Jarmitage

Anyone know of a NZ source for some 250 DE 6700k metal halide bulbs ? Why cant we get this stuff here !

hey thats a neat job. Yeah im getting a bit paranoid about the use of mdf. Ive got a old pine set of drawers at home that i am thinking of ripping out the drawers and putting on a hinged door. Its very solid, made out of pine. I will just have to get creative on the hinging of the door, I dont have a router to route out nice holes for the fancy hinges that you can get, so will have to use the cheaper hinges and maybe chisel them in to make it nice and flat closing. But yeah being able to look straight into the aquarium from a chair is good, Ive currently got it on a real nice set of drawers, problem is that its made from nicely finished rimu and the water drops and scratches are going to wreck it in no time.

Hey Guys, Im planning on building myself a stand for my aquarium to accommodate my filter , aquarium junk, and have enough space for my future sump plans. My aquarium dimensions. It's not a bowfront, but one of those curved front edges aquariums , glass. ~ 10gallon Dimensions are : 45cm Horizontal 30cm deep 30cm tall I would like to make my stand around 95cm tall ( i base this from a existing chest of drawers.. i like the height. ) And around 50cm wide, and ~ 40cm deep. I plan on using MDF, Screwed and glued. I downloaded Sketchup as i have seen a few other people use it, so i thought id give it a crack, neat program but uses a bit to much brain power. Ok here it goes. The little box bit top left corner is for food/chems/fish paraphernalia. The tall space to the right of that is for my filter ( a fluval 205 quite tall ). Under the top left corner box the gap will be used for my power/timer stuff. Holes will be drilled in the back in the mdf for power cables, pipes etc, The larger space down the bottom is for my sump ( future project ) I plan on making a pvc overflow system down to the sump, cos sumps are the bee's knees and I would like this to be a nano marine tank once i slowly get the perfect pieces together ( not to mention the difficulty in getting marine stuff in dunedin, live rock etc ) so until christmas this will stay fresh, with my 5 sterbais, 2 bristle nose, and neon blue gouramis. Anyone got any feedback? Cheers guys

Amazing tank, a inspiration for the rest of us budding aquarists !

Oh thats good news fishplants, I re-aranged my pipes , and I wedged lots of filter floss in my media baskets to make sure it wasnt stuff 'jiggling' around. The impeller seems to be in good working order, same as the ceramic impeller guide thingy majig. Hopefully it will settle down in a few weeks to a good ol' hum ! interestingly my sterbai's love surfing the current, photos to come

thanks for the tips, i don't mind the hum, just the impeller noise is a nuisance. ill cut my hoses shorter cos they are a bit long, although theres no noise coming from the pump hoses. ill make sure hoses are right length and re check the canisters internals -cheers oh yes flow rate is normal too.

HI guys, long time lurker first time poster :lol: Im wondering if anyone else has experience with the fluval 205 external canister filter and could shed some light on some noise issue im having. I bought this filter after reading a million different reviews and the majority were all complementary about its noise level. Ive got a constant loud hum, and I can hear the impeller spinning around , its not stopping or starting like, just constant noise. the pump is doing its job allright, its got a constant flow and I have played around with the filter to try and get all the air out of the canister. at what point do i call the people i bought it off? anyone had similar 205 issue? cheers guys. Um what else, im running a small aquarium, a 10 gallon tank , a pair of neon blue gouramis, a pair of bristlenose, and my squadron of 5 sterbai corys. ( mad little fish ) , ive angled the output of the pump so its not blasting them all around to much, the corys seem to like playing in the flow. I upgraded from a fluval U1 which was totally silent, but i was disappointed in its poor filtration, i wanted to be able to run a few different medias and carbon etc.. plus i know ill get a bigger tank in the future. Ill put some pics up later on a different post. thanks for reading. 8)