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Marine Aquariums of South Africa
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Great Barrier Reef
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 7:57am CDT by mandarin
A Chinese vessel was stranded for one week on the Great Barrier reef causing significant damage to the corals, about 1km long.The toxic paint they use on the hull is also spreading and killing everything in the surrounding area.These stupid people took a shortcut route and look what they have done, i get realy mad. -
Moving tank??
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 10:09pm CDT by Evo R
Hi all.
How do i move my nano from my office to the living room at home?And will the tank have to cycle agian? Tanks running almost 3 months and hassome softies and a blenny and 2 chromis in.
Any advice will be much appreciated!!!!!!!!! -
in NEED of protein skimmer
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 8:46pm CDT by layla13
does anyone know where i can get a low cost protein skimmer shipped to egypt? the few saltwater dealers here are crazy with the costs. thanks -
Dorry Pets PTA closed from 15th -18th
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 7:28pm CDT by lanzo
Hi guys
DP PTA will be closed from the 15th - 18th...
i will hopefully meet up with some of you guys at the last MMC2010 i know Sean Koekemoer is also going:thumbup:
All orders wil be sent out before Thursday 12h00 orders that will be placed between the 15th and 18th will get processed on the 19th
For any info or trouble please contact Frans at:
frans@dorrypets.co.za
Happy Reefing Guys :peroni: -
poor mans moorish idol
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 6:58pm CDT by Fredy O
hi there, can anybody plz tell me what they know about this fish, girlfrend ordered it and its arriving on thursday -
Cool to be here
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 6:16pm CDT by lionfishleon
I'm Leon and passionate about anything living in saltwater. So many questions, so little time. Finally took the time to sign up, great stuff! -
Seeding dead rock in rockpools
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 3:41pm CDT by Dane
Hey all,
If this were hypothetically speaking legal, or if one were able to get a permit for this, what do you think the results would be?
Obviously one would hypothetically have to boil the rocks nice and long to make sure there are no nasties before dropping them off in a local shallow rockpool.
Surely they'd get nice crustose and goggas? Anyone heard of a hypothetical situation wherein such an experiment was performed? Hypothetically, of course.
Hypothetically, would rockpools species (able to tolerate a massive range in temp, salinity etc) even on the cape town coast (warmer side) be able to colonise it and do ok in a tropical tank? (bacteria, macro, pods etc).
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Urgent help needed Serious algae problem
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 2:32pm CDT by PeterLoubser
I have a Boyu 550 nano which is just over a year old. I am starting to get seriously despondent and desperate as I have a green algae problem that is slowly starting to choke the life out of my tank. Generally my tank parameters are good and after chatting to the LFS I bought a phosphate test kit as well as a phosphate reducer to try and clear the problem but to no avail.
I do water changes religiously every 2 weeks, clean the protein skimmer regularly, make sure I dont over-feed, etc. etc. Every time I do a water change I harvest as much algae as I can but over time it has now just about taken over everything. Any coral I had has been choked and died, as well as my tube worms and snails. I have a spiky urchin and crabs, and shrimps that are doing ok as well as a small number of fish that are fine, but if I cant get rid of the algae I am seriously thinking of packing it all in. HELP! -
April 2010 meeting
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 2:25pm CDT by Mekaeel
The next meeting will be held on the 29/04/2010 at the UKZN dive club. See you all there at 19:00 :thumbup: -
greetings
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 1:04pm CDT by Semi
:thumbup:Hi.my name is Andre,and live in durbs.am very passionate about marine aquaria.i have been going at it for about 12 yrs,and learn something new daily.ihave recently returned from England,and set up a nano tank(fish only).it has been running now for 3mths,and so far so good.will soon post my specs and pics. -
Boyu TL550 with sump
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 10:17am CDT by Kevin
After a year or so, I have finally installed a sump for my TL 550.
I will post pics of the modification soon.
I have drilled a 32mm hole into the back of the tank for the overflow and a 20mm hole for the return. The back of the TL 550 is glass not acrylic so I had to source the drill bits. Builder warehouse have got in diamond drill bits from Torkcraft. I paid R129 for the 20mm bit and R169 for the 32mm bit.
Drilling was a breeze, but I did quite a bit of practise before hand on old glass.
The overflow, will start to operate from tonight. I have split the overflow into the sump into two lines. One line will run over an ATS and the other will flow directly into the chamber of the return pump.
I have set up a DSB underneath the ATS in the main chamber. The sand is playsand at a depth of appox 12cm. On top of this I want to put in Chaeto and some other macro algae.
The return pump is 2000L/hr, I dont know if this is too much for the tank. Advise will be appreciated.
I still need to install some lights in the sump for the ATS and for the algae growth.
Space is limited so I am going to put 2x50w downlights for the sump and try and squeeze in a 23W CFL floodlight for the ATS. I hope this is suffiicent or is it overkill?
After all of this, if I still have space, I want to chuck the Boyu skimmer as far as I can throw it and put in a lekker skimmer in the sump. Any advise here would also be appreciated.
Here is a pic of the sump. It is approximately 60L.
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Boyu TL550 with sump
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 10:17am CDT by Kevin
After a year or so, I have finally installed a sump for my TL 550.
I will post pics of the modification soon.
I have drilled a 32mm hole into the back of the tank for the overflow and a 20mm hole for the return. The back of the TL 550 is glass not acrylic so I had to source the drill bits. Builder warehouse have got in diamond drill bits from Torkcraft. I paid R129 for the 20mm bit and R169 for the 32mm bit.
Drilling was a breeze, but I did quite a bit of practise before hand on old glass.
The overflow, will start to operate from tonight. I have split the overflow into the sump into two lines. One line will run over an ATS and the other will flow directly into the chamber of the return pump.
