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its hit or miss if they eat frozen or flake but most of them do eventually eat them its just having enough live food in the tank until they do that can be the problem

Nice work so far, i love shallow tanks. if it were me, i would keep the rock as one island to the left hand side like it is in this pic. gives it a minimal effect with good negitive space on the right once the sand is in,but you still have room for quite a few corals. like i said great start keep us updated

since were on the topic a couple of shots of the mandarin (sorry for the quality again crappy camera :oops: )

not a silly question at all, he picks at the rock work and sand all day but also feeds on flake when i feed the tank. the tank he came from he was in for 3 years and eating flake so thats why i took him as the hard part was already done

a couple of shots of the tank and a video

thanks Zev, its just a crappy point and shoot so wont let me adjust the white balance

tried to get a couple of top down shots to see how the corals are coloring up only got a couple of shots worth showing big table on left hand side with flash ( makes the greenie color go brown :thumbdown: ) purple middle coral with flash table on right hand side ( these pics are not great at all sorry )

i would look into getting a protein skimmer, rather than using a canister filter if you want to keep marines long term. have a look and a good read of the link below, then ask away if you have any questions Basic Marine Starter Guide

snapped a couple of shots of the tank, first up a FTS got some new fish so here's a pic of them yellow tang little talbot damsel mandarin - got a call from a local guy that was having big problems with his tank and wanted to get the many out of his tank so i took it, it feed on flake,frozens one of the clowns the rest are just random tank shots

sounds good, i'll chuck you a Pm with address details

cheers

i'd keep it simple, 2x mp40's or 6105/6205's pumps 3x 250/400w MH and a couple of t5's to help with color best skimmer you can afford for dosing calcium, alk and mag i'd go with a bubbles magus T01 dosing pump you would also want a automatic top up to deal with evap keep it simple and keep it stable and you will be sweet :happy2: if your ever over tauranga your welcome to pop over and see my setup running, im only running a basic setup

Im with PP on this one, coraline on rocks is good, but i have a pet hate of it on glass.

These were taken while sitting on the sofa infront of the tank last night Well i had to get off it to take this one

just thought i'd post a couple of pic from my setup, big thanks to LivingArt for the help :thup: all plumbed up and ready for water room shot Quick video of the tank with water FTS clowns video full tank shot video

is it 510mm high from top to bottom? i have a 1200x600x500high and i have no bracing at all and its fine so removing one brace should be fine heres a old pic of it

most of the good ones have a cut out that switches it off if the canister/pump stopped working, those are the ones ive been looking for, will have to look into bringing a couple in from overseas. anyone know some reliable online shops?

does anyone in NZ sell inline heaters? do will i have to import from oversea's?

nice pic's

dam you LA!! :lol: i wanted one of those so bad, too bad i have no tank right now

cool thanks, will it grow with a sand base over the aqua mix or will it need to be a gravel?

Whats the best substrate to grow a glosso carpet on? whats everyone on here using? just dalton aqua mix or something else?

thats a really nice cafe i stopped in there just before xmas, great artwork as well

Cheers Mate

what is the names of these shrimps?