Swampy

if you only have a few then joes juice or aiptasia X will do the job.if you have alot(like i did)take out the rock and start again(like i did).best thing i ever done,but i had thousands.

lol.don't do this.God knows what they chuck in those salt blocks. :lol:

Wanganui aint far from the coast.why dont the just team up and collect seawater instead.Cant get cheaper than free. :lol:

1.not very 2.yes,if you look after them 3.around $1000 per foot.can be done cheaper. 4.between 50-200 per month.approx 5.yes,really hard. all my opinion,im sure others will disagree. go for it.you wont regret it.but your wallet might. :lol:

Have you put your lights in the cap yet? Pics pics.

i left the lights off for one day.cyno went away.wouldnt using antibiotics also kill the bacteria in the liverock??

lookin great.good to see the stand hasn't fallen to bits. Gota make your cap yet. :-?

I have the DNW 200 recirculating.its rated for 1500 ltrs.Great skimmer.around $500 if a remember . 8)

864 aprox.

no,your skimmer will be your bank breaker.

I don't think you need to wait that long to add a mandarin.I waited two months before i added mine.that was 5 months ago and mine is fat and happy.The key is making sure you have an active and plentiful pod population.I started with very good liverock that had alot of life in it.within two months i had a great pop population.If you start off with dead rock that you cycle you will have to wait along time and introduce pops before you get a decent population.The best thing you can do before setting up a marine tank is read,read and read some more.Go visit some tanks if you can,then do some more reading and then when you have done that,read some more.see the pattern here. my fat mandarin. 8)

some zoos my mandarin

Pop over and grab some bro.I got heaps.

For those of you that have sky i would highly recommend a program called Equator which screens on animal planet at 05.30 pm Thursday the 20th.I saw this on sunday and it was fantastic.By far the best and most relevant story on corals,fish,spawning that i have yet seen about the coralreef.Even had the mating ritual of the mandarin.SUPER.

dont they have very fine spines that get stuck in your skin.