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I've tried feeding my H. Crispa some of those asterina stars...No good, it didn't like them. Edit: I just tried grabbing 4-5 of them and feeding them to it. He grabbed them and I haven't seen him let them go. So I dunno. Hard to tell if he's ate them.

Make it a repacked bar of Dove soap with the name on the bar cut off and sell it for $50.

Wet pets definitely in Palmerston North. If you're going through Paraparaumu the Pet House in Coastlands, closest place to Wellington with marines. That's all I can think of.

They banned me too!

If you only have "A" dwarf gourami, chances are pretty small I'd say.

I tend to doubt the bubbles are from CO2, they should dissolve pretty quickly. If you have a very dirty tank though proteins would stick to the surface of the water and any bubbles, usually just normal air bubbles, and you'd end up with foam like that. One of my tanks that's very heavily fed is like that.

Heh, their server got RTN.

I read that as "cut OFF" the first time through....

I'd just use filter wool and call it good. Seems to work well.

You'll probably end up with a box of melted plastic.

Nah, should barely be measurable. I warm mine up because I do about 1/3rd at a time and that drops the temp by 2-3 degrees. Never noticed any reaction when I let it drop that much, but prefer not to.

Yeah, me too. I love pics of others misery.

I'll take one if you're giving them away.

I hope you're not responsible for anything needed to fix it.

Yeah, there's no pressure on the overflow except around the top where the water level difference is. Well, no pressure other than from being hit by any currents in the tank. You could probably do it with some plastic film as long as you had the top few inches held tightly in place.

With that much volume I don't think I'd worry much about cycling...

I don't think it's necessary. Just an extra thing to buy and deal with.

For $1000nz you could probably buy an aquarium computer which includes all of that(Except for the flow meter, that seems basically useless) along with timers, wavemakers, PH monitors, etc.

What you need to do is take say a weeks worth of skimmate with it running slow and a weeks worth with it blasting as much water through as possible. Then dry them, maybe do it in the oven or something to speed things up. That way you can compare the weights because one may be wetter than the other. Of course, you'll need to also figure in the weight of salt. You could dry out say half a liter of straight saltwater also as a control. Then you know the weight of salt per volume to give you an idea how much of the skimmate would have been salt. Probably most of the skimmate is saltwater.

I think mine is 32mm and I have a guesstimated 4000 LPH(6000something lph pump) through it...And at that point it's getting pretty noisy. I'd say that's hitting the edge of practicality.

Hey, Both of you, out of my thread! :bounce: :lol:

I miss my LMB.

There is no live rock in NZ waters...Well, I suppose there may be a few fragments around because of black corals and things....

Yeah, that's the second best way, find someone with a big sump and throw your rock in there for a month or two. First best, swap live rock for base rock.

Both of you shut up and get back to thinking of things I could do with my reactors! :lol: