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[FS]: Buyo TL 550 : Brackenfell, Cape Town

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 11:48pm CST by Dorrey

Full system sales or multiple items for sale.Thread title:
Buyo TL 550
Location:
Brackenfell, Cape Town
Shipping or Collection only:
Collection
Photo's and description/list of items for sale:
Buyo TL 550 Complete with Special Made Cabinet and,

Skimmer, Pump, Heater, UV Light, SunSun PowerHead, Bioballs ect..

Also selling Live Rock, Fish and Soft Corals, Polyps and some Frags.

I unfortunately have to sell since we are moving and I want to start a larger tank once settled in new home.:(

Tank, cabinet and hardeware R1800

2 x Medium Clown Fish @ R80 each
1 x Blue Line Wrasse @ R120
1 x Bi-colour Angel (Blue and Yellow) R200
1 x Bi-colour Blenny R120
1 x Cleaner Shrimp (Large) R160
1 x Hermit Crab (Blue) R80

All 100% healthy never had any sickness and approx 4-6months old.

Notes:
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ID needed

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 8:34pm CST by Ismail
Prodibio

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 7:42pm CST by Dean Schreuder

Hey All

I spoke to Furbs the other day, by the way thanks for the sale and help :-)

I have done some research on the product and want to give it a go, Want to know tho.. Should i start the lighting straight away? I wont stock in a hurry will wait like 2 weeks think thats fine?
Should i run a phosphate reactor to remove my phosphates to avoid unwanted algae (Have readings of 1mg/l), Should i Run the Skimmer? I know they instruct u not to a certain period?

How should i maintain my tank afterwards, just dose every 2 weeks and do water changes and monitor the water paramaters.:thumbup:
Shells for hermits

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 5:52pm CST by mytank

Anyone know where I can get some shells for my hermits. Would like to give them an opportunity to grow into some new shells.
Something about these ZOAS!

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 5:49pm CST by mytank

Hi all,

Firstly before I get asked:

Salinity: 1026 - refractometer
Phos: 0.1 - Hanna checker
Nitrate: 10ppm - Salifit
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: 0
Alk: 12.2 (been running it high always even when they were happy)
Mag: 1350
Calc: 460'

I run the nitrate a bit higher for the clams - don't have any SPS well have one but its a hitch hiker - encrusting Monti but its brown (yes I know why)

So what is happening:

All my corals are running super healthy, all extended all splitting heads, clams got new extensions on it, big zoas all multiplying like rabbits and pulsating xenia now becoming a pest.

What's the problem, well I have a category for my Zoas big ones and small ones - simple enough. The big ones are the ones 10 cent size and bigger the small ones either a match head or up to 10c ***NOTE: they stay this size***

What I have notice is all the big Zoas =<10c are growing like hell but I can't seem to keep the smaller Zoas 10c<.

Good examples:

1. I had what they call hand picked serbert zoas loads of tiny (only a single match head size) dark orange Zoas - they lasted a month.

2. The pictures you see below is my fav Zoas. When I got them they were the only ones on the rock with one or two of the others (circled in blue). As you can see over the space of three months the big Zoas have grown and the small Zoas have almost completely disappeared :(

What have I checked for:

1. I looked for a month every night at all the hours of the night and the early morning for any nudi's, snails etc - found nothing (only yesterday found a BIGGGG snail see ID forum)

2. Looked for flat worm - nothing

What I have done:

1. Dipped them in:
1.1. Brightwell Coral Dip
1.2 Coral X
1.3 Seachem coral dip

2. Given them a fresh water dip

3. Moved them to all places in the tank from high light little flow, to little light high flow etc

No matter what I can't keep these "small" Zoas alive. Seems like they the same as RIC's they just disappear in my tank...

Anyone know whats going on?

About two months ago (had them for a month or so):
Snail ID please

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 5:30pm CST by mytank

Last night I came to get some water in the kitchen passed the lounge and checked on the tank as usual.

I noticed a 2cm wide type of "trail" (Snail trail) in the sand leeding to the back of my tank.

It was a straight line and my turbo's and mexians even though are big have never left that type of trail.

Took the red light and started looking. I found it. when I spotted it, it had a foot of about 1.5cm wide and was abut 4 to 5cm long.

QUICKLY I got the bugger out (I am having some problems with some of my Zoas disappearing). Unfortunately I cut it in half with the grabber. If anyone know what this is I would appreciate the heads up, never seen this type of snail nor the type of shell, was very flat, all I could explain was that it looked like a army burrey *spelling on its head. The pictures are the head and a piece that broke in half.
Getting shocked

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 5:23pm CST by mytank

Hi all,

Setting up my new tank its been running for about 3 weeks now on Zeovit no inhabitants just LR and the Zeovit running. I noticed something interesting today.

