Reefkeeping South Africa » Marine Aquariums of South Africa

Sump light on or off

Posted: April 30th, 2008, 8:58pm CDT by gaboon

I'm leaving for mozambique in a few hours, there till Sunday. My torch coral is in there to protect it from those pesky clowns. Can I leave the light on for 4 days? oh ja, theres chaeto in there too.

Seastar

Posted: April 30th, 2008, 7:42pm CDT by Sparky

Is it normal for a seastar to sit with one leg outside of the water? Doesn't seem to matter where I move it, eventually it ends up at the top of the tank with one leg outside the water.

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I'm interested in how much flow all the different members have, and what they keep in their tank.

I've just upgraded to 2 x Tunze 6025's.

5000L/h flow in a 130L tank keeping softies and LPS. Thats 38 x

What do you guys have?

What pumps and why

Posted: April 30th, 2008, 3:29pm CDT by crispin

hey guys,
i need to upgrade internal flow. Those resung wavers need to go pond side.

Could you give me your impressions on the makes available in SA and why you think they are good.

most seem to say that seio are good pumps, relativley affordable and do a job.

Tunze are very good quality but expensive.

and what sort of pumps should i me looking at for a 1.8 reef with some sps, but mainly lps?

i want to have a look at IMACSA and have a idea of what to look for before laying out money on things that are not suited.....rather like those resungs i have:)

Nano Help...

Posted: April 30th, 2008, 2:54pm CDT by Storm

Hello people. Ive had some terrible bad luck with my nano... its been going for over a year no problems. Do water changes weekly with NSW ect. Yesterday my fish started breathing heavely, but i thought nothing off it. This morning when i woke up they where all dead. Im like wtf ok? I test my water and ALL parameters are 0 and temp is at 26'C. Has this happend to anyone else before? Also i haven't added anything new in months so im completely confused as to wtf happened...

The new D+D x-wave powerhead

Posted: April 30th, 2008, 12:04pm CDT by Wee-Man

Remind you of anything?:whistling:

Coffee anyone, i just made a new brew

Posted: April 30th, 2008, 9:18am CDT by crispin

Need to move a tank, no tools

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 9:05pm CDT by crispin

Ok guys I need help moving a tank....its a big fella.

told if i can get it moved 1" no tools i can have it.

who's up for the challange, i'll supply the beer.

Waldo will you do the music :)

Adding 2 more 250w MH

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 9:01pm CDT by Wizard

Hope someone can shed some light on this for me...... sorry that was unnecesary. I have 2 250w 14k BLV's running on a 2m tank about 50cm above the water. i have the the fittings and ballasts in the lighting hood for another 2 mhs. i raised the hood to its current height in preperation for the extra 2 250w mhs. my only concern is that i almost lost a few lps ( false brains, candy cane ) and one or two other colonies when i upgraded from 2 150 ventures to the 250w blvs. there seems to be enough light and everyone is quite happy so the extra lighting is more for asthetics than anything else. would putting 20k blvs (would look awesome) cause less stress ie light shock than say putting another 2 14k blvs.

I am LOVING marines

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 6:15pm CDT by crispin

Yeah i am finding marines incredibly rewarding, mind blowingly complicated and eye wateringly expensive

BUT THANK GOD FOR BATH WATER! makes me feel i can look after something and KNOW whats going on!:)

Trads tank V4

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 3:37pm CDT by trad

Hey guys my tank finally arrived. I havent had a tank for 6 months now and the builder took about a month due to a silicone shortage.

It a 5ft 500mm W and 650mm H, The sump is a metre. Got a TS2, and looking for some MHs that warren and angelreaper may be helpinh me out with.

500L real ocean salt
Black cabinet coming next week.
Lights for DSB, Energy saver globes.
2x seio 1500M (maybe get another 2)
TS2 Skimmer

Marbel starfish swop\sell

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 3:05pm CDT by lanzo

hey guys i want to sell mystarfish or swop it for fish or coral
Please make me a offer 70cm

500L tank for sale

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 1:44pm CDT by Order

Hi guys

Brand new custom tank for sale (1200 x 600 x 750) tank is drilled for overflow
and made of 10th glass with double base.the workmanship is also very good.
I paid R2900 for the tank and I'm willing to let it go for R2000
any offers is also welcome.:thumbup:

New Reeftek TS2 for sale (Boksburg)

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 1:32pm CDT by Order

Hi Guys

I have a new (in the box) Reeftek TS2 skimmer for sale for R1200-00
willing to ship at buyers own account.

Steven (Bpksburg)

Product Review: Lighting for Reef Aquaria: Tips on Taking Light Measurements

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 11:43am CDT by Warr7207

This is a really interesting article concerning lighting.

QUOTE:
"Although we generally think of corals as originating from brightly lighted natural reefs and naturally assume corals need lots of light, the truth is that most corals require relatively little in order to thrive. For example, the 'Fox' coral (Nemezophyllia sp.) does quite well in low light. Thriving specimens have been noted in as little light as 35 µMol·m²·sec! On the other hand, an Acropora specimen (commonly called the 'Purple Monster') displayed magnificent coloration in the highest light intensity I have ever measured in an aquarium - almost 900 µMol·m²·sec (later research reveal that this coral photo-saturates at 300-400 µMol·m²·sec. I was wasting a lot of light and money!). Most corals will grow quite well in light intensities of 200-300 µMol·m²·sec."

Advanced Aquarist's Online Magazine - Product Review: Lighting for Reef Aquaria: Tips on Taking Light Measurements

Where should the bubble trab be in my sump?

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 10:23am CDT by Jason

Ok, so i have millions of micro bubbles in my display and it irretating looking at my tank and just see small bubbles... So i done some research and to get rid of it I must build a bubble trap in my sump... Right i know how to build it, but where should it be... The first glass pane or last glass pane?

Thanks
Jason

Frozen food for sale

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 10:19am CDT by LikesFish

With my last tanks being gone, I have some frozen food for sale.

1 x Artemia
3 x Mysid + packet with 18/20 blocks
1 x Marine Mix
2 x Krill Pacifica + packet with 2/20 blocks
2 x Greenfood + one packed with 10/24 blocks
1 x Lancefish + one packet with 20% left.

I want R200 for them all.

Cleaner shrimp has black markings on him?

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 10:00am CDT by matt165

My one cleaner shrimp has developed some black markings on his body. Doesn't seem to affect him at all though. What could this be?

130L Tank, need more flow - your advice?

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 9:45am CDT by matt165

130L, need more flow in it. was thinking possibly 2 x Tunze 6025's?

Don't want anything too big as it will stand out a lot in a nano.

What else would you advise?

Fragging ricordia just as hardy as other mushies?

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 9:09am CDT by matt165

I've easily fragged mushrooms in the past. Now I want to frag my ricordia, just a bit scared as he was expensive! ;) Is a ricordia as tough as most other mushies?

Synthetic Salts test results

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 10:36pm CDT by Mekaeel

hey guys,check this out
Muzzy's, Synthetic Salt, Test Results - UltimateReef.com

Increasing/Decreasing PH

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 9:16pm CDT by tinusb

Hi Everybody,

How do I decrease my pH? I know I can increase it safely with vinegar [well, in moderation of course!]

Tinus

PS. I'm referring to household items, eg. Bicarb of Soda? And in case, what dosage?

800x800x600 Cube, Stand & Sump 4 Sale

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 7:39pm CDT by Jason

Well braced cube 10mm glas, center overflow with dorso pyping, alaminuim stand with 600x600x600 sump...

CPT only, not willing to ship...

Make me an offer...

082 935 6149

Lighting Setup

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 6:52pm CDT by Storm

Hello people, ive been a bit confused with setting up my T5 lights. The only thing I was told to purchase to get them working was (pic below) and I cant seem to figure out how this thing works. If anybody could please give me some electrical insight would be appreciated

Where to get bio rock? JHB?

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 6:39pm CDT by matt165

Wanna add some biorock to my tank (gonna add a lot more flow and some more LR to improve the filtration)

where can I get it in JHB and how much does it usually go for?

Cyano, playsand, and eggrate dilemma?

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 5:43pm CDT by matt165

128L Nano tank, substrate is playsand (not very thick).

I've noticed there is diatoms and a bit of cyano developing on my substrate! :cheers2:

Now i'm not 100% sure on the cause but i'm thinking it might be too little flow in the tank (only have 2 little powerheads that put out 1000L/h.

I'm buying a Nanostream 6025 tomorrow! (unless someone else could recommend a better powerhead?)

I'm also wondering if I should use eggcrate to raise my LR off of the substrate? If I do this though can I remove the LR, then put the eggcrate straight on the substrate or would I have to remove the substrate before putting the eggcrate in the tank?

I was thinking of going barebottom but not sure how my little hermits or serpent starfish would manage without substrate?

The grim reaper [Aiptasia!] and bubbles

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 2:26pm CDT by tinusb

Hey all!

So my prized anemone's became toast - courtesy of a vinegar injection - thought they were cute, but have already about 10 babies of them randomly in the tank - got a feeling this is going to be a problem in the long run?

Then I've got some brown growth in my tank [diatoms or something like that it's apparently called] with quite a lot of bubbles forming and when the circulation pump goes off, there's an extreme uprise in bubbles from the deadrock to the surface... is this normal?

My water also appears a bit cloudy - one can see foreign debris in the water, but I haven't been able to filter it out using my skimmer... any ideas?

T :thumbup:

Repair Glass Scratches?

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 1:06pm CDT by Storm

Hello everyone. Im sure this has happened to everyone at some point, and it can be a mental annoyance even if they are only slightly visible while others are just to "visible". But how would one go about removing scratches on the tank glass?

Selling my tank

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 11:20am CDT by thegoldfishstudio

500 litre (1.5 meter) marine tank

includes:

Live Rock
Fish: 1x sailfin tang, 1 x common clown, 2 x skunk clown, 1 x bi colour dawf angel, 1 x rusty dawf angel
1 x hermit crab
1 x african shrimp

corals: muchrooms, green star polyps, pink star polyps, brown polyps, green polyps, leathers - trees and trumets,blue sponges

sump with covers and live sand, argonite, bio balls, pumps, powerheads, heaters, protein skimmer, wave pump

lights: 2 x T9's (1 blue and 1 white) 2 x T5's (1 blue and 1 white)

well worth every cent

R5000neg

Peppermint Shrimp - Part II

Posted: April 27th, 2008, 12:57am CDT by tinusb

Hey all! Does anybody know of any LFS in the CT/Strand/Somerset area that has peppermint shrimp? Won't mind 1 or 2 ;)

Tinus :thumbup:

What to collect in Port Edward

Posted: April 27th, 2008, 12:20am CDT by Raven

Hi guys,
I'm on holiday in Port Edward - are there any fish/other that i can collect from here and what do i need before collecting?

Wheelers watchman gobie

Posted: April 27th, 2008, 7:54pm CDT by Ocean

Does anybody ahve experence with this fish, i am thinking of getting one.

ID Needed!

Posted: April 27th, 2008, 4:41pm CDT by tinusb

Hey all!

Have a hitchhiker here on one of my LR pieces. Soz about the quality. What type of crab is it???? BTW the pinchers are white. He's quite small tho!

Tinus :)

Logging?

Posted: April 27th, 2008, 2:42pm CDT by tinusb

Hi All!

What program do u guys use to log water parameters, etc. I've come across a couple of programs, but most of them seems not to be supported by the developer(s) anymore.

Thanx!
Tinus

PS. Just lost one of my shrimps today :(

Urgent help needed

Posted: April 27th, 2008, 12:44pm CDT by LikesFish

Is there anyone close to Centurion that is willing to hold the coral that is left over for collection by the people mentioned in my thread? My tank has no return flow anymore and I have to drain it to get my twin spot coris out, but I have some coral still left. The tank needs to be largish as the coral I have includes two large corals (leather/colt), about 5 pieces of zoanthids, a ricordea, and a couple of other pieces of LR (about 15kg in total).

If anyone could help me today or tomorrow latest I'd really appreciate it.

What's up with my green denny ?

Posted: April 26th, 2008, 12:44am CDT by Warr7207

Normal both look like the green unit on the right.

Why is the unit on the left all shivered up ? He has been fully extended all day.

Tunze 9010

Posted: April 26th, 2008, 12:44am CDT by Aziz

Selling a Tunze 9010 rated for a 1000l asking R1600.00

Please be careful!

Posted: April 26th, 2008, 11:37pm CDT by Tom

Please be aware of the dangers when using generators and inverters.

Your house has a Earth leakage unit, this trips with any leakage of power to earth from live or neutral at 20 Milli Amps.

When using the above, you have no protection from electrocution. Beware of leaky pumps, heaters, badly insulated electrical joints, terminal strip connectors etc. :nono:

Cheato for free/swop, tomorrow only

Posted: April 26th, 2008, 9:23pm CDT by lanzo

Hey guys

i have allot allot of cheato, if u are interested you need to come and collect tomorrow, this is to much for my system(afternoon / night)

I'll give it for free or swop it for a small frag if you have to much coral or would like to help me out.:P

Thanks guys, this stuff is full of life!!!

contact me on 0825986576 (i wont be on the forum tonight so please call)

Who invented the skimmer ?

Posted: April 26th, 2008, 9:01pm CDT by Warr7207

Who invented the skimmer ?

How long has this tech been around?

Anyone got any research history on this ?

A few of my friends

Posted: April 26th, 2008, 7:42pm CDT by crispin

My fav but hardest to photograph well, they just dont do him justice.

Bristle Toof Tang

Lid opener

Posted: April 26th, 2008, 7:11pm CDT by crispin

So often small things make life easier and better. I was battling to open the lid and keep it there, either I would flip it all the way over or I would place a small stick to hold it up.

Both options had limitations, the stick one in particular and I have the bruised to prove it.

So I went to the hardware storekitchen section (mica hardware) and got one of those extendable arms they use to hold top lifting kitchen doors open with. R140 give or take.

I had some difficulty in attaching it and I def wanted it attached INSIDE the hood as the tank has beautiful lines with the cabinet that I did not want upset.

So I screwed the one section in on the base of the lid and then worked out the position where to place a small block of wood to attached the top of the armI will post a few pics.

