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Marine Aquariums of South Africa
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Skimmer for a nano?
Posted: September 11th, 2010, 12:55pm CDT by Gustav
What skimmer would you guys reccomend for a 60l? Hang on is not an option as I still have a hood on -
Corals wanted Pta
Posted: September 10th, 2010, 8:30pm CDT by Gustav
Hi guys. I'm new and would like to now when some of you in the pta area are selling coral or fragging please. I don't have a huge tank but would like leather or xenia. Other soft corals as well
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Dolomite
Posted: September 10th, 2010, 7:34pm CDT by Gustav
Has anyone ever tried using this as a calcium amd magnesium additive? As I understand its a carbonate wich would help buffer the ph aswell. Might be wrong. Also it occurs naturally so can it be that bad? Would there be a build up of some sort after a while of use? -
New tank specs- What do you guys think?
Posted: September 9th, 2010, 8:45pm CDT by Gustav
Hi guys and gals
I'm new in the marine arena. I surfed the web for months before starting and I hope I have got most of it covered in my new tank. I set it up about 2 months ago. Its a standard 2 foot tank with canopy. Got 2 small internal filters(280l/h and 300l/h) in and a resun in tank skimmer. Also the heater and airpump with the airstone etc. Started off by adding some 2kg of liverock and used Prodac marine salt. Got my salt and everything up to 1.024. Started to cycle my tank for a month and adding liverock as I got some new pieces. After 2 weeks my amonia droped to 0. After 3weeks I added 2 hermit crabs and after a month i added 2 percula clowns (small). And last week I recieved a frag of blastomussa and a piece of torch coral with 3 heads. So a upgrade in lighting was needed. I bought a super bright 18w flurecent of about 6500kelvin and 2 6500kelvin 14w energysavers and a 14w actinic coral light. Everything looks happy and healhty at this stage. The toches are extending fully and the mussa is lookinf nice and plump with bright red and the green mouth. Don't have test kits yet but did test my water at a petshop and the nitrates were under 0.2. Got the brown algae/diatoms now for about a week and a half but is slowly making place for green algae. Some hair algae is appearing but nothing major. What do you guys think? Small I know but its the best I can do for now. Will upgrade in the future. Oh and I'm using distilled water for chages and topups as I'm still trying to find out whre to get RO water at a good price in bulk