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  Urgent help needed Frogspawn looks like its dying

  Posted: January 16th, 2012, 10:34am CST by blackghostknife

  HI All
  
  
  back from the weekend and our frogspawn looks like its dying, what’s happening and what can I do to make it better?
  
  
  
  
  
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  Hair like stuff in the sand

  Posted: December 5th, 2011, 9:58am CST by blackghostknife

  HI All
  
  Came into the office this morning, and found this hair like stuff in our sand, what the hell is it? :eek: does it mean doom for us? please let me know what i can do to get rid of it?
  
  Thank you
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  What Live stock so we get for an office tank

  Posted: November 15th, 2011, 10:36am CST by blackghostknife

  HI All
  
  Our Office tank is just about ready for life stock, the tank has been cycling for +/- 4 month now, so now it’s time to think about choosing fish, I know for a start to get 2 fish which we intend to do, after that we will introduce fish slowly but I need to know what fish?
  
  Things I know we have to consider is, that there is a lot of movement in the office, and people want to see the fish, so we cannot get fish that duck and dive when people want to see the tank, and there must be a lot of color
  
  So what FISH???? :biggrin:
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  Berghia Nudibranch

  Posted: November 14th, 2011, 1:51pm CST by blackghostknife

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  Does anyone have these Berghia Nudibranch? cause I need them, I have a big problem with Aiptasia? oh and i did buy Aiptasia-x but im going to have to sit hours injecting each one of them!
  
  Regards:thumbup:
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  Please ID

  Posted: November 7th, 2011, 10:23am CST by blackghostknife

  HI All
  
  I just got this LR and found that there were some hitchhikers on it, please could you ID them for me? I have no Idea what it is, sorry for the picture quality, but its the best I have.
  
  Regards
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Nano Needed!

  Posted: October 31st, 2011, 1:00pm CDT by blackghostknife

  HI All
  
  Does anyone have a second hand Nano with all the Bells and whistles that’s not being used for a very good price or even for donation :blush: since we got an office tank I would love to get one for my small flat and also say Im part of the Marine group?
  
  
  Thank you
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  Reef safe fish list

  Posted: October 12th, 2011, 2:54pm CDT by blackghostknife

  HI All
  
  Picked this list off one of the many websites on the world wide web, thought I should share it and see how many changes can be made or how many are not considered reef safe for all of us beginners
  
  If there are some fish missing or not on please add!
  
  Angelfish
  
  Swallowtail Angelfish Moderate Peaceful
  lamarck's Angelfish moderate peaceful
  
  Anthias
  
  Dispar Anthias moderate peaceful
  Lyretail Anthias moderate peaceful
  Parvirostris Anthias moderate peaceful
  Red Fairy Anthias moderate peaceful
  Randall's Anthias moderate peaceful
  Pale-Bar Anthias moderate peaceful
  
  Basslet
  
  Royal Gramma Basslet Easy peaceful
  
  Blennies
  
  Bicolor Blenny easy peaceful
  Black Sailfin Blenny moderate peaceful
  Midas Blenny easy peaceful
  Sailfin/Algae Blenny easy peaceful
  Harptail Blenny easy peaceful venomous
  Horned Blenny moderate peaceful
  Horseface Blenny moderate peaceful
  Black & Yellow Blenny easy peaceful
  Tail Spot Blenny easy peaceful
  Starry Blenny easy peaceful
  Linear Blenny easy peaceful
  Segmented Sailfin Blenny easy peaceful
  One Spot Blenny easy peaceful
  Ember Blenny moderate peaceful
  
  Butterfly
  
  Yellow Pyramid Butterfly easy peaceful
  
  Copperband Butterfly that is very popular, is not reef safe. It is commonly used to control aiptasia but it is prone to pick at corals if it is not well fed.
  
  Cardinal
  
  Spotted Cardinalfish easy peaceful
  Longspine Cardinalfish easy peaceful
  
  Chromis
  
  Blue Reef Chromis easy peaceful
  Blue/Green Reef Chromis easy peaceful
  
  clownfish
  
  Ocellaris Clownfish moderate peaceful
  Ocellaris Clownfish(tank-bred)easy peaceful
  Teardrop Ocellaris Clownfish moderate peaceful
  
  Dartfish
  
  Zebra Barred Dartfish easy peaceful
  Firefish easy peaceful
  Firefish, Purple easy peaceful
  Scissortail Dartfish easy peaceful
  
  Filefish
  
  Jade Filefish moderate peaceful
  
  Gobies
  
  Diamond Watchman Goby easy peaceful sandsifter
  Two Spot Goby moderate peaceful sandsifter
  Tiger Watchman Goby easy peaceful sandsifter
  Engineer Goby moderate peaceful sandsifter
  Sleeper Blue Dot Goby moderate peaceful sandsifter
  Sleeper Railway Glider Goby easy peaceful sandsifter
  Sleeper Striped Goby easy peaceful sandsifter
  Yellow Watchman Goby easy peaceful
  Hi Fin Red Banded Goby moderate peaceful
  Orange Spotted Goby easy peaceful
  Steinitz Goby easy peaceful
  Bluespotted Watchman Goby easy peaceful
  Wheeler's Watchman Goby easy peaceful
  Pinkbar Goby easy peaceful
  Yashia White Ray Shrimp Goby easy peaceful
  Diagonal Bar Prawn Goby easy peaceful
  Tangaroa Goby easy peaceful
  Black Barred Convict Goby easy peaceful
  Catalina Goby moderate peaceful
  Cave Transparent Goby easy peaceful
  Clown Goby, Black easy peaceful coral disturber
  Clown Goby, Brown easy peaceful coral disturber
  Clown Goby, Citrinis easy peaceful coral disturber
  Clown Goby, Green easy peaceful coral disturber
  Clown Goby, Yellow easy peaceful coral disturber
  Court Jester Goby easy peaceful
  Gold Line Goby easy peaceful
  Golden Neon Goby moderate peaceful
  Greenbanded Goby easy peaceful
  Griessingei Goby easy peaceful
  Hector's Goby easy peaceful
  Masked Goby easy peaceful
  Neon Blue Goby easy peaceful
  Neon Gold Goby easy peaceful
  Neon goby easy peaceful
  Neon Gold Goby easy peaceful
  Red Head Goby moderate peaceful
  Red Striped Goby easy peaceful
  Trimma Goby easy peaceful
  Yellow Priolepis Goby easy peaceful
  Gold Neon Eviota Goby easy peaceful
  Blue Striped Dwarf Goby easy peaceful
  
  Jawfish
  
  Black Cap jawfish moderate peaceful
  Dusky jawfish easy peaceful
  Yellowhead jawfish moderate peaceful
  
  Pseudochromis
  
  Striped Pseudochromis easy peaceful
  
  Scorpion
  
  Gumdrop Coral Croucher easy peaceful C. Distur. venomuos
  
  Seahorse
  
  Black Seahorse moderate peaceful Slow feeder
  Great seahorse moderate peaceful Slow Feeder
  Tang
  
  Blue Tang Easy peaceful
  Naso Tang Moderate peaceful
  Sailfin Tang Moderate peaceful
  Scopas Tang Moderate peaceful
  Kole Yellow Eye Tang Moderate peaceful
  Convict Tang moderate peaceful
  Orangeshoulder Tang moderate peaceful
  Naso Blonde Tang moderate peaceful
  Blue Unicorn Tang moderate peaceful
  Bristletooth Tomini Tang moderate peaceful
  Two Spot Bristletooth Tang moderate peaceful
  
  Wrasse
  Six Line Wrasse easy peaceful
  Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse easy peaceful
  Exquisite Wrasse easy peaceful
  Radiant Wrasse easy peaceful
  Mystery Wrasse easy peaceful
  Lineatus Fairy Wrasse easy peaceful
  Labout's Fairy Wrasse easy peaceful
  Orange-Back Fairy Wrasse easy peaceful
  McCosker's Flasher Wrasse easy peaceful
  
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  To Dose or not to dose

  Posted: October 11th, 2011, 10:05am CDT by blackghostknife

  HI All
  
  As we are getting ready to start our office tank and adding cycled LR and letting the new Tank settle, I was wondering what dosing kits is a must for fish, different Corral, diseases, white spot.......... and what can we get to keep our little piece of the ocean health and full of color, We want to make sure we ready for everything!
  
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  Ozone?????

  Posted: September 21st, 2011, 12:05pm CDT by blackghostknife

  HI All
  
  I would like to find out more about Ozone? how it works and can I use an O3 fitting that was installed by another water company for drinking use?
  
  Regard
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  Help needed!!!!

  Posted: September 19th, 2011, 4:30pm CDT by blackghostknife

  Hi all
  
  I need to find someone who does class cutting, and that would come out to cut the glass. I need a hole cut at the bottom of the tank for the return pump. So if anyone knows someone that can do this, please help!
  
  Thank you
  Regards:thumbup:
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  The ghost New Marine Tank

  Posted: July 28th, 2011, 11:25am CDT by blackghostknife

  Hi All
  
  At last i can start, i have some pictures of the tank, sump, and stand, i will be doing pluming today, ( lets rather say try pluming, i have a small idea of how to do it, but thats about it, if there are anyone who can help, it will be great!
  
  I just said a quick prayer, so lets start!
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  ordering my first tank!!!!

  Posted: July 22nd, 2011, 3:48pm CDT by blackghostknife

  HI all
  
  I finally got a tank lined up, will collect in August, I forgot that its my birthday coming up and my wife asked what I wanted so I told her! :whistling: but I have been reading so much about pumps, protein skimmers, salt, kalkwassers, lights, water flow, I have become a bit worried about what all is really needed! Please can someone direct me on a thread or some of your geniuses on marine aquariums tell me, once I get my tank, what will be next? Do I just add salt water and let it run for a month or what?
  
  Thank you
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  Tank size

  Posted: July 21st, 2011, 10:13am CDT by blackghostknife

  HI Guys
  
  In the past 2 weeks, I have almost bought a Tank and then something happens to prevent me buying it, like the last on where I was going to buy 1.2m tank and on the day I wanted to pay the TAX man send me a great email saying I owe R2000,:censored: anyway enough of that crap, I was told from a friend who gave up a marine tank years ago, If I want to start a marine tank I must, buy a big tank, anything from 1.2m and up, he said its easier to maintain? Is this true!
  
  Thank you
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  what are the mistakes you made when starting your first Marine Tank

  Posted: July 14th, 2011, 9:31am CDT by blackghostknife

  Hi All
  
  I hope this is not a stupid question to ask, I hope it’s just a case of the saying there is no stupid question, but only a stupid answer, so before I think of buying anything and starting, i want to learn as much as I can, so if I can ask, would you tell me your mishaps in starting a Marine Tank, your knowledge will be greatly appreciated, it will help me, not make the same mistakes, and save time and money, I also hate losing life stock, which I’m sure you all do too.
  
  Thank you
  :032:
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  New Member

  Posted: July 13th, 2011, 11:12am CDT by blackghostknife

  Hello Everyone!
  
  I've been creeping on this site and a few others for some time now so I thought I would stop being rude, so i signed up!
  
  I have a 100L tropical fish tank, that has been running for the last 2years, I am looking to upgrade to a bigger tank when the time is right!
  
  Stock
  
  1 Black Ghost Knife
  2 Blue Dwarf Gourami
  2 Widows
  2 Bala shark
  1 Red fine shark
  2 Neons
  1 blind tetra
  2 pink tetra
  2 golden Gourami
  1 pleco
  2 puppies
  
  
  Plants
  
  Chlorophytum bichetii
  Vallisneria Americana
  Vallisneria Spiralis
  Vesicularia Ferriei 'Weeping'
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