JoandWilly

what parts the bubble trap, any chance you can draw up a diagram on paint or something so i can see how it works

Just finishing set up my new tank and have a durso stand pipe. have drilled a 2mm hole in the top but its sucking in some air and bubbling in the sump, was wondering if there was a way to fix this, whether its making the hole bigger or smaller. Have tryed partly covering the hole but it keeps sucking and bubbling. Will try get a photo up later so you can understand what im on about.

They are being imported as heckelii, unfortunatly its not the shops faultsscientific names can't be given, the importers don't give scientific names.

only have the filter wool there as the only mechanical filtration, no other sponges etc, as of sunday when i get my sump will be removing the cannister and adding an extra 100+ litres to the tank, have got the hang on overflow so will see how it goes, if it doesnt work or floods my floor will get a new tank built with an overflow.

running a external but all it has in it is filterwool that i change fortnightly and the odd phosphate removing pouch, nothing else in it.

already ordered one, will get it on thursday, going for a reefoctopus overflow box, going for a sump so i can use miracle mud and calupera, find nitrates are to hard to keep doing using just water changes, to many fish and feeding to much i suspect.

I dont want to drill the tank or make one, so just wanting any recommendations on the ones you can buy, for me drilling the tank is to risky and making one takes to much time.

My tank, few changes, no more leathers, added a octopus coral and fox coral.

Just wanting to get some info on the hang-on overflows. First off i need one that keeps the water level no more (ie not 40mm) than 30mm from the top of the tank, from what i can tell the tunze ones water level will be about 80mm from the top of the tank. AquaOne and reef octopus not so sure about. Also any problems with running one? Going on an established tank so drilling not and option.

what about if your phosphates are really low, mine only get to 0.03 on the salifert test and then i stick in more phosphate remover and it goes back to zero and i have bubble algae every where...... although my nitrates have crept up a bit, around 10.

hollywoods always has some up for sale, if not they can order it.

Yeah i only added approx a 3rd of the vial of reef booster, keeping the rest in the fridge will it be fine in there mixed with a bit of salt water from my tank? Also how many hours a day should i have my lights on for. Have 1 arcadia marine white and a marine-glo, going to be adding another marine white and a arcadia marine blue soonish.

A few photo's

Yesterday morning I dosed suppliements, iodine and strontium (both salifert) and reef booster, turned my skimmer off and went to work. Came home and all the corals were shrivelled up. My tank is approx 170L, running a deltec MCE600 hang on, 2 eheim compact 1000's for flow, and a canister filter for filter wool and resins, and at this stage a double t5 unit. My thinking was that turning off the skimmer for the whole day, meant less oxygen in the water. Anyone can help more?

hollywood fish farm albany has some but only about 4-5cm