Brianemone

good luck reef, Im interested to see how the plants grow with the under ground heating wire. Have you got an idea of how you will aquascape it?

hey caryl, some nice looking plants there, one Q for you though, how did you get the power to the pump??

did some digging yesterday and finished one half of the pond. I'll snap a few pics tonight to show the progress. on the topic of filters, does anyone have any reccomendations for decent pond filters?? I had a quick look here and while i am yet to figure out the volume of the pond i feel it might be far cheaper and less time consuming to just buy one.

I got rid of everything marine just before we moved into our house as we are fixing it up and didnt know for sure what we would do to the house. Cant remember anyone being banned but I could imagine who it might have been. Thanks for the tips about the filters guys, i'll keep them in mind, still might just buy one but need to shop around before hand and weigh up the options

Hi All. It has been a while since I've posted but thought I'd start a log to track the progress of one of the projects I am currently working on as we rennovate our crappy house. At the current time there is a small pond about the size of a bathtub in an area that was completely over run with various plants and weeds, this area was cleared out last week and is now pretty much ready for the real work to begin. I plan to do some digging this week and hope to find a suitible pond liner (butyl or similar). I am also contemplating wether the extra work in creating some form or waterfall with the return from the pond filter would be worth it, and if so how to do this. Also any suggestions people have to do with concealing the filter or building my own one would be great. Ciao

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/photo-album/24356-medicinemans-new-260-gal-open-top-2.html about half way down it looks to be the same sort of thing

how big is a 1.8kg tank?? just to give me an idea of size

i think i'll have to give the pet stores in auckland a call and see if they have any of the tunze or aquamedic ones instore

thatnks for the advice, i'll try and find a double

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/tired-of-boc-gases-deal-on-co2-check-this--vt8165.html

looks like i did :oops: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Business-farming-industry/Industrial/Other/auction-47284294.htm

how do you guys think this would go for a planted tank?

i thought that this was pretty cool http://www.oscarfish.com/takashi-amano-at-workmust-see-pics-vt46172.html yet to see a tank he designed that i dont like

it was the progammable controller that i was thinking about that comes out after the pumps

use you words paul to start off with they won't be controllable but they will bring out the controller latter (or so i read)

im actually overly generous. its one of my faults

i thought that wasp prefered the deltec to the aquac??? oh well either way i reccomend a sump.

you can hunt around for bargains, good equiptment is still worth buying second hand but dont expect it to be dirt cheap because its got a few miles on it. there are four main areas of expense skimmer good skimmer, dpends on wether you want a sump as to what type you can get, the deltecs are the best hangon back type skimmers. if you have a sump it allows for more skimmer choices Lighting depends on what corals you want to keep flow the more the better (generally) stock rock is the biggest expense, you can find second hand live rock or the occasional bargain on trademe (all the better) then your nice fish and corals

dude your in australia. :roll:

let me know if you need some help lifting/building.

i think it might be scared of photoshop

nice coral pics warrick.

my comment where in the best interest of any buyers, he made no reference as to what skill level it takes to look after a marine tank, this is the best place to come and learn about that. end of story, not saying people shouldnt buy his trickle filtered tank, just that they should know what they are buying and how to look after it.