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i have some fishy photos boy it was hard to get a photo of the naso tang, that chap is camera shy hahaha ( and i under exposed the ones i did get. he didnt let me have a second chance once he saw me ) IMG_7129 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_7141 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_7142 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_7143 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_7152 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_7157 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_7160 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_7161 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_7188 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_7191 by smurff900, on Flickr just released how much the zoos have growen in the few weeks we have had them and the finger still have a lot of floating particles in the tank :'(

hahaha, that would be awesome, completely portable display tank

few more photos to come tomorrow, picked up a naso tang today and a six line wrasse today shall have to start planning for the future tank upgrade

have found it a lot harder to take photos in this tank compared to the fresh water. salt water causing a few focus issues due to refraction or something? it feels like theres a lot more involved, but the hope is more things that are automated will help

have moved photos to different place, hope these are visible 20120409_102449 by smurff900, on Flickr tank 2 by smurff900, on Flickr tanklayout2 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_4776 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_4781 by smurff900, on Flickr 7300290662_f9271c45da_c by smurff900, on Flickr 7356611130_5c174dec53 by smurff900, on Flickr 7356609942_00f8ffb656 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_5751 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_5753 by smurff900, on Flickr roughly the same order as the first post New skimmer and reactor in place and vortech controller IMG_5732 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_5735 by smurff900, on Flickr IMG_5733 by smurff900, on Flickr most photos are taken with my Canon 7D, little bit of editing, contrast, and color tweaks mostly. or if I'm lazy, nothing lol.

have figured out whats going on, will have to upload pictures to the flickR server. will try sort it this week

which ones can you see ( describe them? ) coz then i can figure out which ones are on which servers and see whats up

i should have waited for these guys to open right up after the water change before taking a pic, but you get the idea

Thank you everyone ! with work and everything have been rather busy, so i have not had time to get get back into lots of forums. but the change is made and the marine is running well and is really nice. quite a different experience from the tropical, a little more involved. but great fun

for what it is its enough to get by. however its not really a great skimmer compared to other brands out there. its basically a copy of the Boyu. which is pretty cheap. with the aqua reef 300 theres not much space in the cupboard, so how the skimmer hangs over takes up useful space. the bubble magus NAC 3+ fits in the left section of the sump which will give me some floor space for a better place for my dosing containers. then i can fit the reactor sticking up where the dosing containers are on the right. something like that lol

gudday all, its been a while sense I've been on here, but thought i would get back into it with a thread on the marine tank I'm working on so i had started by buying a 300L tank to convert into a marine tank. had a skimmer and lighting all ready for it, was on a roll. that all changed when i was in wellington at easter and drove back to auckland like this, yep, aqua reef 300, tank in the boot and stand and sump on the roof. got lots of strange looks on the drive home hahaha got it home and into the garage and did some playing about picked myself up an RO water unit, was time to start playing with water, sadly, tank was still in the garage as fresh water tank was yet to be moved. sarah didn't like the layout of the rocks, so changes were made and some power heads added. the power heads i got were crap in the end. not worth it at all. they were 12000L per hour trade me ones. also decided i didn't like the T5 lamps, so ordered LED units. great upgrade. also sorted out some dosing pumps and odds and ends. so then it was all moved into place as the tropical tank was now gone one thing i learnt, it was hard to get the rock were i wanted it once the tank was moved. but i was happy with it picture of behind the doors ended up replacing the wave pumps with some tunze ones. there not bad, for there price i would say there much better than the cheap poo ones. so after a while of cycling i got my first fish meet sally white spot lasted for 2 days, was worrying, never had white spot in any of my tanks before. also got 2 clowns, a leporde wrasse and some corals and annenomies and a cleaner shrimp forgot about this chap tank has been going well, just got a vortech mp10W pump for the tanks RHS. added a damsel on the weekend. tomorrow I'm ordering a new skimmer, the BM NAC 3+ as it will fit in the sump and give me a bit more space. and also a BM media reactor shall be fun

whats your budget, i have one available in auckland, hamiltons not to far away

this may be a good quick read http://sound.westhost.com/articles/50-60hz.htm#s40

the frequency is determined by how the power is created really. 50hz, 50 cycles per second between +230 and -230 V. 60hz, same thing but more often. not to sure about led, may effect the transformer in the unit, more than likely in a bad way. but not to sure, never tried it. you may be lucky and its 50/60hz rated? most things that are 100-240v rated are also 50/60hz rated. you will have to check the name plate on the adaptor.

would these be suitable? http://www.aquaworld.co.nz/search.aspx?q=filter%20sock