myxsptlk

Just go big, you will eventually, and I don't think it will cost you anymore in the long run (that's what happened to me)

That second last pic looks like a massive poster just pasted on the wall! Must look real good in real life

I've only ever seen red sea salt in stores around here, could have more choice up north but it's been a mission getting any salt down here due to the supplier running out :-?

I bought the second one you listed for my nano, it's the worst 40 dollars I've ever wasted. Just gonna stick to water changes.

it'll be all right, you'll only have half of that hanging on each end anyway which is pretty much nothing

These things send shivers down my spine. We used to go crabbing at Diamond Harbour with chicken bones as bait. 10 minutes in the water and these critters were all over the chicken, the sight of them... Brrrrrr.....

hahah yes happy ending but fish is still recovering, poor guy got stuck in a rock! He would've been stuck for a whole day, maybe even the night before. Found him with the help of a torchlight, he was in a bad position as well, a C shape. He must've gone exploring then tried to turn around and wedged himself. He's staying clear away from the rocks now, which is an unusual sight. He should come right in a few days.

yup checked everywhere, behind the tank, under the canopy, in the little spaces behind the sump, not there there's 2 clowns, one blue tang, 4 chromis and the wrasse in the tank when the wrasse was in my little tank the only time he wouldn't come out was when he was "rebuilding" his bubble nest/sleeping place after i moved the rock around. I don't know where his sleeping hole is this time though so I can't check

My sixline is missing and I fear the worst. I checked my ammonia level to make sure he wasn't rotting somewhere, and the level is somewhere between 0 to 0.25. This was after feeding (to see if he came out from his hiding place: no) and moving all the rocks in the sump and shifting some sand in the process. I'll do a water change later just to be sure and will test again later in the evening, but is this within an okay level? Man I hope he shows up, he's my favourite fish, he was the first!

I buy stuff from overseas because I can get them cheap, that's all No wicked scheme to put my LFS out of business, if it was only a few dollars difference I would have just gotten it there, but it's a few hundred dollars difference, which maybe doesn't seem like all that much to some, but it is to me.

a reef octopus, went with a big one so it's one less thing I have to change if I ever decide to upgrade, well have decided but that's still a long way away hehe

wawawewowverynice! amazing how much more volume a few centimetres here and there adds Gonna chuck more lighting in there? 2x54 watts aren't really gonna do it justice

Little update! I rang MAF today and they do have a centre in the mail sorting place in Auckland, which was annoying because both customs and nz post told me there's no way to get in touch with them. The first person was not helpful at all and told me they released it back to customs 10 days ago. I asked nicely, so it goes from NZ post, to customs, to you, then back to customs? But he just grunted something and said I should ring customs. So I rang customs and an equally helpful person said he had no idea where my skimmer is because according to them MAF still has it so he insisted I ring MAF again :roll: Rang MAF and thankfully (I mean thankfully) I got a nice lady who was extremely understanding and helpful and took all my tracking numbers, notice numbers, invoice numbers and ran around her office looking for my parcel but couldn't find it, so she rang up customs and asked them where it was and apparently it's been sitting somewhere for the past week or so waiting to be shipped out, imagine that! I wonder how many packages they have just sitting and waiting till someone bugs them enough to do something about it. So after being subject to govt department ping pong my skimmer is going to sent tomorrow, hopefully! Here's hoping

Oh also apologies if this is in the wrong section, sorta off topic but still fish related hehe

I had a skimmer shipped from overseas, it's a brand new skimmer. It got into NZ 3 weeks ago, then customs got their hands on it. They farted around with it for a week before finally sending me my invoice. I rang them up and asked how much I had to pay, then they told me oh it's below 400 dollars so you don't have to pay anything since it's for personal use :evil: 3 times before I've brought in aquarium stuff, and this time they decide to have a look-see The words "protein" "filter" and "aquarium" must have sent bells ringing through MAF. After getting it released I waited another week and still no sign of it. Rang up customs and they told me MAF has it and "are doing tests on it to make sure there are no biological agents remaining" There should be a smiley for slap myself on the forehead. I told them it was brand new, from the manufacturer and it's just some round pieces of acrylic stuck together with a pump, they would've been able to tell just by opening the packaging! So apparently neither NZ Post nor customs has any access to MAF. There's no one I can contact in MAF for enquiries and both NZ Post and customs have advised me to just sit tight and they'll release it once they're done with it. Has anyone else come across this? I can understand with NZ being a small country any unwanted biological substances would wreak havoc on our eco system but to test a brand new skimmer is just ridiculous! Does anyone know how long I can expect to wait? I don't know how things operate behind the doors of MAF, but if it's anything like immigration, I have many water changes ahead of me