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First you need at least one male and at least one female....

Yes, compact flouros can produce 14,000 kelvin color temp light, is there any doubt, I mean it's labeled on the bulb. I don't think they have any trouble going up to 20K, it's just a matter of what they coat the bulb with. That kelvin should give a very white with a slight blue tinge light. But it may be hard to tell unless you have a lower kelvin light nearby. You can't really call a bulb a certain wavelength, they're usually the whole mix of wavelenghts of visible light. That's why kelvin is used.

Unless you want to try and DIY a hang on overflow box, yeah. It's a small tank, it won't be hard to get holes drilled and set up a proper overflow.

Box fan from the warehouse, behind the tank pointed over it and at the MH pendant. Keeps the pendant nice and cool where it was too hot to touch before and the temps stay within 24.7ish-25.5 on the hottest day so far.

Yeah, that's how practically all larger fish are bred commercially, as far as I know, I don't see why it can't be done with snapper. Pretty straight forward process.

Not for the goby!

Why such a big water change?

Ok, you two, kiss and make up before the rest of the moderators have a fit.

I got it at an electrical place here in Upper Hutt. Probably most places should have them, I think.

Hehe, Thanks, Alan.

About...Ummm...Well, without catching the parents and flopping them down next to a ruler I'd say around 75 mm, not including their tail. Maybe 100mm.

I've been giving my pearls 50% water changes weekly, I haven't noticed a single corpse in months. Despite my best efforts to freeze them and boil them when temperature coming out of the tap shifts when I'm not looking...

Halides on at 2:30pm off at 11:30 pm. Need to get some actinics, but don't really have anywhere convenient to mount them.

Just about everything is harmful in some way or in some conditions. Most foods contain carcinogens, air is toxic and contributes to aging, table salt is made up of an extremely corrosive and poisonous gas and a metal that explodes on contact with water...Anyway, just because it says it's a carcinogen doesn't mean it's dangerous. All that means is that when injected into lab rates at hundreds of times the dosage you're normally going to be exposed to that it caused an increase in the percentage of rats getting cancer.

They're harmless to anything but plants and fry. Everything else they won't bother a bit...So, yeah, harmless, IMO.

*Sniffle* I found my yellow tang dead this morning.

Started in reverse meaning that you turned the powerhead around intentionally, right? hehee, I probably would have done that tooo....

And you guys are forgetting the most important thing! I don't really have anywhere good to put the container above the sump...Well, I'd have no problem having it sitting on the kitchen bench next to the tank, but wifey might not be so happy about it. On the floor next to the tank is a lot more convenient.

I think it's gone beyond a rumor...

Finally got at least the float valve part of it all set up...Well, assembled anyway. What I'm thinking I'll do is have the airpump there(Or another one) pumping air into an airtight jerry can which will then push the water out another hose into the tank. A 25l container should be good for 20L of water which would be good for about 5 days before I have to fill it up+2 days before the pump chamber gets low, compared to 2 days now before my pump starts running dry. I still haven't gotten the container sorted out yet. If the air pump idea doesn't work I can always switch it to a powerhead. One thing I was a little concerned about was that the float switch would keep switching on and off every few seconds bouncing between high and low. Doesn't look like it will because there's about an inch of travel in the float between where it turns on and turns back off again. Which would be maybe a liter of water between the two. That should be 6ish hours, definitely at least a few hours. Total cost so far...$80...But that's because I needed to buy a heat gun to bend the perspex. Which I then broke the first time I tried to drill a hole through it. And a gratuitous picture of my lawn mower blenny...

How far is too far? You could run the hose 20 meters if you wanted.

Siamese algae eaters and otos are different fish. And SAEs are fine with other fish. Helps to know what kind of algae it is, also.

Just realized, i should pay more attention, hahaha, the thread was talking about the squirt, the 4 way doesn't come with the revolution nozzle bits and costs more. So, yeah, an OM squirt for $125us + 4XRevolution - Version 3 - 1/2" - 180° at $114us= $331 nz before shipping.

Shrimp and starfish do fine so far, I had a crab that did fine too, until I kinda...Killed him. The hermits are a bit more complicated. There are some that are kinda hairy that I've tried, they only lasted a few days. Smoother ones that I had lasted a lot longer, I'm not sure if the heat killed them or the fact that I didn't think about the fact that the food I was feeding them floated and they couldn't get it...

I like the bottom one better, you'd get fewer visitors going, "It's NEMO!"