But in all its brilliant, lifting the lid is easy and stays up perfectly. I am lank chuffed with itJ

Oh I thought about the size too, and basically went for a larger arm than smaller, as I will only use one so wanted a more robust one. To have two would complicate the installation by having to match it carefully

Very Brave Men Jokes

Posted: April 26th, 2008, 2:59pm CDT by Warr7207

*How do you turn a fox into an elephant? *
*Marry it ! *

*What is the difference between a battery and a woman? *
*A battery has a positive side. *

*How are fat girls and mopeds alike? *
*They're both fun to ride until your friends find out. *

*What should you give a woman who has everything? *
*A man to show her how to work it. *

*How do you make 5 pounds of fat look good? *
*Put a nipple on it. *

*Why do women rub their eyes when they wake up? *
*Because they don't have balls to scratch. *

*Why do women fake orgasms ? *
*Because they think men care. *

*What do you say to a woman with 2 black eyes? *
*Nothing, she's been told twice already. *

*If your wife keeps coming out of the kitchen to nag at you, what have you done wrong? *
*Made her chain too long *

*How many men does it take to open a beer? *
*None. It should be opened when she brings it. *

*Why is a Laundromat a really bad place to pick up a woman? *
*Because a woman who can't even afford a washing machine will probably never be able to support you. *

*Why do women have smaller feet than men? *
*It's one of those 'evolutionary things' that allows them to stand closer to the kitchen sink. *

*How do you know when a woman is about to say something smart? *
*When she starts a sentence with 'A man once told me...' *

*How do you fix a woman's watch? *
*You don't. There is a clock on the oven. *

*Why do men pass gas more than women? *
*Because women can't shut up long enough to build up the required pressure. *

*If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife is yelling at the front door, who do you let in first? *
*The dog, of course. He'll shut up once you let him in. *

*What's worse than a Male Chauvinist Pig? *
*A woman who won't do what she's told *

*I married a Miss Right. *
*I just didn't know her first name was Always. *

*Scientists have discovered a food that diminishes a woman's sex drive by 90%. *
*It's called a Wedding Cake. *

*Why do men die before their wives? *
*They want to. *

*Women will never be equal to men... *
*until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy. *

*In the beginning, God created the earth and rested. *
*Then God created Man and rested. *
*Then God created Woman.*
*Since then, neither God nor Man has rested.

Re-scaped Nano

Posted: April 26th, 2008, 1:54pm CDT by lappiesreef

I left the tank too settle after buying it from Leosha for about a month now.
I thought it is time to give the fish a new land-scape.

I use Tufa rock as a base since it has lots of holes allowing for flow.
I added an extra pump behind the rock work and pointed another inlet behind the rocks to sensure enough flow.

Now I can only view the tank form the front, but I think my inmates appreciate their new living space :P

So here it is before my new scaping:

Big Green frogspwan frags

Posted: April 26th, 2008, 12:26pm CDT by Wizard

Hi durban guys,

Got 8 pretty big green frogspwan frags about 4- 8 heads each R100 - R250 each. come collect im in forrest hills/durban

Stupid things I've done in reefkeeping

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 7:40am CDT by mantisfreak

I've been doing this hobby for a while now. One thing that I've noted is that most new people entering the hobby thinks that no one else has been this stupid before. Well, you are wrong, wrong, wrong. :)

I don't even know where to start....I've done so many stupid things.

BTW.....this is just a condensed list.

I didn't install drip loops (If you don't know what that is, find out now)
I wanted a moonlight and thought I could make one with a cheap party light bulb. Blue bulbs were out of stock but they had red. So I thought that would be fine. People older in the hobby will understand this completely.....Let's all say it now.....Sie...Ann...Oh...Bac...Tere....E...Uh.
I wanted to feed enough so that the flora and fauna in my sandbed didn't starve
I bought several things that looked pretty before learning their care needs
I researched and found what I needed, decided it was too expensive, then after 3 or 4 months, went and bought what I knew I should have purchased in the first place, thereby making an expensive hobby even more expensive.
I darn near burned down my house with myself and my dogs in it

The truth is, I could go on and on and on.....but it's good to ask questions of people who've been around a while. Sara is quite bright but I'm sure she has some "School of Hard Knocks" stories as well. I'm sure she would rather have you ask her rather than have you learn it the hard way too.

Cleaner wrasse

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 6:42am CDT by Punk

hi guys, damn i lost another fish, this time a cleaner wrasse, it was looking very happy, trying to pick stuff off my other fish, i even saw it eating some of the coral frenzy, now it's dead as a dodo after 4 days...

i just did some googling on it & it looks like in general it's a difficult fish to keep alive!?!?

what's your experiences with keeping a cleaner wrasse?

ps. i did only have 1 in my tank

thanks!
ant

Me the newbee

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 7:23pm CDT by JP

heita peoples
im from the crime capital of sout africa, better known as joberg
im new here, howa you all doing?
im still getting into all of this, will be reading all the novels worth of infos here in due time

RO Unit

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 6:21pm CDT by Sparky

Hi guys

Purchased a RO unit from Dorry Pets today, but I think the water pressure in my house is too low. I'm only getting a steady drip from the unit. What should the flow be?

Also, after leaving it to run for a couple hours, the TDS reading is 12, but I think that may be related to the low water pressure?

If that's the case, where can I get the add on pump to increase the pressure?

I need a Nite-vu LED for nano cube 24G

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 3:22pm CDT by jpg29

mine has broken/blown,
where can i get one, I tried JBJ and nothing?

Bubble and Leather 4Sale

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 2:40pm CDT by jpg29

looking for R375 onco for both...
leather bottom right (not finger)

The 'Perfect Password'

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 12:05pm CDT by lappiesreef

A woman was helping her husband set up his computer, and at the appropriate point in the process, the computer advised him that he would now need to enter a password. Something he will use to log on. The husband was in a rather amorous mood and figured he would try for the shock effect to bring this to his wife's attention. So, when the computer asked him to enter his password, he made it plainly obvious to his wife what he was entering by stating each letter out loud as he typed:

P...E...N...I...S

His wife fell off her chair laughing when the computer replied:

**** PASSWORD REJECTED. NOT LONG ENOUGH***

Need A Tank Fast

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 10:04am CDT by geoffrey

hey guys.

im looking for a 1.5 m tank if possible. i have to give my current one back in a month. guy who "gave" it to me wants i back! %^&*

so please anyone that can help me out with a good price ill be happy!

Shopping List

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 9:33am CDT by Storm

Hello people, i finally got my "Fixed" tank back after 4 weeks off waiting (Cracked Support) Yay...

Anyways im wanting to purchase most off the stuff this weekend and here is what I have on my list. If i missed something feel free to mention it.

4X T5 54Watt Lights (2 Blue 2 White)
TS1 Protein Skimmer
Overflow Box + PVC Piping
Return Pump (From Sump 3X 250L Cycling)
Heater
2X Powerheads
a few KG off Live Rock
Beach Sand substrate

Survivor Zimbabwe

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 9:21am CDT by Warr7207

Shed or dead ?

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 8:34am CDT by Warr7207

What you reckon, is this a shed or a dead hitchhiker ?

Bleached Anemones

Posted: April 24th, 2008, 7:27am CDT by Warr7207

Firstly are these creatures intentionally bleached and for what reason or is this cause from shipping around the world.

I understand the feeding regime to get a bleached anemone to recover it's zooxanthellae.

Once the anemone starts going from white to brown, how long would it take to recover it's natural colour or could the brown/beige be it's natural colour ?

I have also noticed although feeding is important for the creature to recover they grow very quickly when feed regularly.

My unit has double in size in 2 months. If I keep going like this it will be the size of a soccer ball before the year is out.

Any suggestions ?

Calsium reactor

Posted: April 24th, 2008, 1:53am CDT by TANK-O-HOLICS

How does a calsium reactor werk and does it keep levels stable at 400 - 450

Punk's worms

Posted: April 24th, 2008, 10:37pm CDT by Punk

thought i'll post some pics of my worms :) ps. i know the one's a coco worm, but what's the other 2?

cheers
ant

Eish, could this be what i think it is? :(

Posted: April 24th, 2008, 10:22pm CDT by Punk

hi guys, is this aptaisia?? :(

ps. sorry about the poor quality pics, i don't know how to focus my camera (sony cybershot 6mp)??

Nitrate/skimmer/skimmate question

Posted: April 24th, 2008, 7:08pm CDT by gaboon

My nitrates are sitting comfy well under 5. I only get about 10mm skimmate a week (like pee) which is nothing. Does this mean the nutrient levels in the tank are that low? I'm using a weipro skimmer (not by choice). I know its crap but surely my nitrates would be climbing then?. Got a sixline, 2 percs, ±10 hermits and snails.

Can someone enlighten me? (I think I'm just craving to see a filthy collection cup:))

Keeping Anemones

Posted: April 24th, 2008, 3:13pm CDT by lappiesreef

After reading this article [www.reefs.org]
I wonder how well we are doing with our Nennies

Maybe we can start a poll to see what the average life span is RSA reefers can keep their Nennies for.

Accordsing to the article, Nennies are practically immortal in Nature while in our systems the best of the best struggle to keep them alive for more than 2 years...

So who has had their Nennie the longest?

Also the article raises a few very important points we all should keep in mind next time we consider buying a Nennie because they are "easy" to keep!

Red Algae Outbreak

Posted: April 24th, 2008, 10:18am CDT by Rock pool

Hi guys, I have recently started up my first two marine tanks. They have been goign for about 3 months. Both tanks are standard 4 foot setups. Everything has been okay until now... One of my tanks has got an outbreak with a red coloured algae which is starting to form a layer on top of my live rock and coral sand. What is the cause and the best way to get rid of this?

Softies in JHB

Posted: April 24th, 2008, 8:04am CDT by Rory

Sorry to hijack but if people in JHB/PTA want pincushion/leather/mushroom/y type things I have some, just to lazy to take pics, decide prices, post etc...

1.2m tank on cabinet, no sump, CPT only

Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 11:38pm CDT by ivansa

This is my last tank that needs to go

Aquah2o Nile Tank. No sump. But the back pane can be drilled as I have done on my other h2o tanks.

L = 120 cm
w = 46 cm
h = 70 cm (waterlevel at 60cm)
Cabinet = 80cm high

Yes I will clean it :) I dont sell dirty tanks. The top enclosure have some minor damp damage due to running as a discus tank at 30C. The cabinet is perfect.

Tank + cabinet = R1700
Canister filter is an AFC 1000 (100lt/hour) = R300

Take both and ill include a brand new 150w radiant MH light fitting with ballast and 2 x 300w heaters. And any/all other powerheads and goodies still lying around. Canister is full of ceramic rings thingy's.
There could be some serious bargains here !!! Snooze you looze :razz:

PS. bring a strong friend.

Softies for sale

Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 9:49pm CDT by Alfie

I have the following softies for sale.

Kenyan tree between 18-20cm tall R200

Pin Cushion 15 cm Tall R200

Pin Cushion small R50

Colt Coral large R250

Would prefer not to ship.

I will also be fragging my big leather unless someone with a big tank wants to buy it as a show piece.

Power Surges Fact or Fiction

Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 7:53pm CDT by sunburst

A bizarre sequence of events has got me thinking that maybe the economic damage that load shedding is causing.... is.... believe it or not... more sinister than we realise.

It started with my tv; and then my father in laws, and then my brothers. They all popped their tubes. Since the new load shedding cycle started. Two of these were less than a year old and both with 5 year warranties.
At the same time my aircons started popping. Three in two months.Technicians tell me that the compressors cannot handle the power surge and cook themselves. Two of these aircons are also still under warranty. Thank the stars.

Surgeons disaster got me thinking that if a substation can literally explode from current overload. is it posssible that these spikes in power supply could be responsible for more damage than we realise.

Tube/Fan Worm!

Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 2:46pm CDT by tinusb

Hey all! Can somebody please direct me to a LFS that has a coco fanworm? [I think that's the name]. Will be in CT next weekend [first weekend in May] and want to get one :) My tank's only been running now for about 2 weeks - will it be ok to put one in?

Rgds :)
Tinus:):):):):)

Anyone out there ?

Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 2:41pm CDT by shrimp

Hi, just wanted to introduce myself, I am a Capetonian that is a proud owner of a 600x600x500 cube with a 50x50x30 sump.. has been running since mid January 2008 so still maturing/growing up .. have 14kg of rock (combination of Bio and Malaysian), running BB, with DSB and chaeto in sump with TS1 .. in display flow 1xm820 and 1xm1100 ..
Lights exists of T5's at the moment (possibly going to 150w MH .. will see)
Currently FOWLR but looking to add a few softies soon ..
I am sure that I have left something off my system decription, just shout if you have a question ;) ..

Tank 1.5m Swop

Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 2:26pm CDT by Aziz

Im looking for a tank size 1.2M length must have hight pref 700 to 800 if higher the better. Must include sump and stand.
My tank size is 1.5m 750h 600w 10mm glass, includes stand and sump 1.1m 450h 450w.

Tank design

Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 1:51pm CDT by crispin

Ok one 1.8 m is NOT enough. I would like to do a DSB for my main display tank and I thought of running one in main display but that will work out very expensive, especially if we(yes you are all involved in this one!) aim for 12-15cm depth., plus I am not sold on the aesthetics of a DT DSB.

So I want to do, a wide long shallow tank of +- 1.2m by 800mm by 400-500mm which I can run a DSB in and combine as a frag farm. Place intense lighting and supply you buggers with corrals for free (wee man yours will be kept for when you get to sa.you know u are coming!)

. Also I would like to build three small chambers into the tank where I could specifically breed brine shrimp to over flow into the tank, down the over flow and into the main display tank. The adults being scooped and used as live food.

So kind of a three in one tank, and I am sure there are major limitations I have not thought of. Suggestions on why I should NOT do this would be greatly appreciatedJ

Plumbing

Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 10:58am CDT by wildbunny

Hi all im loking for somebody in pta that can drill my tank to be able to get my sump conected to my tank.

Big Bristel Worm!(pic)

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 12:12am CDT by lanzo

hey guys i think you will like this got him from my LR that i'm trying to cure in a bucet with a powerhead and heater.
He came out after a week.
a placed him in my dsb

Re: Previously unseen ultra sps & intense blue

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 10:18pm CDT by Rory

AWESOME frags mofro! Superbly packaged (they travelled in style ;)) as well; one of the "extra" frags is now 2 frags but other than that those are the most unstressed looking shipped SPS I've seen... The colours are amazing, I hope they stay that way (or at least close) :p

They look like beacons of blue under actinic, and actually kinda under normal lights as well...

ICH and hypo salinty

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 10:02pm CDT by Singularity

Was just wondering if anyone has had any experience with this method

ATJ's Marine Aquarium Site - Reference - Hyposalinity Treatment

My tanks at risk!!!

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 8:37pm CDT by gaz19

hi guys

please could some one help me out.
its like 18 degrees here in kloof and my heater is no longer working.
the plug and temp controller have almost melted! and no longer work.this happend today after load shedding. i got home from school at and noticed it was at 22 degrees with halides on. im scared its going to drop even lower tonight.

can any one help, even if you can borrow me tiny heater until i can get this sorted!
i stay in kloof/hillcrest area just out of durban.

thanks
gareth

Plate coral

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 8:36pm CDT by gaboon

Got this beaut over the weekend. I've read they need to be placed on the substrate but I'm concerned it wont get enough light(T5) down there. Is this an issue where I've placed it. Also how much damage can my clowns do to it?

Black or Blue Background?

