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wow thats cool it almost looks like albino with the red aye and all then those colours

i hate auto extend it sucks

your stream could be any small forest stream here in nz it looks very natural

api make test strips that measure ph gh kh and nitrite and nitrate they are reasonably cheap if you get these without getting an additional ammonia kit you may not have nitrate readings straight away but wait till you do and they drop before adding fish of value

some you can use super glue gel others are best attached using selleys aqua knead it or you can get more expensive reef epoxies that are purple coloured to look like coralline algae but give the aqua knead it time and it will get covered anyway

as true as this is even if we only got thru to 10% of the people buying these tanks thats still a good effort and potentially thousands of needless deaths saved from happening as well as a few more people geunuinly interested in the hobby

you are right here its the manufacturers that package the small tanks and its a worldwide problem it must be hard to tell a customer that dosent know any better that a tank is not suitable for goldfish because its too small when there are 12 goldfish in the picture of the tank on the packaging for example i have a blue plant hexy its 5.7l it has a picture of goldfish on the box and the back of the box also says its suitable for up to 4 goldfish. i propose a that lfs be asked to place a sticker on packaging on small tanks and bowls(if they really must sell these) that states " this tank is not suitable for goldfish as goldfish need at least 25l of water per a fish , please ask about suitable tropical fish instead" im sure the reputable pet stores would have no trouble doing this particuarly if its explained to them that it could possibly keep more people in the hobby (due to not having initial failures and giving up) also if the customer is convinced then he/she will likely buy a heater as well

cant say ive seen them at organism

they arent the only pet store that does stuff like that im suprised that any pet shop is still allowed to sell goldfish bowls perhaps we need to get paw justice on to that . the other bad thing about having goldfish in extremely small tanks is that its normally a beginners first entry point into this hobby and when a poor goldfish is subjected to a small tank that is also uncycled its not going to react very well and deaths or repeated deaths are not a good start to the hobby. another thing its not just the pet shops that have this idea that a small tank is perfect for a goldfish its a general public idea how many people have you heard say" oH i used to have goldfish , i had two and they died" and when questioned they kept them in a small unfiltered tank and had no knowledge of the nitrogen cycle the pet shops will continue to sell these death traps because people incorrectly still think they are perfectly acceptable

it can open up pretty big i think incredible predators

evil elmo had one that ate a large number of angelfish over night

the glass shrimp are just the common shrimp you would find in a rockpool down the beach here heres a pic what do you mean buy hang on back 600mm ? like a 2 foot tank with a hang on back filter? its not a chrysiptera parasema either its very similar looking however the yellow doesnt go from the tail on to the body possibly Chrysiptera cyanea

its not a chromis but a blue damsel im not sure of the scientific name but its not the common yellow tail blue damsel but yeah a schooling fish by nature i was planning on getting another clown in the future too however i hear it may not work out well introducing another clown. im cautious about adding more damsels now as they can be territorial and i dont want fights to happen at the moment the clown and damsel hang out together heaps its quite funny to watch i was keen on chromis a while back but have decided to get everything else sorted with this tank and perhaps get a few more frags before adding more fish and also as i dont want to add too many more fish i will have to be careful about what i choose in the future im leaning towards possibly a fire goby and a bangaii ive kind of been going off this page using stocking suggestions http://www.nano-reef.com/fish/

yep for a hansen one , if the tanks are stacked on top of each other you could over flow the top one into the next one and the bottom one into the sump or plumb all of them separatly into the sump or if the tanks are all the the same level you could drill holes in the ends of the tanks and silicone the bukhead fittings right thru bothe ends of the tanks and put the nut on the other side and have the inlet to the cannister filter on the first tank and the spray bar on the last

you would get much flow out off a 10 mm hole and it may be hard to find 10mm elbows id suggest using a 22mm mm hole saw and using hansen 15mm bulkhead fittings then go with flexible tube and irrigation fittings for cheapness

what could possibly happen is you end up sucking more water out of one tank and pushing more into the the others causing an overflow drilling glass is really easy just buy some diamond holes saws of TM or ebay and practise on a scrap piece of glass

was nice to see the tanks in real life i couldnt believe how clean your sand was they look awesome

bring me back a wendys burger?

get a small filter like a an aqua one internal and attach to side of glass under water level then run flexible tubing from the outlet behind the background. there is a space behind the background big enough for it then make a small hole high up in the background for the water to come out , you could also have some large rocks in there that the water can fall down over

also livestock 1x common clown $65 1x blue damsel $40 1x pj cardinal $35 2 x nz glass shrimp free from carsandkats then i have some red macro $15 on live rock kenya tree frag $30 (actually has the same red macro growing on attached rock) green star polyp $15 hammer and zoo frags free from loopy im going to hold off on adding any more livestock until the sump is sorted out and ato and everything oh i also dose seachem alkalinty 1 cap a week and calcium 1 cap a week as well as 12 drops of marinum all in one a week i use marinium sea salt too as its cheap and dissovles easy

atm im doing about 14l per a week water change but will up this as soon as my sump is built as ill drill a hole and plumb a bulkhead fitting and tap for easy draining , i top up daily manually as i havnt built an ATO system yet again waiting for the sump then will use a 20l water container pressurised by a small DC airpump connected to a cheap ebay float switch. i feed a small amount of flake once daily and bloodworms and plankton every few days the lights are 1x 150W MH @14K 1x 24w Pl tube @ actinic wavelength 1x 36w pl tube @ 50/50 10K/Actinic however i still have to modify the hood to enable the lights to be lowered for better lighting and raised for acess , im still thinking through how im going to do this temp is set to 25 deg i have a temp controller wired to a small box with switched socket outlets one for the heater another for cpu power supply to power fans for cooling (atm im running 1x 120mm fan built in to the hood (primarily to cool the MH) and a small fan in the base cabinet i plan on getting a jebo 4 or 6 head fan unit and mounting it on the display tank divider over the overflow as there is a larger surface of water in there (due to it running down the glass partition) one the sump is built here is a pic i will mount all equipment i plan to use and cut out a perspex lid to fit around it all as im already finding condensation to be a problem inside the cabinet im using a Bubble magus NAC6A skimmer , a sensen 4500lph return pump using flexible 20mm pipe and irragtion fittings a plan to run a dsb and grow some macro in the sump also. currently im running a small DIY reactor style filter for the carbon and phospahte remover but i will most likely buy a proper , bigger one and perhaps experiment using purigen in the small diy one cost so far tank and mH (lamp holder and ballast) including partition and some plumbing fittings $160 return pump $80 skimmer $300 cabinet and hood -around $50 for materials (2nd hand from musgroves) and around $50 for paint MH bulb $15 36w PL fitting $40 and tube $36 24w pl fitting free + tube $20 misc plumbing supplies around about $60 temp controller $40 lots of other stuff ive had lying around that i put to good use in this project = free ive probably forgotten somethings as well

here is some pics skimmer collection cup after 2 days = yummy its working great this skimmer quiet too

i use courgettes and put a knife through them(just an ordinary cutlery knife) this enables them to sink they are normally gone over night

adding live rock early on it will be killed by the nh4 spike so better tio wait until its cycled and then use the live rock to introduce other creatures . also if you are only thinking about a small tank you may find you have no use for the rubble. especially if you have no sump to put it in id suggest buying larger pieces of dead rock and cycling them instead. also use a heater in the bucket if its for tropical

lol not that mixed tank by the counter in tower junction? it could be anything if it came out of there :-?