blueether

Just thinking here... When I moved my WCMM tank from below window height to eye level the minnows all either swam near vertical with heads down or near horizontal, aligning their back to the new position of the sun that was now lighting the front of the tank

no, just couldn't give a piss :digH:

That just puts mine to shame :nfs: (tank)

BOTH speaking of mullet, my last two surviving grey mullet fry have finally decided that frozen blood worms, beef heart and discus granules are worth eating - I suspect that they will pack on the condition now.

what else did you find? Not heard much on the spotlighting front from you even though you have all the time in the world atm :digH:

I have two about the same size in my 400L and they both live at the same end of the tank. I did introduce a smaller one from the other tank when it became problematic in there, it didn't alst very long with the other two They are both about this size:

what he said

someone in TA has some, JaSa?

http://www.futurlec.com/3V3_Regulator.shtml ?

why not use a battery powered aquarium pump running off the solar panel, maybe with a voltage controller.

I think I'll need at least some substrate in tank to cover the ugly... What sort of skimmer should I get for the system (looking like about 200L or there about) , or should I wait untill I have some idea of the sump system I'll use. Would westcoast iron sand be too fine for for a DSB or should I use more normal sized sand?

Leak test looks good

I have received my very first copy :happy1:

Very nice tank puttputt. Will look out for coral rock then. I see you (and many saltwater tanks) have no substrate in the tank, is this advisable? I ask because the tank I have go has two ugly patches on the bottom over some drilled holes, holes are about 40mm and the two patches cover about 1/4 of the bottom each. Just scrubbed the new tank down and are doing a leak test and it looks like it has been used as a sump at some point in its life with two sections and a over/under/over thingie.

They get a mix of: VitaPet Floating Granules Nutrafin Max Discus Sinking Granules Nutrafin Max Cichlid Sinking Granules New Life Spectrum Med. Fish Formula Beef Heart Frozen Blood Worms* Any live food** Small ~60mm banded kokopu*** Have had in the past: Freeze-dried bloodworms Freeze-dried krill Wardley's Advanced Cichlid, wouldn't eat A few others that they didn't like as well * Homer and one of the other giant kokopu each tried to eat a whole, still frozen, cube the other day ** From around the house or work, including about a dozen earthworms from work the other day that they demolished *** Was given an 'Inanga' a few weeks ago that was a banded when I got home and in the light, it lasted for a good two weeks then vanished one night

I have used salt (rock and table) at 3g / L (this is about 1/2 tsp/L) in coldwater, will take upto 3 weeks at cooler temps.

Thank guys I just picked up a free 700*600*400 tank so that is already 3 times the water volume that I was thinking of and should give real scene of depth to the look, even if it is an odd size. This size of tank will give a lot more room for wavemakers as well. I was thinking of maybe using the 2ft that I was thinking of doing this in as a sump of using one or cube bins as the sump, thoughts? Polystyrene background? or will the salt affect it? Pumice for live rocks or will I need some coral? Now to start saving for a sump, skimmer and lights...

I have found the best thing for this sort of job is thin ~10 - 15kg? braided fishing line

How much water are you changing each day, and why. what sort of filters,and how often are you cleaning them?

F15hguy, I have read as much in an article online (I think it was i nNZ aquaculture) and I think it was from a few years ago - 2009? think that the tv one report is probably more to do with them getting enough of a success to make it truly viable to breed them. Some of the fish in the video looked a bit odd though.

Thanks for that so far. As for cooling I was planning to pump water through a coil heat exchanger in the 400l native that is set between 16 or 17 deg I figured crabs would be at least as destructive in the tank as koura so would be prepared to have none or just the one I have a pair of 60l plastic drums to collect NSW in and the beach isn't too far for a trip once a month or 6 weeks. No skimmer? I don't want an argument in this thread but I cant see why a canister filter set up well couldn't work, hell you could even have a DSB in the bottom, but that is another thread in the tech section.

After a lovely picnic on the beach at Manu bay on Saturday with the wife, my brother's family and another couple, I took my nephew rockpooling and found a few fish (tripplefin maybe?), shrimp, crabs and some tiny (guessing here) nudibranch. What would I need to set up a rockpool type tank up in a standard 2ft tank, so 50+L? I have a wavemaker or two around - what sort of flow should it have?, on for 6h off for 6h?. Filter - if I upgraded the 400L's filter could I use the cf1200? - maybe slow the flow down? would I need a skimmer? How much lighting would I need - not as much as a tropical marine I guess? Would a 25% w/c every week or two be ok, and top up with RO water from the supermarket? SWMBO wants me to cost it out before I set anything up...

+1 on the wireless on the ipad what are your resaults to pingtest.net like, and his. there have been a few routing issues with one or two ISPs in the uk in the last few days, he's not with orange or BE (I used to do tech support for BE so still watch their IRC and Status reports - sad I know...) Edit: between 1.5 and 2km is about the limit for adsl2+ anyways, what is your attenuation from the stats page of the modem and the connection speed?

I'm sure I've said it already but here goes again, congratulations and good luck on the new book.

I'm glad to say that the camera has started to work again after a good dry-out :bounce: