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Marine Aquariums of South Africa
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Sunday
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 1:03am CDT by brendanpre
I'm feeling the need to get wet on Sunday and want to try somewhere north of Dbn. Any body have some suggestions? I'm feeling a bit lazy(and unfit!!!!) so rock pools would be good!! -
flow in a LR tank/chamber
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 12:28am CDT by sweetnsour
hey everyone
when having a LR tank / chamber what kind of flow do you need in there slow/ fast / over the LR / through the LR?
any and all coments/ ideas welcome
many thanks in advance :peroni: -
New Member.
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 11:18pm CDT by Firefly
Hi everyone.:wave2:
Was looking for an aquarium forum based in SA, found this one and here I am! :thumbup:
Work at a wet pets/Nursery and have been in the process of starting a fish only marine aquarium. It's a 3ft-ish home build aquarium I found in the back of the shop in need of some work. Asked the owners and they said I could take it plus some other things:slayer:.
So now I have five tropical+one breeding tank+ one FO Marine tank nearly set up.
I have received lots of info from the owners of the shop and love learning more about the aquariums. So thats why I am here.....to learn from forums and start a few myself.
If anymore info is needed let me know;)
Thanks
Firefly -
frags of any of these
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 11:16pm CDT by nathen
- Hey guys lookung for any of these corals will to payof cause ,
- tied of my local fish store robbing me blind even with my 10% discount i insist on , so it u guy have any frag you will to part with pms me
- Button Polyp, Yellow Colony Polyp, Hairy Mushroom Coral, and Bullseye Mushroom Coral)
- Leather Coral,
- Silver Branch Pumping Xenia
- White Starburst Polyps
- Colony polyps
- Cauliflower Colt Coral
- Taro Tree Coral
- Toadstool Mushroom
- Spaghetti Finger Leather Coral,
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all my fish are sick of ick
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 8:22pm CDT by edyta2382
Hello everyone my fish tank is infested with ich all my fish are sick now
i lost my powder brown two days ago my yellow tang is still eating and grazing and
he is still scraching im going to remove all the live rock and corals a nd shrimps and crabs and start hypersalnity for long time can sombody tell me if a should remove the carbon and crushed coral substrate or should i leave it :( i hope i will save at least those guys.Edyta -
Salt
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 7:14pm CDT by jumboswart
Ok so I am busy getting my 800x800x600 cube set up and want to be self reliant on RO and saltwater. My question is what is the best salt to buy to mix my own salt water.
I have 2 x 260 litre JoJo water storage tanks 1 for RO which I am producing myself with a Waterboy unit the other one will be plumbed with a mixing pump for saltwater, as my cube will only be about 400 litres in total I will be doing 100 litre water changes every month, so how long can the saltwater that has been mixed stay in the tank?
Also what is the best specific gravity meter for salinity that a person can get and where? -
Dosing pumps
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 4:22pm CDT by mariusmeyer
What is your opinion on dosing pumps. Are they worth the money or just a luxury? I'm looking at the aqua medic quadro. Any other brands worth looking at? -
marine sump volume?
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 3:37pm CDT by AHMED
hi
could you please what is the right sump volume to use withe 300 gallon tank? -
Removing Sand Bed
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 1:43pm CDT by Ross
Howdy Guys
I have play sand for my sand bed in the display tank.
It is to fine and there is always some in the water column and I am sure it is grinding my impellers to bits.
I am going to start changing over to Argenite by doing about a 1/4 to 1/3 of the tank at a time. Was just wondering how long I should wait between changes.....
Ross -
ViaAqua sk-388
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 1:29pm CDT by SaltyReef
Hi All,
I managed to get a brand new ViaAqua sk 388 for R400 yesterday.
This guy was given it as a gift but it doesn't fit in his Sump.
Lucky for me it just fit in mine.
will keep you posted on how it works.
I unfortunately had a boyu 1516 skimmer in before that seemed to work OK but was underrated for my tank.
The New sk388 is apparently rated for up to 1000L and my tank is only 400 with sump.
Has anyone got experience with the ViaAqua? -
Mantis Shrimp
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 1:13pm CDT by SaltyReef
Hi all,
I got some live rock yesterday from a friends tank.
He dicided he was going to take it down as his fish kept dying for some unknown reason.
when I put this piece of liverock in my tank out came a 6cm long mantis shrimp. green with a beige stripe down its back. the slasher type of mantis.
I managed to catch him and dumped him in my dsb.
I think he has buried himself in the sand cause I cant find the little bugger today.
Does anybody want it. I'm sure i can coax him out with some fresh yellow fin Tuna.
maybe someone wants to swap me a small frag for it -
Mark my Chemistry Homework
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 1:01pm CDT by Ross
Hi Guys, still trying to get my head around this water Chemistry.
Some Background, I have a Calcium Reactor and a Kalk Reactor.
(Kalk is on Top Up)
My readings are:
pH 8.1 (Will be low because of the Calcium Reactor)
KH 9 to 10dKH
Ca 517
pH in CaCO3/C02 Reactor is 6.7
I don't think the readings are to bad as I have only just started putting coral in the tank and the frags are tiny but I am suffering from Calcification on my equipment.
From what I understand I will need to add ALK(KH) to get the Ca down.
To do so I need to add something like baking soda (for a 50gal, 16grams will raise by about 1meq/L) A teaspoon will be about 1.7 dKh.
I have also been setting the Calcium reactor. I have turned the pH in it up over the last two weeks from 6.5 to 6.8. (ProfiLux controller) I understand that a higher pH in the reactor causes less Calcium coming out of it.
Ok my brain hurts, hope that makes sense.... am I on the right track or about to cause a tank to explode -
Income Poll
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 12:00pm CDT by Jacojs
Hi Moderators.
I have been thinking about this for a while now. I obviously don't want to know who earns what but just get an idea of what the average income of MASA members are and what I would have to earn to be able to get myself a tank and commit to this hobby. See I am shit scared that my monthly expenses will be way too much and I'll end up having to sell the whole setup.
I was thinking the following options in the Poll.
R5000 to R9 999
R10 000 to R14 999
R15 000 to R19 999
R20 000 to R24 999
R25 000 to R29 999
R30 000 and above
Sponsored by Mom and Dad
Can someone please set this up or can I do it myself?
Jaco. -
Microbelift products discussion thread.
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 10:09am CDT by Boegie
Excellent products!. Hope you are going to supply to other LFS in country. Especially East London, hint hint. -
The MicrobeLift discussion thread
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 10:09am CDT by Boegie
Excellent products!. Hope you are going to supply to other LFS in country. Especially East London, hint hint. -
anyone ever bought anything from fishstreet.com
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 9:35am CDT by ziyaadb
Hi all
Fishstreet.com looks like a reputable online store for a number of stuff. What really interests me is their temp controllers and wave makers. those things look awesome and are well priced as well. only issue would be waiting the 25 odd days for the delivery. anyone here bought anything from them before? -
MicrobeLift product range currently available in South Africa
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 9:27am CDT by HenkHugo
Good day all,
In this thread we will be posting info with regards to the MicrobeLift product range currently available in South Africa. As the range grows we will add more. We will be posting both salt and freshwater products here :thumbup: