Godly3vil

:digH: This thread is over 6 years old haha.

Fair enough dude.

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That's a good size, was that the one on trademe a couple weeks back?

Sorry bro lol. Comfortable ride on a bus though haha.

If any of our Invercargill members are thinking of attending the AGM coming up on the 12th of April I though I would offer my services as I will be going and thought if anyone needs transport I could possibly help out. Either pm me or text me on 0220960151 and we will sort something out.

What size tank are you aiming for Nat?

They should do, I've actually never kept any rainbows but I don't see why not.

Hey there mate, looking good. Only thing I want to point out is 62ltrs is no way near large enough long term for any of those cichlids. It will be ok short term while you either plan an upgrade or think about selling/trading them for stock more suited to that tank size.

Rummy nose and cardinals are a bit bigger than neons.

Some cardinal or rummy nose tetras would look great, or if you want some bigger fish maybe a small shoal of rainbowfish? Can get some quite colourful ones.

Welcome, just a tip, if you add your location to your profile it makes it easier for other members to offer advice based on your locality.

Read about this years ago, I would prefer the Walstad method.

Wow, looks mint as it is, well done mate on a really healthy looking tank.

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Petshop of course!

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:gopo: Really enjoying Banshee at the moment. Also went and seen 300 Rise of the Empire in 3D the other night, great movie and excellent 3D special effects.

Could be the leds, most the cheap ones are no good for planted tanks. I wouldn't think that would be causing your mysterious black algae though.

Could be some sort of cyano algae possibly? How long has the tank been running?

Isn't that just a poly?

It's been a while since I started a thread so I thought I would share the progress of my nano reef tank. I bought the tank 2nd hand off another local hobbyist about 6 months ago, it was in excellent condition except one of the stock return pumps was buggered, instead of replacing it with another stock one I replaced both with eheim compact 600s, there was a noticeable decrease in flow so I also added a small tunze wavemaker which worked a treat and now have no dead spots. I then decided the tank needed some better night viewing lights so installed a rgb led strip light that is controllable, does the job but I am really considering either installing some sort of led kit in the hood or removing the hood and running a metal halide as the stock bulbs just don't produce the colours I would like and would also like to grow some sps corals. I am in the process of making my own media rack so I can run a tunze 9002 skimmer that I bought as the stock skimmer is crap and the low humming noise coming from it annoys me. After this the tank should run pretty quiet which means I can have it in the lounge when we move soon, :dnc1: At the moment I just use NSW as I don't have a ro/di unit. I'm reasonably happy with it though if I want to grow harder corals like sps I will have to supplement certain trace elements like magnesium and calcium as it's pretty low in these values so will just buy a cheap ro/di unit from the states and start using ASW when I do. Also with winter coming up I'm not too enthusiastic about my chances of having a few days without rain so I can safely collect NSW, it's been rare enough over this summer to get 2 clear days in a row haha. Stock so far is; Pair of ocellaris clowns. Pair of bangaii cardinals. Coral banded shrimp. Rose bubble tip anemone. Various lps and softie corals. I plan on adding a lawnmower blenny and a sixline wrasse at some point and that will be it fish wise. I will be adding and changing corals as I go along. Any ways here are a couple of pics of the tank and inhabitants. 6 months ago. 4 months ago. 1 week ago. Ocellaris Clown Fish. Coral Banded Shrimp.

Wouldn't that rule out a lot of the corals we have here as they can be quite toxic to humans?

Does the tank have bracing? If so just wedge it all along the bottom so it pushes against the bracing and can't float, then cover the wedges with your substrate.

Why not just use smaller bits of poly to wedge it in?