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try: view the image yourself, right click it and go to properties, highlight the url and paste it back here

nice work, when can i test it

if thats the case, your comments about water/air ratio makes sense. skimmers can only suck in a theoretical maximum of air per hour (and hence how alot of them appear to be rated). if you drive water in faster then the optimal air/water ratio, then you would get fatter (less fine) bubbles thus affecting the skimmers performance. makes sense. get a bigger skimmer!!! if you sell, let me know I'll consider buying yours

or put a bypass pipe in place

and spelling lucky you seem to know your sh1t when it comes to reef tanks

only temporary - all my test equipment is upstairs in some drawers behind the display tank. everything will all be moved downstairs in time, just cant be bothered at the moment

is there not a suggested flow rate in the user manual?!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ahhhhh, now that is funny... took me a bit to find it...!!!

i bought one of those fat as aquamedic scrapers, does the job in a couple of minutes!

??? usually i dont touch it and just let the coralline grow. however the coralline growth looked a little odd because it was not even all over. i like the blue look. as soon as i scraped it, a bit of the coralline headed down the overflow and into the fuge. now the fuge coralline growth has taken off which i'm happy about!

to be fair, it wasnt that white looking when i bought it (I think the camera shot is a little deceiving) it was one from jetski's personal tank when he was selling off his corals. the colour is perhaps a little deceiving, it was a light pink however it is certainly pinker now

left and right side pic's as you requested brian! much better when you use manual setting on the camera, those last shots were way too blue.

removes phosphates pies, you run zeovit?

Pin poc bought from jetskisteve. Photo taken 30 May 2005 (note hair algae!!!) Rowaphos added around mid June... Photo taken 11 July 2005 (hair algae cleared, poc colour pinker)

i took this photo tonight of my blue coral, just to the lower right looks suspiciously like a mantis shrimp - hard to make out but it looks like the body of one with two eyes. what do you think? whatever it is it's not there now.

Tang doesn't smoke, he gave up last year coz the clowns kept giving him sh1t about it

any idea's what this is? i've never seen it before, took about 5 minutes to get the shot! any ideas? is it serious? the ring mark behind his fin

you just need something to close the door on him. i borrowed jetski's too and caught a blue damsel in about 1 minute and an angel in about 12 minutes damsels are really stupid fish.

:roll: i'm sure we're all grown up here...

weird u git it?

Yes B, it's a pink pocillapora I calculated that the Iwaki 55RLT (through the 1" Sea-Swirl) is doing about 4,000lph, closed loop is about 13,000lph (maybe slightly less because of pipe restrictions), and Streams are pulsing between 3600lph (30%) and 10,800lph (90%) each (or 7200lph and 21,600lph total) Main tank is about 520 litres so that's anywhere from 45 to 75 times turnover per hour.

cheers warick, feel free to 'fly' on over anytime you want... ok ok, that was really bad...

no, didnt take any close up's. will do tonight - a bit hard to tell from the pic's above, looks alot nicer closer up! ever since i added rowphos, the tips of the acro's are starting to colour up nicely. im going to drop the halides down closer to the water surface tonight (about 2" closer) as they are too far away - especially considering there is only two of them as well. one particular acro is starting to colour up really nicely, pink with green tips - that one is directly over the centre of the halides. i badly need a 3rd halide... going to borrow my mates canon 20d and get some decent shots too.