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Gezz two warm days and you Aucklanders think you live in the tropic's :lol: I was up there on Saturday for a wedding, the bride was loving the rain in her open top wedding car, lucky I packed my winter woolies

My tanks been sitting on 27 but fans (on temp controller) are running 24/7. Why do you guys unplug your heaters??? They are only going to come on when your temp drops low enough, and you risk forgetting to plug them in if you have a cold spell.

Zev, yours looks very similar to mine. Mine also goes long and skinny at times, it has moved recently and has a stream blowing on it now

Took a pic of one of my anenomes, any one else want to share pic's of theirs?

Pies has some for sale

So did mine, came from the same place but there were clearing out all there old fluval parts, I picked up seals, primer, shaft, etc etc all cheap. Shame I haven't needed any of them yet!

I have a spare one the same as Caryls as well if anyone wants it. The box was marked incorrectly 104/204 unless it is for an older model 204 than mine. Either way doesn't fit my filter. It owes me $18.

Sure..... if it's the same type!

The only parts you need are as follows 1 x 'T' 1 x '90 degree bend' pipe end cap reducer (the durso needs to be larger diameter than your bulk head) what ever you need to connect it to your bulk head. Someone chip in if I have forgotton anything. Also don't bother glueing it, you dont need to and it will be easier to change/adjust if its not glued

I tested mine on the weekend, stayed on after cutting the power, very pleased, one less thing to worry about!

The water changes will help remove the ammonia that is feeding the bacterial bloom. It will also reduce the stress on the fish. Any chemicals that you add that will kill the bacteria in the bloom will also affect the good bacteria in your filter etc that you are trying to get started. Time is your friend, just wait a few days for the cycle to happen.

Is the water green or whiteish? If it's green it's an algae bloom, if white bacteria bloom. Either way change lots of water and reduce your feeding. Would be a good idea to test your water as well. I'm guessing your filter died when you moved the tank from it's old owner, they can only last a few hours with no water flow. How long ago did you setup the tank? If it was only yesterday then take the filter apart and give it a good clean in tank water. If you have had it runing for a couple of days now, cleaning wont make much difference, just leave the tank to cycle again, take out as many fish as you can, change lots of water, and dont feed the fish much (if at all, they will be fine without food for a week).

Maybe a ammonia spike irritated the fishs gills an caused it to rub on a rock.

UV is good it you are addressing a specific problem, i.e. green water, bacteria, or parasites. On the down side to UV if you using it address green water your not really addressing the problem, all the nutirants the algae aren't using (because you killing them) will still be in the water so will either cause an increase in algae on the plants etc or will just stay in the water which could cause other problems. IMO a better option is to identify the cause the of the nutirants and address that, for example increase the water changes, lower feeding, check your water change supply. If you using it to address parsites or bacteria, this is fine in the short term but in the long term fish will loose their immunity, and when you change them to an other none UV tank you could have bigger problems. Generally if tank is well maintained and fish not stressed you shouldn't have problems with parasites or bacteria

Thats is a bargin, the cheapest I have seen in NZ have been twice that price, and the actual water filter shops are more like 3-4 times as much. I was quoted over a $1000 from one shop and that didn't include the DI.

Post in the Seawater forum, a lot of marine keepers don't read this forum. There are plently of people in Akl with durso's

Just make it your self they are dead easy, but I agree the diagram on www.durso.com is a little hard to follow. if you can go have a look at someones and you will see how easy they are.

My LFS sell both the air stone skimmers and the wooden air stones so at least you know you can get them in NZ. The skimmers and I think the wooden stones are "lee" or "lee's" your local LFS should be able to order them in for you.

I have had verious results with timers, mostly bad. The pudney digitals one seem to work well (but cost about $40), I have also had some success with DSE's own branded ditial timers for some strange reason, most of their gear seems to be pretty cheap low quality.

It depends on what you want to keep, most native stuff isn't photosynthetic, the stuff that is (seaweeds etc) needs tons of light

You also need to think about the type of flow a power head will give you, typically a power head will give you a small jet of water. A wide flow of water is better. It doesn't matter to much where the pumps are but if possible you want them to be a bit random. Before I got my streams I had my pumps on timers all set to different times so that sometimes only one or two would be going other times all of them. Also you want to aim for atleast 20 times turn over, if you think this is a lot remember how much the water moves in the sea. I have about 35000lph in my 700l display and would be happy to have more.

If it's a berlin, or berlin style you will need a bigger pump that 2500lph, I used to run my berlin using a lugna 7 pumping round 8000lph, that was over kill but you still need to aim far higher than the manual says, 4000lph would be about right I think. Jetskisteve was selling some needlewheel pumps, to convert a berlin you just need to remove the venturi and attach the pump. IMO this would be the best option.

I understood there are two types, one that keep the power on and one that turns it off, since it depends on what application you are using it for. I guess you just have to check the packaging. I use the hardwired socket one's, I've been meaning to test to see if the come back on with the power but haven't yet. They are a lot cheaper if you can get them at trade price, but the big bonus is that they will protect any sockets down stream, so I now have a number of power points in other places protected by the RCD that I can use to plug in a tempary tank or for running power leads outside.

You upgrading?????

I got my last lot sent over from singapore, before that managed to get some from Reef, but not sure if he can still get them