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Pic from Philip Henry Gosse’s 1855 book, A Handbook to the Marine Aquarium A video from the Manchester Museum’s Youtube channel gives you behind the scenes look at what it takes to bring antiquity back to life.

Not all fresh waters are equal. Had F8's in brackish for 6yrs and they were 2yrs old when i got them, they loved crabs from the estuary.

Welcome :sage:

Try a local quarry some nice limestone down your way

You could use gutter guard to build a cage for the pump to stop larger bits going thru the pump, may need to clean the cage a bit though

Probábly gunge from the dying bacteria on mature Media that had nothing to support in a new system

It is a long swim and you don't have your water wings?.

A pic of some baking may help :smln:

If no luck i have a complete unit with bottom of canister brokeded

Tropical marine, sump, 25c, flow pumps 145% D.O. 4 x Air stones and heaps of air 105%

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You may also find the eels will clean up your inverts over time unless you have lots of vegetative cover

Gréen, brown or white murky?

your rock looks new

anyone else want to log on?

We had a lot of trouble with spammers and sock puppets so some addresses were banned, they have been unbanned but still don't seem to be working :dunno: I think i brokeded it

Welcome

never had a gasping fish in my cichlid tanks and never an airstone either

There is more dissolved oxygen in my tanks with flow pumps and good surface movement than the ones with just airstones, if i increase the air through the stone or use wooden stones there is more DO. but then a lid is needed to contain the water from bubbles breaking and salt creep.

its a kinda magic :dno:

Just as good as and probably rarer in nz

:gpo2: Yes with a net, next month setting up some breeding tanks when they give me more room