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but nice to see my Puffer is settling in well

can you make the pics smaller henward please? I just ran out of broadband this morning :lol: SOOOOOOOOOO SSLLLLLLLOOOOOWW

yes as reef rightly points out henward, read Wasps basic marine guide it is very good (much better than many beginner marine books I have read, I might add!). But to answer your questions, Salinity is measured in a variety of ways. The two most common ways are using a refractometer or a hydrometer. Hydrometers are cheaper and less accurate than refractometers. With both instruments, we are measuring the specific gravity, (the SG), at 25 degrees. In a full marine tank with inverts (i.e a reef tank) the SG is maintained around 1.024-1.026 depending on the individual aquarist. Many people run fish only marines at a lower salinity like 1.022. Brackish is technically anything between salt and freshwater, and brackish fish are typically more accepting of salinity swings. Typically low range brackish is maintained at 1.005SG and high range is about 1.015... but many fish require increasing salinities as they mature, and many brackish fish require (or do best) in full marine salinity water as adults.

Tsarmina- when going down just turn the heater off, Minnows are pretty hardy

he means 4 more. 6 total. Albino's are just as hardy as other common species (Pandas etc) My personal fave are sterbais. Its whatever tickles your fancy really... Like I said before, get a small heater otherwise they might get a little chilly in winter. they will be fine in summer in a unheated tank though...

I think Caryl meant Corys

put a heater in to make sure the water is about 20 and you will be able to add some corys. again they like to be in a small group. IMO 4 min

thanks...those pics are a few months old, will have to put up some new ones soon... yeah that is a pink skunk clown... for a 21L tank i would say 8 small fish, but thats me, so leave the minnows and get 6 neons, remember that neons are schooling so need 6 min really...

can't fish get dislocated jaws or something similar I have heard :-?

all these heaters are good: 25 watt trademe heaters

Neons are good. but you might find that the minnows won't like the 24-25 degrees that the neons like. I have kept minnows in heated tanks but They have only bred for me in cold-water tanks

anything which you can completely submerge... Jager are the best but are pricey... I have used aqua one heaters, fluval heaters, and a whole bunch of cheap ones and I ahve never had a problem with any. 25 watt heater will be good, or 50 if you can't find a 25.

did ya get the sand from HFF? I got the same stuff! Use Java fern, its salt resistant... and use red sea or instant ocean to put the salinity to 1.005 or so.

thats what I was thinking Ian, Cattle drinking might disturb the fish too

done water tests yet? do water tests now, post results up here. have you shuffled the rock around, played with your sandbed?

use clear cups to... they are made by huhtamaki.

as snookie says, should be fine if he is eating. if they get overgrown so he can't eat you need to put him to sleep and manually trim him, but that won't be necessary if you feed appropriate food now...

guts man.. yeah My Nem has come to grief with my Seio a couple of times. I never turned it off at night coz my corals all need good flow. Only thing you can do is get stocking material or similar to cover up the holes so your nem can't get minced

I am attracted to Unique fish, Fish that can eat other fish whole, and pretty fish...

i generally look at lots of other pictures on the net on what I want my tank like and see what filtration system they have. after a while you get the general idea

how's the Suvattii doing henward?

stoppy though

Daltons Aquatic Mix?

give it a couple of days more IMO

if you want a nem, I would do what Steve has done on his corner tank and run a single halide in the middle, with optional T5's along the edges. Thats the problem with corner tanks, as it is hard to fit a lot of flouros. A new will survive but not thrive under your current lighting.