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  2. Stevea's tank - up close and personal

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    Yes I did resize them to the same size, 500 pixels being more or less randomly chosen, while I was preparing a few more to add. That occurred after I decided that the RC photography forum would be a more appropriate location for a thread relating to tank pictures. That conclusion was reached when recalling that when I asked fellow reefers whether or not they used a macro lens, the thread was promptly moved to the off topic area. They also have quite a few very serious and very good, tank photographers there, making it a useful venue to receive technical feedback, although this is never guaranteed.

    RC do have some general guidelines but still seem quite happy to accept and display full tank shots at quite large sizes, up to 1000pixels being quite common.

    Steve

  7. Stevea's tank - up close and personal

    in Saltwater

  9. Shops for marines around wellington

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    If anyone in Wlg is looking for soft corals I have a number of frags at the moment, leathers, 4-5 diff mushies, xenia, tree coral. PM me if your interested.

    Hi,

    Wouldnt mind another Xenia. The last one has gradually faded away in the overflow. It didn't crash but my efforts to protect it from the Regal left it with insufficient light I suspect. So what I would like to do is try a smallish one in with the Regal. I know he nips at Anthelia (which does fine in the overflow) so I am not overly confident of success, but still worth trying.

    Steve

  10. Shops for marines around wellington

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    ...What ever happened to Fins and Fangs?

    They had the system, I even helped them set it up, and they had the stock for a whhile and on occasions. What they lacked was the skill and the will. You will never build up a long term customer base if you are unble to demonstrate that you know what you are doing and what you are talking about.

    You will particularly not attract new entrants if you cannot give them confidence that you will be able to help them solve any problems they have.

    Steve

  11. Worm!!!

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    Many years ago I had to empty my reef to fix a leak. I found a worm over a metre long and about as thick as a finger. Despite this, I made sure I transfered all the bristle worms I found to my new tank when I set it up last year.

    That one above look pretty inocuous. I would certainly keep it if were my tank.

    Steve

  12. loss off colour

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    Do mandarins sleep in a mucus coocon? remember reading that some fish do can't remember whether mandarin is one of them.

    Mine doesn't. There is no hint of mucus and it does fade ot a greyish colour. It sleeps down one end of the tank and always under the same rock.

    Steve

  13. cbb & lmb

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    .......

    I notice my CB goes into a quite corner at night and becomes very lethargic, ......

    It was over night that the that CBB had it's fatal accident with the overflow.

    Steve

  14. cbb & lmb

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    what did you add?

    I just used the plastic netting material that you find around dive bottles. This was folded in half and tied with plastic tie wraps, then just sat over the lip of the overflow forming a mesh fence. In the current tank it is a lot simpler as I lay it across the overflow edge a bit like a T, with the top of the T sloping down slightly into the overflow. This not only stops fish going over the top but also prevents them from even getting closer than about 2-3cm. V’ small fish can still get past the end, as recently proved by a couple of baby Banggai cardinals.

    Steve

  15. cbb & lmb

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    Sorry about you loss. I once lost a CBB to my overflow. I had him for well over a month and he was well settled in so I assume it was just that. This was befoe I had any protection on the overflow and what prompted me to add some.

    Steve

  16. Underwater photos

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    Good idea. I have been reading about that sort of thing on RC and am planning to build a floating acrylic box for top down photography . I figured that if it was plenty buoyant I could safely just push it to where I wanted it with the lens.

    Steve

  18. Suphews tank

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    That's lucky. I was thinking that if it had grown that big (as the one in the pic) in such a short time, especially after it's accident, and if it also kept dividing at the rate it did/does in my tank, then you would soon be overrun.

    Steve

  21. BIG purple crab

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    Here you are trying to remove a crab and there I was last year putting one in. Even saw it the other night cleaning out the corner down by where the mandarin 'sleeps'. The only animal I lost on my move to my current tank was a crab and I still feel guilty about that.

    If it isn't doing anything wrong, count yourself lucky to have a diverse selection of reef creatures in your reef.

    Steve

  23. Tank Wipe Out! :(

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    Bad news.

    Having multiple RCDs may not have helped as a spike capable of tripping one could just have easily tripped them all. Having multiple RCDs (with built in circuit breakers - don't think older RCD units combined the two devices) will help if you have an equipment malfunction.

    I have had plenty of power problems in the past, the worst being when the tank was at work and the people installing air conditioning decided that they needed a new power feed and would therefore take one of the tank feeds (2 at the time).

    Nothing happened at first but eventually the load proved too much for one circuit breaker. Power went off on the Sunday morning and by Monday the temp was down to 19°. I don't recall loosing any fish but lost a few corals, one of which I had had for nearly 10 years, in the lower secrtions of the tank.

    The 2000L system I look after is connected to the buildings emegrency generator. I tried to tell them they only needed to worry about one supply for the pumps but it was easier just to put the lot on. This generator is about the size of a truck. I believe it has been used in anger.

    Steve

  24. Fluffy Coralline

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    Does you blue eat peas? That yellow used to, perhaps that had something to do with it sampling a floating bubble. (It was a sad day when I lost that fish. I had a coral bleach suddenly and I think the tang decided to sample the algae it ejected - a bad idea as it was dead shortly thereafter.)

    The blue tang did not touch it in my previous tank but it does in this one. Perhap the reason is that my old tank had plenty of caulerpa when the fish arrived and this could keep up with its apetite. Caulerpa gets mowed down as soon as it appears in the current tank so it may be the tang has been forced to diversify.

    Steve

  25. Fluffy Coralline

    in Saltwater

    Posted

    Yip, damn crap...I hate it!

    Get one of your tangs to eat it. Apart from the couple that are reputed to eat it anyway, I think most may well eat it once they realise it is food.

    I once accidentally trained a yellow tang to eat it when I was removing some and a bit got loose. The yellow, being a greedy bugger, sampled it, liked it and within a couple of weeks had rid the tank of it.

    Currenly my blue tang removes any it can get it's nose into. Big fish, big nose, so some remains in the hard to get at places.

    Steve

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