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  Shock absorbent inert material

  Posted: January 6th, 2012, 8:11am CST by cybervic

  Hi, I'm looking for a type of shock absorbent material that can be used inside a saltwater tank.
  
  Anyone have any ideas? I thought styrofoam, but after some research, found that it breaks up/down in saltwater.
  
  Thanks
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  Afrikaans is beter

  Posted: November 27th, 2008, 4:29pm CST by cybervic

  Krisjan pulls into a service station in his battered bakkie, Clad in tattered khakis, velskoene, whiskers and ragged hat. He Hands the attendant the keys complete with a beautiful Vierkleur flag.
  Krisjan: "Goeie more. Maak vol met Super, asseblief." (Good morning. Fill up with super please)
  Attendant: "How much?"
  
  Krisjan: "Vol asseblief." (Full please)
  
  Attendant: "I only speak the English!"
  
  Krisjan: "Noooo problem.... Good day to you, Sir. I currently feel a profound desire to replenish the propellant of my motorized vehicle. Therefore, i cordially request you to transfer, from your subterranean reservoir, a sufficient quantity of combustible fluid of the highest octane rating to fill the appropriate receptacle of the said means of perambulation to the brim."
  
  Attendant: "Hau?"
  
  Krisjan: "Do you have a problem, Sir? I thought you said you spoke English?"
  
  Attendant: "English.....that, she is not English!"
  
  Krisjan: "My dear Sir, are you veritably attempting to insinuate that you do not even recognize the language which you allege to be your singular means of communication?"
  
  Attendant: "Hau?"
  
  Krisjan: "Let me attempt to elucidate in the most elementary terms; your paltry grasp of the English vernacular is frittering away the time at my disposal or as I would put it, in a more civilized intelligible language......
  
  Dit is fo**en duidelik dat jy FO**OL van Engels weet. So, kry jou slapgat in rat en maak hierdie bliksemse kar se tank vol voordat ek hier uitklim en jou sommer moer, want jy mors my donnerse tyd!!!! (It is clear that you know nothing about English. Get your lazy backside in gear and fill this car up before I get out and hit you because you're wasting my bloody time - expletives left out)
  
  Verstaan jy nou?!! (Do you understand now)
  
  Attendant: "Ja Meneer. Vol Meneer? Afrikaans is beter Meneer". (Yes sir, full sir? Afrikaans is better sir).
  
  Krisjan: "Dankie!" (Thank you)
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  English in the New South Africa

  Posted: November 27th, 2008, 3:56pm CST by cybervic

  Officials of the New South African government have come to realise that
  the current status of having 11 official languages in the New South
  Africa is impractical. A new language was thus introduced. This is
  the English as it is now spoken on television and radio. The recently
  published New Suth Effrican Deekshunry defines these new weds. Here are some
  extracts and examples of their usage in the official New Suth Effrican
  lungwich:
  
  Bad - you sleep on it in the badroom
  
  Beds - mossies, doves, etc
  
  Beg - container, as in shopping beg, hand-beg, tog-beg
  
  Ben - to set alight
  
  Chealdren - our future is in their hands
  
  Chetz - where worshippers go on Sundays
  
  Cuds - you can play poker or rummy with them
  
  Cut - a small donkey-drawn vehicle
  
  Debben - city in KZN
  
  Deekshunry - where you find weds
  
  Detty - opposite of clean
  
  Die'llas - as in drug die'llas or wee-pon die'llas
  
  Driva - holds the steering wheel of a teksi
  
  Duck - very duck at night when the lights are all off
  
  Ebben - you get ebben erriors and rural erriors
  
  Effrican - from the continent of Africa
  
  Erriors - districts, e.g. ebbon erriors
  
  Ewways - eg. SAA, Comair
  
  Fems - companies, e.g., Anglo-American
  
  Fest - the one before second and third
  
  Fok - used with nifes
  
  Fum - you can fum with ship or kettle
  
  Fumma - he owns the fum
  
  Guddin - where you grow kebbijees
  
  Geave - you MUST geave, I WILL take
  
  Get - a hinged device in a fence
  
  Hair - as opposed to heem
  
  Heppi - state of elatement, e.g. I'm so heppi - I just voted
  
  Hiss - masculine form of hairs
  
  Hubba - where sheeps dock
  
  Itch - as in itch and avairy pesson
  
  Jems - little bugs that give you the flu
  
  Kah - what you drive around in
  
  Kennel - ummy officer
  
  Kebbijees - vegetable
  
  Keptown - some think parliament doesn't belong there
  
  Kettegry - in a system of classification
  
  Kipper - one who kips, as in goal kipper
  
  Kleenix - where nesses weck
  
  Kot - where the judges sit
  
  Len - to acquire knowledge
  
  Leeda - as in Arwa Leeda, the president
  
  Lungwich - weds what are spokkin
  
  Mick - those that will inherit the eth
  
  Miening - what is the miening of this attack?
  
  Nesses - they weck in kleenix and hospitals
  
  Pee pull - powa to da pee pull
  
  Peppa - one way to get the news
  
  Pesson - one of pee pull
  
  Phlegm - the benning top of a kendal
  
  Pees - symbolised by white dove
  
  Pees-Tox - between IRA and John Major
  
  Reeva - e.g. Limpopo, Vaal, Orange
  
  Regime - anything to describe pre-1994
  
  Ree kwest - replaced by dee mands
  
  Rent - N/A - word obsolete
  
  Scotched Eth - guerilla tactic
  
  Sheep - big boat
  
  Shex - houses in squatter camps
  
  Ship - provider of wool
  
  **** of Peppa - something to write on
  
  Shuck-attak - if the shuck-net is brokkin
  
  Shuck-nets - at Debben, for safety of sweamas
  
  Spitch - what politicians make at a relly
  
  Suth - opposite of North
  
  Sweamas - compete in a sweaming pul
  
  Teps - solvent to thin enamel paint
  
  Teck - see geave
  
  Teksi - kah for hire - sometimes parrot teksi
  
  Tenning point - the "top" of a parabola
  
  Thest - ice cold Coke will relieve it on a hot day
  
  Tipic ally - characteristic
  
  Tocks - negotiations
  
  Ufrican - pertaining to Ufrica
  
  Ummy - military force
  
  Wee men - ladies
  
  We pon - a gun
  
  Wean-dow - with glus for throwing bricks through
  
  Weaned - Gone with the Weaned
  
  Weaner - the one with the most votes
  
  Weckliss - the unemployed pee-pull
  
  Weds - what the dictionary is made up of
  
  Wekkas - do the weck
  
  Weld - the eth
  
  Wems - small crawly creatures
  
  Weth - she is weth her weight in gold.
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  Diving The Rock in Umhlanga

  Posted: November 3rd, 2008, 11:36am CST by cybervic

  Here is a few pics from our dive last week
  
  
  
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  Diving Balito and area

  Posted: September 30th, 2008, 9:32pm CDT by cybervic

  Hi, guys and gals
  
  Anyone have any tips for nice areas to dive and snorkel in and around Balito?
  I'll begoing there for a week and would like to get 1 or 2 dives in.
  
  Thanks
  
  Wikus
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  Hermit or not?

  Posted: August 10th, 2008, 10:25pm CDT by cybervic

  Hi, found this nice link on the net. Might help with hermit ID
  
  Les Bernard l'hermite
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  Aqua H2O pumps

  Posted: June 13th, 2008, 9:51am CDT by cybervic

  What are your views on Aqua H2O pumps? are they worth using in a marine setup?
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  New tank in planning phase

  Posted: May 5th, 2008, 1:33pm CDT by cybervic

  Hi, I am planning a new tank 2100mm x 1000mm (w) x 650mm (h)
  
  I intend to stock the following fish.
  
  20 x Talbot damsels
  1 x yellow tang
  1 x purple tang (If I can get hold of one)
  1 x Naso Literatus
  1 x Fire goby
  1 x Purple or Magnificent Fire goby
  1 x Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus)
  1 x Powder Blue Surgeon
  1 x snowflake moray
  
  6 x cleaner shrimp
  2 x pepperment shrimp
  various snails and an urchin or two
  
  The corals will mainly be sticks. I intend to do a 2.4 x 1m wide skylight, supplimented by 4 x 80w T5's (Actininc)
  
  Flow will hopefully be 2 x 40 000lph Polario's
  
  Will this fishlist work and what else do I need to consider.
  
  Any comments and critique are welcome
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  All saltwater Imports to be banned

  Posted: April 1st, 2008, 6:36pm CDT by cybervic

  Don't know if you guys picked this up on MoneyWeb. I just caught a glimpse and the future looks dark. Kortbroek are planning to ban all saltwater import (corals and fish). The imposed ban will also strive to stop people from keeping such animals.
  
  I'll see if I can find the link to the article again.
  
  I really hope this is not true....
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  Sera Bio Nitrivec

  Posted: January 27th, 2008, 9:26am CST by cybervic

  Hi, have any of you ever used Sera Bio Nitrivec to lower nitrates?
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  Pumps for 2m setup

  Posted: January 24th, 2008, 9:17pm CST by cybervic

  On a 2m tank keeping sps and lps (don't crucify me, it's not my tank :P) What would be best? A tunze 7000lph pump x2 or a tunze 12 000lph pump x 2
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  I am crazy yet?

  Posted: January 24th, 2008, 12:54pm CST by cybervic

  Heya everyone. I have this crazy idea of using a windmill to create random surge/current in my tank. Anyone ever did something like this ?
  
  Basically the idea is to have it draw water from the sump and push it back to the main tank. The random part comes with the wind and what could be more random than wind blowing?
  
  Any ideas, drawbacks or possible advantages?
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  Need to assemble tank

  Posted: January 8th, 2008, 10:34pm CST by cybervic

  Hi, I need to assemble a 2.4m tank for someone inhouse (No doors to fit prebuild tank) 2.4mx 0.5m x 0.5m 10mm glass all round. 4 braces 120mm wide 10mm glass.
  
  This is what I had in mind, please crit and comment.
  
  Thanks
  
  
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  PH vs Alkalinity

  Posted: December 5th, 2007, 10:04pm CST by cybervic

  Hi, something for the chemical guru's.
  
  I have it that pH and alkalinity are directly related to each other. So if your pH = 8 then your alkalinity = 8.
  
  So what we are actually testing in our systems is carbonate hardness or kH.
  
  Why are everyone calling it alkalinity?
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  Forum Colours

  Posted: December 3rd, 2007, 10:54am CST by cybervic

  Hi, is it possible to set user prefered colour schemes? I really liked the old look and the new one is kinda dull for a lack of a better description.
  
  
  Wikus
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  Calling the tang police

  Posted: November 28th, 2007, 8:46am CST by cybervic

  Hiya,
  
  Do you guys/gals think 5 yellow tangs in a 2.1m x 1m x .65m tang will be okay? They will share the tank with either a school of goldies or a school of chromis +- 10.
  
  If the 5 yellow tangs will be okay, they will be the only tangs in the tank.
  
  Other intended fishes are
  
  1 x Green Manderin
  1 x Fire goby
  1 x Purple Fire goby
  2 x False Percula clowns (Amphirion Occelaris)
  1 x Six line Wrasse
  2 x Pyjama cardinals or 2 x Banggais if I can get hold of them
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  Choices

  Posted: November 27th, 2007, 2:42pm CST by cybervic

  Hi, I'm at one of those stages where I have to make a choice. I want too keep some possible not reefsafe fish and I want to have a reef tank.
  
  I have 2 options. A 2.1m x 0.8m x 0.65 full blown reef tank and leave the not so reefsafe stuff or two 1m x 1m x 0.65m cubes, one reef and one FOWLR.
  
  What whould you guys/gals suggest and what would be your reasoning behind your choice?