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Basically... Fish only Pros: Significantly lower maintenance and set up cost due to lack of coral's lighting and water requirements. Can keep coral eating fish. Cons: No corals. Corals are cool. Fish and corals Pros: Corals are cool. Cons: Significantly higher maintenance and set up cost due to coral's lighting and water requirements. Can not keep coral eating fish.

I do wonder how many reported sightings of guppies in the wild actually are gambusia. Used to be it was pretty common to see gambusia sold on Trademe with a description along the lines of "Guppies I caught in the stream behind my house." Haven't seen any in a while, but I haven't looked.

You can also get adapters that clip onto a sink tap from Miter 10, the warehouse, bunnings etc. Just siphon from the tank out the door, connect to the tap and fill it back up. Dump some stresscoat in the tank beforehand if you want.

They'll be fine. Give them a rinse to get any garbage off and throw them in.

Short answers 1. Yes, minimum suggested size for a beginner is 200-300. 2. Can't say for sure with out some kind of details, but generally you shouldn't be using an external filter with a marine tank. 3. Yes. Especially for a beginner.

Yeah, that happens a lot when you have them in the normal stagnant bowl with no airation and little surface area. Oxy shells do nothing. What you need to do is put an airstone or a filter or pump in it to circulate the water and disturb the surface. And get them into a bigger thank that won't heat up so quickly. If you can't do any of that, get a fan and point it at the surface. It should help disturb the surface, airate it and the evaporation will help cool the water.

Let's see...Java Let's see, looks like java moss, some kind of crypt, some kind of anubias, a stick, some hair algae, some diatoms, a bit of driftwood, some fungus. I don't see anything out of the ordinary for a new tank.

Now, is wobbly because the carpet is thick? If it's empty it's not a huge amount of weight compressing the carpet and underlay, still could be a lot of give. Filling it will fix that.

Get an RO filter? You can't do that. That's #1 entry in every "marine tanks for dummies."

Yeah, that 400 watts might be borderline in a cold room on a cold day, but should be ok. I'd probably go with the 300s too.

On the upside, I'm throwing out soooo much old useless fish crap. Found a 150w metal halide I'd forgotten about. It's going in the trash though, I haven't used it in something like 6 years. Also a fishtank I didn't know I had. Keeping the 7 heaters I have for some reason(Probably bad), throwing out the 4 airpumps...

Looks like we're going with the plan to move our bed into the spare bedroom, then we'll borrow an extra cot and sleep on those. Then we're looking at getting one of these: http://www.hiddenbed.co.nz/range-1/desk-bed-single-bed Been planning to for a while, just never have. Or should say, wifey has been planning it, I was happy with the bunk/folding sofa bed thing we had.

Ugh...Christmas. Dad and his girlfriend are visiting. Have spent the last couple weeks tearing down the spare bedroom and moving it to another room, because the spare bedroom has the cat door in it. So, can't shut the door. And we had to get rid of the spare bed because it was too uncomfortable, now we have no spare bed. Once I'm done removing all the shelves and everything from the other room...We have to find what to do about a bed, then make a couple trips to the tip to throw crap away. Maybe we'll put our bed into the spare bedroom and sleep on cots for a month. Oh and still have to figure out what to do about presents. Ugh, I hate christmas.

*Serpae tetra. I wasn't going to say anything but you got it wrong both times you posted this.

Call the real estate agent, don't try to make Adrienne try to pass a message to him to call you when you're perfectly capable of doing it yourself.

You already asked that question and were got some replies, there's no need to ask again in a new thread.

Don't know if I'd trust an eheim to even manage half the rated volume. I had a 2213 on a 100L tank and it couldn't even handle that, dirty water, clogged up within a week or two. Replaced it with a Fluval 404 and it improved hugely. Though, now I'd have replaced it with a CF1200.

Equivalent how? CF1200 according to specs is rated at 1200lph and looks like 22 watts. Closest flow Eheim looks to be the Professional 3, 1250 at 18. The 4 watt difference will pay back the $510 price difference Let's see....58 years. assuming $.25/kwh.

AH, you're right, stupid ambiguous letters, I thought it was CIN2 not ClN2

Appears it's C23H25ClN2 Lots of carbon, lots of hydrogen, a little iodine and nitrogen.

Just remembered this old video of my tank showing the current with my Jebao RW-8 It's 8000 liters per hour in a 440L tank. I'm kind of regretting only getting one, because I think it could do with more current.

They still are called CF1200 etc.

As quiet as any others I've had. Would depend on if it's in a cabinet, how close to your bet, how sensitive you are, etc. I don't notice mine making any noise unless I get close to them or they've gotten really dirty so they buzz a bit.

No u! I can't swim, so I'm a sinking fish.

You can't keep a pacu in a pond in NZ, maybe WAAAY up north. Definitely not in Timaru unless it's heated.