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You could also do something like a couple pieces of plywood covered with mylar film. Your lights would be hidden anyway, so it doesn't have to look pretty.

They certainly look nicer than that Tunze rubbish...

I just tried feeding my bristlenose fry some zuchini today. Man that stuff is HARD to find! I thought they might take a few days to get the idea...Nope, it was all gone within about 8 hours, fed them half a zuchini chopped into round slices and nuked until they sank.

No, the wavelength doesn't shift, I don't think. They do lose their brightness over time, but it's usually something like down to 1/2 after 100,000 hours. Shouldn't do any damage, those will be using UV just barely outside of the visible spectrum...Maybe if you blasted it straight into their eyes, but the same goes for visible light. Might be better going for a UV CCFL than a bunch of LEDs, more light and better spread.

Here's one place... http://www.dpt.co.nz/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_23&products_id=70

Chim, try buying one of these thingsand shining it in your tank at night. Now THAT is unreal. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics-photography/Gadgets/Other/auction-38934349.htm Hard to get pics though because the water flouresces and confuses the camera.

I think I'd probably pass on the oyster shells and use the rock salt method. Mix heaps of rock salt in and it dissolves when you cure it leaving the rock more porous.

There must be dozens of lighting shops in Auckland. Go find one and buy some cool white fluoros. Quick, cheap, easy, will work great.

Those are fine. The kind of lighting doesn't really matter a bit for fish other than for a bit of aesthetics. The goldfish wouldn't care if there weren't even any lights at all...Might prefer it actually.

Lucky for you, you waited just outside the reserve waving a fish fillet.

I think a single MCE600 would be undersized, BUT, softies aren't nearly as picky about having perfectly clean water as SPS so it should do ok.

Just sell the POS streams and get a bunch of Seios. Much more anemone friendly.

Yes, you will still need to do all the normal tank maintenance, all a sump is is extra water volume and a place to put equipment out of view. You could possibly connect the sump to the undergravel filter(Ignoring that undergravel filters suck) but that would also make the sump flood if the power went out and drain your entire tank onto the floor. It blows bubbles through the water. It does NOT work on freshwater tanks. Of course. In the water, doesn't matter where as long as it has a reasonable amount of flow. Yes...But that would be stupid to include a quarantine tank on the same sump as other tanks. Basically makes it a NOT quarantine tank. Depends. Could be as low as $200 for the hole in the bottom of the tank, the overflow, the standpipe and some plumbing back into the tank. Plumbing stores and fish stores. Google or the saltwater forum.

Heh, Don't drop the fish, it's bad for them.

I want a frag of it, please.

I don't think anything picking on them is going to be a huge problem. Mine stood up to my severums which at the time probably outmassed them by Ummm, Let's see...6 times the length, width and height...Call it 200 times.

Unless you intend to look up through the base, nope, doesn't matter.

Inside=inside the tank. Outside=outside the tank. Use it with the side of the glass with the vinyl pieces facing the outside of the tank.

Oooh, that sounds cool. :bounce:

Should be fine, I wouldn't use it with that stuff on the inside, but on the outside it's not going to hurt anything.

They may be crap but at least they're cheap. :lol:

Ah, you said, "Still need photos of these..."

Use two float switches in a series if you're worried about flooding. A lower one that turns on when the water is too low and a higher one that turns OFF when it's too high.

Shouldn't have any effect that dosing it with the topoff water wouldn't have. May be able to dissolve less per liter, but you could dose dozens of liters of kalk saturated saltwater compared to only a handful of liters of saturated freshwater.

ooh, pseudochromis porphyreus, got that. If anyone can find me a reference to it in a book I'll do a form for it.