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Nope, I'm not looking for coral. And it was $275 for that live rock, but that's a case of the best price around, not a case where I could have gotten something else that would work just fine for far less.

The usual method of propogating ambulia is to cut their heads off and plant them. So...Uhhh...No, it won't hurt the plant.

Don't forget the "FOWLR"

Oh, yeah, speaking of peas and cucumbers, mine also get occasional lettuce, spinach, peas, chicken, ham, carrots...Errr...Basically whatever I feel like throwing in the tank.

Mostly flake, tetra bits(Though, I haven't been able to find any in about 6 months) and various floaty pellets. I don't bother feeding my big guys brine shrimp or anything most of the time. Occasionally they get some homemade food, but I've run out and haven't gotten around to making more. Oh, and they get mealworms after every waterchange, I've been trying to train them to take it from my hand. It's working great...With the severums, bloody green severum, I started putting my finger in his face to shoo him back because he'd grab all the mealworms if given the chance. Worked for about 2 feedings and now he's figured out that finger doesnt hurt him. I can have my finger on his head and he'll still grab the mealworm.

I'm not setting up a reef tank, Chimera.

He'd need two 1060s to get enough flow. Even the 1262, which seems to be the biggest eheim makes wouldn't be big enough and I've had quotes for them from $300-600. So...Ummm...I've got better places to spend my money than on overpriced eheim pumps. I think I'd go with something like a pair of laguna pond pumps.

I wish my power cuts never lasted over an hour. If it was just an hour I wouldn't even consider a UPS. Here they're usually in the 3-6 hour range and the last couple where up near 12.

Fish usually school when they're feeling threatened. A lot of the time they stop schooling when they feel safe. Put a fish in there that scares them, they'll likely start schooling again.

I'm undecided between fancy goldfish and blood parrots. I assume we're not talking like deformed fish just species in general.

Is it a common pleco, redspot, etc? You can't really. There's no real good way to tell with them.

I'd be in for a Salifert Reef Basics kit, that's $128au...So...Ummm...$146nz...Do we have to add GST on top of that? Unless someone can get that for me cheaper locally?

I hope your tank is a few thousand liters.

Of course it won't be on all the time and of course it depends on the size of your ups. It doesn't change the fact you're going to quickly burn up the UPS and end up with no power, no heating, no filtration much quicker.

The males occasionally get a bit grumpy with each other when they're older, but it's usually not anything worse than flaring their cheek spikes at each other and wiggling a bit. A male and a female would be good.

they won't last long running a heater. They use as much if not more than your average computer and most will only run a computer for 10 minutes or less.

So then they're two totally different measurements. Like comparing torque and horsepower. Ok, I'm just being a pain in the *censored* I'll shut up now.

Yeah, it would work less, but cycling is turning on and off, not being on constantly. 50 watts on a tank that needs 100 watts wouldn't cycle at all, it would be on constantly. So would 100 watts. 150 would turn on for a while, then off for a little while, on for a while, off. 200 would be on for half as long, off for the same amount of time. 250 would be on for 1/3rd the time, off for the same amount of time. Uhhh...Anyway, the closer you get to the exact number the longer the heater will be on and the less it will cycle. That being said, I have 300s in all my tanks.

Actually, it's the other way around, slightly underrated would tend to cycle less.

Awww, cute.

Unless you're running the batteries down frequently it shouldn't be a problem. Normally they wouldn't be drained at all and the occasional outage even if it totally drains the batteries wouldn't be that big of a deal.

Oooh, the rare and exotic Red X mystus!

Got a link or anything for the unit you're talking about?

They kill everything in the water. Good bacteria, bad bacteria, algae...But, something like 99% of the good bacteria is on your gravel, surfaces in your tank, media and sponges in your filter so...Who cares if 1% is killed? And anyway, the rest will multiply to make up for the tiny bit less in the water.

Ah, damn, too bad he couldn't have brought my liverock down. Woulda been nice to meet him too.