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 7:11pm CDT by Storm

Hello people, which backgrounds do you guyz think would be better for the backgrounds off your tanks (Black or Blue)? take into consideration the algae that grows on the back over time glass (Which almost never gets cleaned). Im just curious on the peoples preference on which is more eye catching. :whistling:

Tank build, please give input and advice.

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 6:07pm CDT by matt165

I'm going to build a new tank (on a budget) as soon as i'm back from holiday in july (varsity holidays)

Here's what i'm planning.

Display:
80mm x 500mm x 500mm. Total volume 200L. Thickness of glass? Approximate cost?

Sump: not sure on dimensions, but around 50L. Is this enough?

Lighting, T5's. Not sure on the unit

Skimmer: TS1

What do you think? total water vol of around 250L

Else i'll build a 600mm x 600mm x 600mm cube???

Something to read...

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 4:09pm CDT by Raven

Hi,
came agross this and thought some of you might enjoy it
Howstuffworks "How Coral Reefs Work"

Gauteng Marine Tanks & Accessories CC

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 1:59pm CDT by Warren Nish

For all your Marine queries. We specialise in design, installations and maintenance of all marine tanks. Get a specialist to end any Marine problems you may be experiencing. Warren 078 133 2339 (Gauteng)

Where to collect specimens in Western Cape

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 1:42pm CDT by Gemma

I am planning to make a collect day this week-end to re-stock my cold water rock pool tank with fish (not klippies or gobies) . I normally go to Kleinmond but thats quiet far to go. Does anyone know of good rock pools closer to Cape Town that You've seen fish in, that is also not a marine reserve. I use fishing nets so am looking to go at low tide for the small rock pools.

Hi Everyone

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 11:41am CDT by Novice

Hi All

Hope a tropical tank isnt a problem.... :-)

Well i'm looking to get into the marine scene soon (When the budget allows me to :) )

For now, i was wondering if you guys can assist me in obtaining a second hand 3ft / 4ft tank with a stand in a reason condition and at a reasonable price.

My contact details : xxxxxxxxx or kogan.moonsamy@standardbank.co.za

Thanks alot Guys
Kogan

Fish Tank Wanted

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 11:36am CDT by Novice

Hi Guys

I know that this is a marine forum and i have a tropical tank, but i am a beginner in the hobby and enjoying it alot at the moment and was wondering if there is anyone out there that has a second hand 3ft / 4ft tank with a stand who is willing to let it go at a resonable price.....

Would love to get onto marine aquariums, thats the reason I want a 3ft / 4ft, but at the moment, the budget doesnt allow me too... :-(

Please assist. I can be contacted on 0835708219 or kogan.moonsamy@standardbank.co.za

Regards
Kogan.

Quinton's new 2m Abyss

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 11:13am CDT by Quinton

Here are a few pics of the road to my new system, just to get the ball rolling. I'll add captions later (gotta get to work sometime ;-)

Is this now also becomming a nuisance Algae

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 12:55am CDT by Alfie

Caulerpa banned. Check this out.

SCCAT [THE CAULERPA INFORMATION CENTER] Southern California Caulerpa Action Team

Coral spawn turns Palau seas pink

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 11:18pm CDT by BigFish

Saw this while reading bbc news
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Coral spawn turns Palau seas pink

Random Fish pics

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 9:25pm CDT by Alfie

Newbie

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 8:36pm CDT by gevanssa

Hi All,

Ive got some limited experience in fresh water tanks and played around with some oscars and later some discuss. Then I went diving in Sodwana........ and ever since then, simply have to get a Saltwater system setup.:yeahdude:

Obviously this is more of a science and i anticipate many errors, hours of research and hopefully not too much cash washed away. But I shall prevail. Keen as ever..

I reckon Im going to start off on a nano and go from there

Looking forward to bugging all of you with amateur-ish questions!!! haha, we all start somewhere!

Gareth

Newbie: Wanted: Nano

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 8:17pm CDT by gevanssa

Hi All.

I'm totally new to all this :thumbup: and to get started would like to get a nano setup.

Im based up in Jo'burg, anyone got one they're willing to sell?

Thanks!

Gareth

My experience and new tank

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 7:15pm CDT by Reidwan

OK here it comes fellows, I will attach photos at the end as always asked and i have a few questions for the experts at the end.
I done quite a bit of reading on this since hobby since last year June and like anyone new took advice and jump into it .As always experts are always to proud to say out loud to the new guys starting out by advising them that this is a expensive hobby out right. and also the famous advice bigger is better. I went out and bought a 2m tank that had built in filters on the side again experts and LFS told me to take it out and get a sump. after pricing glass to build a sump i was dumb founded, then Paid a visit to Peterb LFS and he sold me a sump 1200x400x400 with the front glass cracked for R200 bucks I then went to a glass shop and bought a new glass 1200x400 and paid R580 bucks.ok so now I had the basics, you guys must be joking then I had to drill a hole in the tank and create a outlet for the sump which cost me another R275 for a glass cutter to come to my house and drill this hole for me.OK now I thought I could start and then was shocked on the prices of salt instant Ocean, gravel ,heaters, lights ,LR etc and boom I took a step back and relooked this. By accident I walked into a LFS and bought my current tank below which came with everything to start and paid R5000.00 for the lot.Thats a brief history of how I got suckered or started. Below is what I have currently and it has been running now for close to 3 months now.

Tank Size
888 x 778 x 730
LxDxW

Sump
700 x 570 x450
LxDxW

4 Compartments
Cotton filter fibre
Media/Bio Rings
DSB 15 CM Sea sand with piece LR
Cotton filter fibre
Media/Bio Rings

3 x Power heads

2 x 300watt Heaters

Inside sump

1x small Jebo Protein Skimmer
Outside sump

1 x SA 2013 Weipro Venturi Driven Protein Skimmer

01-Feb-08

Tank Contents
4cm Crushed Corel sand

15kg Live rock

2 dead white coral

Lights
1x Jebo Luxline Plus F25w T8 10 000K

1 x Marine Glow 24 x 58.98cm 20 w

1 x F17 50/50 T8 Reef Sun/200 med 24/610mm

Date
20 February 2008

Tetra Test Kit

PH
8.3
Hipo Angel Test SG/Salinity

SG
1023
API Test Kit No3

Nitrate
5/10 ppm (mg/l
API Test Kit No2

Nitrite
0 ppm (MG/L

Temp
25

Hydrometer
In middle of green

Added Fish
1 x Blue Damsel

2 x Bana Damsel

1 x YellowTale damsel

2 x black widows

6 Hermit crabs

24/02/2008
Added the 2 Protein skimmers

09-Mar-08 Removed 4 Hermit crabs to sump

09-Mar-08 Tested second time

09-Mar-08 PH
8.6

SG
1.025

Nitrate
0 ppm (MG/L

Nitrite
0 ppm (MG/L

Temp
25

Hydrometer
In middle of green

Added 9/03/2008
1 x Green Yoostone

2 tube worms

1 x Copperband Angel

30/03/2008
1x green zoo

2x rasse cleaners

1x anemone brown

Then on the 10 April added 2 x 250 MH that i bought from Rob vd in CT.

here is my concern and questions?
1.I have my air bubbles in th back of my tank and have been told to take it out.
is this advisable or not as the bubles created a nice flow at the top of my tank.
2.I bought few mushroom rocks -1x brown,1x green and 1 x red and these dont seem to be growing much- what can/is the problem
3.I bought a rock from Andreas with zoos on and it has been almost 3 weeks and they still have not opened- what can/is the problem.

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tank going through it cycle

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cycle done hopefully

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my Sump

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my green Yoostone I added

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My Anemone from Andreas with my new clown
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My overall look but just added 2 MH on top

Activated carbon placement

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 6:02pm CDT by geoffrey

Im currently using a canister filter filled with activated carbon. IMO increses amount of water and flow... but i want to get rid of it. its noisy and its my source of nitrates in my tank. now im left with this activated carbon. can i just put it in my sump before my skimmer? will there be enough flow?

Royal Gramma

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 5:24pm CDT by Pete

Hi Guys anybody know where i can get one of the the wife driving me up the wall and nobody seems to have or know when they are going to get

20 Green/Orange Paly's and Large Green Mushroom SWOP??

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 4:41pm CDT by matt165

I've got a piece of LR (covered in coralline) with +-20 Green/Orange Paly's, as well as a large Green Mushroom as well as tiny baby mushroom

would like to swap. Anyone interested?

Salinity of NSW

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 4:23pm CDT by Andreas

Hi guys,

just wondering whether the salinity of NSW is always constant.
I've noticed that the water sometimes tastes saltier when I go swimming.

Will this then have a significant effect on our small systems when we do water changes??

Brown Jelly

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 2:02pm CDT by lappiesreef

Hey Guys

I have what is best to describe as brown Jelly on one head of my Torch Coral.

The polyps on taht piece dissappread within a few hours and it is only sceleton left now... :(

Is this a disease or even something worse? What can I do?

I measured what I could:
SG 1.023
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 20
Temp 25

Help help

Wanted : 2.5m Tank

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 12:49pm CDT by Awvince

Hi.

I am looking for a 2.5m tank and stand. Does anybody have one for sale?

Clowns fighting???

Posted: April 20th, 2008, 1:22am CDT by Shanie

I have 2 false Percula Clowns. They went into the tank together and are the same size. But One of them is bullying the other constantly.Chasing and bumping into him.
Is this normal? Should i remove the aggressive one?? I thought these clowns are suppose to be peaceful towards one another.
Cheers Shane

Here we Go

Posted: April 20th, 2008, 6:06pm CDT by Merlin Otto

Hi there all,
I have always dreamed of having a decent size tank and I am finally glad to say that I have arrived, thanks to the help from Adriaan De Beer. I will most probably be asking for some advise going forward with my new adventure and l;ook forward to all the advise I can get. (tank is 6 months old)
Tank Specs: Approx 500 Gallons
Lighting: 4X 54w T5
4X 39w T5
2X 150w MH 10 000k
1X 250w MH 12 000k

Water Paramters:
Salinity: 1025
PH: 8.1
Alkalinity: 10
Temp: 26 - 27.5 Degrees C
Ca: 420ppm
Phosphates: 0.03

Question: I am currently experiencing an algae problem where the sand and the rocks get covered in this long green / red algae, how do I get rid of this

Mysis shrimp ?

Posted: April 20th, 2008, 1:18pm CDT by Warr7207

Where and in what form is Mysis shrimp available locally ?

Avansi Anthias not eating yet???

Posted: April 20th, 2008, 11:46am CDT by bushman

I recently added 7 x Avansi Anthias to my tank, and they are spectatular, but I am struggling to get them to eat. Any words of advice would be welcome.

I currently run and Ehuim auto feeded with a very good quality fine pellet food that is dumped into the tank at least 3 times a day. The other fis go crazy but the anthias not. I have seen the odd one eat a few of the bits and pieces that floay off

Longnose Hawkfish

Posted: April 19th, 2008, 12:45am CDT by Warr7207

Anyone had experiences with the longnose hawkfish ?

Coral ID

Posted: April 19th, 2008, 8:32pm CDT by Warr7207

Add ideas

Starfish ID please!

Posted: April 19th, 2008, 6:33pm CDT by Mtroboer

Hi guys, could you please help me with a ID on the following starfish? I gave into temptation and bought it after it had been in the dealer's tank for about 2 months. It had been kept with various corals and did no damage so I believe it must be fairly reefsafe... The photo quality is bad as I used my phone's camera, if necessary I will take another with my digital.

HELP Nitrate problems

Posted: April 19th, 2008, 5:42pm CDT by thegoldfishstudio

Hi there

i have a nitrate problem of 50ppl (the second dark red pic before the end on the sera nitrate test kit)

i do a 10% water change every week. and have upped my water changes to more often to help bring it down but it doesn't seem to help. I have tried nitrate minus and it's done nothing. all my fish and corals are healthy but i have lots of hair algae!!! my tank is 1.5 metres and holds 515 litres WITHOUT my sump. my sump is about 1.2 metres and i'm not sure how many litres it holds- it has a live sand bed in it in one compartment, aragonite in the next and a skimmer on the end compartment with my return pumps.
I have have 3 clowns, 1 tang and 2 dawf angels... some leathers, polyps and mushrooms, and blue sponges. - no fish have died and not sure why my water is so bad. it has been running for 1 year and 1 month. everything is thriving except 1 of my leathers who isn;t opening otherwise polyps are multiplying at a very fast rate and mushrooms are having babies... fish are healthy.

plse help - could it be my protein skimmer... i got it with the tank from the guy i bought it from - it's home made but skims fine.

not sure what to do.

thanks for whatever help you can give

Sparky's New Tank

Posted: April 19th, 2008, 5:17pm CDT by Sparky

Ok, so I was only going to start this thread once everything was setup, but there are a few questions I would like to ask regarding equipment, so I figured now is as good a time as any. I'm working on a 250L setup, measurements are 1500mm x 450mm x 450mm

I've been reading up on wave makers, and get the basic concept that they alternate the flow of water in the tank, different to a powerhead which just flows in one direction. So my question is, would this not be better to have than powerheads around the tank? Or would the function of the powerheads then become more to keep stuff from settling on the bottom?

Also, would having a wave maker not restrict you in what you could keep in the tank, as the flow may be too big for certain things?

I have a few questions on filtration, but I'm still getting those diagrams together.

Weird brittle star

Posted: April 19th, 2008, 4:32pm CDT by Ocean

I was replasing my filter floss when i noticed my brittle star was climimg up the side of the tank.
What could be the reson and the light is on in the tank.

Bike Suggestions

Posted: April 19th, 2008, 3:25pm CDT by Galibore

Guys,

I'm looking for a good second hand bike. Really only for work to and back and without embarresing myself.

Any suggestions at what I can look at.

I am looking at a Suzuki 1200 for R38,000 which looks (to my very untrained eye) like a good deal. Can anyone tell me what the fuel consumption would be like for a 1200CC?

Cheers

Featured Aquarium: The Aquarium of Richard Kurzydlo

Posted: April 19th, 2008, 2:16pm CDT by Warr7207

Check the size of the nemmie :P

Source: Featured Aquarium: The Aquarium of Richard Kurzydlo

Candy Basslet

Posted: April 19th, 2008, 2:11pm CDT by Warr7207

Anyone know if we get these fish in our local trade ?

Any idea what going on here

Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:08pm CDT by Warr7207

Is the big hermit trying to eat the smaller guy ?

How to take care of a Kenia tree?

Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:08pm CDT by Raven

Hi guys,
I'm got to get a Kenia tree tomorrow, but i first want to know the whats and the hows...
For example:
1. Water flow - strong/medium?
2. Feeding - what to feed, and how often.. ext

thanks

Not all is well in paradise:(

Posted: April 19th, 2008, 10:55am CDT by crispin

man i got load shedding for 6 hours yesterday, the third day in a row, bringing the total to 16 hours in three days. Thats tough for my little reef. Lost a clown and a reagal hasnt surfaced from the reef yet but he might have been having a lie in as I leave early in the morning.

but its the other guys I am worried about, the goat fish has lost colour, all fish are chatting closely to the grooming palour of shrimps and they ahve marine itch, flicking off on the reef which is a new development. I am stressed that i am getting an outbreak which i wont be able to controll.

i have back up power sourced but not installed yet.

can anyone elaborate on marine itch (or is it justa blanket term). do i need to be looking closely for an outbreak or something? I did a water change at 4am this morn, 20% and have the ro going to make water for another one tomorrow morning. Anything else I can and should be doing?

Water movement too much?

Posted: April 18th, 2008, 10:23pm CDT by snobee

I have a 70 gal. tank.
I have two medium sized power heads (900L/h each), one fluval 404 (1300L/h), and one fluval 204 (680L/h). I added the first fish to the tank about a week ago - two clown fish. I have noticed that during the two load shedding times we have had this week, the clowns seem more comfortable when there is little or no water movement. In fact, the only time I have seen them playing in the anemone and swimming around the tank is when the water movement was zero thanks to no power.
Currently there is water movement over most of the tank in some way or another. It is not that strong (imo). Any ideas?

Parasites or whatever?

Posted: April 18th, 2008, 9:56pm CDT by snobee

Hi there,
I setup my tank about 7 weeks ago. Introduced Live Rock about 2 weeks after that. Finally I got 2 clowns and a white looking sea anemone (was in the tank at the pet shop with the clowns) a week ago. I have been busy the past few days and have not looked much at my tank. Tonight while I was looking closely, I suddenly saw a horde of what looks like parasites or tiny little brine shrimp thingies in the tank! They certainly don't look normal and I highly doubt these transparent little creatures are ok... help!

Regards,
Kevin

Rain Water

Posted: April 18th, 2008, 2:36pm CDT by Storm

Im curious, can a person top-up there tank with pure/clean rain water?

Water Quality

Posted: April 18th, 2008, 1:38pm CDT by Sparky

Regarding the below article, lets say things get worse and we can't drink the water anymore, how would this affect us? Can a RO unit remove diseases from water or would we have to treat with something else??

Jhb tap water warning: South Africa: News: News24

GSP's and Zoa frags wanted...

Posted: April 18th, 2008, 1:24pm CDT by Jason

Hi all

Anyone got some zoa or gsp frags they have laying around :whistling: As you could se my tank so so empty... Getting some things in few weeks, sps's but also looking for these...

Hope someone can help...

Thanks:peroni:

How to get corals used to new lights

Posted: April 18th, 2008, 1:23pm CDT by Raven

Hi guys,
I'm in the process of installing 3 80W T5 lights (2 white,1 blue) on my tank.:thumbup:
I allready have 3 54W T5 lights (2 white,1 blue).

Can i just switch on the new lights, or should this be done over a period of time. In other words first 1 light for a hour a day, then 2 lights, then all 3 lights..?

Fibreglass Skimmer

Posted: April 18th, 2008, 10:11am CDT by Awvince

Has anybody attempted making a fibreglass skimmer?

Tube Anemone Info

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 12:50am CDT by Warr7207

Anyone have info on these fascinating creatures ?

2 Oceans

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 12:01am CDT by Warr7207

I am going to CPT soon and want to know if there are any aquariums worth well visiting ?

And I don't want to go see dolphins and seals :whistling:

My 600x600x600 Cube...

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 11:49pm CDT by Jason

Right, this is what kept me busy for some time (2days)...

Thais tank is nothing compare to what it was a week ago... Added some 20kg's yesterday... Running atm with one energy saver 45w=225w 8000k and 2x Actinics 20000k... Getting some more this week...

Live Stock:
2x Chromis's
1x PJ Cardinal
1x Fals Perc

CUC:
Couple Hermts and snails...

So here are those pics...

Thats all for now... Will keep you up-dated... :1:

Coralline algae - Does it reduce Live Rock filtration capacity?

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 11:40pm CDT by matt165

I've been reading a bit about coralline algae (Family Corallinaceae of the order Corallinales) and I wonder if it reduces the efficiency of filtration of live rock. Now in theory people say it reduces the filtration capacity of live rock because it is an encrusting algae with a calcareous skeleton that covers the surface of the live rock, covering the "pores" in the rock so water doesn't enter it a effectively and get filtered. What are your opinions on the topic?

I must say i've seen some nano's with nothing but purple rocks, and they're thriving (Even though the filtration capacity of the LR could be lower?). Important to remember many nano's are run purely on LR and charcoal etc. without skimmers.

Also what do people think about products like CaribSea's Purple up?
"Purple-Up is a new pink and purple coralline algae accelerator. Since Purple-Up is not a fertilizer, it does not promote the growth of nuisance algae. How does it work? Purple-Up uses a unique dual method approach to coralline algae acceleration. It contains ionic calcium which immediately raises dissolved calcium levels in your aquarium water. At the same time Super Sea Calcium (a 10 micron aragonite powder derived from natural seawater) targets the live rock surface. Super Sea Calcium dissolves in situ; delivering calcium, strontium, magnesium, and carbonate right where its needed. Purple-Up also replenishes iodine; an essential element for coralline algae tissues that quickly becomes depleted in closed systems. Purple-Up is an excellent addition to any aquarium with stony corals too! One bottle of Purple-Up replaces the typical multi product recipe for successful coralline algae growth favored by advanced aquarists."

Link: Coralline algae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hi Everyone

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 8:41pm CDT by JuanS

My name is Juan. I've had my aquarium for +-20yrs now. Small (900 x 30 x 45) but it's been running succesfully for the past 8 years or so. The rest of the time I spent playing around, trying different systems etc. I finally decided to stick with what I've got: 2 anemones, 4 clowns, 4 tubeworms, 1 damsel, 1 mandarin. As you can see, no corals and only hardy fish (exept for mandarin probably) - AND THAT'S WHY I'M HERE!!!! Upgrade on the way!!!:thumbup:

The tank i'm planning needs to be custom built because of it's odd size but in the end will hold +-750l. The sump i'm planning will take about 250l - is this enough? This question might sound silly to some of you, but please bear in mind that i've never used anything else than a undergravel filter with two powerheads for filtration - not even a protien skimmer!

Before i started surfing the web and joining this site i was hell bent on using the same filtration system purely because i know and trust it so well, but obviously for this size thank it wouldn't be the best option. Plus the display tank will be used as a room devider so hiding equipment in it will be impossible.

Altough i do have experience in marine fish keeping i consider myself a beginner purely because of the lack of experience i've got with "modern" technology. Any help/suggestions especially on the sump will be highly appreciated.

Thanks!:wave2:

Meet my friend

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 5:45pm CDT by LikesFish

CTRC meeting 2

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 5:20pm CDT by Muz

Guys please diaise the 17th of May ! :slayer:

This is the confirmed date ( just because I said confirmed it will probably change ) for the next CTRC meeting. Venue is still to be announced.

It is gonna be a cracker of a meeting dedicated to IMACSA 08 feedback. :1:

Details will also be posted on the CTRC website.

Cool beans

Muz

Wanted: T5 80W ballast and waterproof endcaps

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 11:08am CDT by abgg118

I'm looking for a T5 80W dual ballast and 4 waterproof endcaps. Anyone knows where I can find?
Thanks

Would Lighting Warehouse sell PC lights, end caps and ballasts?

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 9:51am CDT by matt165

As the title reads. Would a place like this sell the above products or does anyone know of any other lighting shops that would?

Looking for a 24W PC, end cap and ballast!

Sun coral on bivalve

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 9:18am CDT by lappiesreef

Hey Guys

I was staring at my Sun last night and suddenly it moved! Just such a fright. Then for the first time I noticed that most of the live rock the coral is on is more alive tha I thought! Half the thing is a bivalve of some sort.

Is this good or bad? I am worried than the bivalve might die of starvation eventually like most bivalves...what do I do then? It has been going for more than 6 months now in the nano.

Midas Blenny compatible with Purple Firefish?

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 12:01am CDT by matt165

Darn I thought I did my research properly! It seems as though my midas blenny shows a bit of aggression towards my 2 new purple firefish.

Are these known to have compatability issues?

Nano for sale

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 11:57pm CDT by TANK-O-HOLICS

Thinking of selling my Boyu TL550, would anyone be intrested?

My little slice of the ocean...

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 10:16pm CDT by All spark

Wassup Reefers

I have 230 liter tank,a 90cm sump with a dsb...

Live Stock:

2 Damsels,
1 Tomato clown,
1 coral beauty
and a green chromis,i had 2 but ja the one ended up in the powerhead...

CUC:
Couple Hermits and snails...

I have 20kg live rock. I'm a lps lover not sps 2 heavy lighting and with power going up and the fines comming in, I decided not to do sps. I do have 4 T5's. Flow, can one have 2 mutch flow and can it be bad, if to littel what can be the worst that can hapen. Can some one tell me more about the coral beauty, its behavior and health... What fish can i stll add to my tank?

I'm looking for a TS1 skimmer, anyone know where i can get and how much, even 2nd hand... :yeahdude:

Will post some pics later...

Cheers
Jacques

Pineapple coral

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 10:13pm CDT by lIghty

Hi friend,

I've got a 'pineapple' coral that's not doing to well, its been dying off slowly, water is in check.

Do they need a lot of flow?

what lighting do they require as I have 2x T5?

thanks

Double zoo

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 7:56pm CDT by Rory

Anyone else have something like this?

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Beach Sand

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 7:51pm CDT by Storm

I cant find a thread for this on the Forum so might aswell start one. Beach sand or otherwise knows as "Silica Sand". Who is using this in there display tank as a substrate and DSB for the sump? Also Advantages/Disadvantages off having it? Please post. I think it would be nice to have this thread as a reference for it as Beach Sand is always a controversial topic for Reef Tanks. I await everyones comments :whistling:

Few hours to kill in Durbs tomorrow

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 7:27pm CDT by gaboon

Gonna be at the ICC in Ordinance Rd. tomorrow and will have a few hours to kill.

Are there any LFS's in the area?

Test kits

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 5:38pm CDT by Rax123

any idea which are the better test kits to buy, many diff. brands to choose,recommendations??

Mags and sound

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 12:13pm CDT by Awvince

1.) 15" Rockford Fosgate T1 : R2500 With custom built box

2.) AudioControl LC6 : R800neg

3.) Kenwood w808 mp3 player : R1800neg

4.) Set of TSW 5 hole 18 inch splits. Has the varifit system on it [www.tsw.co.za]
so it will fit on the following pcd's: 108; 110; 112; 114.3 and 120.

Asking R4500neg with tires.

Damn diatoms! When will they go away?

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 11:47am CDT by matt165

Moved livestock over to a new tank about 3 weeks ago. For the last 2 weeks i've had a diatom outbreak. I'm sure this is probably because I didn't use the same substrate, was all new.

When will it go away?

Featherduster Worms

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 10:45am CDT by Jason

Ok so i have seen them around some LFS's and was wondering about them... Do they need good lighting and strong flow, are they hardy how long do they live and what fish wil eat them

Thanks
Jason

Marble starfish opening oyster

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 9:28am CDT by lanzo

hey warr i think you'll dig this.

I had some trouble feeding my CBB, i wanted to get a closed mussel and drill a small hole in it, but i didn't get a closed museel so i git a oyster(closed).

i made a hole, and placed it in my tank.
after a few seconds my marbel starfish opened the shell, it made a moerse "klap" noise so i went and have a look and so that he opend the shell.

4 tanks and 1 sump

Posted: April 15th, 2008, 12:49am CDT by lanzo

Hey guys I'm building 4 tanks and 1 sump.

The dimensions of the tanks will be 600x450x450 and the water level will be at 400mm
Don't have a idee of the sump yet.

I'm using euro bracing of 590 x 0.30mm and the lengths of the tanks.

I got the glass this afternoon, and i have finished building 2 tanks and 3/4 with the 3rd one.

I'll paste pic's tomorrow, "lekker moeg nou"

:slayer:i love diy:slayer:

A shot just for kanga:)

Posted: April 15th, 2008, 9:48pm CDT by crispin

hey kanga,
i had warr come round the other day. He drinks some weird beer. SO i slipped into the bottle store and got something u like instead....here's one for you mate:)

A few of my better pics

Posted: April 15th, 2008, 9:29pm CDT by crispin

hey all,
occationally i get a shot in focus, here are some:) not all in my tank, but all of watery things we love:)

100L Nano to sell/swop for MH

Posted: April 15th, 2008, 5:01pm CDT by Jason

As some of you reefers know by this time i have lost my job... Still fighting to get my bonus and overtime... Well, i have not lost all hope on my tanks, finding new ways and cheap whys to keep them running good... Well im swoping my Aqua H20 62 Nano with dark brown cabinette for a MH, DIY dosnt matter or for R500neg bucks... I have a corner tank with stand but no pimps and lights for R250neg... its +-130L

The corner tank...

The Nano... Its without the Live stock and LR, only tank lights filtre and stand...

Kind Regards
Jason

54w Dual Fitting

Posted: April 15th, 2008, 1:16pm CDT by trad

Unit for sale Jhb only. R650

Clown nipping on SPS

Posted: April 15th, 2008, 11:22am CDT by Jason

Ok is this common, my clown nipping my SPS frags... As soon as i want to take a pic he swims to me so sorry no pic... The spots he keeps on nipping is turning white... :(

What should i do?

Reef Octopus module skimmer

Posted: April 15th, 2008, 10:18am CDT by gaboon

Does anyone have experience/comments about these skimmers, my first option would have been a TS1 but wont fit.

Detailed Product View

Nennies

Posted: April 15th, 2008, 10:12am CDT by crispin

hey guys,
can you give me the basics into nennies. I have a beautiful green bubble tip and he is happily swaying in medium to light flow, looking great. I did try feed him a little muscle and some crab meat last night but how do these guys actually feed? i bdefrosted it in a empty glass in warm water, squeezed the liguid out the meat and then chopped it into small sized pieces. I turned power heads off and then target fed (scared the crap out the poor clowns but they seem to ahve short memories and promptly stole it from the nennie. How do they feed? Do they take the food from tentacle to mouth? How do you access the health and happines of a nennie, is it tentacle extension, colour, movement around the tank?

all help will be greatly appreciated.

Advice! Where to buy 24W PC Lamp and Ballast??

Posted: April 15th, 2008, 8:57am CDT by matt165

I'm modding my nano hood and I want to put in another 24W PC.

Where should I purchase the 24WPC and a ballast to run it?

What brand should I be going for and at what cost?

Need replacement Nite-vu LED moonlight for a JBJ Nano!

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 10:45pm CDT by matt165

One of the Nite-vu LED moonlights in my friends JBJ Nano Cube (24G) is no longer working. It's nor a normal LED if im not mistaken.

Where could I find a replacement for it??

New member

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 10:01pm CDT by mike Bushie

whats up guys:yeahdude:

Bristle/Fire Worm

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 8:50pm CDT by moz

ID Please, saw it for the first time yesterday, then again today both times the lights were on.

