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  1. Okay so now I'm confused. I guess I'll wait and see if we get given access or if the information is given to us some other way. Maybe you could send me the information you have done for your members and I'll pass that on to ours? I was planning to get one of our delegates to sign on and screen print the whole lot so we could see it but this seems like a complicated and difficult duplication if you have already done that work. Thanks for you help so far.
  2. Caryl said officers should have access and I just let her know KMAC exec and others didn't, it's not a big deal. Although it is difficult to discuss something when you don't have access to it. What anti fnzas views? Why do you and a couple of other exec members seem to have this anti KMAC issue going (yes I have already seen the comments attacking KMAC in the thread)? KMAC and myself have done nothing but support FNZAS, we are the biggest financial supporters, I strongly promote the Web site to customers, and by far KMAC have brought the most new members to FNZAS. I have been polite, clarified and apologized to Adrienne when there was the slightest hint that I might have quoted her out of context. I think you need to calm down a little bit, all I want is access to the information so that when the club meets we can see all the suggestions and consider every bodies views.
  3. Correct but there is a huge volume of information in the thread, it seems pointless sending the first hour of a meeting reading. But that aside I understood one of the points raised at the committee meeting was how important it is to give all information to every one and get as much responces from as many people as possible, not opening access to the information seems counter intuitive to this.
  4. I'm not really sure how I have quoted you out of context but I apologize anyway. As you've said your email was to Pres, Sec, and Delegates, my question to you was.....
  5. email from Adrienne From the brief look I have had of the thread I saw the subject of who has access had also been raised and "delegates only" was stated there as well. Thanks for looking into this, Warren has PMed me asking of officer names so I well let him sort it out.
  6. Hello Caryl, as a club officer can I have access to the form please. I asked in reply to the email but was told access was restricted to FNZAS exec and delegates only. Also none of the other club officers for KMAC or any of the Wellington clubs have access can you please arrange access for them too please. Thanks in advance, until now it's been difficult for us to see whats been going on since one of our delegates has recently had a baby and the other has been at sea. Regards Craig Pres KMAC
  7. Like most things fish related it's not a black and white answer. But in general you wouldn't use a canister filter on a marine tank, the reason being they work very well for filtration which results in nitrate, a very bad thing for invertebrates. Where a canister might be handy is for holding chemical media, like phosphate resin, or for zeolite, or maybe if your running a fish only tank and don't have invertebrates. But I think your main confusion has started because the discussion has moved to sumps in general, not just marine tank sumps.
  8. 10% is close enough, you only change a percentage of your tank water so if its out by a little bit it's out by even less by the time it's in your tank. And the important thing is the salinity of the tank, a lot of other things will change the salinity more like evaporation. The decision between ASW and NSW is about things other than the parameters being spot on. Even with synthetic salt the parameters change between brands and even between batches. There have been lots of debates round the merits and risks of each, have a bit of a search.
  9. I don't know where this thing about NSW water parameters being out comes from, they are all fine other than the salinity, and to fix that you just add 10% fresh water. Unless you do something silly like collect after rain or near a river mouth, NZ NSW will be 1.027
  10. Salifert are the tests used by most reefers
  11. Most apartment complexes have a "body corporate" which limit what pets etc you can have. It make no difference if you own the apartment or not.
  12. I'd start the other way round, get your rock now and start cycling it, and worry about bulbs later. Your mostly better off having the lights off if anyway (unless there is good live on the the live rock that you want to keep going). A skimmer does make life simpler, but on a tank that small it isn't completely necessary, doing 50% water changes each week is only going to be 20 odd liters so not a big deal to do and would be plenty yo keep your water parameters under control. I'd also replace the contents of the standard filter with either chemical media (like a PO4 resin etc) and/or coral rubble.
  13. Your not comparing apples with apples, the M series Fluval would be the same as the Jagar. The E series has electronic temperature control, where as the Jager has the metal strips and contacts that are less inaccurate and can jam on.
  14. suphew

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    Marine guys usually assume GST once the value goes over $300, but like most government agencies it depends on luck of the draw. Some shippers will mark the package as a gift which helps and also suggest having it delivered to a private address rather than a business address
  15. I use Eucalyptus oil mixed with water in a spray bottle, it does a great job the trick is to only use a tiny amount. I guess tea tree oil would work as well.
  16. What colour is the cloudiness? If it's white it will be a bacterial bloom, if green its algal. From what your describing I suspect it's a bacterial bloom. The first thing I would be looking at is why the filter is playing up, with a Fluval I'd be checking the shaft to make sure it's not broken or damaged. Then check the impeller, the next most common fault is the lug's on the impeller wearing or breaking so that even though the magnetic bit is spinning the impeller doesn't spin or only pumps slowly. Also bio-noodles become clogged over time so if your filters are old the noodles might have a very low surface area
  17. How long have you had the tank setup for? It will take a number of weeks for the ammonia levels drop drop to zero. Also rather than doing water changes you could use Cycle or Ammo lock, both these products will convert the ammonia to ammonium which isn't toxic but will still feed the bacteria in your filter. Also when you do water changes are you using a water ager? If not the chlorine in the water will be stopping your filter from cycling
  18. I've done the same! Ended up in hospital where they 'irrigated' my eye, not a fun process. I handle them almost daily and have to be very careful, even using gloves I still have to put medication on my hands or my skin drys out splits.
  19. Your correct they create water circulation, and because of this also move oxygen from the water surface into the tank. Now days with big powered filters there isn't the need to use air stone for water circulation so they are mainly decorative. They also tend to be noisy, and spray water over your lids or lights. The extra oxygen doesn't cause algae to grow, but the air stone can 'drive' CO2 out of the water slowing plant growth which in turn could cause extra algae growth
  20. There is a date stamp on the pumps. Unfortunately it's been a while and I can't remember the dates for the good and bad pumps but they are made in batches so as long as it's a different batch to the failing one it should be fine
  21. They had a bad batch when they first made them, the resin round the coil wasn't put in at the correct temperature and resulted in air bubbles. When the motor gets dirty and warms up the bubbles expand and either jam the impeller or bubble round the end of the motor. The newer motors are fine now, if your's is playing up just take it to your LFS and get a new one.
  22. Please bare in mind our younger members when posting, I have had to clean up this thread a number of times already.
  23. We use very minimal mechanical filtration in our work tanks, and don't really need it, the water flow through the sums is slow enough that any bigger particles settle on the bottom of the sump where they break down and can be vacc'ed out every 6 months or so. The beauty of bio-balls is they don't clog therefore don't need to be mechanically pre-filtered, the reason for mechanically pre-filtering before noodles is the fine pores which get blocked by particles.
  24. Have you considered using bio balls (or similar) instead of noodles? The surface area isn't anywhere near as much, but you have a huge volume so it isn't a big deal, with bio-balls you have very low clogging so you don't have to worry about mechanical filtering so there is far less maintainance
  25. The bubble magnus ones deep blue sells are pretty good, and if you can afford it you can't go wrong with a deltec. The only thing you can use a filter for in salt water is chemical filtration like carbon, or PO4 resin. You best to give the filter a miss and invest the $$ in as good a skimmer as you cab afford You can get away with a lot when doing local marine, but it really depends on how clean you water supply is. HHF should have a TDS meter and be able to check you water for you, that will tell you how dirty it is, ideally you want 0, but anything in the low teens should be okay.
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