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bumble bee goby or dwarf puffer both are killers :dead%fish

yeah i reckon bell frogs too they wont eat your fish either id love to do a brackish plaudarium one day with archers, figure8s and mudskippers

ive seen a planted tank on the net somewhere using spent carbon as substrate , used carbon wont take any minerals out as its full it may however leech minerals

you cant keep them without a permit and good luck getting one

from what i know the tank itself was ok just lost some water and some rock fell over , it was not having power for so long that was the issue

i reckon goldfish would be the only easy way to go, they will breed too among plants so you will quickly have heaps of them

i found with bell frogs that they trampled the carnivorous plants but whistlers shouldnt be a problem

placemakers frame and truss in harewood were building relocatable accommodation , im not sure if they still are but they were pumping them out pretty fast. even though it was aq 6.3 and the 7.1 we had did less damge the magnitude of the quake dosent effect that too much there is a measurement called peak ground accelartion from wiki "Peak ground acceleration (PGA) is a measure of earthquake acceleration on the ground and an important input parameter for earthquake engineering. Unlike the Richter and moment magnitude scales, it is not a measure of the total energy (magnitude, or size) of an earthquake, but rather of how hard the earth shakes in a given geographic area (the intensity). The Mercalli intensity scale uses personal reports and observations to measure earthquake intensity but PGA is measured by instruments, such as accelerographs, and it generally correlates well with the Mercalli scale.[1] The peak horizontal acceleration (PHA) is the most commonly used type of ground acceleration in engineering applications, and is used to set building codes and design hazard risks. In an earthquake, damage to buildings and infrastructure is related more closely to ground motion, rather than the magnitude of the earthquake. For moderate earthquakes, PGA is the best determinate of damage; in severe earthquakes, damage is more often correlated with peak ground velocity.[1]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_ground_acceleration we had a measurement of 1.8 - 2.2 depending on the area bare in mind 0.5 would topple most major cities around the world

the thought of eating something deemed as "offal" is revolting to me but then i love pate which is normally chicken liver , i will eat a steak and kidney pie and have eaten lambs fry. also revolting i have friends that are deep sea fishermen and will eat a frozen orange roughy fillet like an ice-block :-?

can you hatch decap out?

the temperature will effect the SG reading and hydrometers are cheap but can be wildly inacurate i would see if you can borrow a refractometer no point buying one if ur not going to use it all the time

plants will grow under it but led would be far better- less heat and uv also as well as being a far more appealing colour temperature

all the halogen lights have a yellowish beam

hmm perhaps it could be temperature shock . the pond would have been pretty warm this time of year but tap water is quite cool all year round perhaps about 12 degs perhaps it chilled the fish

its a thing well worth researching more, ive seen a tank online which was lighted using solar tubes and additional 400w metal halides (it was a large tank) as for sunlight hurting fish well i find that hard to believe as all fish in the wild are directly exposed to it (note as long is your tank is deep enough that shouldn't be a problem) glass will also cut a lot of the harmful uv rays as for mild seasonal variation and the odd rainy day this could be a good thing depending on your goals with the tank as southern encounter aquarium installed a system that made the lights brightness mimic the sunlight outdoors so on a rainy day it was dimmer etc they found this encouraged certain fish to breed ( im sure someone else could tell you a bit more about this as there are some people that have worked there on this forum. the only problems i see with using natural light are that its probably not going to be enough light you will need some form of additional lights for coral growth especially in winter and perhaps actinic lighting as well perhaps a solution could be led spotlights with narrow lenses directed at individual corals(will also help with the colour) heat even though you will have a large tank which will maintain a more stable heat , the sunlight in summer; when air temp is up around 30 may cause the tank to overheat also it may not be that attractive to look at(subjective issue) . many people light the light to have a blue hue to it on a marine tank as this tends to make the colours pop im talking colour temperature of 14000k to 20000k where sunlight is 2500k at sunset to 8000k at noon on a clear day

ive kept them with goldfish and in a tropical brackish tank also some in tropical marine tank(although these were sourced from saltwater originally)

"you broke like glass"- eighteen visions

that pump will handle solids up to 10mm depending on the mnodel you have otherwise get something like this http://www.pumpsonline.co.nz/submersibl ... -watt.html can handle solids up to 35mm

im in the same boat i went and brought a large bin from the warehouse and put my skimmer and circ pump in it with my ruined rock , lambo is currently looking after my fish however if i can find a small amount of live rock i can set up a temporary tank here at home i dont really know if i can get away without having liverock in the meantime as the tank id be using is not deep enough for my skimmer to operate

you can use it it will need to be diluted with RODI water as its a bit saltier than what we would normally use there are also a few guidelines as too when and where to collect it but ill let someone local to you answer that for you

since you posted in saltwater im assuming you mean for your saltwater set up if you are just use your tap water as its artesian anyway (assuming your out north canterbury like i think you are) still not ideal but the spring water is still not pure its full of minerals like tap water is not ideal for a reef you can get pure dew purified water from the supermarket about$5 for 10l its pure but its not mineral water. avoid anything that says mineral or spring water for your saltwater tank

i wondered about milk as its known to be ecotoxic to aquatic organisms, i dont know wether its the milk itself or wether it causes a massive spike in the growth of bacteria , depleting the water of o2 quickly

bottom picture is what im talking about http://www.rolgc.co.nz/-bullk-landscaping-design/ i have a pile of them broken up into decent sizes for aquascaping if any1 local wants them heres a thread with pics in it showing the rocks viewtopic.php?f=13&t=40235&hilit=african

get 'waituna" or something or rather stones they are sold at bunnings etc as stepping stops just drop them on concrete to break them up as they are large when you buy them. they will look exactly the same

a pinch of yeast will green the water up nicely too