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mollys from your local pet store will survive in salt water and are prolific live bearers. Also glass shrimps from rockpools may be a goer

as i have told you today i will be in Auckland next week so if you want and its alright with evilkanevil i could pick up his frags say wednesday and bring the back to Tauranga for him to collect.

sweet steve s thats what i thought yet a tropical marine breeder who i trust implicitly told me this and yes i do collect them from the rock pools at the base of Mount Maunganui and i float for about 15min to aclimatise to my water quality. Then they are tipped straight in and i have had them in there for up to 8 months. cheers.

I thought if Nitrate was up ammonia would be to?

i have found and seen my percula clowns eating them and if you get them out of a warm rock pool they seem to be fine temp wise. I also feed them to my btas and they love them.

possibly a little hard to tell from the picture but if its not it looks close.

no not at all they arnt invasive befor i got my bta my female clown spent time in one of them it was sold to me from living waters in Tauranga as a substitute for a bta i was told that they would use it (which they did) But that a bta would be the best option.

I have the following in my ar 620 1 Bicolour blenny 1 Bangai cardinal 1 Blue Tang 2 Percula clowns 1 bta anemone that i got of chimera which is doing well (Thanks Chimera) 4 Small green anemones Not sure on type 3 Frilly/ hairy mushrooms green and purple 1 green hairy mushroom 2 purple mushrooms 1 blue mushroom 1 rather large pin cushion leather And i do plenty of wter changes as ar620 cant run protein skimmers but as i mentioned im looking into modifiying it so that i can. Since putting in the bta my female clown has become very protective of it and will attack anything that comes to close to her bta. Including my Tang and myself when cleaning.

Hi guys im still a novice to this and only have a ar620 which i am looking into modifying so that i can run a protein skimmer which will help out a lot.

thanks everyone im feeling more confident now. Now i just have to get lots of little bits of coral to attatch the frags to still nervous so if anyone has any more thoughts please add them.

sorry as far as cable tying i thought there was a putty of some sort that you could use if so what is it and where do i get it from.

hi guys thanks for your speedy replies i take it a sharp razor blade is the tool of joice and if i cut the head of how far up the stem do i cut it and chopping up the head in to smaller bits how big should the peices be once they are cut up. And my tank is only a Ar620 so if i was to run carbon which i do occasionly do i place the carbon in the filter part or not this is where i usually place it. And after chopping it up how soon would you recomend i do a water change and how much i usually do a quater every three to four weeks as i cant run a protein skimmer ( but im looking at modifing it so that i can.)

sorry i should have added that i beleive that it is a pin cushion leatherwith

I have a leather coral that really has become to big for my tank and is now shading out my mushrooms e.t.c. I am not sure how to do this i have been told but im not game to do it the first time by myslf from just instructions. Is there anyone in Tauranga who can help or a short movie possibly or a book anything. I beleive that it is a pin cushion leather

hi i am realativly new to this hobby and will only buy cultured or captive breed fish. i have a small aquarim which i have run now for three and a bit years in that time i have lost one anemone due to a local pet shop giving me the wrong info. Just recently i lost a bangai cardinal ( which was captive breed i know this as i know the breeder.) My bangai was eaten by a recently aquired bta just saw the last of it disappering in to the btas mouth. My perculas are captive breed ( same breeder) Now having all the flashest of equipment would be nice but impossible on a single income. So thru careful maitanence and REGULAR water changes i have a healthy aquarim where i have good growth rates on both my corals and fish. So it is possible to have a nice aquarim on a very modest budget. By the way i have lived in Tonga for thee years and have veiwed the massacre of reefs due to explosives to create or widen shipping channels. The destruction caused by run of from near by piggerys is also disheartning. I see that the aquarim is a way of insuring the survival of these stunning reefs. And where would this hobby be today if it wasnt for the early aquarist tacking stock from the wild and percerving with it. Anyway thats my veiw. And sorry for the spelling mistakes.

if it is a clean crack windsreen people can fix if it is dirty or has something else in ti they cant.

personally it looks like you have the large grade lime chip i would go with the medium i use it myself. And yes it doesnt stay white but comes up pretty well when doing a gravel clean.

as i understand it they live for approx 5 years so if yours are still going congrats this is as i say as i understand.

Hi i found for an unwell anemone frozen mussel great. Grab some live ones from your local super and place on the bench when you get home and wait untill they start to open. Then breack them open scoop out of shell place in a bag and freeze. Theory is freezing kills any Parasites or lurgies that may be there. Once frozen cut of a peice about the size of your fingernail and feed. Mine love it

Help upon checking out my tank this morning as i do every morning i have discovered that our regal tang has developed whiskers over night. They are located just below her/his jaw i can only think that she has had ago at the rather large reclusive blue flat worm that i have hiding out. I do go thr every time i can catch them and remove them. But this guy is difficult. Is this going to affect our tang in anyway or will they come out of there own accord. I have seen flat worm traps on trade me are these any good. Please all thoughts greatly appreciated.

awesome looking tank congrats on a great job. Makes my ar620 tank look sorry.

ive used a strong soloution of calcium and injected them with a syringe avalible from pharmacys

looks cool thanks for all your help to day and for showing me your set yp the b.t.a is floating at the moment in its bag cheers.

How do you get a mushroom to stick to a rock. I have one that prefers to be on the gravel at the bottom of my tank. I keep placing it back on to a rock and before long its back on the gravel at the bottom.

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