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Not at all, my parents breed, board and groom dogs and they have a wholesale account, infact i probably wouldn't be doing what im doing if it wasn't for them. Similarly i know a fish breeder in auckland who uses the same wholesaler. I mean he breeds fish so you could consider him to be in the trade, he became GST registered for the pure fact that he could open a trade account and get goods at cost.

Breed and SAVE If anyone out there breeds fish why not GST register this way you could set up an account with a wholsaler, resulting in a large saving of dollars.

If you Have a problem with vegetarians go for Java, basically all fish hate the taste of it its probaly like brussel sprouts to kids. G. surinamenses look similar to snapper (very beautifull fish) and a prbably more bluish than Satanoperca jurupari.

I Pretty much agree with you there Reef, Ira might be able to use a fluval but would probaly have to replace the foam twice a week due to the build up of detritus. However as I said earlier, at Universty we run a cold water marine tank on an old Fluval 303 and that does fine. Hollywoods really do know there stuff, but Stu at Jensens Mt Eden basically sets up all their systems and is not afraid to tell you what not to get, in other words hes a real straight up dude. He is deffinately another person in the trade that knows his stuff.

Hi Ira If you bought the 380Ltr head as a replacement send it back, i had a 204 which was useless after nine months the head got replaced and that one lasted for only 6. I now have a new 304 and it is primo, the new filter heads come with ribbed tubing (inlet/outlet pipes) so you should be able to tell on that alone and the inside of the heads have been modified slightly. Also if you do want to have corals you will need to look at a protien skimmer, in comparison to the aqua-medic systems available thoose cpr systems John recomended are excellent value for money if you dont mind spending a little bit extra that is. How ever mushrooms and an anemone will be fine, Jensens in Auckland use to run a Hagen Tropiquarium as a marine set up and that was great.

Eden i have about 25 copies of practical fish keeping and i need to do some study from them if i find any articles i will photcopy and mail to you

Has anyone seen a miracle mud system running in N.Z, if so who did you get it from and how much as i am not going to set up a marine system untill i get my hands on some of that stuff. It just sound awesome

If your fluval is old that will be the problem, new fluval's that is within a year old have a far better design. There is currently a cold water marine set up behind me with a very old 303 running probably a 200 litre tank with small fish a few srimps and inverts (all locall). There are no metal hallides, cooling units or heater/stats there is a large piece of lava rock which may help in biological filtration but a 404 has a relatively large media volume. it can be done cheap and easy and still look good also as long as you keep the stock down 8 times an hour should still be plenty. The room has air-con but is also a computer lab so still very warm and they have no problems what so ever. Good luck.