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hollywood had one too! just remove the fish nd cut the affected fins away with a sharp pair of siccors.

when you see how much damage a single cyclone does then 3.4 million pieces of corals are not really that many at all. and seeing the maldives shortly after El Nino with, i would say 80% plus, dead corals then 3.4 million are just a couple islands worth really. and lets face its a buisness with many people making good money, so it will be a very long time before collection will be banned (if ever).

oh yes clowns will be another type that is easy to look after.

you (and the seahorses) will be better off if you start with some easier fish in the begining. like damsels, chromis etc so you get a feel about water quality etc. seahorses are hard to keep alive unless they are tank bred and even then are a challenge.

nice going puttputt, that gorgonian surely has grown heaps considering most reefers don't get much growth with them.

yeah can't wait to see it myself. only saw the remains of his last set-up and that was pretty good.

that just shows his skimmer is undersized if the caulerpa still grows. have been telling him his skimmer is not enough and he should up-grade for a while!! give you $50 for that useless skimmer!

only 5 years? its seems a lot longer!

i hear that rotorua has some great selection these days with great prices. might be worth a trip.

thats not really true. only lately have some manufactures been making salt mixes that are to be used with RODI. sure you can use any saltmix with any water but you might end up with short falls in some parameters, like calcium. thats one reason that you can buy salt mixes now where you would have to add some stuff seperate before adding the water to your tank (like calcium).

Break the whole skeleton in half and through the living uninfected tissue.

the pro salt has more calcium in it as it was designed to be used with RODI water (which of course has no calcium left compared to tapwater). Red Sea produced it as to many aquarists complained about low calcium levels even after doing a water change. the levels then messured around 380 with the standard salt using RODI water. so if your calcium is to high just switch back to standard salt mixes.

put it in less water movement.

give it a go and you either be hooked for good or fail and go back to fresh water. It’s the non plus ultra in regards to fish keeping. in fresh water you "just" breed fish whilst in SW you grow corals (hard and soft - sps or lps or mushrooms or leathers or many other things), its never boring and sometimes quite frustrating because its so complex. Breeding fish is the ultimate in SW keeping due to their high demands. So give it a go and come back to us “lost " souls that entered marines. (We also invested our retirement savings in it :roll: )

thats because you are hopeless and can't even keep goldfish alive for a day!!

in auckland? now in the middle of summer? i remove my heaters in the middle of december, give them a good clean and check them out to see if i have to replace any and put them away. tank goes down to 21 - 22 degrees which is perfectly normal and slowly increases in the summer to about 26-27. it then starts to drop once autum arrives and in go my cleaned or new heaters to keep a temp of around 23 -24 during the winter. ok i have to admit that my tank volume does help with stability a lot and that smaller tanks tend to have more problems with temp flactuations. so a fan, chiller or room aircon is quite often the only solution in keeping temp down.

take it out of the tank and put it in the garage for the next few month!! let your tank temp drop as much as it can. this will counter act any of the powerheads in the tank. why do you run a heater in the summer?

the starters will, as almost all starters these days are good for 150 - 400 or even 1000 watt. but nothing else will. as reef said wrong fittings and ballasts. don't really want a bulb exploding over your tank do you?

most likely H. leucospilota

its a sea cucumber. keep an eye on it. it must have come in as a hitch hiker (you importing stuff from china via middle man again? ). but do watch it it will move around quite a bit and cover your power head inlets too.

one reason i studied it from an early age!

there are two of them

i like how he has his "safety glasses" on his forehead whilst drilling! 8) but at least the sump is covered, that man knows where it counts!

did you give Tel a ring on his mobile? he had a great unit for sale at a very very good price.

coming along great. 8) thats still over 18 hours from the moment i packed them. in some cases the water was really cloudy in others crystal clear. read on one of the american websites about dry shipping them and it worked great.