Reefkeeping South Africa » Items by Kender

Feeds

26315 items (0 unread) in 5 feeds

• Marine Aquariums of South Africa
• Advanced Aquarist's Online Magazine
• Reefkeeping Magazine
• Mr. Saltwater Tank
• Reef Builders | The Reef and Marine Aquarium Blog

Items by Kender

Marine Aquariums of South Africa

• 

  Wanted 4ft tank

  Posted: January 12th, 2012, 10:26am CST by Kender

  looking for a 4 foot tank to buy or swap for a strawberry corn snake.
• 

  ViaAqua skimmer for sale for sale: Pretoria North

  Posted: July 27th, 2011, 3:18pm CDT by Kender

  Hardware for saleThread title:

  ViaAqua skimmer for sale

  Location:

  Pretoria North

  Shipping or Collection only:

  Collection

  Photo's and description/list of items for sale:

  
  
  
  

  Notes:

  150 Gal skimmer for sale R650
  I upgraded to the same make but to a 250 Gal skimmer
  100% working order
  SK-200NW model

• 

  Martial Arts Sword

  Posted: July 25th, 2011, 12:39pm CDT by Kender

  Hi
  This was a reward that I received 25 years ago. Please note that it is not the local cheap replicates that you can buy in most China stores. It is not available in South Africa in shops. This sword comes from Japan and was given to me by my Sensei 25 years ago. It is extremely sharp. If anyone is interested in buying it please make me a REASONABLE offer.
  
  
• 

  Live Rock Wanted Pretoria

  Posted: July 7th, 2011, 5:59pm CDT by Kender

  Hi Guys
  Anyone have about 10kg's (depending on price) Live Rock to sell in Pretoria area?
• 

  Charl's small Upgrade

  Posted: June 1st, 2011, 2:36pm CDT by Kender

  My tank seemed a bit small, so I had a custom tank build 1350 x 600 x 650. I converted my 4 foot tank into a sump with a DSB and macro algae. Total water in the systems is about 700 litters. DSB consists of a layer of play sand (10 cm), layer of live sand ( 3 cm) and a layer of Aragonit (3 CM). Sand in sump use to be in the old sump only added new play sand.
  Been running a month now and my Zoas seems quit happy. Unfortunately I lost my blue tang with the move from old to new tank.
  Tank is still a work in progress as I still need to close up the stand and lights, as well as buy more lights. I currently have 6 x 54W T5's on the DT and 2 x 20W T8's on the Sump.
  Saving for two 150 watt Metal Halides, so hopefully soon lights will be adequate as well.
  
  Water parameters after 3 weeks:
  PH 8.4
  KH 8.5
  Salinity 1.025
  Ammonium 0.02
  Nitrite 0.02
  Nitrate 5
  Temp 25
  Ca 440
  Mg 1350
  
  Overall everything in the DT seems happier.
  Will post some pictures soon.
  Any advice welcome
• 

  Getting a quote from Dory Pets

  Posted: March 15th, 2011, 11:47pm CDT by Kender

  Does anyone know if Dory pets still exists, and if so is Lanzo still the ons to contact. It seems they ignoring me :(
  Their website seems to be inactive as well.
• 

  Cheato wanted

  Posted: March 9th, 2011, 10:44am CST by Kender

  anyone have some cheato for me in Pretoria, also like to know about DBS starter kits
• 

  Urgent help needed Aurora red base and Mandarin

  Posted: February 23rd, 2011, 9:54am CST by Kender

  Hi Guys
  I just read the post on the mandarin, and now I am a bit worried. My mandarin looks happy but the tank is only 7 weeks old. The live stock and LR are more than a year old though. Mandarin seems to be nibbling all the time on the LR as well as the sand. Should I be worried?
  Also the Aurora red base anemone have been closed for the past two days.
  
  
• 

  New Noob

  Posted: February 14th, 2011, 10:35pm CST by Kender

  Hi Guys. I sort of got the contents of a marine tank as a gift. Basically I was thrown into the deep end, not complaining, but I have to learn FAST. I used some stuff lying around the house to quickly build a stand and then went and bought a secondhand tank (not a good idea as per post from this site). I now have a 1200 x 450 x 450 tank. its been running for a month now but as you may surmise, not without casualties. I will be asking lots of questions if you guys don't mind, but I really need to learn fast. The contents that I got given includes 4 clown fish, 2 blue fish with yellow tails, that i don't know the names of yet, two corals that I don't know the names off but both seems to be dead, one is still have some small white polyps on it so I still feed it with the hope of it recovering. I also took all the water from the original owner as well as a protein skimmer, 2 foot sump and pump. I installed tree lights in the tank two of them consisting of one side white and one side blue light. I have lost so far one clown fish and a shrimp. the shrimp was fine one morning and half an our later it was dead. I was also rudely and painfully introduced to some worms that I think is called bristle worms. The previous owner gave up on the tank after it was overgrown with a purple algae like substance. Two snails also made their appearance today one of them sitting on the coral that seems to still have a bit of live in it. I had to make a D I Y overflow system consisting of 50 mm p v c pipe. I connected a tube from this to a power head via a non return valve to make sure the overflow starts quick enough in case off a power failure. Any advice will be appreciated. I also use a canister filter that seems to leak allot.
  This forum has been a lot off help all ready thanks for the help.