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Face down is not good. First thing with anemones is to positively identify what type of anemone it is. No point trying to bury an anemone that doesn't bury its base. From my experience, most anemones are not in good shape when they hit the stores and even worse shape if they have been there awhile. What is the lighting like in your tank compared to the tank it was in? How long had they had it? etc etc. I would build a small arch with three rocks, place the anemone underneath and place a couple of rocks on either side to close it in a bit. Make sure the is plenty of sand underneath if it does want to bury its base and good water flow around it. If it is bleached or pale (like most appear to be) it will want to hide from the light. Don't try and force feed it. Only feed if it is open and only a small amount of food.

No, brought someones tank and it had a couple of huge SPS. They do not transport well at that size. I am going to break them up into about 10cm branchy chunks and let them settle for a month to make sure they are ok. I have a finger coral that is about to get the scissor treatment and mushrroms galour.

Sounds like human error or equipment failure to me. Serious, no one is going to come and pour fresh water in your tank. I am with Wasp, it would be bleach, a hammer or Godfather style, a horses head ( just a joke, don't want to offend all those horse people). He probably did a water change and forgot to put the salt in the mix. Didn't Alois just about turn his reef into a freshwater tank? Hey Cracker, would your system not be prone to this if that plumbing fitting fails?

I could do ten right now. Got the $400.00..... I think half the retail price for any coral is a bargin, even if it is smaller. For example you might pay $90 for a pearl bubble, newly imported, stressed to the max, or you could pay me $40 for a small one that has been grown in a tank. You know its history and it is fully aclimatised to tank life. It would have a much better chance of long term survival.

What do people think a fair price for a coral is? I am not talking a retail price but a fair price to pay for home grown corals. For example, I think LPS corals should cost more than SPS corals. Harder to divide, less likely to reproduce but SPS generally need better conditions to thrive. Would $20 for a 10cm high finger coral attached to a rock be excesive or to cheap? What about mushrooms?

I will look into the vents. I could suck cooler air from the basement, through the fish room and then outside. Heat pumps are getting much cheaper. The Warehouse and Foodtown now sell them. Foodtown had one for $649.00.

Unusual to see two different types of clown so close together. Guess there is more than enough anemone to go around.

Yes the problem will be keeping things cool not warm. I figure that if I can keep the air temperature down and stable then the water temperature will stay stable as well. Perfect application for a chiller but that is not practical for a system of this size. The room is on the north side of the house so the exterior wall gets a lot of sun. The room will be well insulated so the exterior temperature should not be much of a factor.

Does anyone have opinions on the use of a heat pump for controlling room temperature. I am setting up a fish room and the greatest problem will be heat generated by the pumps and lights. May have 4000 litres in the end so a chiller is not a practical option.

400 litre tank, high phosphate, high nitrate, 3 tangs and not a stitch of algae on the rocks. Lucky me. Don't feed the tangs to much and they will have to eat it. Get an old tooth brush and scrub it off. Great for cleaning around the corals. Don't sweat it to much. Early days yet.

Ok, decided the new house needed a water feature combined with some landscaping and new steps. I built a two pond system with a waterfall at the last place so thought we would do something a little different this time. This is what it looked like just after we moved in October 05. Let the demo begin! Started by digging out behind the rock wall to make smashing it out easier . Broke away the wall and the side of the steps. Built some new steps. There is a saying "a little goes a long way", this does not apply to concrete! Not to bad for my first attempt at concreting if I do say so myself. I built the steps one at a time. They are twice as wide as the old ones.

Glad someone else asked. I had no idea what it was.

Yeah, I put it back. One kill one when there are probably thousands in the tank to replace it. If it was an apstasia that would be a different story....

The start of wall construction. I am no builder but I will give it a go. I will be able to fit a total of 6 4ft tanks in. 5 as part of the filtration system and a sixth for mixing water.

Caught a nice fat one lazing under a rock.

I would sell the AR980. Lets assume you get $400 for it. That would get you a new 3ft tank with overflows ($150ish), a sump tank ($100) and a return pump (Pondmaster of some type). Then you just need a stand. The return pump would supply your initial flow in the tank. More than enough to establish the tank with rock and a few fish. You can then add lighting and a skimmer later as well as another pump or two for flow. If you use the AR980 and stick with marine, I guarentee you end up throwing the filter and lights away. Leaves you one expensive glass tank and a wheatbix stand.

W should take bets to see who gets one in first....

Not yet. Only pre-orders. Should have ordered a month or two ago before the exchange rate went south.

What about a quick filter? http://www.hagen.com/canada/english/aquatic/product.cfm?CAT=1&SUBCAT=119&PROD_ID=01005710010101

Yeah, real nice sponge.

They probably don't pay near as much for power as we do. All those nuke plants. They probably run thier power companys as well as this guy runs his tank. VERY nice tank.

Will add the Tangs to the Tang collection. They will stay in that tank till the new ones are ready and then they can all go in together. I have a reasonably large blue Tang that can go in with the angel.

OH YEAH! It is awsome. Will be fun to move. Wouldn't want anything to happen to that Angel. The photos on the auction do the tank no justice. Planning on using most of the gear on my new setup but that is probably 18 months down the track. Till then it will run as is. Not going to have much room in the garage till then.

Surely that would have to be one of the worst places to get water. Incoming tide would wash all the crap up the harbour. At least Takapuna is closer to the open sea.

FINALLY making some progress. Installed my RO/DI unit about three weeks ago. Mainly to supply the icemaker and as an added bonus supply the tank. I have ripped out the windows and the wall they were in. Just in time for the storm that hit Auckland. Did the final demolition today and this resulted in the water pipe being damaged. I new I would have to move it eventually but I was not planning on it being today. The old pipe had 14 elbows. This has now been reduced to 7 and the pipe runs across the ceiling so it is out of the way. Next job is to start framing up the new walls on one side and one end.