Kermit

Yeah and best thing about it is that most people that horse wipped the guy are NZ's great look for our country hey.

Look i cant say i agree with what he's doing either but theres no use telling him to stop and abusing him as he'd most likely ignore you, how about giving the guy some ideas on how to house them better suggest things instead of telling him what to do, at least he asked for help and didn't do it all on trial and error then we'd be none the wiser remember he asked for peoples input not abuse i've given him a little advise as i see fit if he uses it then good if he doesn't then i cant do much about it but at least i gave him some advise at the end of the day.

This is how i see what he is doing, he has a large Quarantine tank 500 liters, hes holding all fish in their own holding net to prevent them from harming each other how big these nets are could make a difference, he has two clowns out in the tank hoping that they'l pair up, i assume ounce they do if they do he'l move them to their own tank and release two more clowns hoping they pair up and so on. Not the ideal inviroment but it seems like a good way to pair them up i dont agree that having them all in one tank is good tho why cant he put them into their own tanks from the begining i dont know. I have 4 clowns in my 4 footer two perc's and two Polymus the perc's are spawning every two weeks and seem happy and the polymus seem to be doing the mating dance but haven't started spawning.

yeah i bet they're running out of grunt by now, the camera i used to take these photo's had a spectrum display on it and most shots i took came up between the blue-yellow spectrum usually highest around the green/red spectrum i dont know how accurate it was though but it was one thing that stood out to me thats another thing for you to add.

Hmmm you mean the one just above, that was about 1 meter down and the light was pretty bright white more then blue but this varies on tides to though. What colour are you lamps your running 10k, 14k, when did you last change them and did you change your lamp manufacture or type or colour?

Wasp i didn't take any tests although i wish i had but next time i may take a couple of floats that i'l leave out on the reefs to give me trended information of the water temperature, and PH and maybe some other perameters but we'll have to wait and see next year. As for the temperature it did varie a bit both times i've been there and all the reefs i've swimed on you get a warm and cool wave come through so about every 1-2 meters you swim the temperature will either rise or full in temperature i cant tell you what the temperature difference is sorry not like our tanks hey were its a comfy 25°C. as for depth as i meantioned earlier it would on average varie from 0.5-1.5 meters deep, the colour of light would also varie from what i seen as white to a blue colour most corals that had bright colouring would be either blue/purple and green/yellow had the odd pink not much in red at all and a lot of brown i'd say about 99% of the corals i seen were Acro's tables and stags man the tables are impressive so many of them growing over each other, i seen the odd yellow leather and pulsing what ever you call it. Now as for the Current i cant say it seemed overly high in current but i'd say it'd be hard to compare to our tanks as its not directional from one source like our tanks are (pump out lets) but on the reefs that break the waves it'd be a lot more impressive. heres some more pics Pulsing what ever. This is huge man about 1.6-1.8 meters diameter. I had found some blue ones but the batteries ran out and i couldn't find them again bugger but this ones cool. Hey Warick got to agree with you on this Island its a great place it's my second visit to Mana in 18months and still love it, it's the one of the only resort that offers two beachs so if ones windy and chopy its only a 3 minute walk to the other side where it'l be carm and both beachs are beutiful, so when you reckon you'l go next?

Ooops, :oops: thats been fixe bound to be more mistakes someone amoungst it. Cheers Shae

Thanks guys, we went to Plantation Island for a day trip thats a huge resort man and still growing looks very nice to, did you snorkle much there?

Bula to all, I have just arrived back from my over due holiday in Fiji, good to see the place has not lost its fun and relaxing Atmosphere the locals are such friendly people and make your holiday go so much smoother i'd highly recomend the Fiji Islands to anyone. We arrived in Nadi last friday and had a night over on the main land drinking Fiji bitter next to the pool, the following morning we caught the Tiger IV to our holiday destination Mana Island where we spent five great days relaxing and snorkling, one of the locals took us around the other surrounding islands and reefs for a couple of day trips. Mana Island has a great list of Activities and a lot more to offer i hired a under water camera from there and managed to get some pretty cool pic's i thought so thought i'd share them with you all hope you enjoy, these pictures are taken off the reef that surrounds Mana Island and are about 30-40 meters off the shore and about 0.5-1.5meters deep (tips of coralss) so really accessable to all. This was a common thing to see a large group of tangs i was impressed. Low tide out side our Bure. Little baby Cromis each about 2cm long cute little fellas. I was also very surprised in how many Morish Idol's there are swimming around.

Ha ha i was just going to mail you asking if you had any updates dude. Looking great man i'm impressed just let me know when ya ready for some cuttings.

You dont even have to take note of were the wires go as theres only two connections line in, load out easy. The ballasts will cost around $10-15 each maybe cheaper at an electrical wholesalers store like Rexel or Corey's but thats trade, just go in knowing what you want and they might give you trade, as soon as you show signs of not knowing what you want they'l sting you, chat to the guy about something interesting thats always good . Robert

Hmm maybe pushing it Tom the transformer says not exceed 25watts and on start up it will deffently exceed that. Do you have any sparky mates they could replace the ballast with one that runs on 230 for half the price the transformer cost. Robert

Yeah sorry bout that.

Tom Not if its sized properly. Whats the rating of the transformer and the rating of the compac lights? It sounds like the transformer is sized to small. Robert

Ok price for a Polypropylene float switch, 31mm long x 24mm dia rated at 0.5Amps is $20 including each plus p&p is supose you could normal post it. Robert Ps the one i have has about 10 mm travel on the shaft but switches on about 5mm travel.

Good deal were did you get that?

If your all hard up for some float switches i could get some from Hamer as we have a trade account. Dont qoute me but i think they are somewhere between $15-20 each +p&p. I'l check that price out tomorrow i may need a small reminder though. Robert

Hamer limited well them aswell.

Awsome, thats a cool looking tank top marks. Robert

Yeah, back to Fiji a Fay.

Well the fish are still happy i cant see any traces of the Drano so looking positive. I've got to say i'm impressed with the result of the Drano man that stuff kicks arse, kalk yeah right not for this man anymore. Thanks Layton Robert

Sorry to hear Fay . Robert

Yeah i'm trying to source a regulator through the guy selling the CO2 bottles as he may be able to do some deal but he needs to know the specifics of the regulators we use such as output pressure and flow rate. thanks though. Robert

cheers 1 bar, sweet. Bubbles yes, but isn't there a regulator delivery flow rate? if so thats what i'm after. Cheers Robert

Ok guy's and gal's does anyone know what the output pressure and the flow rate that is produced from the regulators used on a calcium reactor. The technical stuff. Robert