Morcs

Looks like a newer aquanano - has 4 rear compartments with the first one being quite narrow?

I cant wait for the display tank build!

Supermarket, mitre10, the warehouse all sell them

The anthelia will pop up polyps all over your tank and grows super fast!

Yeah thought about that, but wouldnt i have to open up the water outlet more to bring the water level up in the chamber, therefore increase the water/air ratio = wetter skim? Its collecting some really thick **** in the neck as you can see, but it doesnt make it into the cup

Mandatory skim pic. Skimming a bit wetter whilst bedding in. Ive got it set so it almost overflows without the cup on. How would i adjust to skim drier?

Got a fair bit of GHA appearing, possibly from starting to stir up my sandbed recently and running without a skimmer, I've taken the following steps, is there anything else I should do? 10% WC every 3 or 4 days Siphoning shallow sand bed at each WC Cut lights to 5 hours at 50% power Running skimmer slightly wet Stopped dosing trace elements Replaced purigen and phosgard Increased flow power

Nice, yeah make sure you send an email to Eric after you order to get an australian plug Its so good not having to run a light through an adaptor AND a timer :cry1:

The skim is already looking good, ill post up a mandatory skim pic when its bedded in fully. And this thing was only about hundred bucks, AND oversized for the tank so quite happy

Always analogue!

If thats Green hair algae on that rock you'll want to pull off as much as you can! Ive gone off the $10 timers as they all seem to buzzzzz - was the loudest part of my setup even though it wasn't that loud

Just fitted a bmqq. Simple mods made it fit. Check out my thread

My Bubble Magus Nano QQ has finally arrived. Its a big unit for the tank size, but damn it was hard to fit into the 1st chamber. For anyone thinking of doing this, i had to: >File a few mm off the bottom white ring of the skimmer body >Gently snap off a bracket that supports the outlet tube (isnt needed) >Shave one side of the outlet sponge down so it sits flat against glass >Ditch the inlet strainer. Then a bit of swearing etc.. whilst you wiggle it into position.

Yeah the longer you leave it, then if you stir it up im guessing would cause problems. Ill give mine a good stir up and siphone at water change time and change my floss when its caught all the crap Got a package to pickup from the courier depot this arvo, hopefully its my skimmer

The other side of the argument is starting with dry rock (but reasonably clean). This is so you can be sure that you arent getting any undesirable hitchhikers - and you know exactly what you are putting in your tank. That goes out the window of course if you purchase any decent size corals on larger bits of rock, only works when corals are freshly fragged onto a piece of dry rubble.

I just got a jager 100w, was only 62 bux or something. Just dig deep and get one immediately, even if it means eating instant noodles all week :bggrn:

Yeah next time I've got my hands in there I'll probably move them around the back slightly then they can spread however much they like!

Upped the power (70%) during 'peak' hours, and everything is responding well. This is at 50% full spectrum Having some minor diatom outbreaks on my sand, cant figure out why. Im debating whether i should be stirring up the sand regularly or not touching it at all. No skimmer isnt helping with things, and larger water changes arent doing much for anything... Side shot. I love the Blue Anthillia, beautiful softy! Tiny GSP frag which im hoping spreads like wildfire. Moved my original xenia frag rock from up high to low down (it overspilled onto surrounding rock and is spreading...oh-oh) Frogspawn, neon candy cane (still only has 2 heads) and the spreading xenia Fragged some palythoa heads and hoping to cover this rock with them - mixture of pink, green and yellow (yellows are ugly though)

Simple plug timer for 10 bux will fix it. Otherwise check out my thread for the coral box m1-30, cost me about 3 hundy

Given the amount of surf its probably not going to be that clean unless you get out very far. Takapuna boat ramp tends to be the popular spot.

This might be how they make the 'artificial' coral rock?

Wp10

Price of a Jebo would tell you how good they are...

Cheers guys, almost 3 months now and no problems at all, and low maintenance too.

Cool, an ato might be a bit overkill cost wise eh. Will the iq skimmer fit?