New member Pieter

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 8:29pm CDT by pieter

Hi i think to make my 530L tank a marine tank hou do i prosed from heer.

Purple firefish - Aggressive? How do I know if i have a mated pair?

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 7:08pm CDT by matt165

I've just picked up two Nemateleotris decora.

So stoked as I love these little guys! I've heard they can be aggressive unless you have a mated pair, well I saw these two juveniles together in a tank and I thought i'd try my luck.

They're still busy acclimating so no pics yet but here's a shot of the species for any who don't know what i'm talking about!

Copper

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 5:54pm CDT by Rax123

regel tang has some white spots,again. will copper kill my ears?

Cheato, phosphate remover or both?

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 2:18pm CDT by Mudshark

I have been growing cheato in my sump for the last 6 months. 6 weeks ogo I started using phosphate remover. There was an instant decrease in algae. In the last 2 weeks or so the cheato has progressively died back due to lack of nutrients I assume? I have not been measuring phosphate levels as I have not found an affordable and readable test kit (the Red Sea kit is useless).

Have I done the right thing by removing all of the cheato? My thinking was that the decaying cheato was responsible for a slight bloom in hair algae in the display over the last few days.

Has anyone had success using both cheato and phos remover simultaneously?

Tank cracks

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 11:18am CDT by lappiesreef

Hey guys

The weekend I wanted to add the extra base supports to ym 4FT L tank.
After remiving the substrate I noticed two big cracks in the bottom :(

The tank has a double base and is not leaking.
The tank only had water on it for 2 days

I have contacted the LFS, but no response so far.

If they refuse to fix it on their costs, how can I fix it on my own?

Would putting another pane of glass over the cracked parts help at all?

I am so dissapointed :( I wanted to get the tank started this week.

Zoanthid Help

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 10:23am CDT by Sparky

Hi Guys

I have (read had :( ) a pretty large collection of Z's. I added two more fish about 3 weeks ago, and since then the Z's have been in a steady downward spiral. They don't seem to open up anymore, and most along the outside edges are dying off now. I've been watching the fish, but they don't go anywhere near it from what I've seen. Water params haven't changed at all. Could it be something I'm missing? I even thought it may be the water flow, and so turned off the powerhead for 3 days, but no change. Any other ideas?

CTRC and MAC accredited shops

Posted: April 13th, 2008, 8:21pm CDT by Zookeeper

I have a question for the guys who run the CTRC.At the meeting it was said that we should support the MAC accredited shops and the one guy made a statement that we should only support one spiecific shop which is MAC approved.Well I was chatting to a guy over on Reef Central and it turns out that there are NO MAC accredited shops in South Africa.So I thought maybe the guy is a accredited importer,well there are no South African importers accredited to MAC .What are the true facts here guys?

Livestock in Durbs

Posted: April 13th, 2008, 5:30pm CDT by Rax123

:thumbup: can anybody advice on reputable suppliers of fish/livestock in the Durban area

Fish Problem

Posted: April 13th, 2008, 4:32pm CDT by Warr7207

The last week has been really stressful.

I have had quite a few fish die and I can't work out why.

I have a Hippo that had whitespot really bad, that has gone but now he seems to have weird black blotches on his blue skin.

The other weird thing is I thought the Hippo would be the fish to die if any.

The fish i have lost all were feeding and very active, then the following morning dead or missing (I have a very good CUC)

Water parameters are as follows:

ph - 8.3
meq/l - 4
Salinity - 1.025
Temp - 25.2
Nitrite - 0.07
Nitrate - 7
NH3 - 0.08
PO4 - 0.04

Could the NH3 or Nitrite at these levels be killing off the fish ?

All corals (even SPS) are doing well, nemmie is also looking great and feeding like a beast.

Any ideas what parasite, bacteria or something else could be killing off my fish

Tunze nano stream clamps

Posted: April 13th, 2008, 3:46pm CDT by Alfie

Ok I have eventually found something to glue the clamps with that break and they all seem to break at the same spots. Product is called Q Bond. Set in 10 seconds flat and is rock hard.

Does this tank need any support?

Posted: April 13th, 2008, 11:45am CDT by lanzo

I'm going to diy 4 tanks 600mm x 450mm x 450mm
I'm also going to use 5mm glass.
Do this size tank need any supported glass or will this be fine?
the water level is going to be at 400mm.

Reefer back into reefing

Posted: April 13th, 2008, 10:33am CDT by mnd123

Hi all, been on for a bit without comment - time to introduce myself. Back into this after a 14 year gap, Going reef, with a view to LPS and SPS.

So far 6 weeks in, all looking great apart from a wee bit of Majano which I am blitzing with lemonjuice.

Tank:
1220x450x500
Sump1 500x350x350 (Refugium, DSB)
Sump2 500x350x350 (TS1, DIY Phos reactor, Heater - the mechanix sump)
2 x Seio 820
2 x Astro 3000 return pumps
40 odd KG Kenyas LR
T8 lighting (on the mission to upgrade this to T5 54W in the next 2 weeks)

Livestock:
Purple leather (about 20cmx20cm) came in on LR
White Leather (same)
Purple Urchin (came in on LR)
various snails (came in on LR)

MND

Anyone here good at DIY? Want to upgrade the lighting in my nano, need help!

Posted: April 12th, 2008, 11:46pm CDT by matt165

Ok i've never been much of a DIY man, but the lack of light in this nano is starting to bug me! 128L tank with 2x24W PC's. I mean come on! :P My 24G JBJ has 72W at least!

Here's a pic of hood on the new tank:

As you can see they've used the 24W PC's instead of the 36W PC's because they've put in a "slide function" for the hood. thus the areas on either side of the splash guard will need to be cut out in order to put in wider lighting.

Basically here's what i'm asking:

1.) Would somebody help me to upgrade these lights? (I'm not so used to DIY stuff, especially lighting! Also worried I would ruin my hood as I don't know what i'm doing exactly. hehe

2.) Would it be best to try squeeze in another 24W, or would it be best to cut away the side bits (stupid "slide function") and install 36W PC's. Although I take it i'd need a new splashguard then?

I don't know where to look for the parts i'd need and i'm not sure on the best tools to use?

If anyone is good at DIY, please lend a hand ;)

Many thanks

Previously unseen ultra sps & intense blue

Posted: April 12th, 2008, 7:23pm CDT by irie ivan

After much arm twisting, bribary and extortion, I have decided to release some frags of my ultimate sps! Trust me when I tell you the pics don't do it justice.
Minimum of three for shipping.

Please pm me to arrange collection.

1.) Intensely flourescing yellow monster: (1 available)
R140 (SOLD RORY)

2.) Intense Blue: (2 available)
R130 (SOLD 1 x RORY, 1 x GALIBORE)

3.) Amazing turquoise shimmer: (4 available)
R150

All mounted on easy to cut and position frag plugs.
Shipping at buyers expense.

I'm so proud!

Posted: April 12th, 2008, 6:39pm CDT by sihaya

Check it out:
[www.asira.org]

Yes, I know, it's just one photo... but I don't know diddly about taking pictures and this is the nicest one I've take so far (imo). :slayer:

Howzit

Posted: April 12th, 2008, 5:34pm CDT by Gavin Kruger

Hello Everyone. I have kept tropical fish for a total of about 15 years. I am in my first week of marines. Any advice, suggestions or instructions will be greatly appreciated. After speaking to my 4th 'pet shop' owner I realized that there are a number of "formula's", when it comes to keeping marine fish and corals. Who do I listen to ?

Thanks

Gavin ( Confused )

Light defusor

Posted: April 12th, 2008, 1:38pm CDT by lIghty

hi friends,

looking for some light defusor for my overflow, need about 1.5m x 40mm. does anyone have a piece I can buy in the Durban area. thx

Cloves vs. Zoanthids

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 6:05am CDT by sihaya

I have some clove polyps that are duking it out for rock space with some of my zoanthids. At first I was sure the cloves would win... now I'm not sure. The zoanthids seem to be holding their ground for the past few weeks. I thought about intervening (since I favor the zoanthids for this space), but then I figured it might be more fun to just get a beer, sit back and take bets... so what do y'all think? Who's going to win? (pics tomorrow)

Featured Aquarium: Greg Timms' 130 Gallon Reef

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 11:39pm CDT by Warr7207

Checking out this featured tank on Advanced Aquarist's LINK

This guys Refugium looks better than my display tank.

Fish Geek :P

Refugium

Frag Tank

Seio magnets

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 11:20pm CDT by Alfie

I am impressed. The magnets for the seio M1100 holding the power head trhough 24mm glass. Check in my system pics at the back, those 2 Seio's are held through 24mm glass.

Setup

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 9:42pm CDT by Marine1983

Hi, All

I'm new to the site so I was wondering if anyone can help.

I want to setup a Marine tank but don't know where to start.

Any Help??????

One of our pups needs help

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 9:00pm CDT by Wee-Man

Possibly one for Thallion (or Dogshow?)

Out of the 8 pups, the 7 boys are rapidly gaining weight (from around 300g to the biggest at 600g in 4 days)
BUT the little girly is struggling to put any weight on, the boys are too strong for her to get in and get her share, we have some special formula for young pups called Lactol which we are suplimenting her feeding, but it is tricky to get her to feed from a bottle, so.. any ideas guys, she is holding her own (just) but i know that my wife would be heart broken if Mouse (her name now) didn't make it.

Alfie's Tank

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 6:07pm CDT by Alfie

Tank.

1800x650x600
2 corner overflows
about 100kg LR
Carribsea arogonite

Sump

1650x550x500
DSB 600x550x150
Carbon/phosphate reactors
Deltec 850 Skimmer
Korallin calcium reactor
UV 18w
Ozoniser

This is photo taken in November shortly after the tank was up and running

As it is now

Garlic, can it be used in fish food?

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 5:57pm CDT by Wee-Man

Marine Ich/Cryptocaryon irritans - A Discussion of this Parasite and the Treatment Options Available, Part II by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com

Here is an article i was directed to a while ago regarding the generally accepted use of garlic, the item in question is number 13, have a read, it is a very interesting article.

Nano

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 4:56pm CDT by nic3322

ok my large reef ideas died :( when i found out i might be moving in august
so i want a nano that if i move i can sell it and make my money back
it musy cycle fast and and not need alot of money to start
what size what lighting sump or no sump
any surgestions will be appreciated
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Obtaining correct tempreture readings

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 4:48pm CDT by Gemma

I am getting conflicting tempreture readings which is causing stress (to me) as well as my fish i'm sure. I have a small grey digital battery operated thermometer which has a white lead prob. I also have one on those cheaper glass floating thermometers. They differ by 4 degrees. What should I do. Spend money on good water heaters which have their own inbuilt thermometers or buy more expencive thermometers with supposidly cheaper heaters. My system is 200litres so should I have 2 smaller heaters or just 1 large? I realise the more one spends the better the product but we all know about budgets so maybe someone has a good working combination.:whistling:

Big ooppsss - changed the crushed coral to river sand..?

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 3:18pm CDT by Raven

Hi guys,
Last week I had this "brain wave of an idea". I've decided to change the crushed coral gravel in my system to river sand.
I've done this for the following reasons:
1. there were very little creatures in the crushed coral - I think (and a couple guys said) that the crushed coral was to "grof"
2. Because the crushed coral was so "grof" it allowed alot of detrius to settle between it, which in turn caused some unwanted nitrates/phosphates ext...

The problem now is the sand is blowing all over my tank - my poor cabage coral are covered with sand as well as my LR. I've tried to change the possitions of my powerheads - this helped alot, but i still have a problem with sand.

Can anyone please give me some advice..?

Frozen foods compared to dried foods (flakes/pellets)

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 2:24pm CDT by jacquesb

Hello all - between LikesFish and myself we have just had an interesting difference in our knowledge/experience w.r.t whether dried fish food, in either flake or pellet form, might be better w.r.t to nitrates/phosphates (phosphorous) etc (all the bad things in our tanks that could possibly cause extreme nuisance algae growth), compared to frozen fish food.

Could everyone please supply your comments on this?

I would especially invite the more experienced reefers and guru's to comment and discuss this?

Many thanks.
Jacques:thumbup:

Shrooms getting frisky

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 12:06pm CDT by lappiesreef

Hey guys

My shroom colony is doing some very inetresting things. I'd liike to know if this is good or bad.

First funny thing:
One shroom would lift his mantle up while the other shroom brushes his mantle up and down the others exposed stem...
I noticed a new small little shrooms appear between the two

Second:
The are getting very big and seem to be competing for light. Seems they are taking turn in over lapping each other. Or they push each others mantles so that it looks like two mountaisn with a deep valey. Are they pushing each other away?

O.K so only two funnies I can remeber now. I'll o watch them again tonight.. :)

Kalkwasser

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 10:36am CDT by Jason

Hi Reefers

Where in CPT can I find kalwasser...? I know some pharmacies do sell but I have heard that you get different grades and some pharmacies sell the not so good grade...

How do I add it to my tank, first mix it up with RO/tank water? Do I add vinegar and how much...

A nother stupid question, does kalkwasser replace calcium? I have heard that people get better results with kalkwasser than powder/liquid calcium...

My reason for asking this is calcium is working me out to expensive and I feel I would be getting better results with kalkwasser...

Help would be highly appreciated...:)

Regards
Jason

Reef octopus dnw-110-6520 setup

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 1:43am CDT by SchyffS

I need assistance with sizing pump flow required into my skimmer. What flow rate is required for optimal performance.

Fish of the week

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 1:36am CDT by Warr7207

When is this thread going to start :whistling:

UV Filtration

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 1:30am CDT by Warr7207

Do you run UV filters ?

If so what is your reason ?

IYO does UV help with eradicating whitespot ?

Novice, needs some help

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 12:55am CDT by Rax123

hi,new to the forum, brief description of set up:
260L tank, 12kg live rock,1xdamsel,2xclowns,1xregal tang,1xcoachman,tank 6-7wks old.
my problem is i cannot get the coachman to eat,about the size of a R5 coin. tried marine mix, flakes, some other frozen stuff[can`t remember name]; he takes a bit then spits out. got the fish for a wk now, any advice?

also read somewhere, feeding freshly chopped garlic help boosts fish immune system and may prevent parasitic infections, any truth there?????

thnx:)

Bubble master 250

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 11:37pm CDT by IMarine

Hi guys still got the bubble master 250 skimmer for sale R6000.00 neg check this out
ATI T5 Meerwasser Süsswasser

Water test update

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 10:34pm CDT by wildbunny

Hi all please comment my tank has been running for 5 months now.
5 fish
1 shrimp
2 crabs
1 urchen
3 soft coals
1 tube worm.

all fish is fat and growing like mad.

kh-6dkh / 107.4 p.p.m
ph- 8.3
nh3- 0.3
no3 nitrate - 20 p.p.m
po4 phosphate - 0.5 p.p.m
calcium 400 p.p.m

:yeahdude: :peroni:

Some Random Pics

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 9:43pm CDT by Alfie

Scwd

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 9:38pm CDT by viper357

One SCWD for sale - R250 (excluding shipping)

3iQ Ventures

Phosphate Reactor

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 8:34pm CDT by viper357

One Resun FBF-500 Phosphate or Carbon Reactor for sale (no pump included). - R180 (price excludes shipping)

Majano Info please

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 8:25pm CDT by Warr7207

I have one on one of Crispin's LR, that I am looking after. I have been instructed I am not allowed to kill anything on the rock :whistling:. If this Majano is bad, I don't want to infect my tank.