I have wooded laminated flooring. When I am on that floor and in the tank I don't feel any "shock" (its more like some weird feeling making one of my finger muscles pull).

HOWEVER the tank is by my patio door, at the bottom of the door there is that metal "railing" he one that seals the door to the ground.

IF I stand on that metal "railing" and put my hand in the tank zap I start to feel that weird muscle pulling - which I think is some sort of shock...

IF I am on the wooden flooring nothing.

What's makes me wonder is in the new tank I opted for the titanium heaters which are designed to trip the electricity if there is any leakage in the water. They don't have a thermostat and run off my profilux.

To date nothing has tripped.

Anyone know what to do what to check or if this is normal?
How important a spare return pump is

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 5:19pm CST by mytank

Today has been one of my most challenging marine days. From finding one of my sand sifters with a broken gill

To my return pump just stopping with out any reason. Once you setup your tank everything is so nice and neat all your wires are cable tied and everything into a DB board. Your pump goes and you don't know if it's electric of if its the pump.

I spent the greater part of today removing the return pump out the sump, removing all the wiring and then took the opportunity to clean out the sump (was full of derby from the LR).

Luckily I have a back up of most of the equipment at hand. Good to report that the new return pump is in and running. It's much quieter too.

I checked the impeller but all is good there must be something electric.
Broken Gill?

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 5:14pm CST by mytank

Hi all,

Today woke up made some coffee :) went to my tank to have a look. The lights were off and the fish were out already.

Lights came on and the GF was watching the fish and doing some parameter tests for me when she noticed something on our blue (dotted) cheek sand sifter. At first I thought he might have munched on a bristle worm but at closer inspection I wasn't sure.

Test 1:

Was he still sifting sand - YES a lot of it

Test 2:

Made some food with garlic and vitamins dropped it into the tank, in his usual fashion went for everything and chowed

Test 3:

Put some DD food paste on the window quite high up to see if he had strength to swim. Munched all of it (see pics below)

Then I thought could it be some parasite like a fluke or something?

So the GF and I went about catching him. From having to catch my clown a month ago I knew that you have to use your brains. I blocked their cave (have a pair) and put two nets outside. The bugger still came around the rock and tried to pull the rock (its the nori feeding rock with some rope) away from his hole.

Eventually he swam into the net. I managed to get him out and get a good picture of what it was. It seems one of his gills has BROKEN at the bottom (still attached at the top) and is sticking out of his gill. I had a TINY when I mean TINY I mean SUPER TINY tug on it and it is still fastened at the top.

I notice two things:

1. He has become a bit more agressive than normal (can't blame him being p1ssed off)
2. He is trying to get it out by rubbing it on the sand.

He is still FEEDING and still SAND SIFTING

PICS below.

Questions:

1. What could of caused this?
2. Do I need to put him in the hospital tank?
3. Will he be ok?
Blind clowns

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 2:20pm CST by LuckyFish

I have two female ocellaris, which are behaving strange. Both are usually very greedy eaters. That changed and it seemed to be they are kinda blind. Today I made the test and I can catch them without any fast movement with my hand.
I had a similar fish, chromis female, which was trying to eat, but missed the food. The chromis swam into other fish, glass pane, etc. After a while he seemed to have his eye sight back.
Is there anybody who came across something like that?
[FS]: pH meter for sale: Table View

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 9:04am CST by zs1adc

Hardware for saleThread title:
pH meter for sale
Location:
Table View
Shipping or Collection only:
Collection
Photo's and description/list of items for sale:

I have a pH/conductivity meter for sale, model number Hanna HI9025.
The pH probe is new and there is a spare pH probe.
I also have all the chemicals,

mostly full.
Notes:
-R2000 ono
Clown behaviour

Posted: January 7th, 2012, 9:00am CST by APK

I put two clowns into my tank on 26 December - 1 died after a week and the other after 10 days - the last one stated swimming like mad in the current in front of the pump - for hours on end. Next morning I found it dead and the cleaner shrimp was feeding on it. Is there something like a too strong current for these fish ? There other fish - Banggai Cardinals , cleaner shrimp urchin and starfish are 100 % ok - water is also fine. At the beginging they two of them stayed in a cave the whole time - also where I found the first one. Second one seemed fine - was feeding up to the end. Any comments ?