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Right, started work on this water feature a long time ago but am finally getting the damn thing finished. This what the area looked like when we first moved into the house Oct 05. Started working on the pond area March 06. Breaking away side of old steps to make them wider. Made new concrete steps. Broke away concrete for a new garden area. Jump to May 07. Reboxed steps and built side wall of pond. This include rebuilding most of the stone wall in the background and building the new section down the side of the steps. Took a very long time for me to build. Had concrete poured June 07. Boxed up pond. All H4 timber. Laid river sand to help level the bottom and put carpet with underlay backing in the corners. Repeated with two large peices to cover the sides and bottom. Tacked in place with gib nails. Placed pond liner in and started filling. Trimmed liner and tacked on the outside of pond. Built wood rim around the top. More to come....

As big as you can fit is the way to go. No such thing as a sump that is to big.

You might put two little fish in a fifty litre tank but I wouldn't even do that. Saving money on equipment will cost you money in livestock. Start with a decent size tank. At least a 3ft.

I think this is a great thing to do IF you are experienced and know what you are doing. To many people want to take what appears to be an easy short cut when setting up their tank. There is an awful lot to learn and going through, and fully understanding the cycling process is an important step. If you rush starting a tank you are heading for disaster. Patience is the best thing you can have. Stock you tank slowly.

Whoa, don't chuck it. Wholesale coral is $5.95 + GST a kg. How many kg do yu have? Big peices or little bits? Was is used in a saltwater setup of fresh?

Filter is probably as reliable as any other Atman/Aqua One filter. Only possible draw back would be parts if something does go wrong (sorry Ben). These are imported privately, not by a wholeslaer. I am sure he could get parts if you needed them but it would just take a little longer.

Thnk I will just import an illegal Thai worker and they can manual turn everything on and off. What sort of backup does the system have? I don't think I would trust one system to run the lot.

But what people really want to know is the cost?

Ah, I wondered how was importing Via Aqua gear and selling it.

You could get a stainless steel band to go around the top 25mm of the tank.

Not sure on that one. Via Aqua is a filter made by a Chinese company called Commodity Axis. http://www.commodityaxis.com/ProductData.aspx?id=81 Kong's source alot of the products they sell from them. Because they buy so much, Commodity Axis rebrand and package the products with Kongs brand Aqua One. The Via Aqua 230 is sold in New Zealand as The Aqua One CF500. I think I have the cheapest price you will find for one of these.

Give it time.... Must have been a dud batch of taps. We have had two so far with this problem.

Jager. You will need 1 x 300 watt Jager. Rated for heating 600 - 1000 litres of water. The only heater that you can calibrate. Will cost you $58.00 from us. Or you could buy 3 x Jebo 300 watts for $60.00.

Porcupine puffers rock! Will be adding one to my tanks one day.

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Nitrite converts the hemaglobian in the blood so it cannot transport oxygen. Don't know if the effects are long term.

No it does not stop them. If you are not sure what is wrong with it then I would do nothing and hope for the best. Whitespot is very obvious once you have seen it. Keep the stress to a minimum for the fish. Copper is super toxic to the non-fish (and even them if the dose is high) things in your tank. I would skip it. I am a UV convert but that may not help either.

I think once you price it out you may aswell by a canister filter. You can get a new Aqua One CF1200 for as little as $138.00. Price it out. Container that seals, taps, tubing, trays, media, pump, spray bar, intake strainer.

I would go the skylights aswell. Then throw on two or three halides with lumenarc reflectors for massive light spread. It would be well worth it for the ripple effect in the water that you do not get with T8's. Also the T8's just won't have the light punch for a tank that deep. There was a tread ages ago about a guy that made a shark tank in his house. It was huge. I think he used overlapping ply and then fibre glass.

Have you had a look at the water from a fish tank? Is there any major difference in the bacteria and parasite count? What about the difference between a heavily skimmed tank and an unskimmed.

Needs to be zero. I would do a much bigger water change and keep doing them until it is zero. You need to leave it alone. If it attaches to the powerhead again, turn it off and leave it alone. The last thing you want to do is damage its base when you are trying to move it. Anemones go were they want to go. You manage it from there. Don't try and feed it anything big. Try brine shrimp delivered with a syringe - only a little bit and only when the anemone is inflated.

Wouldn't worry about it dying. If it does that puffer will scoff it.

UV has done the trick for me.

One of them is making a 4 metre glass one. Going in a house in Silverdale.

Aqua One CF1200 $139.00 Fluval 405 $314.00 Flat $5 shipping fee.