Please comment on if this is bad as aptaisia or can I let them live ?

T5 Ballasts for sale

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 6:52pm CDT by viper357

One by dual 39w electronic T5 ballast - R120

One by dual 54w electronic T5 ballast - R150

Prices exclude shipping

Reeftek TS1 Skimmer

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 6:45pm CDT by viper357

One by Reeftek TS1 skimmer with Resun King 2 needlewheel pump for sale, rated for tanks up to 350litres, plug and play, working perfectly. It was running my little frag farm which I have taken down.

R700.00 - price includes normal parcel mail shipping (delivery takes about 1 week).

Sorry about all the coralline on it, I can't get it off without scratching the skimmer.

Salt Question

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 6:33pm CDT by Warr7207

The marine salt we buy for our tanks I would assume is not sea salt, due to the salts all being so different in chemical make-up.

I would think this salt is extract from slat mines and minerals added to it ?

Is it too expensive to extract salt from the sea ?

Shrimps molted after 1 day, good/bad sign?

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 4:44pm CDT by matt165

I'm a bit nervous of shrimp (bought one before, acclimated him fine but little fellah didn't last more than a day in m tank)

Anyway I bought 2 cleaner shrimp yesterday, acclimated them for 3.5 hours and put them in no hassles. Today I see they have already molted. Is this a good or bad sign?

Coral Colour

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 4:37pm CDT by Ocean

SAs coral colour and verity is very small, i was just looking threw some american threads and thee polyps,shrooms lps and sps are alot more brigt and beutiful.
Can some one tell me why?

Live rock wanted

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 11:22am CDT by geoffrey

Im looking for some live rock to stock my tank... im not that keen on paying R100 a kilo:nono:

Im in the PRETORIA area so if anyone has some they want to get rid of ill come get it.

peace:peroni:

Rugby training last sunday

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 10:24am CDT by Wee-Man

Rugby training was called off in favour of a free for all snowball fight, which went very silly, very quickly, greaqt fun had by all the kids - including the adult ones:thumbup:

The jury is still out as to who actually won:lol:

My reformed tank

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 10:03am CDT by geoffrey

OK GUYS!

with help from Lanzo i started my transformation on my old "crashed system" lost most of my livestock. started 2 weeks ago

Canopy pics / designs

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 11:18pm CDT by lIghty

Hi Friends,

Wanting to build a canopy for my tank, it will need to hold 8* T5 tubes 50mm apart(400mm total). Was thinking of a unit that the top and front folds back so as to give good access.

If you think you have a good design or actual canopy PLEASE can you post a pic or scetch of it, I would realy appreciate it.

thx in advance.

Shrimps, feeding?

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 8:38pm CDT by matt165

Bought 2 new skunk cleaner shrimps.

I feed my tank 2x daily, but sparingly as its a nano.

Do I need to target feed these fellahs? or feed a bit more into the tank or what?

Sump

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 8:20pm CDT by Storm

Hello people. Im wanting to setup a sump for my new 250L Reef tank. Ive been using Google and reading here gathering information but i have a few concerns i hope you people could help me with. First let me post some info about my sump.

The sump is a 70L tank and will work on the wet/dry or trickle system. It will have 3 compartments. 1st for the water leading into the sump + Skimmer, 2nd for the DSB (15cm) + some live rock on it (Yes/No?), 3rd for the Heater and return pipe.

My concerns are overflowing, will my current sump (all still on paper) cause a flooding problems, or any other problems at all? or am i on the right track?

JD167's Tank

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 2:20pm CDT by JD167

Hi guys

Since I'm new on MASA I thought I'd post some pics of my tank.

This was my first tank when I started in 2006. Hardly anything in there. I bought the clowns, live rock and shrimps from a guy at work.

Just before I moved to the new one, this is what it looked like.

Preparing the stand and tank for the migration.

Tank on the stand.

Now to get that big tank on the right to where the one on the left is standing... not a easy job...

All the livestock, corals and water put one side. Not ideal but it's all i had.

Done!! <phew> What a mess..

The old tank. Needs a bit of cleaning up. Also had a funky smell to it...

With the lights on and all the liverock, corals and fish dumped in. They couldn't survive any longer in the temporary holding buckets.

More to follow...

Brown algae

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 1:57pm CDT by geoffrey

I've just recently sorted my tank out, new SB, new sump, put my skimmer in on monday TS1 (big ups to lanzo):yeahdude:

but im growing this very fine algae on my sand bed (DT) and on my rocks, i have about 1.5 kg of live rock just to seed the bed.

its brown and rubs off very easily, is it algae? i just disturbed the samnd a bit and covered it up.

not too sure waht to do, or if its natural in a new system.

sump = bio balls-from old set up
ceramics-new
filter floss at inlet - bout a week old
TS1 skimmer - 3 days

all in all tanks been up and running for bout +- 2 weeks. got me some little worms in my SB (thats good right?)

Live Rock Wanted !

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 1:47pm CDT by Singularity

Looking for decent cured live rock in Northwest Area. Please PM if u could help or know of someone in the area... thanks

Dwarf Lion

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 1:22pm CDT by lappiesreef

For how much do these guys usually sell?
I need to let him go and I need an indication so I can make a price...

1.5m tank for sale

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 12:49pm CDT by iz1b1zi

Hi guys, yet another tank for sale,

its an "Eco aquatics" built tank, solid 10mm glass. 1500x700(wide)x620(high).
Stainless Steel stand, 900 high.

External overflow, and has a 4foot sump. All plumbing etc included along with return pump.

R3000

i will also organize shipping at buyers expense.( a crate will cost R+-700 and then shipping will cost +-R1500 to jhb or cape town door to door with stand and +-R900 without stand.

pics will follow...

Tank Support

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 11:55am CDT by Sparky

Hey guys

I think I asked this a while back, but I can't find the thread.

Is it possible to strengthen a tank after it has been built?

Need some help

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 8:49am CDT by Pete

Morning all

Just need some help in lifting the PH in the tank without the use of kalkwasser.

Ph is between 7.8 and 8
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 50mg need to bring down
Kh - 8

Any sugestions will be greatly appreciated

Stocking ideas for a 105l

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 11:29pm CDT by Sabi

What would you put in for a colorful aquarium with activity?

I know i definitely would like a dwarf lionfish and really like a mandarin fish. Err no marine tank without a clown...:)

Nano sump and return

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 11:16pm CDT by herkie

The pic is of the sump being built to the back of the tank. The right hand side is the return chamber with the skimmer pump in and the middle chamber will hold the skimmer body as well as a dsb and lr on top of eggcrate. the dividing chamber has a hole drilled in to connect the skimmer pump and body.
The left hand chamber(Partition not fitted yet.) will hold the return pump. I am planning to drill a hole where the black circle is to let the return back into the tank go through.
Will it be ok to pump the return water in at the bottom of the tank and have the water rise up to the c2c at the top.
Also, will a 1900l/h return pump be ok for the 90 l system?

Full Tank for sale

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 10:26pm CDT by Smithers

Hello all,
It is not only corals, the heading is a bit of a misnomer !
I am packing in my tank and settling for a smaller one with less equipment. The current power outages in my area are really screwing things up.
We are having one sometimes 2 a day.
I am going for a tank with softies and a few fish.
So here is my list of things for sale

1 4ft tank (1200 * 45 * 60) L W H
Galvanised stand
Pine Canopy
sump 1200 * 30 * 35
(R1200)

6 T5's (Combination of ATI's Geisman and Aquamedic)
3 Ballasts
1 MH 15K with Electronic ballast

Waterboy 2 in 1
1 Deltec PF501 reacor with Tunze Probe, solenoid and Co2 and extra media (this is almost brand new (R7000 new is about R12000)
1 Reeftek RS2 skimmer (R1800)

Corals

Large red monti on live big chunk o' live rock R500
Smaller red monti's R300 Each
Green monti R300
Tan monti on porcelain rock R400
Large 40 head candy cane R350
Frogspawn Large R300
False brains R100 ea
Yellow Pagoda R200
Birds Nest (got a couple) R300 Each
Blue Acro R200
Red
Green Hummus (I think) R200
Red sticks, Orange sticks ! R150
Loads more !

2 Tunze streams (R400 each)
1 UV submersible R200

Willing to sell individually if all is sold.
I really do not want to sell but I would rather someone else takes it before I start fishing chunks of coral out the skimmer.

Gavin

The pups arrived this morning

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 8:40pm CDT by Wee-Man

Alternative to conventional Metal Halides?

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 4:41pm CDT by jacquesb

Hi everyone - quickly browsing through the UK magazine, "Practical Fish Keeping". Came across the following:
URL: Omnima*Limited
URL2: Omnima*Limited*::*Metal...

Sorry - it's a bit small (the pic)....

I have now read something about the "ICECAP Spotlight fitting"..... Wonder if this runs of a "standard" Metal Halide Ballast (either electronic or magnetic)?

What do you think of this?

Zoanthus frags wanted

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 2:34pm CDT by lappiesreef

Hey Guys

I wanted to swop my Dwarf Lion for frags, but not getting to much response.

So I want to know if there are any Zoanthus or other frags up for sale?
Depending on this price I can make a price on the Lion for Awvince.

Organic aqua ?

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 2:32pm CDT by limpet

the b bac product, has anyone had any experience with it. is it as good as the container says?

Featured System April 2008 - Midasblenny

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 10:44am CDT by viper357

Our Featured System for April belongs to Midasblenny...

Congratulations on a well balanced system.

Click on the photo to see the full writeup.

Your free hamper of Omega One foods compliments of Henk Hugo of www.peckoltia.co.za will be on it's way to you shortly.

Featured System April 2008 - Midasblenny

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 10:44am CDT by viper357

Our Featured System for April belongs to Midasblenny...

Congratulations on a well balanced system.

Click on the photo to see the full writeup.

Your free hamper of Omega One foods compliments of Henk Hugo of www.peckoltia.co.za will be on it's way to you shortly.

Nennie Health

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 9:05am CDT by lappiesreef

Hey Guys

I have been reading a bit on my Nennie, but the info on what a healthy or sich nennie looks like or acts is not very straight forward.

Can we perhaps get a little list together of signs of healthy and un-healthy nennies.

Number 1 I can add under Un-happy nennies
They wonder around the tank (trying ot get a more suitable spot)

Number 1 for healthy Nennies
They de-flate and re-flate every 5-10 hours to replace the "sceletal" water

More points under both please :)

Newbie looking for all the help he can get

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 2:35am CDT by Greenius

Hello all.

First of all let me just say that i was shocked to find out that there was actually such a nice forum on marine aquariums for South African people. I though that when I started looking around i'll end up on a UK forum (since this is where i learned everything i needed to know about freshwater tropical aquariums)

Now. Let me introduce myself. Im living in Pretoria and have been playing around with Freshwater Aquariums on and off for many years. I have only set up my own Tropical Tank in my home office in December last year after a 10 year break. At the moment my tanks are running without any problems for the last couple of months and although they are beautiful to look at and fun to maintain, i would like to get into the the marine side of things.

Just a bit of background. Many years ago, when I was a small boy, my dad and two of his friends set up a 3m(L) x 1.2m(H) x 1.2(D) custom tank in our house in Port Elizabeth. It took them the best part of a year to get everything sorted and installed and after filling the tank and battling to get the aquascaping and water quality just right, my dad had a heart attack and we moved to Pretoria. We never had the chance to really get into the whole thing and having said that, I was very young and did not really understand what they were doing.

Since that time, one of my dreams is to set up a marine tank. When staring with the Freshwater Tropics I basically knew nothing about the whole setup procedure and learned everything I know today off the internet and forums like this. One thing I have found is that Pet shops should not be trusted with advice I have not had any useful advice from any of them (with the exception of one particular guy)

The reason I joined here is to gain as much knowledge about the working of a Marine tank as possible before I even start to think of buying anything. I jumped into the Freshwater Tropical scene without doing proper research and I promised myself this time I will first get all the info, then plan what I would like to end up with and then start putting it together, with the guidance of people who have the knowledge and don't just tell you things to make a quick sale.

Like I said I don't know anything about tank size, filtration, water quality etc. and would like to ask you guys if you can point me in some kind of direction on the net where newbies like myself can read up about this. I know tropics and marine have some common ground but I also know marine biology is much more involved that the run-of-the-mill tropic tank.

I would really love some info and feedback and I hope have a long and educational stay here on your forum.

Regards :thumbup:

Greenius

UV Filter Plumbling

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 2:14am CDT by Warr7207

Please give me some ideas on plumbling in a UV filter.

My setup is basically oveflow - durso - external skimmer - sump - return pump.

Can I plumb the UV inline with the skimmers inlet pipe ?

News Headlines

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 1:59am CDT by Warr7207

I noticed the headlines that are linked to news24, are always terrible.

Can you not get some happier feeds like:

Steyn tops ICC world rankings

Cube tank

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 1:45am CDT by Warr7207

Anyone interested in a 800 x 800 x 650mm Cube tank, with steel stand ?

Alkalinity - KH & meq/L

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 1:39am CDT by Warr7207

I have been testing my water parameters with 2 test kits that give readings in KH and meq/L

Now the KH reading has been reading in the region of 9, which is recommended.

The meq/L reading has always been 2, and although NSW is 2-3, it is recommended to have aquarium water at 4-6.

Also 1 meq/L corresponds to 2.8 KH, so theoretically I either have the following:

2 / 3.2 meq/L

or

9 / 5.6 KH

Does this indicate that the Tropic Marin Alkalinity test is just crap or do these two type of tesst always vary like this ?

For Sale: Heaters

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 1:28am CDT by Warr7207

Two heaters available:
Regent

300w - R100.00
100w - R50.00

Transportation costs for your own account

Skimmers for sale

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 11:05pm CDT by Rory

I have 2 smallish skimmers for sale:

1 turbo queen - just the skimmer, no pump. (1800lph+ w/ venturi recommended)
R300

1 MAD400NWP skimmer rated for 400L. Includes Rio pump with needle wheel.

It can be used as a hang on or in-sump skimmer.
http://translate.google.com/translat...ial%26hs%3Dq1a
R800

I'm in JHB. Would prefer collection...

CopperBand

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 8:40pm CDT by Ocean

I have a feeding CopperBand can anyone give me any advice on them, fav foods, compatiblity ect?

i finaly have one!
:sifone: :sifone: :sifone: :sifone: :sifone:

Foxes nano ideas

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 6:03pm CDT by the fox

I wanted an octopus but i have been told that that i need some experience.

