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Melafix sucks...have had bad experience before....STAY CLEAR!!

If you designed it right, you could put both in the overflow box, out of the way....Awesome.

600 litres heavy load....it would do the job I reckon. Unless you are loading up.

Can always run 2 x mc500 deltecs. Im running two 1250 Turbos and they are both skimming the same amount of crap as each other...Heaps! An mc600 would run 800 litres lightly loaded anyway. the 600 means 600litres heavy loading I think. Reef?

Definitly a deltec hang on.

Feelers......The UPGRADE has been close to 4 or 5 G's. (Some livestock included). (Remember I had a lot already in the Cube and i got money back for the cube itself also). (Thats me building everything including the cabinetry and plumbing). probably closer to 8 or 9 if done normally. (Without livestock).

Cheers paul!

My Acro's are better than ever before....time to sit back and watch the the tank age....

Complete!!!

If you have soft corals you should be fine. Some of the rock crabs will eat the tips of SPS corals if there is not enough food, i.e: Algae and detritus in the sand etc. Most will be ok though. I am currently trying to remove one white crab that is nibbling my Acropora. I have currently chopped off one pincer with a knife.....but apparently he will grow it back....I just cant get the little #$@%!! :evil:

sounds ok to me....but i dont use reactors, so better to ask one of the "Reactor" dudes!

From another site: The longhorn cowfish must be dealt with carefully when in an aquarium enviroment. If overly harrassed or stressed, it can release the toxic substance, ostracitoxin which will poison the entire fish tank. Dunno if I would risk it after seeing this.

A read from Wet Web media: Ostraciidae, from the Greek ostracum, meaning "shell", the box, trunk or cowfishes are found all over the tropical Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. Fourteen genera with about thirty three species. These may be the most characteristic of fishes with their bodies encased in a bony carapace. The family is also notable for some members possession of "ostracitoxin" a toxic discharge substance of some trunkfishes. If/when sufficiently disturbed whole tanks, and recirculating systems of livestock have been wiped out. Though this is rare, the cautions listed elsewhere in this piece on netting, acclimation, and tankmates should be heeded if you intend to try a trunk/boxfish. The genus Lactoria, especially Lactoria cornuta should be dealt with carefully; I have witnessed three poisoning "episodes" with this species, one from a dead specimen in a filter, another from a harassed individual, the third from the careless introduction of shipping water into a display system. Lactoria and members of the genus Lactophrys are commonly called Cowfishes for their "horns", a conspicuous pair on the head and another doing rear-guard near the anal fin. The Smooth Trunkfish, Lactophrys triqueter is the most frequently offered member of the genus, with the Scrawled (Lactophrys quadricornis) and Honeycomb (Lactophrys polygonius) cowfishes occasionally available. All three hale from the western tropical Atlantic and grow to at least eleven inches in length. Did he get harrassed A?

wasp, I will come over today.......have a look at the floor for you.

Holy crap.....I cant believe it. Sorry to hear it A. Do you think it was the cowfish? or something else in the water? Did you test the water you did the 100% water change with? How are the corals?

My Flame angel did that for a few days....Might just be rebelling..hopefully will come right by itself.

tell me about it.... but you gotta admit they rock!

An Acro/fish shot.... Tank doing well so far.

How's he going A?

I have a stream and am Wrapped.....Go the good ones! Wont be buying a Seio now.

Blastomussa merleti

Herpolitha limax

Heliofungia:

I just keep going to the early hours til its done... :-?

found this on a site....interesting. Posted by: mojoreef The concept is kind of funny actually. In a mature reef or aquarium the poppulations of the different bacterial strains balance to the amount of food that they consume. When a tank is first cycling we add dead things (either a dead shrimp or LR with dead stuff in it) So a mass introduction of a food source so that the bacterial population explodes to meet the input. After that initcal cycle thier is always a big die off of bacteria as the population reduces to meet what would be the standard food input for it. The result is all the organics tied up in the bacteria are released and the person goes through an algae cycle (algae goes after the food put out by the bacteria death) . Anyway at some time in the early life of our tanks the bacteria/algae populations become more static. As is the bacteria population matches the food input with out the large blooms in bacteria population or what we tend to call a mature tank. So now come the concept of dosing a carbon soure, in this case vodka. What folks do is dose the vodka, the extra carbon in the tank cuases another bacterial bloom in population. The concept being is that if you have a larger population of bacteria you will have more bacteria to do the job of nitrification, because of thier population enlargment it would create more of thier biproduct which in turn would increase the population of the bacteria behind them, denitrifing. So the bottom line is what folks are trying to do is to create and artifical population which it turn will give the tank more reduction power. Problems: It would be almost inpossible to manually keep this population static. As in over populate and keep that colony in tacked with no excessive loss to the population. Miss once of the perfect dose and you allow all the extra bacteria to die, when they do they release (make inorganic) all of the nutrients they have bound in thier matrix. The result is algae being johny on the spot and taking up the nutrient and having a bloom in your tank. Second problem is as Mikes says, vodka is only 40% so when you dose with it you are getting 60% of that mix being something else. Ie carbs, sugars and so on. Or as we like to call algae food?? Biological filtration is not that effective to begin with, what folks are trying to do is to make up for that shortfall by hyperizing the bacterial component of the filtration. Can be done but not with out the pitfalls or riding the edge.