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beef up the lighting ? corallights.com.au have put 2*250w mh in an ar620 and are working on the 400water lol

i have a pic of a c/shrimp inside a womens mouth while snorkelling cleaning her teeth

circulation and surface skimming

i dont reckon its that expensive, mines cost $1900 so far D.I.Y, with alot of time and bargin hunting. Thats for a 4*2*2 twin o/flows big sump set up for miracle mud, new 150 hallide, skimmer, denitrator, D.I unit, 5 corals, anenome, rocks etc

The bubs are doing extremely well almost 100% survival from the royal red, red spot tefe pair. the morning glory, melon still have babies but same old story so hard to raise pigeon strains. Ill keep you posted and hope to have pics soon Young discus will be ready in 2-3 months but only from my work soz all

apparently they are made in a seperate division to the rest of the rio's and are meant to be very reliable, i think ill try my luck with them but out of curiosity who else is possibly bringing one out ? Thx Ben

Stoked the third of my 4 discus pairs have just laid. Royal reds have about 50 ten day old babbies. silver dreamer and R/Turq have 30 just hatched Melon & morning glory just spawned tonight Hope to get Fuji reds breeding in the next week. Id post some pics but some arse stole my camera this week :evil: , so ill have to try and borrow one

im gonna ask the importer to bring in some of theese plz let me know if your keen so i can get an idea of numbers. If you want to learn more do a search for them at reef central. They might not quite be as good as the almighty streams but i think they will work well untill i can afford my 7095 controller and 2*6000 streams.

the most popular method for desexing fish is to expose the eggs to a tretment that rather than desexes actually turns the fish triploid. As for the arows i cant remember, soz.

the one at mt eden is not a cross it is not a red either, it is a gold, nor is it stunted. I highly doubt that it is a cross. It is silicon chipped which matches the birth certificate, which has the parents details on it. The breeder would be liable if endeed they were a cross. Jansens have had ppl buy them from asia to take back home so i think this speaks for the quality of the reds alone IMO. Ben

i can tell you the one at mount eden is not stunted you should come andtalk to us there. All of the asain arows are desexed even if you import yourself

Alan and kim are bang on the money. I normally pay slightly less than half, due to the fact that we; 1. Quarantine all our fish from customers and 2. LFS cannot put the importers out of pocket, theese ppl have worked so hard over the years to bring us the fish that we all now have. All LFS have a responibility to our suppliers. If you can establis a constant supply and quality of fish we will put them straight in the tanks and then you would get closer to half. Some shops cannot do straight cashies, so G.S.T still applies to the shop.

the left hand chamber looks like you intend to place bio balls in it ? why dont you re design it so the skimmer is the first thing in contact with new tank water to remove most of the organics , put less load on the bio sysgtem, get less nitrates. Just a thought . Ben

where did u get them from ? Thanks Ben

jansens has five in stock so you will get your choice of many, come in and ask for Ben, i can probably do something as far as price goes. But im not getting into a price competition, HTH Ben

Bi colours are in stock at jansens mt eden

myself im after a pair of midas blennies, Reef if you see this and can get some let me know Chers Ben

i wouldnt have really let daniel buy the tang, unless i knew he is 1. plannining on a bigger tank in the near future. 2. possibly leaving the country, in the not so distant future. In which case i will either take it off his hands, rehouse it or buy it back into the shop For any one interrested the tang has settled in and is doing very well

dont forget white faeces are a sign of intestinal parasites

make sure that u carry on with the dosing programe of the food it comes with, i havent used the 400 but have had lots of experiance with the 1000, that woks very well in the tank its on

My mate used something similar, it worked ver well with an 88 litre tank on the top of it. how ever an eartquake no way it would make it then agin i dont know if most cabbinetry that tanks come with theese days would either.

Jansens get their reffil bottles from BOC so the thread should match up

HI all, Im looking for a tank builder in Christchurch to make up a 2m*0.6*0.6 slaty for a cust of mine. Can anyone help ? Thx Ben.

Going to have a korallin denitrator to keep thoose down. Plus as pies said a refugium with probly some small mgroves hpeforly theese will eliminate any nitrates as i want as highly eff biological filter as possible

Hi everyone, My tank is 4'*2'*2' and has two corner overflows. I scored a "reef-surge" sump for nothing, this measures 50cmL*30cmW has room for a return pump but nothing else. And i still need to place my skimmer and fluidised sand bed filter somewhere (A second sump). Do i place it all in one big sump and drill the acryllic reef surge, which i can close later with taps ? Or run two different sumps, one of each overlow ? Your thoughts. Ben