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yummmm, summer BBQ grilled cray with a touch of herb & garlic butter and a large glass (large that is) of sav blanc. when can we come over? may be the next reef club at your place? nice pics deeveus, good luck with them

deal, i'll talk to chims wife, she is a nice person to talk to and will understand (i guess i just mention power useage, that should do it). hmmm so is chim. bummer i may loose out on my commision but you can always buy Reefs tank.

bummer got to change channel now to see what else is on. may K1 or thai kickboxing. lately there is only rugby against those bloody poms, what a waste of airtime!, oops hope i didn't say anything wrong. :lol:

what do you mean morning shot? yor corals don't even wake up until noon! unlike you.

cigarettes have warnings on them too? does anyone who smokes listens? do yo buy margerine instead of butter has advised by your health whatever? marg is one step away from plastic and black by nature ( it gets bleached to look nice). at leats zeovit put some warning labels on it unlike many other firms. is this a bad thing? would you still buy your favourite halide if the wrapper would say "may kill corals if used wrongly"? yes i agree it may be a riskey way of running of tank if you do not follow the guidelines. ps. i still drink coca cola and they wont tell me whats in it either. :roll:

slapmemonkey are you p norton? seeing this is your first post and used to defend someone you hardley know and who was very wrong in his actions? but hen again maybe you belive in the good in people.

he doesn't touch any corals at all, i don't know about peacefulness as he stands up against my yellow tank and regal angel. he is also a greedy feeder, but i put that down to all the other "foodsuckers" (tried to use a nice word) i have. in the first couple of days he would only pick small amounts, nowadays he is right in the middle to get as much as possible. lets hope that he doesn't get as fat as the rest of them. :roll:

quite honestley i don't care what it leaches, as long as my corals are happy!! which seems to be the case. i have used the zeovit system when it first appeared on the market, with mixed results i must admit. then there was very little info the,whole lot seemed strange at the least, info was a one sheet papper with large print! i stopped using it then after a few months because i could not see a difference. also it was quite expensive shipping it in myself! but times have changed, zeovit systems have grown (i do not say improved that's up to everyone who wants to use it). i have seen lots of tanks that use it at the moment and i must say i liked the looks! so i probed into it abit more and found that the whole system has changed a lot since then, there is a zeofood7 out now, i used just the food with no number which means that a lot has changed and most likley will keep on changing in the future. corals die, most of newly settled small acro's will perish in nature. i have seen it in tonga (200 dives in one year), in the maldives (70 dives in 6 months) and recently in the cooks. lots of small acros just die because they settled in an unfavoured position. most of our corals are just that, small pieces of different acros and yes lots will perish or struggle to survive in our aquariums. i have seen perfect puple/blue/ pink specimens only to see them bleached a few days/weeks later. and this happened regarding temparature! so to blame coral loses on a systems is narrow minded, what ever system you use you will have loses, some of us are pretty good to keep them at a minimum, but i would like to know the person who hasn't lost a single piece??? iron or not iron, rowa or MM it doesn't really matter that you use as long as your corals look healthy and grow. and if a systems is able to grow corals faster then others (maybe its just survival of the species that makes it grow faster which could well be the case with shallow acros as competition is fierce) then we should be grateful and shar those acros around, i would rather give lots away the have a tank with very slow growing and dull liking stonies in my tank!

have to agree that the ammino acids must do something, as i had some dormant dark looking not at all growing acro's (must admit they are not in the most well lit spot! shortly after starting to use AA and i am only talking days not weeks, growth tips appeared on those acro's and they continue to grow!

thanks for that brianemone.

it a morish idol (but i can't get the bloody picture to download, i can't remember my old account who it was with and tried all the others and most just don't like me ( wont show a picture :evil: ) maybe you have to come over to see it, btw your leather (or is it mine) is doing great!

well that didn't work! :evil: will try again!

http://images.snapfish.com/343%3C752%3B ... %3D%3B9%3A% http://images.snapfish.com/343%3C752%3B ... C%3Bot1lsi http://images.snapfish.com/343%3C752%3B ... 5287ot1lsi http://images.snapfish.com/343%3C752%3B ... 3A32ot1lsi he is doing great eating well and not scared at all! i must have a very pleasant yellow tang :lol

so layton why do't you just put some zeovit rocks into your system and wait and see? if it is just the iron from the rocks and not any of the other chemicals from the zeovit system then you should see some improvements on your brown acro's. this wouldn't reqire any test kits, just some good eye sight.

$5.80 plus GST a day. that iwaki sucks a lot (i have the same, one just don't thinks about it, because its out of sight and it runs 24/7). agree you should get a nice xmas present (maybe shares )

i ran my lights for 12 hours a day, have a total power consumption for the tank of $3.20 a day, thats half the price of a beer in the pub. its a little cheaper in the summer (if you don't have a chiller that is ) as the heater gets unplug for that time.

running the lights 8 hours a day, $4.80 per day plus GST. which is really not that high.

i always blame the clothes dryer for the high power bill, until the wife told me its actualy a dishwasher. :roll:

how do i do that???

people who are affraid of the power bill shouldn't have big tanks or get a part time job!

if it is a pistol shrimp good luck finding him as most are clear in colour and quite small even for the noise they make.

mine is an arcadia fitting i got from jansens around 10 years ago, 250w unit with separate ballast box which only contains the ballast and ignitor. thats the reason i asked what a capacitor does. my 400w runs perfect (sunburst 400w 12000k) with just a ballast and separate ignitor. well lets wait til tomorrow. got a ballast from brendon and had a look inside, bummer there is a ballast, ignitor and clearly labeled capacitor.

just rang thornelighting and lamb brokers, because none! of my 3 different halide fittings contain capacitor's (had a slight panic attack coming up ) got told by both that i don't necessary need them, but i might have an unsuitable ballast that runs my BLV 250w 10000k. got to get back to them with the right info of my ballast so will see tomorrow.

like the depth of field in camera (photography) terms, means distance away from you, not the height.

would that also effect the light output and brightness of the bulb?