Doc Holiday

This is by far one of my favourites!! If you want to look at steves tank before the upgrade it was featured as tank of the month on reef central in early 2002 here is a link. http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-03/totm/

Very nice indeed!! I could go for one that size in the living room, I wonder if the misses will go for it??

I agree! 600 is ideal, my tank is 690 and I can just reach the top of the 3 inches of substrate.

I beg to differ!! My initial setup will be sumpless!!

I was going to say the same thing. And just for some clarification, what are the advantages of using NSW compared to RO water?? But otherwise good work and well done Chimera, I hope the rest goes to plan.

Good on ya mate, Glad it's you and not me. Best of luck!!

I am indeed!!

Spray paint tends to rub off on hands, clothing etc.. so it can't hurt to seal it.

10) Oh that? It came with the live rock I just got off of a friend who was taking down his tank. 9) I don't know where that came from. It must be a hitchhiker. 8) Gee Honey, I'd love to fly back East with you to visit your mother, but my clownfish is pregnant and I don't have a midwife fish. I guess I'll have to stay home and try to play the part of the midwife fish. 7) I paid for that coral with the money I made from selling frags. 6) Of course saltwater tanks are cheaper, Honey. There are more fish in the ocean than in freshwater lakes. 5) What new fish? 4) Powder Blue Tang - $80 Ultra Green Torch - $80 Rare Capricornis - $100 Telling your wife it all cost $50 by using a year's worth of $5 bills stuffed in the secret comparment of your wallet - PRICELESS! 3) After this purchase I will have EVERYTHING I need. 2) I got all this from a trade of my very rare brown polyps. 1) Can I have an extra $20 for the groceries this week?

A can of clearcoat should do the trick!!

40 000 l/h would turn my tank volume over 100 times an hour ( and everything else inside it too, lol)

The tunze 6200 pumps out 20 000 l/h that is their current big boy at the moment.

Can you give me an indication of what the tunze streams are worth here in New Zealand??

I've considered using these powerheads myself, Who wouldn't with a flow rate of 690 gallons/hour and only using 8 watts of electricity or 890 gallons/hour using 18 watts and at a cost of about $80. But after reading a few reviews I have changed my mind, reliabilaty leaves something to be desired and flow rate tends to be inconsistant, but worst of all the impellors tend to be quite sloppy causeing alot of rattling especially when stoping and starting on a wavemaker system.

I use backing paper to great effect, Painting is to permanent for me. The trick to using backing paper is to keep it off the glass, have a space of about half an inch between the glass and the paper. I use a backing paper that goes from a deep dark navy blue at the bottom to a more brighter ocean blue at the top. Blue brings out more colour pigments of whats inside the tank, (hence the reason for blue screens in photography and film work.) Give this a go as a temporary measure to get a feel for what you like, rather than painting your tank and not liking the outcome.

Are you sure it's big enough?? Why not go all the way and get an AP2601!!

Has anyone set one of these up under thier substrate? are they a good idea or a waste of time? Or are you better off with a DSB?

I'd go with pies on that one, perspex scratchs easy and starts to look undesireable over time.

if the conditions are right the algae will grow in the new tank anyway regardless of you transfering it from your other tank.

Red spots are the larger of the plecs as with my gold spot, I purchased mine just over 3 months ago, he was an inch long then and now he measures in at around 6 inchs. If they are feed well they will have quite a rapid growth rate.

Great job MGilchrist!! My stand is very much the same, only slightly bigger and I got impatient to get the tank set up so I have yet to fit the doors.

or you could just cover your tanks 8)

Thanks for the link Warren, very informative!! 8)

I read somewhere that if you raise the temperature of the water to over 30C then the spores of the algae would be killed off. Is this true?

You could try releasing a couple of females into the tank, he would then be to preoccupied to hassle the other fish.