I have set up a DSB underneath the ATS in the main chamber. The sand is playsand at a depth of appox 12cm. On top of this I want to put in Chaeto and some other macro algae.
The return pump is 2000L/hr, I dont know if this is too much for the tank. Advise will be appreciated.
I still need to install some lights in the sump for the ATS and for the algae growth.
Space is limited so I am going to put 2x50w downlights for the sump and try and squeeze in a 23W CFL floodlight for the ATS. I hope this is suffiicent or is it overkill?
After all of this, if I still have space, I want to chuck the Boyu skimmer as far as I can throw it and put in a lekker skimmer in the sump. Any advise here would also be appreciated.
Here is a pic of the sump. It is approximately 60L.
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Boyu TL550 with sump
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 10:17am CDT by Kevin
After a year or so, I have finally installed a sump for my TL 550.
I will post pics of the modification soon.
I have drilled a 32mm hole into the back of the tank for the overflow and a 20mm hole for the return. The back of the TL 550 is glass not acrylic so I had to source the drill bits. Builder warehouse have got in diamond drill bits from Torkcraft. I paid R129 for the 20mm bit and R169 for the 32mm bit.
Drilling was a breeze, but I did quite a bit of practise before hand on old glass.
The overflow, will start to operate from tonight. I have split the overflow into the sump into two lines. One line will run over an ATS and the other will flow directly into the chamber of the return pump.
I have set up a DSB underneath the ATS in the main chamber. The sand is playsand at a depth of appox 12cm. On top of this I want to put in Chaeto and some other macro algae.
The return pump is 2000L/hr, I dont know if this is too much for the tank. Advise will be appreciated.
I still need to install some lights in the sump for the ATS and for the algae growth.
Space is limited so I am going to put 2x50w downlights for the sump and try and squeeze in a 23W CFL floodlight for the ATS. I hope this is suffiicent or is it overkill?
After all of this, if I still have space, I want to chuck the Boyu skimmer as far as I can throw it and put in a lekker skimmer in the sump. Any advise here would also be appreciated.
Here is a pic of the sump. It is approximately 60L.
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My Latest Sump
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 10:16am CDT by Creep
Hi guys.
Attached is a pdf file of my sump I had made and it was suggested I rater go with this sump as with the one I desighned. Ok this is officaly my third sump.
It's got 5 chambers First is the inlet, second is for the heater third is for the skimmer and return pump, fourth is for DSB and the fifth is the refugium. Afer I got the sump i saw a problem the flow ower my DSB as my return pump is in the third chamber i would not get any flow ofer the DSB in the fourth chamber. Now i would like to know would it work if i pump water to my DT from my DSB from my third chmber with a piece of pipe.
OR any suggetions?
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sump.pdf (25.2 KB) -
My Latest Sump
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 10:16am CDT by Creep
Hi guys.
Attached is a pdf file of my sump I had made and it was suggested I rater go with this sump as with the one I desighned. Ok this is officaly my third sump.
It's got 5 chambers First is the inlet, second is for the heater third is for the skimmer and return pump, fourth is for DSB and the fifth is the refugium. Afer I got the sump i saw a problem the flow ower my DSB as my return pump is in the third chamber i would not get any flow ofer the DSB in the fourth chamber. Now i would like to know would it work if i pump water to my DT from my DSB from my third chmber with a piece of pipe.
OR any suggetions?
Attached Filessump.pdf (25.2 KB) -
My Latest Sump
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 10:16am CDT by Creep
Hi guys.
Attached is a pdf file of my sump I had made and it was suggested I rater go with this sump as with the one I desighned. Ok this is officaly my third sump.
It's got 5 chambers First is the inlet, second is for the heater third is for the skimmer and return pump, fourth is for DSB and the fifth is the refugium. Afer I got the sump i saw a problem the flow ower my DSB as my return pump is in the third chamber i would not get any flow ofer the DSB in the fourth chamber. Now i would like to know would it work if i pump water to my DT from my DSB from my third chmber with a piece of pipe.
OR any suggetions?
Attached Filessump.pdf (25.2 KB) -
? on Changing Impellors
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 9:59am CDT by Pads
Yesterday I had a break through with the help of Neil. I thought that the little Resun 2000l/h pump lying around was not gonna give me adequate return flow as a return pump. So when I got home I connected everything up and it works brilliantly apart from the noise. This could just be a noisy brand or the impellor. This too seems to "stall" which plays with my water levels. Now my question......
What are the chances of finding a generic impellor to swap. Currently its got a paddle wheel, I was wonder if there is a more efficient impellor before I decide that the noise warrants a new pump.
Any feed back would be appreciated. Thx ;) -
? on Changing Impellors
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 9:59am CDT by Pads
Yesterday I had a break through with the help of Neil. I thought that the little Resun 2000l/h pump lying around was not gonna give me adequate return flow as a return pump. So when I got home I connected everything up and it works brilliantly apart from the noise. This could just be a noisy brand or the impellor. This too seems to "stall" which plays with my water levels. Now my question......
What are the chances of finding a generic impellor to swap. Currently its got a paddle wheel, I was wonder if there is a more efficient impellor before I decide that the noise warrants a new pump.
Any feed back would be appreciated. Thx ;) -
? on Changing Impellors
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 9:59am CDT by Pads
Yesterday I had a break through with the help of Neil. I thought that the little Resun 2000l/h pump lying around was not gonna give me adequate return flow as a return pump. So when I got home I connected everything up and it works brilliantly apart from the noise. This could just be a noisy brand or the impellor. This too seems to "stall" which plays with my water levels. Now my question......
What are the chances of finding a generic impellor to swap. Currently its got a paddle wheel, I was wonder if there is a more efficient impellor before I decide that the noise warrants a new pump.
Any feed back would be appreciated. Thx ;)