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thanks substrate is a mix of a fine pale sand, with a heavier greyer sand over that is what looks like a marble pebble 3 tubes seem to be the key in the lighting dept will check K and type tomorrow P.S. No test kits were harmed in the set up of this tank.

it maybe, it is one anthony gave me everything is growing well must be the substrate and the lighting

I have a 2nd hand Aqua one AR980 and 2 buckets of sand from an established planted tank tank was dirty so gave it a quick rinse and clean started cleaning the sand with the hose and sand at the base had that lovely anaerobic smell flushed as best i could and put it into tank about 2cm at front to 6cm at the back started slowly filling with the hose while it was filling i planted some ambulia, baby tears, vallisneriia and a couple of amazon swords anthonylaw gave me when the tank was full it was very cloudy as some of the sand was pretty fine set up the overhead filter with ceramic and glass noodles, sponges and filter wool on top of that to help clear water set heater and filter going left it for 2 days for the water to clear then replaced the filter wool temp running at26c 4th day still slightly cloudy got given 30 guppies and swordtails so did a 50% water change and acclimated them over 1/2 hr in a bucket and put in tank 5th day put in a piece of driftwood i had in the turtle pond and some java moss 7th day did 30% water change 9th day put a pair of marble angels in tank and some mollies as i had no where else to put them 10th day 30% water change and removed 2 dead guppies (they were skinny when they came in) 14th day changed filter wool and did 30% water change, Angels have claimed back corner of tank and laid eggs cleaned front glass algae started put timer on lights as i kept forgetting to turn them off overnight 16th day put small golden algae eater in tank Angels eggs gone 18th day did 25% water change 21st day had to trim ambulia and baby tears back, 2 dead guppies, 1 skinny female, 1 male with torn fins

salt with your fish sir :smln:

N.Z. fossil penguin discovered

very good hadn't thought of that :facepalm:

can't you run both on the tank at once

should be able to buy direct from hose or engineer supplies in your area let your fingers do the walking

we could do 3 pages of discussing the pro and cons throw in a bit of conjecture and disagreement tending towards the personal then 6 or 7 offtopic comments that lead to half the thread being removed or we could just say yes :sage:

http://www.blackwoods.co.nz/Search.aspx?NavDS=Nrc:id-4%7Cid-99999,Nea:True,N:4294813249&view=2 try these guys, engineering supplies have them too

:facepalm: Ira on closeup with his bankbook :rotf:

Aint that the truth

i didn't have one spent my money on fish

just run it on your existing tank

sprats would be dead in fresh water look like gambusia dave is getting a bit funky with his fish names

no won't stress the anemone even my big maroon is dwarfed by the BTA when its fully inflated

that won't make any difference to it deflating or having a rest

its attitude may have something to do with what it sees when you go near it repto

most of it is to do with maturity of the system and the bio load it can handle this will help avoid disaster that old saying of, the only things that happen quickly in a marine tank are bad things, is very true

you could do some tests to get used to testing personally i just topup water for first 4 weeks at least and watch it go through the cycle

you could do a nice build for that money

how deep are you going i used 20mm acrylic on 1.2m deep,

Welcome on board

those were the days antwan :sage:

my fault atown mucked up the edit :oops: