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Increasing your knowledge base will help in the long run.

Bio load is now 4 x yellow eyed mullet, 2 common triplefins, 1 x small Parore, 2 small crayfish, 2 x Paua, 1 x Sea cucumber, 2 x Kina

Beautiful scape

WOW sme stunning art in there

Cheers A few rocks,

Live sand in and T5 lighting in 3 1.2m double ones with geisseman actinics

Thanks Tank full of salt water The easy way

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Put in 25 and 32mm bulkheads for overflow to sump Sump, a 4 foot tank Temporary return from sump Water test was all good, no leaks on piping. :happy1:

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Remnants of sump Spray bar that was in sump and media trays.

Tank arrived yesterday (sunday), 80cm wide but back 220mm is a built in sump with an overflow box in middle of tank with a 25mm pipe connecting to sump at back. Won't be enough flow for a marine tank so started to drill 2 holes in centre back sheet of glass for the sump overflow, started first hole then started on 2nd hole to get position right and POW, shattered sheet of glass. 2 snapped craft knife blades later no back sump, lots of room now just need to drill overflow holes for external sump.

Marines love it

It goes with the Morning Wood :dno:

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currently running tanks at 17c and 18 during summer

too much bacteria die off when chiller goes on

So am I :bggrn: Love building set ups, will have to include a 1/2 HP chiller but will leave that until necessary in the warmer weather as it will help speed up the cycle which can take up to 6 months depending on how cold the system is. Have live rock already cycling for the last 3 months so with weekly water changes of natural salt water should help crank things along. Some extra reading for those interested, http://naturenz.wix.com/nzmarinekeepers ... grams/cee5

Have been tasked with setting up a local marine tank for a local dive shop, so thought i would do a build thread. Tank supplied is 2.4m x70cm x 60cm on macrocarpa stand (heavy unit). the back 180mm of tank is a sump compartment. Equipment for build. 7" Filter Sock Mount 7" Nylon Filter Sock - 100 micron Aquarium UV Sterilizer 36 Watt Auto Top-up - Gravity Fed with float valve Coral Box D700 Protein Skimmer DC variable Pump Granular Ferric Oxide (GFO) Jebao DCT-12000 Variable Return Pump JEBAO WP-40 Aquarium Wavemaker Portable Refractometer - measure salinity Replacement UV 36 Watt lamp G23 fitting Get tank on weekend so after viewing may have to change things around a bit. will post pics as it happens.

There are a few diseases that shrimp suffer from and in aquaculture overseas many new diseases are popping up that wipe out entire farms and are just called EMS early mortality syndrome. Shrimp can carry these diseases such as White spot syndrome (WSS) a viral infection of penaeid shrimp. The disease is highly lethal and contagious, and easily transferred to other crustaceans.

The production of nitrite ions during cycle can cause a ph drop

Some exotics are pest species which may incur a fine if you propagate them