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Had a look through there & none of them really resemble the little bugger. Will try and take better pictures of them tonight if I can. Cheers.

Hey there. Nah, they are quite a bit longer, & have much longer feelers? They are very very shy. Eyes are similar however Have a dark top and white belly. Cheers.

I'm removing the larger fish in my tank & downsizing. I've had these two fish for over a year or so now and have forgotten their breed names. Can anyone help, they are the darker coloured fish - hard to get pictures of them because they are always hiding! http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =196608851 Thanks!

Been gone from FNZAS for nearly 2 years, went overseas. Just got back into Fish again and was just wanting to know something about my Bala shark. Ever since I got him (young) he was very sociable & was always in view. Now he's about 4-5 months old he tends to hang in the shadow's. He's getting quite big also. Is this normal with them?as

Yes, it will be a huge change. Epecially the roads. It takes 5 mins to get to work here, over there depending on where you are can take 30mins-1 hour

Melbourne central Going from a population of around 130,000 to 4,000,000

Hey again guys. I'm moving to Australia on the 15th and all my marine/fresh tanks are going to be for sale $1reserve on trademe. I could only imagine the effort of moving stuff over there, their dept. of agriculture and fish would have an absolute field day lol. So keep an eye out for some bargains

Hey newtman, I got him from trademe but learned later that there are loads available local to myself. http://www.trademe.co.nz/structure/auct ... d=29551235

I can't believe how much these guys eat.

I had two who were in a cold tank. When I switched to tropical they were in the same tank, never had a problem with them being agressive towards other smaller fish, well not that I seen. Never had any drop in numbers either. I was also told by the shop that they are agressive so don't put anything like goldfish in with them, otherwise they would be smashed. All aside, I think if they start chomping and chasing other fish, remove them.

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To add: This may be a stupid question but are those cat eyes mating in the picture above. I seem to have about a hundred or so small ones and those are the only ones I have in the tank? Anyone know much about them?

Yeah, very very sticky indeed. I've woken up a few times now to see an empty crayfish skeleton floating on the surface with a very pale looking cray at the bottom. That anenomie came with the crays about the size of a 2 dollar coin, now its nearly the size of a twenty dollar note. Does anyone have a name for him? The big dude is more than ready to eat now. But he's stayin alive lol. I'd rather release it than eat it, although more than happy to eat one in a restuarant. I bet he would taste good too cause he's well fed with top quality food as a pose to the rubbish they would eat in the sea as they are scavengers by nature.

I think the cray's have grown in size since I got them. Pic also below is of a poor cat eye that has a mussel and an anenome on it lol, must be heavy for it Protein skimmer is workin overtime whenever I feed the crays and anenomie's mussels for some reason. Tank overall is good and crays are in excellent nick from what I can see. They love their food!!!

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Just showing Paul how to reply so he can answer questions e.t.c. Cheers

Hi guys, I finally got my act together and asked Deeveus to take some photos of my tank and get it onboard. A big thanks to JetSki, Pies, Tim and Reef for all your advice and phone calls Here's a bit of info: Tank has been going for about 15 months, the only problem that I have struck is this god damn hair algie. I've been battling it for about a year and I had a crap protein skimmer so I got a new one. Any contstructive advice would be greatly apreciated. Tank Size: 1300mm long, 700 wide, 700 high - Roughly 630 litres. Sump: 400mm High, 600 long, 400 wide - Roughly 90 litres. Equipment: - Deltec APF 702 Skimmer - Koralin calcuim reactor - Tunze stream power head - 1260 Return pump Ehien - Abitzer power head - 160kg (aprox) live rock Tank parameters: - PH 8.1 - Calcuim 400 - KH 7.9 DKH - Salinity 1.026 - Nitrate 0 - Phosphate 0 - Magnesium 1020 Fish stock: - 1 sadleback clown - 1 blue damsel - 1 flame angel - 1 banana wrasse - 1 sixline wrasse - 2 yellow tangs - 1 long nose butterfly - lawnmower blennie Coral stock: - 1 leather - 1 brain coral - 1 galaxia - 2 mushrooms - 3 euphillas Planning to stock more corals but with the arrival of a baby the handbrake was applied and things are expected to happen a little more slow. Pictures:

Forgive my maths if its wrong but 267 fish in a 5 foot tank seems a little too much by the time you add gravel, filter components, plants, rocks and decorations its going to leave him about 1 fish every 2 litres which is a milk carton lol. Ammonia levels are good for that amount of fish however. How often is he doing water changes? Also if the tank is kept out of the sunlight with covers on that should reduce the algae as it did mine. It eliminates the need for expensive risky chemicals.

You can actually do that without killing them?

Cheers for that people. Was just wanting to make sure that this filter would be ok to use in with the harshness of the salt water. If I had known that the actual name fluval was a model and not a make, I would of found this sooner Cheers.

A fluval 104, if they do, can they describe the performance and water quality? i bought one second hand and cannot find anywhere the specs of this unit, its never been used however and I was also wanting to make sure if these units could even be used in salt. Cheers.

Thanks Chimera, that would be great! Could you tell me the aprox RRP of one of those pumps. This will be suitable to add into the new tank, because I will have a trickle filter running at the same time and current variation is the key. Good lph aswell.

If you had this up in a month or so's time I would take it. I'm starting up a marine tropical tank in the next month or so and this would be prefect.

LOL Those movies can be arranged. But my membership would probably be cancelled.

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