Hey Sharkey (& others) do I read it right that he doesn't use the Zeovit bacteria products - more the zeolites and coral supplements? :-?

What a fat little puppy...

Ever wonder what the neighbours of reefers must think they are up to - all sorts of strange construction noise, bright lights, motors, at all hours of the night, comings and goings with mysterious bags and boxes?

'Crikey' Wasp - you've probably got a veritable arsenal of cleaning chemicals and you can't get it off!!!!

The tang twins at their nori lunch table...(I am SOOO happy that they get along )

If you can get your hands on some, they also like whitebait. The chinese variety will do

Its great to know there is someone else out there who buys on eye appeal and without a lot of technical background info.... :lol: as long as the clowns like it, thats the main thing!

Great looking anemone! What type is it? Looks like a BTA but haven't seen that colour before...

Hey Paul, if the criteria is, science degree, knowledge or common sense, do you think we should add a criteria for people like us?