So Im going to get a nano with the help of jason (ocean).

Its a +- 20liter plywood nano with:
DSB
@kgs LR
Hang on back carbon filter
Coral frags from jason
3 bulb 24 watts t5s

Fish:

1 false clown or firefish
1 neon gobi
1 shrimp

Please give advice

Open top nano to swop for liverock

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 3:05pm CDT by limpet

skimmer is deluxe model with 5 watt uv, heater chamber and adjustable venturi skimmer, daz lights (3 BY 24 WATT T5S), and heater, approx 45 litres as per pic to swop for liverock , livestock is excluded

Sps frags wanted

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 2:45pm CDT by limpet

looking for sps bits to start out in my 1.2m in ct area

Lion up for swop

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 1:47pm CDT by lappiesreef

Hey Guys

I ahve this Lion in my Nano. Got it with the Nano...

I don't think it is really suitable for the tank although he seems very happy and eats well.

At this stage I feed him krill with a pair of foreseps (I'm a bit scared of him)

I would love to trade him for a frag or two or three if I can fiend someone generous enough ;) Particularry Zoanthus. I have an orange with blue one and would like to expand on the variaty...

I am not in too much of a hurry since I really enjoy him, but it will be best for him in the end...

BTW the frags should be suitable for a Nano, have a 24 G JBJ...

4 Foot Tank for sale

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 11:29am CDT by Angelreaper

Hi Guys
I got a complete system for sale. Please find details below.

Tank = 1200x450x600
Sump = 600x395x310
Lighting = 2x 2 foot T5 1x 150MH Light Pendent
Skimmer = STD Jembo Protein Skimmer
Pump = 8000L/H
Heaters = 1x 300w 1x 200w
There is also other hardware with the tank.
Live Stock
Fish = 1x Fox Face 1x Yellow Tail Blue Damsel 1xClown
Other = Green Polyps, long Spine urchin, Starfish, Blue Hermit crab
Price = R3500
I will post some pics as soon as I can.

Frags wanted

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 11:04am CDT by Jason

Hi all

Anyone in CPT got some frags they want to donate? I have my Nano and want to start stocking with corals but dont have the $$ and came op with the idee of a donation tank...

Wat i plan is do grow the dontaion corals in my nano and as soon as they are fragable i will frag them and dontate to whoever want some frag... Not trying to make ony $$ out of it...

Water par. No2:0, No3:1, Cal:410, KH:8 Temp: 24.5, Ammonia: 0, pH: 8.2, Dens: 1024

Thanks
Jason

Amount of feeding?

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 9:52am CDT by lappiesreef

Hey guys

I am scraed I'm feeding my system too much.

Please reccommend feeding schedules for my Nano..

Specs:
24G JBJ
Biochem-Zorb
Nitra-Zorb
Activated charcoal
Ceramics

Life stock:
Sun coral
Torch coral
Zoanthus colony
Tube anemone
Radianthus nennie
Shroom colony

Dwarf Lion
Common clown
Blue devil
4 stripe damsel
Bangaii cardianl
Mandarin

2 cleaner shrimps
4 hermits
handfull of different snails

At this stage I alternate marine snow and ZOOplancton everyday
Feed the Lion two krill per day
Feed the Nennie two krill per week
Feed the tank live brine once a week
Feed whole tank frozen brine daily :whistling:

Am I overding it?

Oh I do 5l water change everyweekend. The tank is 75l.

Hi there

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 8:55am CDT by vzyla

Hi everyone

I live in Secunda in Mpumalanga. Started with a Nano reef a year ago, upgraded to a FO Predator tank December and just bought a 5ft tank for a reef setuf.

How to update your Aquarium specs

Posted: April 6th, 2008, 1:03am CDT by Kanga

You might have seen the new Aquarium info tab under some members avatars, if you click on it you will be able to see details on the members system.

Having this info readily available will make it much easier for people to give you advice about your system

To update your details click on User CP an then on User Control Panel in the drop down box

On the toolbar on the left in your user control panel click on Edit Aquarium Specs

Simply update your details and click Save Changes

Containers

Posted: April 6th, 2008, 11:10pm CDT by flappy

There is a chance I will need to drain my tank and store 4000 litres of water for about a week.I have a 1000 litre drum,does anyone else have any other 1000 litre containers that I could borrow for about a week?

Keeping octopuses

Posted: April 6th, 2008, 7:30pm CDT by the fox

Hi

I have no experience with marine tanks but i used to breed freshwater fish with jason (ocean i think) and i have loads left.

I was thinking in a few months if it could be possible for me to buy an octopus?

I think he (ocean) said there are some people here that could import 1 for me. True?

So beening a rookie and salt water i few question about the octopus:

1. How big will the tank need to be.
2. about how much would everything it cost?
3. Could i keep any other marine life it there?
4. What must i feed it?
5. What maintenance would i have to do?
6. What type of octopus would you recommend.

Thanks

Abalone and its impact

Posted: April 6th, 2008, 6:25pm CDT by Kanga

So I have been wondering what impact will the extinction of abalone have on our oceans. I understand that my children will never see an Abalone in that case etc and any species we lose will always be a great loss, but after some searching on the net I cant find what ecological impact the extinction of abalone will have.

So people please enlighten me:thumbup:

Sailfin tang

Posted: April 6th, 2008, 5:25pm CDT by thegoldfishstudio

hi i'm looking to sell my sailfin tang - he is nice and fat and healthy. i have a 500litre tank and he is growing nice and quickly. wanting R650 for him.
I am based in CT
let me know if you are interested

BERNICE

Monterey Bay Aquarium program

Posted: April 6th, 2008, 1:56pm CDT by gaboon

Its on at 2pm today on channel 261, new national geographic channel.

Whats wrong with my anemone

Posted: April 6th, 2008, 1:07pm CDT by Dolphinfriendly

about a week ago i purchased a Heteractis crispa .
he used to stay open all the time but then he shrunk, didn't open and refused to eat, although his tentacles are turning from white to pink. Is he dying?
He's been this way for days now and I'm really worried.
Is there anything I can do?

Jumping bean in trouble

Posted: April 6th, 2008, 12:18pm CDT by lindsay pollard

Hey guys please advise ,my dwarf angel is losing weight and im worried .I feed them every second day ,all other fish are fit and healtthy.He is the only one who is fading away WHATdo i do :(

Would you be interested in a new FW forum

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 9:28pm CDT by hartz

Are there any good FW forums in SA?

Should I just use the American / International ones?

What makes for a good forum? I have the means to start a forum / wiki Website, so please let me know if you'd be interested in a new FW forum, and if so what you would make it good for you.

Thanx,
_h

Best place to buy FW fish, equipment, and food in CTN northern suburbs

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 9:25pm CDT by hartz

Hi all.
Can you please make some recommendations as to where I should go to look for a good variety of good quality equipment at decent prices. So far I've found Mega Mica (Willow Bridge, Tyger Valley) to be good in terms of variety, but have not compared prices or quality yet.

I'm new to this hobby and I've already made a mess up of my tank twice, so I'm into my third tank now.

My first tank turned out to be a "skollie" tank, and this limited me too much so I gave all the fish back to a pet shop and started over intending to start a community tank (lots of neons, guppies and a few dwarf gouramies, and an elephant nose and a butterfly fish)

The butterfly fish in fact is the only survivor of my original tank. The community tank got sick. Everything died. So I started over, scrubbed the gravel, the plastic plants, and the ship-wreck. The real plants and a few other rocks I threw away. This time I committed to regular vacuuming and filter cleaning, doing water changes and preparing the water before hand, etc.

But I'm still learning as I go along.

Strangely my original "skollie" tank was realy low maintenance. I only did one 50% water change every 3 to 4 months, and that without even vacuuming !

So all advice and hints from the wize spirits that lurks in these forums are very welcome.

Some questions:
How SHOULD I be treating my water? Nitrate down? Nitrite and Nitrate test kits? Ph-test kits? Amonia testing? Hardness testing?

Can someone also please explain the different filtration systems so that I can understand WHY they work - I'm the type of person who needs to understand things in order to remember them!

Thanx!
_h

Crushed coral for sale

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 8:44pm CDT by Raven

Hi guys

I am removing my crushed coral substrate to replace it with riversand.

Anyone interested in the crushed coral, I think it is +- 20 -30kg.

Make me a offer and its yours.

But be quick as its only in a bucket now, and i'm affraid some of the living organisms can die.

Hairy goldish flat worm

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 8:38pm CDT by Raven

Hi guys,

I've noted this hairy fellow while cleaning some of my LR.

What is this? Can I keep in my tank or must I remove it?

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Hi!

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 7:49pm CDT by JD167

Hi everyone

The bug bit me about 3 years ago after seeing a nano tank at work that some colleges set up. It was only a year later that that I decided to start my first marine tank. Having had no experience in fish tanks whatsoever, not to mention marine tanks, I got stuck in and bought the basics. Now 2 years down the line, a flooded living room(twice) and some colorful words:censored: later I'm still in it.

None of it would have been possible without the valuable advice of fellow MASA member Puppy. I'm sure you all know him. He has really helped me tremendously in setting up my tank and a big thanks goes to him. :thumbup:

Up until December last year i still had the standard 1.2m(240L) tank. Having 2 weeks of holiday and not knowing what to do with my time I decided to "upgrade" to a 1500x500x600 (450L) tank.(Actually Puppy's old tank) That was a fun couple of days...

But enough blabbering from me. I'll try and upload some pics soon.
l8r!
JD167

Your dream System

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 7:44pm CDT by Kanga

What would be your dream system? Cost is no issue, doesnt have to be monstrous just something that you would want in your house

I think I would like?

2.4m x 1.2m x .08 deep

Lighting - 4 x 54W ATI power modules
Skimmer - mhh reef octo DNW 400
2 x Tunze waveboxes

2 or 3 isolated rock structure for an open look with mostly LPS and heavily stocked with fish

Huge DSB
4ft Cheato area
2 x 4ft frag tanks plumbed into the system in the tank room at the back

OK so what would you guys like?

How do you manage the decor?

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 7:25pm CDT by hartz

Hi,

Currently I vacuum my tank twice a week because the Pleco is :bigshit: -ing so much. To vacuum properly I have to move the decor around. Or is there a better way?

I'd like my plants to stay planted... IN the substrate.

What is more is I'd like to experiment with making part of my tank, say the left half, with a fine substrate, and the other side with a courser substrate. I can imagine that I would be able to get it like that with much effort, but how to I maintain it like that? I don't want the two to become one after a few weeks... So... Any advice from the wizer spirits would be much appreciated!

Greetings to you all, nice to have found you

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 5:38pm CDT by geoff

Hi all, after many a year out of the hobby, I'm back on track and about to set up my tank up again. It's been in the garage for the last 10 years :whistling: and was last used as a house for my daughters two hampsters. I hope the silicone is still OK!!

A trip last week to my local fish shop got me interested enough to start googling about marine fishkeeping and I've been fully bitten by the bug again. During my surfing last week I came across this here site and really enjoyed reading the posts. I like the way the site is layed out and find it easy to navigate. I've also been drooling over some of your lovely looking setups & found them truly inspirational. I'm glad I found you guys and very much look forward to being here :cheers2:

Is my anemone regaining his zooxanthellae

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 4:10pm CDT by Dolphinfriendly

About a week ago I purchased a heteractis crispa form my LFS.
he came to me in a bleached state but this afternoon I noticed his tentacles turning pink, is this a sign he is regaining his zooxanthellae?

Help!!!

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 2:53pm CDT by copperpenny

Urgent feedback required - some of my corals are having a problem. The litte tree one (don't know what it is actully called, but has a hard stem with cabbage ear branches)
has suddenly shrivelled up and looks as if it ready to die. have noticed a type of green furry growth on the underneath of the "leaves". There is also a grey jelly matter starting to grow on the sun coral, fox coral and brain looking coral. what must i do?
Have checked the water parameters and all is good however do not have a phosphate test kit - do have a phosphate remover which is functioning fine. All fish are full of beans, oh yes the bubble corals are also under stress.

Reefers in Paarl Wellington Franschhoek area

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 8:58am CDT by frans

:thumbup: Hi all My name is Frans and I want to set up a support group for the Paarl valley to help other members in the area and to check tanks for members on holliday ect.
I live between Paarl and Franschhoek and it would be super to have someone to chat with and swap frags help with backup systems , water ect.
please email me if you are interested.

Hi All from frans

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 8:26am CDT by frans

:) Hi everyone, I have been keeping marine fish for a year and had FW fish for years before. I have a 90 cm tank with a Bio Plant tan on the Window sill acting as a main filter and just to keep all the sump heads happy have recently added a small 35 lit sump with a DSB.

People to Thank

Posted: April 4th, 2008, 10:19pm CDT by Kanga

During this journey of keeping marine animals in a Glassbox® many people enters your life via the interweb and otherwise, I though it would be nice if we can thank a few of them here

Surgeon, for having the patience to answer all my questions and explaining everything twice, and for the frags (*yeah right some of them were monsters) and for still answering my questions, and looking after the tank when me and ANGRY are gone
Tom, for being there whenever water needed to be changed, filling up my backup drum with Surgeon and a good reefchat most Sundays
Chris my LFS for ordering the most bizzare items for me and phoning me whenever nice corals arrive
Viper, Alan and Dragonreef for giving us a lekker place to chat
ANGRY for looking after my tank when I am not home
all Masadonians or their friendship
Henk for bringing in decent food for my fishies
JAcques and Wee-Man for always helping

I will still think of more as we go

Hi all

Posted: April 4th, 2008, 8:33pm CDT by Magda

Hi all, i am new in the Marine tank "business"
Looking forward to learning more

Thread Locked

Posted: April 4th, 2008, 6:32pm CDT by Brucemg

Hi Masa Admin

Why is my thread locked
Tank Size - Marine Aquariums of South Africa

Exquisite Wrasse

Posted: April 4th, 2008, 5:53pm CDT by Warr7207

Anyone had any experience with Exquisite Wrasse ?

Advice needed on clean up crew

Posted: April 4th, 2008, 2:36pm CDT by Pete

Can any body give me an idication what would be a good cleanup crew for the boyu tl-550

Hi All

Posted: April 4th, 2008, 12:47pm CDT by Jason

Good day...

I have been floting around sometime on MASA and i have decided to say :wave2: as its very rude not to:) I have a 100L Nano runnging now just over 2 months... Running with +-15kg LR well matured...

Live Stock:

2x Green Chromis's
1x Pajama Caridnal
1x Fals Perc

CUC:

5x DBN Hermits
5x DNB Snails

Want to set up my 360L tank again but wil cost some $$... Have everything just need to build a rig for the lights and getting the water... Will post pics of my Nano later, first need new pics as i done some scaping and the pics i have now are old...

