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Not many reef, if you have a sump, your return pump alone is probably more than 10x. Mind you, I tend to look at things through acro tinted glasses , so lets post up flow rates then - don't forget return pumps and all power heads and streams etc.

yes, exactly, and also down to personal preference.

We're talking about reef tanks, X34 or even X44 isn't a huge amount of flow, and i doubt anyone with a reef tank has 10 times turnover - thinking before writing :roll: Mines about 50 X, and it could do with more.

The photos are of an area somewhat bigger that individual corals in your photos reef. Why compress what in nature is tens of metres deep, into a couple of inches in a tank, so you can have a little artificial beach in front of your corals.

Spot the sand???????????????????

Theres no way I could run sand with the flow in my tank, plus I like the look once coraline develops over the glass. Barebottom tanks certainly don't look dirty, not the ones I've seen anyway. Go to a coral reef, dive around the tops where the acros etc grow in the most current and wave action, and show me where theres any sand - its metres below. If you want to look at unnatural, look at the tanks with sand, rock walls, and every type of coral, regardless on the individual requirements, mixed together - thats unnatural.

Wow, thats some bioload in the wee tank Conch?? I can see an upgrade coming up.........

Argh, remember now, thought you may have got a bit when you visited. Did you get any of the sky blue stag, would be interested to know how it coloured up in your tank - seems to really need bright bright light to maintain the blue. I've got a blue tuxedo urchin, and they're great to watch. He eats off the rock, and eats whatever is under him, green algae, coraline etc, but has no interest in corals. My coraline has just started to really take off in the new tank, so his clean white paths are covered pretty quickly at present. And he produces pretty white sand out of the other end 8) , but I siphon that out quickly - imagine, sand in a reef tank

Hey Wasp, spawning would be my guess, seems to be the time. Is that yellow(green?) stag on the lhs the one from my tank??

yep!, uses phytoplankton as well 8)

High tank temps for this time of year chaps, wait til Feb! :-?

Good on ya Ben, bit different from last time I saw it, it was beige back then. :lol: Go the BB.

Should have pinched it while I was there Friday 8)

nice!!

Trialling it at the mo, so yep, will test and come back!

yep, and he's doing a smart job of it too!!!

long way to Kerikeri for you Conch :lol:

yes, the one on the left, a little browny bought off you a year or 2 ago.

Very Nice.

I gotta sky blue stag :lol: Very nice corals in that tank Wasp, but not a fan of his aquascaping, personally.

good luck to that then, important piece of equipment.

Hey DJ, where abouts in northland are you, there is a couple of us up here

yep, bitten me a few times. the old mirror trick works with him though, likes the look of himself

as above, not mine. He's not passive to anyone Thanks reef, think I'll leave him single, he's calmed down and stopped beating up the orange shoulder tang.

yes, very reef safe and my large male is a stunner, with long threadfins. But all info says they are peaceful and timid - yeah right.