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I second that. Peter is the man for building tanks!

I put a Durso on my tank. A little bit of thought spent on making sure I made it right, a couple of weeks' wait for it to quieten down - it's real quiet. I made a perspex runway that hangs thru the slits on the overflow and this reduces the remaining noise even further. I can control the flow via my AquaMedic 3600l/h pump if I want to (but I like having it at full whack).

the name of the place is Filtercorp International, in Beach Haven Ackland. Email: akld "curly at symbol" filtercorp dot co dot nz. I dealt with a helpful guy called Miles. Minimum length to buy is a metre from memory which will last a while. I've used 1 and 5 micron for over a year and from that experience I recommend it.

helpful hint: tie 2 knots if you don't get a stocking end with the toe bit.

Ive got around 5000 lph going through my 380l set-up... a little more wouldn't go amiss. I have 32mm piping on the closed loop, so I could always swap the 2400lph pump with a 3500lph for some extra kick....!

Be a man and use your wife's stockings LOL

sorry got busy last night - sick child. Puking up everywhere. Made a note of it and will dig out the name this weekend. p.s. why are people getting banned...and for what?!?!

There's a crowd in Ak that will sell by the metre, filter felt in varying filter capacities from 1micrometre to about 50. I use 1 and 5 occasionally for 1/2 a day to brighten the water - works great - and then discard the felt. You don't need much, and it's very cheap. I'll try to dig out the name of the place this evening.

if u get a pH meter, make sure you calibrate it regularly (every couple of months) - they do get out of whack over time. Plus the probes are rated for a life of 18mths when run continuously.

Yeah jump in the car and head south to sunny Wellington. There're heaps of people here living not far apart, you could do something of a tank crawl.

replace your blue lights with red lights and put a speaker playing Barry White next to the tank. Set up a table with a red-white checked tablecloth, a couple of candles, and feed the fish oysters. Voila!

nice!! MIght be a bit cheaper than a pre-made one and a bit more fun too I guess

You can do some simple mods on a SeaClown skimmer that make them ok skimmers (not great) for small tanks, up to 100l I reckon. Uprade the pump to 1200 or 1500lph, dremel off the innermost acrylic tube, put a wooden airstone down the centre of the skimmer. THe original design wasn't great, and these mods won't make it as good as a $500 skimmer, but it might ok for your setup. Good luck with whatever you go with.

will have a hawkfish too soon

I second that. Irfanview is the mutt's nuts.