Cheers
Jason

Pics of Pete & Tristans Nano

Posted: April 4th, 2008, 12:15pm CDT by Pete

Good day all

I have finally got pic on pc at work but can get into photobook and cant host pics in quick photo either as it keeps bombing me out and sugestions.

Aquarium support

Posted: April 4th, 2008, 10:14am CDT by lappiesreef

Hey Guys

I while back I posted the 4FT L Tank thread. The tank was resting on polystyrene directly on to the frame (got it from the LFS like that). It was recommended that I should place a wood support under the tank.

I just to to find out what the ocnsensus is about which wood to use, how and with what to treat it.

I think one sugegstion was 15mm shutterply painted with paint and thinners mix.

Exact recipes for the technical idiot (me) please :whistling:

New Member All Spark

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 11:37pm CDT by All spark

Hi...my name is jacques,i have a 100liter tank,20kg l/r,tomato clown,coral beauty,2xdamsils and a green chromis.My new 230 liter tank is on its way.

DSB Flow

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 10:25pm CDT by Warr7207

I have started my new tank and have had change things around quite a bit.

I need to know, what kind of flow is recommended into/over the DSB.

I have quite a stronger flow than before.

New Member

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 9:35pm CDT by Singularity

hi all

have just started cycling my saltwater tank.... Still deciding what fish to get started with, your help will be apreciated....

Hagen Lighting Products

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 8:54pm CDT by Warr7207

Anyone had any experience with Hagen T5's ?

HAGEN - GLO T5 HO

Live rock for sale

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 7:44pm CDT by iz1b1zi

Howzit guys,

i have some Live rock i need to get rid off, its fully cured, mix of malaysian/kenyan and some fiji rock. Its originally from Eco Aquatics. Selling for R50/kg. i have about 100kg or so. Ill take some pics 2morow and post them. Iam in durban, but i will organize shipping at buyers expense.

Thx

Floh

Great Help

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 6:07pm CDT by Brucemg

Dont know if this is the correct forum, if need admin can move to the correct location.
Just to say thanks to Ferdie from Dorry, he has been a great help in finding me a RO unit and also at a cost I could afford. Ferdie went out of his way and had the unit ready for me within 24hrs as well as a TDS meter. Once again support our sponsers and they will help us. Well done Dorry;)

Conference

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 6:06pm CDT by Graham

Hi guys

Any news re the conference end April? Where, dates, costs etc. Please. Later

Pete & Tristans Nano

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 3:07pm CDT by Pete

Hi all

My four year old son and I have purchased a boyu TL-550 and it has been running a week now. So takeing it slow for now. Have had a tropical tank for two years until now. Tristan had to decide he wants nemo's, so walla we have a marine tank...

Great to be here :slayer:

Peter

Underwater pics from mauritius

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 3:03pm CDT by Puppy

Guys a buddy of mine has decided to share some of his underwater pics with us .
He works there so expect new pics to be uploaded quite often.
I will try to get him to join our happy family.
Check it out

Picasa Web Albums - Daniel - Underwater - ...

Muz - The pledge

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 12:40pm CDT by Muz

Check this out

CTRC :: View topic - Mt Kilimanjaro Climb to raise funds

Mekaeel's 1m Cube Reef

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 11:36am CDT by Mekaeel

comming soon ;)

How to post Video Clips

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 8:15am CDT by Kanga

From You Tube highlight, right click and copy the address bar of the video you would like to post

1) Click on the video icon above the post box
2) Right Click in the text box and click paste
3) Click OK

Click Post Reply

You have successfully posted you Video clip, sit back and have a :peroni:

Lighting problems

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 11:42pm CDT by Fishy Steve

I want to get a t5 unit at the end of the month. My problem comes in with my tank size. It is 76cm, so its in-between the 60cm, 24w and the 90cm, 39w.

I don't want to spend a fortune so ati and geismann are out of the picture. Aquamedic have a nice 39w unit thats in my price range and I'm ok with the look of it overlapping the tank. I just want to know if there are any major downsides to having the overhang.

If so I was going to try the new(ish) hagen glo double 24w unit. I have read mixed remarks about it but the bad remarks seem to come from the people that haven't actually used it and write it off automatically cause it's not geismann or Tek or any of the other name brands. Don't know if anyone knows anything about them or actually has used one? They have a single (european made, high polished) reflector but the lights are spaced far apart to let light through and the reflector is parabolic(don't know how that helps).

Any comments will be appreciated.

Do cleaner shrimps shed their undercarriage

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 10:15pm CDT by brentnorm

Found these floating around in my tank but all my shrimps are accounted for.

Phosphate media in overflow

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 7:35pm CDT by gaboon

I have no space in my sump so I've put this in my overflow.

Is this ok? My skimmer is now going into overdrive

Considering selling my tank

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 5:19pm CDT by Mtroboer

Hi Guys, I'm getting married early next year and due to higer living cost is considering selling my tank and going back to tropical(Discus). Wich will be best selling my hardware & Lifestock seperately or as a whole? All cost me about R14 000 will R10 000 be a bit optimistic for the complete setup? Here is a list:

The tank is a 1,2 m 280L tank with a 60L sump/refugium. I have about 40kg's of Liferock, mostly Malaysian, some Kenian and a fine crushed coral substrate about 7cm's deep. In the sump I have a 20 w Full Spectrum light,2 Jebo Skimmers, a DSB, some Caulerpa and a return pump. In the hood I have 2x 54w T5's, One full spectrum the other actinic, a NO 40w actinic and 2x Fans.

And lifestock is as follow:

Fish:

1 False Percula
1 Watchman Goby
1 Foxface
1 Coral beauty
1 Algae Blenny
1 Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse
2 Payama Cardinals

Invertabrates:

2x Cleaner shrimp
2x Hermits (Bought as Blue-Legged Hermits, not so sure)
1x Anemone Crab
1x Debelius Reef Lobster(No problems yet!)
Couple of unknown snails

Corals:

Anemone(Not sure of species think its a H. Crispa)
1x Euphelia
1x Sinularia
Brown Button Polyps
Green Button Polyps (Frag)
2Blue Shrooms
Orange polyps living on a tube worm

Skimming

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 5:17pm CDT by Graham

Hi guys

Can a person overskim? I'm new - forgive me if the question is stupid or has been covered previuosly. thanks

Lionfish

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:11pm CDT by gaz19

does any one have a link or photos of a peack lionfish.
i cant find any thing under its common name and dont have a latin name.

Video question

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 12:20pm CDT by Warr7207

Is it possible to upload a WMV video file ?

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Refractometer 4 sale

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 12:20pm CDT by Punk

hey guys, anybody in jo'burg or pretoria looking for a refractometer? i got a basically new one for sale @ R300 ONCO

not willing to ship

cheers,
ant
072-957-6406

If I add a sixline wrasse, am I still "understocked"

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 10:59am CDT by matt165

I know its a bit of a tough question as everyone has their own views on this.

Tank is 130L

1 Midas blenny
2 Ocellaris clowns

I quite like it being understocked as it means less cleaning and maintenance for me.

If I buy a sixline wrasse will I still be able to stick to a single 10% water change a week etc?

Plywood aquarium

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 9:14am CDT by 459b

A while ago i decided i needed a new bigger tank and wanted to see if a tank can be built out of wood. Here are a few pictures of the tank at various stages.

The tank dimensions are 13500 X 51 X 70 cm. When filled it hold about 330 litres water. It will have a sump of around 120 litres. The main tank occupant will be my juvenile octopus. So far the tank, including wood, glass, resin, scres, paint, pvc etc has cost a little over R1200.

I used 7-ply 18mm plywood, bought and cut at timbercity for only R300!! Sides are glued and screwed together. Eventually used over 100 screws in total. Then came the fun part of filling in all the slight imperfections with wood filler. Sanding the tank was also a bit of a mission. The entire tank, including the outside, recieved two coats of epoxy resin. If you look carefully you can see that the inside joins have been reinforced with fiberglass.

Apparently its not advisable to epoxy over paint, so i decided to colour the resin. The inside got another two thick coats of blue resin.

One of the benefits of using wood, is the ease of drilling,cutting etc. I have drilled holes for plumbing and electrics and should be able to drill holes even when the tank is filled.

I then gave the outside of the tank two coats of Plascon velvaglo, apparently this paint is water resistant and can withstand salt water. If i had to build this tank again, i might consider buying more expensive wood for the front, althought the black/blue combination looks awesome!

Then for the fun part - - putting in the glass. I bought a piece of 10mm glass ( 1300 X 56 cm) from a place in Parow for R350, less than half the price of the next cheapest quote. The glass fits in behind the front frame, so there is little to no chance of it ever falling out.
In the next picture you can see the plumbing. I designed my overflow so that water leaves from the bottom of the tank but the overflow is still at the top (if that makes any sense). The inlet is on the same side as the outlet, so i have pvc pipe running the length of the tank. I also put in two horizontal supports for extra strenght.

Heres the tank as it stands at the moment. Ignore the crap looking rocks in it, they only temporary!

Last weekend i filled it with water to check if it leaks. And it didnt. It didnt even bend from the water pressure. It seems to be alot stronger than a glass tank. Wood wont break if bumped either, which is an important thing in my house.
At the moment im having difficulty finding someone willing to make me artificial rock (i want to save on weight and the octopus has a habit of rearranging the tank). All the plumbing etc is lying on the floor wating to be connected. I even have the water ready. Im seeing a guy about rock this morning so will hopefully be able to fill the tank this weekend. Will post more pictures when it is finished.

Let me know what you think.

Little egg sacks

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 8:53am CDT by lappiesreef

Hey guys

There are little egg sacks on my tank glass.
They look like little gelly sacks with 4-5 little white eggs in them. There are 3-4 of the jelly things in a cluster and two clusters in the whole Nano.

It is a 24G Nano with the following stock:
1 Drawf Lion
1 Mandarin
1 four stripe Damsel
1 blue devil damsel
1 common clown
1 bangaii cardianl

Torch coral
Radianthus
Sun coral
Tube anemone
2 Tube worms
1 turbo snail
few unidentified snails
4 Hermits
2 cleaner shrimps

Sorry I don't have a photo yet. Will try and get one tonight.

The egg sacks appeared while I was at work yesterday.

Hope ti is nothing bad like nudi's...

Infant Seahorses!

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 7:40am CDT by Anemone

A friend of mine who is an expert seahorse breader, needed to leave town for a week. Daddy Seahorse gave birth to about 300 seahorse the week before. My friend split up the babies to a few other friends. This is what I'm babysitting:

Death in the family

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 12:44am CDT by Warr7207

During today, powercuts, my backup power system didn't kick in and my Powder-Blue died.:(

I can only think it was due to lack of oxygen. My question is Bigger fish, bigger oxygen consumption or is this very species specific ?

All the other livestock survived but quite distressed.

Matt's 34G TL-550 ;)

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 12:17am CDT by matt165

Huge update! ;)

Alright, I was planning a possible upgrade in the future, and then this 34G just fell on my lap. And being quite fond of these all in one nano's I couldn't quite pass it up.

Here's a size comparison of my new BOYU TL-550 next to my old JBJ 24G Nano Cube. Difference is 10G (About 40L)

Poor quality pic, just for size comparison

Rear chambers, including skimmer on right. The horizontal piping is a temporary guard to stop my midas blenny jumping into the rear chambers

Skimmer was pulling clear liquid at first, but has started pulling some stuff out:

Tank is lightly stocked (1 midas blenny and 2 clowns, then some CUC) so I didn't expect skimmate to look too brown

PC Lighting (hopefully upgrading soon)

The world's longest build

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 10:50pm CDT by naptalene

For the last year I've been rebuilding my tank. You may think it's a monster from the time-frame but it's only a 270L. I have been taking my time and trauling all these forums as I go - and broken this, then fixed that, then broken it again, then discovered a siphon I never thought of etc. :whistling:
But lo and behold - It is here and has water.....it even has live-rock.
This is the old tank

It was one of the old trickle filter in the back things that I bought second-hand. I slowly got rid of more and more of it and things were going well until a huge crash happened. This looks better than it actually did.:(

Still don't know why it crashed but I decided to do things again properly.

DIY reflectors for 80W T5's

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 8:08pm CDT by Raven

Hi guys,
I've bought 3 80W T5's last week, but I still need to connect them, as well as get some reflectors for it....

I need some help on the reflectors part.
Can you please give me some ideas on how to build/get proper reflectors?

Calculators

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 7:11pm CDT by Brucemg

Hi

I cant seem to get into the water flow cal by Hennie

All saltwater Imports to be banned

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 6:36pm CDT by cybervic

Don't know if you guys picked this up on MoneyWeb. I just caught a glimpse and the future looks dark. Kortbroek are planning to ban all saltwater import (corals and fish). The imposed ban will also strive to stop people from keeping such animals.

I'll see if I can find the link to the article again.

I really hope this is not true....

Hello

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 6:32pm CDT by Storm

Hello people, new to the site but not completely to marines. Was over at SAReefkeeping until I got banned today for:

Quote:

You have been banned for the following reason:
bad attitude, profile incomplete, location and aquarium Date the ban will be lifted: 03-04-2008, 08:00 AM

It sparked coz one off there members said my Aquascaping sucked and that i should remove all my SandStone and replace it with Live Rock (This would cost me about R2000-4000's worth off Live Rock) in my thread. My new Tank is only about 3 Days old and still sorting itself out. Anyways if i want to use SandStone I believe I should be able to make that decision without having to be told "No you are wrong remove it all!" or having the fear off being banned for using it as other reefers have had much success with it. Anyways i hope to receive a more welcomed and understanding community here otherwise i give up with SA Reefkeeping Online Community's

Tank for sale

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 6:31pm CDT by IMarine

Hi guys my tank is up for sale for 1500x700x600 in 15mm and sump 1500x50x50 10mm
skimmer bubble master 250,2x6100 tunzes and multi con 7095,chiller and giesemann 250 metal and t5s, 60kg fiji live rock,seachem eragonite,2xpurple tangs,2xregal tangs,1x salfin,1 nemo,1 cole tang,2leathers,orange,maroon large,mushrooms,etc for R5000.00 urgent sale so come guys the offer of a life time.:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

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Lfs

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 5:02pm CDT by Graham

Hi Guys
New in JHB and looking for an honest LFS with good advice etc. Any help?:biggrin: Thanks

1.8m x 900 x 700 FOR SALE! 12MM

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 1:40pm CDT by yoshimitsu

Show Tank With Black Trims On Stand With Sump, With Testing Kits, Protein Skimmer And All Lighting, With 3 Power Heads And 2 Canisters 600 And 800, I Even Have Heaters And All Other Equipment If You Want To Use It For Tropical Fish.....

What Do You Guys Think Its Worth.....

You Can Make Me A Price.....

Clownfish compatibility

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 10:19am CDT by joe

Good Day
I really wanna add a sabae clown or the black percula clown , problem is that i have a common percula in my tank already .
Will this be a problem or can i take a chance ?

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