Smallreefer

Hi, i have a cleaner shrimp as well, he is generally always in view. I believe that your one may still be getting used to the new enviroment, how long have you had him for? As for feeding my shrimp tends to stand high up in the aquarium to get food at feeding time but will also scavenge around. I sometimes feed him frozen mysis shrimp with a pipette but i beleive he could be hand fed. hope this helps. Dan

Hi, have just purchased my new tank from HHF its 3' with a built in overflow (173l) How big do you reckon the sump should be and what sorta return pump eg LPH? Cheers Dan

Hey thanks for the info, mayb i could come see your tank sometime sounds cool. Cheers Dan

Hi, all i am thinking of upgrading from my 90l mini reef to a 170l -------- (920 x 370 x 50mmdeep)--with built in ovweflow. Mainly because i want more room for my blue tang and want some more space to play with. I was wanting to know how many watts of lighting would you recomend i have heard of 1 watt per litre but.. would a 150w MH be enough? Mayb supplement it with actinic floros? Also as i dont want to pay for a ro/di unit is the water from the supermarket ok for topoff?---(will use NSW for water changes). Also with my sump how many LPH should i use for return? And one other thing i am thinking of making my stand out of metal (well my friend has offerd to will this be strong enough? Thanks for reading. sorry that it is so big but had to fit in all my questions Cheers Dan

Hi, i dont use zeovit but would like a bit of info about it like what the products are and how much they cost and where you get them from HFF?. Cheers Dan

Hey, even though i am new to fuges i have read a lot of people saying there good for nutrient export and as wasp said many people use them, And lots of people on rc, have read many good posts on fuges there Cheers Dan

Hey wasp thanks for your great info and link. very interseting, so many different oppinions about fuges. I may still get one now Cheers Dan

Hey, thanks for that idea will look into it Will also try and to more water changes. Cheers Dan

Hey again, i know i should have a bigger skimmer but i cannot afford it. So am looking at other ways of doing it Thanks for the help. Cheers Dan

Hey, thanks for the reply i am mainly wanting it for nitrate reduction, Also what do pods do to benefit the tank, are they just a food source for fish? Cheers Dan

Hi, thanks for the reply, will have a look at thoose other methods you listed. But i dont know why but i really want a fuge lol. wanting to do something like this dono if i will but i might. http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthrea ... +to+DIY+an Cheers Dan

And also could you please explain how it degrades water quality. Cheers Dan

Hi, I am mainly wanting to set one up to help with my high nutrient levels. (mainly nitrate) Cheers Dan

Hi all, just wanting to know how many people use a refugium and if so do you beleive that they make a big differnce to your water quility also if not could you please say why not. And if you do use one wat sort of macro algea do you use, is there just caulerpa avaliable in nz? Do you use a DSB? Cheers Dan

o sry i double posted

HI, i think the cause of the high nitrates is from the old hang on filter when i took it off to put my new protein skimmer on i found it had a whole lot of old filter wool that must of been there for years at the bottom for the filter. so i think ill just keep doing water changes until levels come down to a normal range. Dan

yes both amonnia and nitrite is 0 Dan

Hey, thanks for all the help my tank is not a new set up, its about 5 years old there has been other owners i have owned it for the past year, will make sure i do plenty of water changes. Cheers Dan

yeah lol but would caulerpa help? And how big of a water change do you recomend? Dan

Hi, my tank is only small 90 litre. I have 2 clown fish 1 lemon peel dwarf angel fish and a blue tang. Also a coral banded shrimp and a cleaner shrimp. I have plenty of live rock and a protein skimmer, I belive the reason for my high nitrate level is because i havent done a water change for quite a while so i will step them up. Also probably partly due to the blue tang as he is quite large-would this be why?. o and i feed granules once a day and also flakes. And sometimes some frozen mysis. Cheers Dan

Hi, i have been a bit slack and have only just purchased a nitrate test kit and found that my nitrate levs are way to high, like at the end of the chart. I did a water change (long over due i might add ) but levels are still about the same. What would be the best way to reduce it, every thing is healthy. I have heard of adding caulerpa is this a good method of reducing it? or should i do that and lots more water change. And i use natural sea water and i dont have an r/o unit so cannot control the amount of nitrate coming through my tap water used for toping off. I have carbon and green x in there at the moment so hope this may help a bit. Any help would be appreciated. Dan

looks really nice, colours are amazing.

Hi all, Been doing some reaserch on algea control and detritus eaters and found that theese would control it quite well so was wondering if any of theese are avalible in NZ. And if so where? Scarlet Hermit Crabs Mexican Turbo Snails Margarita Snails Dwarf Red Tip Hermit Dwarf Zebra Hawaiian Hermit Trochus Snail Super Tongan Nassarius Snail Cerith Snail Cheers Dan

Looks very nice.

Hi, its all working well now thank-you all for the good advice. Cheers Dan