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and I suppose you put up walls before you've done your foundations?

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i think around $20k or thereabouts - that includes sump room though

it's a nano... 1600 litres from memory

maybe i'll dry up the ocean and sell the salt cheaper

It's just under a metre high, over half a metre wide and can run a tank up to 5,000 litres

Jimmy, that skimmer is HUGE. Nice work skuzza, that must have made the bank manager happy

no truth to this whatsoever, scare-mongering to say the least. i see no justification above as to nsw being any worse than asw. there are just as many risks using ASW. RODI can't filter everything out of tap water and salt mix doesnt always contain the right trace levels of required minerals either. im sticking to NSW.

i wanna ask the same question!!! anyone coming from wellies to auckland soon???! slightly different than frags - i got a kids small plastic slide and related platform thing that i need to get up here, it's sitting at pies place at the moment if you are and you can fit it in your boot, it's $40 towards petrol money for ya (its approx 1/2sq metre broken down)

bizzare, all these people dosing crap into their tanks. IMO, do the water change then leave him for a few days and monitor. BT's are PRONE to whitespot, mine gets it every 6 months or so, it just comes and goes. if it were major (LOTS of spots, maybe a different story though)

might see you there, xmas party tomorrow night, depends on level of hangover... although high tide is 3:30pm so it'd have to be a bad one! might see you at 3pm saturday...

blue tangs are prone to whitespot. it's probably just stressed at being moved. assuming all other water chemistry is ok, just leave him be and it will come right. dont waste your money on dosing just yet.

reverse osmosis / deionisation. different methods of filtering out crap from the water.

my ego's big enough it doesnt need a boost. and smart comments like that really just belittle and undermine your credibility further. the fact that my daughter could have died in last weekends incident then reading posts like yours is not something i take lightly - so any reinforcement of what is being said is a positive one. oh, and welcome to the Internet, the land of misinformed information...

I'd have to agree with Layton there is one hell of alot of truth in that statement!!!

You can never have a skimmer that is too big! But granted, a TS1060 is certainly WAY overkill for a 150 litre setup

try again ira, it just might work

i see a cheap deltec on trademe

:lol: exactly what i thought. certainly not corraline, most definately diatoms. PITA. i hope you thoroughly washed out the sand first in RODI (or salt) water. the better you rinse it the quicker the silicates and diatoms will disappear. a leaching sandbed - a bit like mine at the moment

i'd bet that too. if it pulls off easily enough it'll be hair algae no doubt. or if its more slimey in texture and heaps of small bubbles it's cyanobacteria. definately not a sponge.

how bizzare, i just used the same stuff in my lounge and i swear the flys just got bigger

i wanna know what someone fed this coral... :lol:

just take it into smith and smith glass im sure they'll do you a cashy on the spot

the best solution is to get rid of your zoo's - tell you what since i'm such a good mate i'll take them off ya hands for free then you can then keep as many nudi's as you want and you'll never have the problem again

agree, but it depends on the subject. playing around with electricity is a little different than plumbing up a sump or dosing additives. of course they do, so thats why they post asking for advice. when wrong advice is given, and especially when it could be life threatening, advice should NOT be offered whatsoever. 1. it's not a 12V car battery 2. a 12V car battery doesnt quite pack the same punch as a 240V 10amp power socket do you know how old Kyle is? Perhaps he's only 14 and takes advice easily and more carelessly than an adult? Perhaps not, who knows? This is one example I am 100% with the mod's on - the wiring is either right or it's wrong, there is no in between. A little story for you - my 2 1/2yr old daughter decided to make herself some toast last Saturday morning. The toast got stuck, so in went her little fingers to pry it out. Two seconds later a loud bang and what I could only describe as a blood curdling scream. She had tripped the RCD to the entire upstairs of our house (we had replaced the old fuse style power board with RCD's only months before). We obviously freaked out and she got a burnt finger. I would consider her lucky and a lesson to be learnt for both us and her. Never underestimate electricity.