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You can get in a lfs if you want to spend megabucks. An easy alternative is to get a normal pvc pipe, heat it, then put in a vice and squeeze to the desired thickness. Allow to cool, and you just made your own custom flat nozzle.

Good thought bombers bare bottom.com Where the leader speaks, and the people go :lol:

Have to laugh that is quite funny! Bomber does seem to have a collection of devoted fans / clones / adoring multitudes :lol: :lol: .

Just re-read, they are ocellaris. Been reading about a commercial clownfish breeding operation in the States, they have their breeding pairs in 20 gallon tanks, which they consider minimum size for this.

Fire Goby will probably be OK, but in an area that small he may become a victim to aggression from the clowns when they get territorial. What type of clowns are they? They may find it a tad cramped as they grow.

More area for aeration, and more water requiring aeration. Same dif. When I set up my new frag tanks a few months back I had them running empty for a couple of weeks. During this time they lost ca & kh and I had to replace this. It's just precipitation. If all the ca and kh we put into our tanks was translated into growth and nothing else, many of us would have monsters growing out the top :lol: But really, I'm not at all bothered if someone wants a monster sump. Whatever makes them happy!

This highlights some of the problems. In fact it will not take longer for calcium and kh to drop, all else being equal they will still drop at the same rate as they precipitate, and that will mean so much more to replace. PH will also drop the same, reason being the extra water is going to be unlit and not productive in terms of eliminating any Co2 via photosynthesis. However nitrate buildup will be diluted by the larger water quantity. To me, a decent sized sump is a good thing to allow work & equipment room, but it is largely a fallacy that heaps of extra water is going to be a great benefit. The idea was popular many years ago when tanks were less stable and disasters more common. A big body of water was a buffer to lessen the impact of these problems. However nowadays it's less needed. If installing a big body of water just to "have" it, have to measure benefit against cost, and there will be a cost. That cost may have been able to be better utilised.

That was the first post. I think Slappers has learned more than he ever wanted to :lol:

The extra water in the large sump area is just "dead" water. It is not achieving anything by being there. You may or may not get longer between water changes. On the other hand, a 20% water change will need more water to do it.

Maybe you forgot. Pies got needled a few days ago about the "state of his rock", plus a few other unnessecary put downs. Then he sees you talking about sandbed crap etc, and appears to go off the deep end. But looking at the whole picture I can see where he is coming from. Mostly it will take two to tango.

To be fair, before accusing Pies of ridicule, please bear in mind he was responding TO ridicule, in the same vane.

Fair enough comment Joe you are right. I don't like these "challenges" either. In fact look through my history you won't find me ever having challenged anyone to show a picture of their tank. The closest i would have been was asking Layton to show a picture of his torquiose stag, that was no challenge, I had a genuine interest to see what the stag looked like under normal light. I even asked Layton not to show his whole tank to deliberately avoid putting him on the spot. What I said was not a challenge to Bomber I hardly expect him to come to our forum and feel he has to prove anything. Just I've seen a lot of pics of his tank and never seen 20 fish in it, despite it being a fairly open tank. If such a picture could be produced it will resolve the issue. But hey, it's not really even an issue to me, it was just a comment I made, if there's 20 fish in it where are they hiding?

Yes that's actually a pretty good idea Chimera. I only have one type of carbon, but if anyone would like their favorite brand tested just give me a cup, and I'll run some comparitive tests between brands.

I thought about the coffee paper, to eliminate dust. But would there be a risk of the paper adding phosphate? If no, I'll do it. The airstone is a good idea, but I don't have that stuff, I'm giving it a shake each time I walk past.

I'd probably want to see one shot of the tank, which after all is fairly open, showing all the fish. Individual shots proves that at some point he had the fish.

The carbon that Jansens sell very cheaply in a plastic bag, with Jansens written across it, is the cheapest i've been able to find. So I'll be testing the phosphate content with a Hanna Digital Colorimeter. Yesterday I put a cup of this carbon in a jar of RODI water, and I'll be testing this water on Thursday to see if any phosphate has leached. I'll update results on this thread.

He lists a lot of fish, but are they in the tank? I can't see them. Relative to the size of the tank I'd say he has a low fish load. However I will congratulate him it is a sparkling clean tank. But to me anyway it is unnatural looking. Looks more like a laboratory set up to grow coral, more than a "garden". But come on you BB Bashers :lol: . Surely it is obvious it would be hard to keep this tank clean to that degree if it had a sand bed? Not saying I'm in love with the look, but it must be good in terms of cleanliness?

Very pretty Looking good I must say!

Don't know about Rocketman, but I had the intake air running through a container of carbon. When I figured how much air was going through the system, it was clear there was going to be some pollution.

Little tip Rocketman, this is something I learned the hard way. That air hose can create a syphon if power goes off, the water will surge up the air hose, and if it makes it over the edge will start a syphon and dump several litres of water onto the floor. Should always have the end of the air hose above water level. I was a two time loser with that before it sunk in I better fix it before it happened yet again :lol:

Wow that's weird, not my experience at all! I was in despair prior to starting zeovit the whole tank was riddled with hair algae. All went brown, then white, then gone completely, within a few weeks of starting zeovit. I attributed it to the way zeovit dropped the measureable nutrients to below what hair algae requires for survival.

The gloves are not for you dude! They're to stop your hands contaminating the water, and keep the livestock happy :lol: Think about all that deoderant, food residue, fly spray, grease, or whatever you've been touching.

Knew it would be good! That rock is very clean is it new or something?

Yes it's bubble algae, I've got a ton of it, the fastest growing thing in my tank :lol: Do I have any successful strategies? Well yes, I'm doing really well at producing it in large quantities :lol: But if you find out how to get rid of it let me know

Well that solves that issue! DSB + cannisters are in :lol: