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I'm sure you could go weeks without eating without a problem. Of course, you wouldn't be anywhere near happy about it.

You can get similar fish here. Like a gar? or pike or something like that. There was a similar one at the napier fish show.

It's not particularly important. Over 20c should be fine.

Yes you can plant it without fish.

Wok, I have them in one of those polystyrene boxes about a foot by 2 feet or something. Those worms are just from a 2"x2" ish section of dirt. I just rinse them by putting them in a cup, blasting them with water to get them and the dirt all stirred up. Then pour off the water which pours off a lot of the dirt and the white worms collect a bit higher than than the dirt, sweep those out into another container with my finger. Repeat until there aren't many worms left in the dirt. Dump that dirt out, dump the whiteworms back in the original container and repeat until they're clean enough.

It'd be pretty dim, you'd have to turn the room lights off to see much. And the leds will be around $2.30 each. good place to get them though is here... http://www.dpt.co.nz/leds.html

It is aggression, they're trying to rip each others faces off.

Just playing with my camera. Haven't managed to get rid of all the dirt, but the little that's left won't matter.

Actually, I should do that too...

Generally easier to drill holes in perspex and it's lighter. But other than that, I can't see any reason why it couldn't be made of glass.

Get some filter wool and rubber band it around the intake.

You could get something like this off trademe. They usually have loops so you can hang it from the ceiling.

2-3 300 watt heaters should do it. I'd personally put one in the main tank, the rest in the sump. That way you've got a bit of redundancy if the sump pump dies.

Better to split the pairs up. They'll get a bit grumpy when breeding.

It'll work fine. I don't know if there's really any point though. I dunno what lights you mean exactly, but if you mean just like coralstar tubes and others, they're not really significantly different than FW lights, just usually a higher kelvin rating and a LOT more expensive.

The reflector was, I took out the rusty 1X2' fitting in it and replaced it with 2x3' fitting I'd been using.

Finished putting the 2X3' tubes I had over my sump into a reflector I bought ages ago in Napier, squeeze it into the stand over the sump, plug it in...Hear a little crackle and one of the tubes doesn't light. Well, that's annoying...Wait...Is that smoke? Lift the fitting up to look under it...Nice little orange flame about half an inch long busy melting the part of the fitting that the tubes plug into. So...Going to have to overhaul my refugium lighting. Thinking I'll try a handful of screw in flouros and covering the top of the stand with mylar to reflect the light back down. Anyone have any other cheap suggestions?

I think the widely accepted definition of nano is under 15 gallons, which would be about 50 liters.

I'm amazed people have that much of a problem with flies. We've had a grand total of about 3 flies in our house in the last year...Give or take 4 flies.

And they'd probably only last a few days.

I've gotten prices for an eheim 1262 which does 3000ish liters per hour ranging from $350nz to $650nz. So...Yeah, the pumps are just like everything else of Eheim's EXPENSIVE.

Thanks everyone. To make up for it a bit, I did find a little baby bristlenose in Bridget's tank, the one where they'd laid eggs all over the place. I thought they'd have all been eaten, but there's one about 2mm long in there.

Poor little guy was covered with dozens of sores all over his body, his fins had gotten all scraggly and torn, he barely moved to escape the net when I caught him. I'd been treating him in a sick tank for about 5 weeks with 4 different medicines and he was just getting worse. So I decided to put him down. I put him in the freezer in a bowl of water. After about an hour he was dead. Before his funeral I measured him. He was 260mm from head to tail.

Ah, now you're starting to understand why I get frustrated. Rhemus at the pet shop in Kapiti might be able to get you some, I don't know. All he really has is fish and recently it looks like he's started getting a handful of corals. Graham at the lower hutt pet center can only get dead base rock. Either one may be able to get mushrooms, I dunno.

PM Jetskisteve, he should be able to get you some good live rock, of course, shipping is a bit painful. When I got some off him it came out to about $15/kilo shipped, Which is only a few dollars more than just dead baserock from the lower hutt pet center. They're the cheapest place locally for base rock at $11/kilo. For a 100L you'd want somewhere around 10-15 kilos. Oh...Just noticed you said to talk to Pies, Steve. hehe. You tell him how much you charge.