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nice job skippy..... doesnt look as crowded now.....love the pulsing xenia

good luck....

OMG .... wow ...

whats the cracker pipe look like..... any links to a diagram please

tanks looking good evil..... just a few more weeks of cycling left..

waiting , waiting ...... :roll: :roll: sounds like its looking good...

ive got a 35ml one you can borrow...... its brand new never used & ive got a 8ml one that i was given for free to practice with. just go to a glass place and ask for a couple of scrap bits of glass and do a few practice runs to get use to drilling glass...... your most welcome to borrow them... and if you want to pay the $5 bucks courier fees each way i can loan you a drill as well......

just go to bunnings and go to the garden part there lots of different choices in different sizes there and you can cool little hose clips tht you just use a pair of pliers to tighten them ..... its called irragiation hosing..... hope this helps you

i am to and i was the silly idiot that started this thread...... think ill head back to the corner :oops:

i second that "fluvals" are great and value for money .... i no of one thats been running for 8 odd years and never had to replace anything other than media..... now thats getting you moneys worth

yes the aquamedic was the one i was looking at...... but now im not sure ..... may wait and make it a add on later.....

2 use them & 2 dont..... i thought there was more than 4 people on this site with marine tanks :roll: :roll:

i relise that.... ive spent the last 6 months reading and more reading and buying equipment for my setup as i didnt want to rush in and stuff it up by not having everything before i started and one of the last things ive been thinking about is a uv zapper .... and if they do a job then its worth investing in...... so everyones opinions would be good so i can decide if i want to invest in one or not........ who has one on there marine tank???? do you find its worth having or not????

starting my first salt water set up and wanted opinions on using a uv zapper......... is it worth investing in one or not????

on trademe theres "sun sun" tanks aswell....good tanks have had them myself with no probs from them..... good lighting in them as well

what size tank do people recomend for a Hospital/Quarantine????

dam you beat me .... im still building stand e.t.c ...... yours looks cool keep the pics comming

am i blind am i..... camera used is a cheap crap one so was trying to show (what i can see in real life) that 2 x t'5s can be brighter than 4 normal t'8 bulbs..... yes ive worked on and built a good reflector for my hood and this probly does help slightly .... but as your links show 2 x t'5 are better than 3 t'8 bulbs so im not sure why my thread is getting pick apart...... what im learning out of this is i just wont bother doing a thread on things i learn anymore.... cos im not fussed either way....just thought some people may have been intested.....

its a parrot fish caper..

same camera..... blurry as i moved i think.....at the end of the day anyone that seen the tank before and then seen it today can see the massive difference in the amount of light..... and at the end of the day im very very happy with the change.....

yes weka the old lights were 2 x double 4ft 40watt bulbs aquaone light units (with reflectors) and bulbs where about 2 months old when first pic was taken..... so yes im comparing apples with apples

is a large albino cory (very big one) hard to get to this size so the others dont eat it and the pic is blurry which does not help

do you mean the white one where the water is trickling into the overflow ??? beachy

yes they are still fluorescent .... the difference is the amount of lightthey put out (4ft t'5 is 54watts) and the bulbs are thinner ..... im not a expert o them i bought them for a marine tank im setting up and the changed that to MH so thought i wouldnt waste them and use 2 on my freshwater setup.... and now im glad i did.. :bounce: :bounce:

ive just done a upgrade to T'5 lights and below is before and after shots for everyone to see the big difference ..... the before pic is with 4 x 4ft normal lights and the after is with 2 x 4ft T'5 lights (you could get some plants growing under these lights)....i didnt relise i had so much algae on the back glass until i put the new t'5 on ..... i bought the T'5 ballasts and endcaps and build the hood and mounted them into the hood and i made my own reflector and it works very well as the pic shows (poor pic as my camera sucks).... BEFORE PIC AFTER PIC funny thing is i bought 4 x t'5 to use and only use 2 and now im glad as the fish would have needed sunnys 8) if i had of used 4 bulbs