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cookie extreme

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  1. sorry i was talking in my last post (see below) about my copperband and not my regal angel. possible but the food it eats my not have the nutritional value it needs. copperbands will forage all day for food in your tank, so if you have plenty of worms and other little critters plus supplementing the food he eats now in the shop you should be fine.
  2. easy to keep fish in a large tank with plenty of live food. the only food he eats that i feed is frozen mysis shrimp, nothing else but he picks all day while cruising the tank.
  3. anything thats not to green or red or fleshy, so no scolymia, trach's or blastomussa's lobophyllia's seem to be at risk too, as are clams until the little "angle" gets used to them. but i guess it depends on the fish as well. mine doesn't bother sps, xenia and leathers at all.
  4. na during the winter i had a small heater going plus i used my old MH. but due to the very small size i can't run the lights during the warmer month. the garage heats up quite a bit once it gets to 18 deg outside.
  5. AND WE STILL MANAGE TO KILL THEM IN OUR TANKS! have a little tank in the garage, no heater only indirect natural lights for a couple hours a day and one small powerhead. temp goes up and down during a 24 period. it contains montipora sp (branching and plating), torch coral, green trachaphyllia (got moved from the reef after my regal angel developed a liking for it) and of course lots of glass anemones. the branching monti even grows in the tank.
  6. like i said same old same old. do as i say, believe what i say. i have great stuff that works but can't prove it. just bringing it up to "tell you" that mine is just better. yeah right!!! hey i have dendronepthia spawning, as well as gorgonians but can't show because its a secret. oh and i can't borrow a camera from anybody because there are so few around. (no wait i don't have any friends). have a good new year and all the best to your wife. (it wasn't even obvious from your last posts that you still had a reef tank? last i heard it was just a very small tank that belongs to your daughter with a couple clownfish in it?)
  7. don't knoch em they taste pretty good wrapped in banana leaf and umu baked. (done quite a few of them )
  8. some tanks get it others don't. why? very good question!! it seems to pop up during the changes of seasons so may be dependent on certain light spectrums to get kick started? maybe the redox has something to do with it as well? it also seems to be selfsufficant when it comes to food sources. i would say that most tanks have it present at all times but do not have a noticable outbreak at all or its very limited. while others get the full force of it. will nutrient control prevent it i don't believe so. (seen it on many reefs, its just a natural ugly occurance IMO)
  9. i guess thats the answer we all knew would come! same old same old!!! lots of opinion's but little else to show. "my system is just so much better with the way i do thinks, but i just can't show you any proof because its a secret, no camera, nothing in it, overgrown with algae, been studying so hard, tank is in another part of the world, haven't got time to take a picture and the list goes on and on." Yeah right. brianemone puts up pic's of his very immature new tank without any problems! i would say that most here would like to see a photo of your 6*2*18" myself included preferably with your sps and any other corals / setup.
  10. you came to auckland, were 650 metres from hollywood and didn't even pop in???? you can't be a serious reefer!!!!! any serious one would go to any, place never mind how bad, that sells corals.
  11. so i guess you are not the shane paul that breeds goldfish and used to import corals a few years back? just hoped it was him.
  12. is this shane paul, "big maori dude from just before hamilton?"
  13. reefs is a poccilopora darminocornis, i have seen it. stylophora don't seem to grow as fast as pocci either so its pretty hard to get good size frags. i have only managed 3 stylo frags but countless poccilopora. so if you have a fast growing green one i would be happy to get a frag some day .
  14. looks like dictyota sp. if it is beware. will out compete corals in any way. no fish seems to eat it. can live in really bad water and light. it grows quickly and spreads fast into a real plague. has a preference for hard substrate i.e. coral skeleton, rocks etc and once established its hard to beat.
  15. i guess the below article sums it up in a nice way how people see the zeovit system.
  16. 3.75 litre to the US gallon. 4.85 something for a british. if i remember correctly so if you have an US 120 gallon that would be 450 litres (4foot*2foot*2foot) but who still works in feet anyway? knowing your tank is about 1200mm*600mm*700mm that would make it 504 litre (134.5 gallon - US that is or 103.9 Birtish gallon) thanks god most countries now use metric!!!
  17. no listen to steve, he is absolutly right.a nice water spill happened to me a few months ago. the cartridge is very good just make sure that you got the small bottom cover disk on as well. i didn't and a snail managed to get over my overflow (not hard at all), crawled into that little opening on the cartridge and got stuck in my restricter in my durso. with the snail being stuck, the gravity suction when the durso reaches maximum level (above the air hole) didn't work (it should have sounded like a toilet flushing over and over), instead it overflowed on to the floor (only 80liters or so). now i make sure that my filter cartridge is in place to avoid further spills.
  18. i would see that as serious personal attack wasp!
  19. have you ever touched it? or just place a wooden stick into the tentacles and see if it sticks to it.
  20. no proof of that, some say it eats algae. everybody i know has some in their tank and have coraline algae. some even say they corals. again no real proof. i keep mine because i do not see them as a problem.
  21. its a asterina sp., harmless starfish but can multply into large numbers.
  22. hi Fay, the anemone with the yellow damsel(?) is the one that ate my morish idol. sticky little think but great looking, most people taht have tanks don't even recognise it as an anemone.
  23. i did and now i don't know if i just have a headache or if i am hungover? :-?
  24. vava'u group in tonga is great for diving but not so good for snorkling. lot's of stonies, leathers and gorgonian's depends where you intend to go. has also the clan mcwilliam as a great wreck dive. vanuatu is very good for everything but very expensive. and i mean very! don't bother with the cooks, raro may be a good beginners place but it is rather boring. same goes for aitutaki. great above but pretty poor when it come to variety. doesn't mean its dead. lots of corals, clams and other stuff around just not very interresting. fiji i can only quote the coral coast. which is not really worth it, but the outer islands and taveuni are supposed to be awesome. i would say the further east (towards south america you go the less variety there is. bali for example was great for diving and snorkling. as would be other islands around that area
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