Newtman

enhanced that photo a bit so you can see it,not too great a pic,heres the original the best i could get unfortunatly,found it in some sea letuce when i emptyd my coldwater marine,its bright green and is a crustation of sorts,has a similar body/shell to a shrimp any ideas?

just a few questions if you dont mind me asking in this post magnesium helps the groth of coraline....corect? i understand that disolving Mg ribon in vinegar gives you a salt and a gas(magnesium......+hydrogen) Metal + acid = Salt + hydrogen? now my main question is would adding this Mg mixture to my tank be effective and safe to do so? i would guess that the MG you reefers dose your tanks is in a different form,but am curious to see if i could dose some in this way? Tim

awsome,very beautiful indeed Tim

i have snails in with my wcmms and they are all sweet,have huge numbers of fry still,if the snails did have an effect on the fry numbers ,well didnt realy notice it. but what give what sharn says ago if u find that things arent going right with them. or invest in a good snail eater, like a loach mabye....most wont be botherd with the tiny fry so no probs there, and once they are around the surface they will be completly out of the loaches way. Tim

i dont kno alot,but have been thinking exactly what you are lol,hopefully someone might know...

DAM!!! thats awsome!!!! ,i would love one lyk that,dam thats cool!! :bounce:

this 1s a bit closer feelers,still crap tho lol,need a better camera :lol: ...oh and no i dont run a chiller,everything seems to handle a temp of about 23-25 deg c, so im quite supprised its all alive and doing fine,the temp fluxuates with the house. ...oh and a cheap way accros the strait :lol: :lol: :lol: ..... ummm...how good are ya at swimmin lion :lol:

thanks feelers!,yea ill get some up in a min. i use a blue moon tube(standard blue fluro) so its allways night li guess lol,only because i have been too lazy to bother getting a haliade bulb fo my fittings i have. in it currently i have: -coraline covered rocks -beach gravel -two internal circulation pumps -an extarnal eheim cnaisterfilter -assorted crabs and hermit crabs -ghost shrimp -about 3 ducks bill sea slugs -limpits and snails n things -a few britle stars i removed all the fish a couple a days ago,because i was wanting different specimens,so i returend them to the sea. i had quite a few tripplefins and a olive green rockfish,i want to get about 5-6 blue eyed tripplefins to go in there,aparently there are heaps around the F-69 atm.

hiya LionOfZion i have a coldwater setup,its got lotz of cool things in it,im out in wainui,ur welcome to come take a look. im going away tomo to wanganui til monday,but anytime after thens cool. ive had it running for about a year or so now,and experimented with differnt inhabitants,i dive too or snorkle sumtimes,realy easy to get heaps of stuff photos crap,it looks way diff than that. Tim

im not sure on that,but in most cases thats probly a good indication

nice 1 tel,looks good. id say it looks fine to hold that amount of weight,what thickness stainless is it?most of the load will get dispepsd around the edges anyway amd then through the legs. very cool. Tim

yup guilty what an awsome shop!!! they have a great setup,was most definatly worth the trip,and a good trip it was,thanks again Paul will have to visit it everytime im passing thru now hehe 8) got some Licorice Gourami similar to these above,when we were there,not so much colour in mine,but still avery cool dwarf gourami! nice discus bty Jammos,would love some like that,oh and geralds cool too Tim

hiya lyndy, ummmm...i kno a few things,but i dont know how to tell exactly when there going to breed. what i've found with most egg scattering fish,like danios, serpaes,and black widows which i had a go at breeding,is that it worked best to fatten all the females up with good foods,such as live food and frozen bloodworm ect, and then intorduce the fish to the breeding tank at night just before the lights go off. when the lights go on in the morning,or the sunrises and lights the tank,they are triggerd into spawning,at whish they chase each other and spin in circles around plant of whatever it is they have to scatter eggs on. people that i know of have used a number of differnt artifitial plants,of astroturf,marbles, spawning nets live plants and mosses good luck with breeding your rosys Tim

mosquitos lay floating canoe like eggclusters in still water,the larvae ythen hatch and you can collect them, and fish absoultly love them,plus they are a great free food,full of goodness for ya fishies id say these are what you describe slash^^ Tim

yea read up HEAPS!!,ive been here for a long time,and still learn new things constantly,have wanted marine for a long time, but am only just now thinking about starting. lots of the things you are asking,i think have been discussed before,a quick search may be helpful. Tim

hi there alex :bounce: hope you benifit greatly from the wonderfull bunch that we are here *from another wellingtonian :lol: Tim

convicts breed like mice!!! :lol: just ask 'Dark' or 'Anthony",i dont think you will have much trouble,theyll breed n no time Tim

Both my filters have started working! Newtman (Tim) galloped to my rescue with a backpack full of cleaning gadgets. They both had an airlock and one's intake pipe was blocked. So now I can heave a sigh of relief and my fish look happier too Cheers Jude

what size are the teeth on the overflow?looks like they did a wicked job of it!! was thinking of going about 1cm with 5mm spaces between the cuts for mine. your steup will look good with all the workings of it hidden below the tank

no not tape!!,i ment as in the "creating threaded holes" tapping. yea for the base i was planing on routing a groove into something for it to sit in. i am unfamillar with the names of typs of skimmers,but i was planing on putting the intake for the air through a small stand pipe which will be attached to the intake of each pump that is making the bubbles. so as in using about two pumps setup in a closedloop fassion,with air being drawn in by the intake of each,and churned up realy fine. for the water going into the skimmer i will have it fed by a pump in the sump,or 1 attched somewhere outside.

steeve.. what kind of plastic is it?it might do,but i need the wall thickness to enable the base and top to be taped into to afix a plate to the bottom and the business end to the top,so might not be thick enough, but ill let you kno if i do,thanks for the offer anth.. yes probly somewhere around there,depending on pump cost.

hey what pumps are you all using on your skimmers?and can you buy them seperatly? any recomendations,and links ?

oh cool,thanks heaps have fun in brisbane Tim

Awsome!! :bounce: ,sweet as graig yes please,are your sure you dont want anything for it?? :-? i have lets say contacts 8) who can hopefully machine some parts for me so the only price issues realy will be the pumps. what thickness is it ? dam was just out round at mark n janes last night ,lyk 5 min from you lol. kapimana meetings on wed,mabye could sort summin then? Cheers Tim

ah i c,yea if thats the case probly is better to buy 1,i was planing on it being about 1.5m high,mabye thiner pipe? or just dw abt the whole idea all together :-? if it works out cheap enough for all the bits i need then ill still go ahead with it but ill have to fine some prices first.