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Flat worm exit... I think

Cheers Rossco for the hand me down All drilled and setup with T5's and metal halide. Pics to come. Word of advice don't fill the sump with water when glue only half dried... (ESPICALLY when the sump is constructed inside the stand and can't be removed.... :lol: :lol: :lol: laughing at myslef :lol: :lol: Fish even act differently.

yes thats it... water fleas... Not for long, the copperband is getting more and more keen. I just need a regular supply. Can only get them once a week and they only last three-four days. Cheers Ru

Wooden flooring :lol: :lol: I would say a flea bomb around a tank, would have the same type of result as bombing your lounge with mustard gas..

Its eating Dellfera (or sometime like that, goldfish breeders grow it. So the local fishstore said. It ate its first bloodworm (frozen) today :lol:

Hows the anemone now JDM??

DO NOT use copper based treatments with live invertibrates in your tank. Kills them dead. That means dead anemone = everything dead... If you use copper based treatments put it in a completely seperate tank. Your anemone (as long as clowns live in it) should kill all parasites that would try to live on your fish. Cheers ru

Copperband eating freshwater live food today, from the local pet store. A good start. Also having a really good look at the flake food, after watching my other fish go nuts eating. Fingers crossed.

She wastes the glass shrimp from raglan. Atacked ones that were 3cms plus. (to big to eat though) Cheers

Thanks wasp. He has tonnes of mysis shrimp. Due to me slow flow return pump setup. (turns an overflow into a refugium). He is interested in a smashed mussel I put into the tank. Hope he goes well.

Hey What do you guys feed yours?? (Copperband Butterfly Fish) My one was eating frozen food in the shop. But hasn't touched it in my tank yet.. Although no more glass anemones :lol: . Cheers for the advice. Reuben

Fine yesterday. Then dead this morning.. Any ideas. It is very disappointing.

I think this post should be in the pirvate trade and exchange area.

Rossco my BTA stings any coral it has meet so far.

Cannot what for that sort of stuff to become more common. Like Plasma TV's wait 4-5 years and hey was $10,000 now $2,400.

Bristle star... answer to why there legs start falling off.. Because they are starving to death.. This is true if you beleive my book I got for christmas.. "500 plus essential to know invertibrates and tips for their care". My one legs were falling off and it was in the light all day and even stopped accepting food for about two weeks. I put it in the sump (which must have food in it ), is is 24 hour pitch black. (no light) it was in there for about 2-3 months.... cause i forgot about it :oops: :oops: (during this time it lived right under where my fresh water top up water goes) Took it out three days ago and into the main tank and its happy and feeding well again. Legs regrowing. He is now renamed stumpy......

as always I reakon cleaner shrimp are your best bet.

this happened to mine me mysis shrimp were picking at his legs.. It started hanging out in the light as well. I put it in my sump (no lighting) and 3 weeks later it was looking better growing legs again. Speaking of "old bones" I best see if he is still alive I forgot about him... 2-3 months later :oops:

i'll have to come have a look. My wife says I might be allowed some.... for my other anemone

kyle will be rapped . I think I know what his christmas present will be. an anemone... thanks santa

click on the photos to enlarge. seio in the middle due to the anemone split. (one decided to anchor to the seio base) Here it goes, still can't get my camera right, you can't see the sps's at the top. but hey

TWO :lol: :lol: It started moving yesterday then last night it split into two. my clowns are a little confused about which one to live in yah one year latter still alive and now reproducing....... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Best: my anemone still alive after a year, and not moving :lol: Lost: lost a chromis and a clam this year. Cheers ru

tip them into my skimmer/ when I take the cup off to clean once a week. mixes stuff real will... go deltec

yip, you can do it cheap as... probably for $500-600 (as my local fishstore told me.. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ) Unless you wish to have anything interesting (anemones, shrimp, corals etc... etc...) Then the cost is as much as you wish to spend... Budget at least 2000-3000 and take your time shopping and READING up. Also look on trademe will save you heaps, and make your money go further. Good luck.. JDM has a good tank on trademe for cheap, don't know how you would get it to Nelson :lol: :lol: