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  [FS]: Torch Coral - greenish colour frag for sale: Brackenfell, Cape Town

  Posted: May 14th, 2012, 5:11pm CDT by shawn5643

  Single frag for saleCommon Name:

  Torch Coral - greenish colour

  Scientific Name:

  -

  Size of coral

  Almost tennisball size when open

  How long have you had the coral?

  Not Long

  Shipping or Collection only:

  Collection only

  Your location.

  Brackenfell, Cape Town

  Price:

  R100

  All sales to be conducted on the thread.

  • I agree

  Photo's:

  

  Notes:

  Single head of Torch Coral mounted on a piece of live rock. Torch is green with white tips.

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  [FS]: Torch Coral - greenish colour frag for sale: Brackenfell

  Posted: April 20th, 2012, 3:31pm CDT by shawn5643

  Single frag for saleCommon Name:

  Torch Coral - greenish colour

  Scientific Name:

  -

  Size of coral

  Branching with 6 heads bigger than golf balls

  How long have you had the coral?

  Not long

  Shipping or Collection only:

  Collection

  Your location.

  Brackenfell

  Price:

  R100

  All sales to be conducted on the thread.

  • I agree

  Photo's:

  Hi Guys.
  
  I have reserved a branching torch coral which I am going to pick up tomorrow morning.
  
  It is a branching type with 6 heads. Myself and another member on the forum are already each going to split the costs so we can each get 2 heads.
  If anybody else is interested it will cost R140 for 2 heads, or R70 each.
  
  If you have any experience fragging a torch it will be a bonus, I have only fragged Zoa's before, but from what I have read and seen it does not seem too hard.
  
  Alternatively, I will be willing to swop a head or 2 for similar sized candy cane, frogspawn, hammer, picushion.
  
  Cheers.

  Notes:

  -

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  [FS] Various frags: Brackenfell

  Posted: April 16th, 2012, 4:16pm CDT by shawn5643

  Various frags for saleCommon Names:

  Vietnamese Zoas

  Scientific Names:

  -

  Size of frags

  Almost Golfball size

  How long have you had the frags?

  Not long

  Are the frags mounted?

  Yes

  Shipping or Collection only:

  Collection only

  Your location.

  Brackenfell

  Price:

  R50 - R70

  All sales to be conducted on the thread.

  • I agree

  Photo's:

  

  Notes:

  -

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  [FS]: Humbug Damsel: Brackenfell

  Posted: April 3rd, 2012, 11:30pm CDT by shawn5643

  Fish for saleCommon Name:

  Humbug Damsel

  Scientific Name:

  -

  Size of fish

  7-9cm

  How long have you had the fish?

  not long

  Is the fish eating?

  Yes

  Shipping or Collection only:

  Collection Only

  Your location.

  Brackenfell

  Price:

  Swop for frags

  All sales to be conducted on the thread.

  • I agree

  Photo's:

  

  Notes:

  Hi.
  
  I have just gotten these 2 damsels but they are bigger than expected & harassing my 2 clowns.
  Now that they are in the tank, it also seems too small for them.
  I do not want to risk the health of my clowns or stress these fish if I can prevent it at all.
  
  Will swop for any frags otherwise will have to take them to the LFS.
  
  Cheers

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  Frags wanted PLEASE

  Posted: March 2nd, 2012, 2:15pm CST by shawn5643

  Hi All.
  
  My tank has been cycling for a month now with Live Rock.
  I really want to get some sort of life in there, so my request is for some frags
  of easy to keep soft corals or Zoas or Shrooms, even XENIA.;)
  
  I am willing to pay something for them. Will collect anywhere in Cape Town.
  
  Thanks so much.
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  My Boyu in training

  Posted: February 21st, 2012, 1:22pm CST by shawn5643

  Hi All.
  
  I started my tank about 2 1/2 weeks ago.
  
  Specs are:
  
  Boyu MT-50
  80 litre capacity
  3 chambers in the back
  1 x Boyu powerhead 1000l/ph
  1 x 24Watt PL Combo lighting
  1 x Sun Sun blower
  4 kg Live Rock - Will up that to about 8kgs come payday
  
  Using NSW and Natural Sea Sand
  (Water from 2 Oceans and sand collected between Big Bay and Melkbos,
  collected at low tide and looks clean and has reasonable life forms)
  
  Here are some pics after 1 week.
  
  
  
  
  Now the question time!
  
  1. Filtration.
  In the 3 chambers I have the following:
  Chamber 1 - Live rock rubble and filter floss
  Chamber 2 - Charcoal, bio-balls and ceramic rings
  Chamber 3 - Powerhead/return pump.
  
  I intend removing the bio-balls and ceramic rings and replacing with a Boyu 308 skimmer, as it seems to be the only one that will fit in this compartment. Am I on the right track? I do not want to alter the "neatness" of the tank so I do not want external plumbing or appliances.
  
  Will this filtration be adequate as my intent is to keep 2 x clowns, 1 or 2 x gobies, CUC, mushrooms, zoas and 2 or 3 sps's (Xenia, kenya tree, ??????)
  
  Should I get a more powerfull pump? Turnover is slightly more that 10x per hour.
  
  2. Lighting.
  
  The tank comes standard with 1 x 24W PL Combo tube (blue/white). I realise this is not ideal and will either add another 24W PL Combo, or add 2 separate lights, 1 x actinic & one white.
  
  I think the easier solution will be to add another Combo, however, if I do add 2 separate tubes what strength do you recommend?
  
  3. Heat buildup.
  Our house gets EXTREMELY hot (Brackenfell;) as it faces the sun full on the entire day.
  Temps were hovering around 29-31degrees, untill I installed 2 x 80mm PC fans into the feeding flap portion of the hood. One blows directly onto the water and one blows outward. After testing, this drops my temp by 5 degrees over a 4 hour period. Temps are now between 25-27 degrees.
  
  Will post photo's of this DIY as it looks quite neat and not "stuck on".
  
  4. Substrate.
  I went to do a bit of window shopping at Sam's new store in Brackenfell over the weekend and had a little chat. But after that I was a bit confused. He almost did a backflip when I mentioned that I was using Natural Sea Sand. Now I have read up a good amount on the different substrates and feel that this is not such a bad thing. However, now is the time if I want to change the substrate to Aragonite, before adding any livestock. He is using a very coarse type of Aragonite in his display tanks and I quite like the look of it as it might not get blown around as much as the "sugar fine" Aragalife. Your thoughts please.
  
  5. Parameters
  So far I do not know.
  Will get test kits this weekend or next as I am only cycling the live rock for at least 4 weeks.
  Please advise on good value for money kits and what the most important items to check?
  
  6. Water changes
  I have been doing a weekly 20 liter water change. Siphoned off some diatoms from the surface of the substrate. This should go away when the cycle is complete?
  The live rock that had the mushrooms attached also has a fai amount of algae (GHA?) on it. This is now starting to turn brown and looks like it is busy dying?
  
  7. Hitchhikers
  I have seen about 5 bristleworms crawl around on the liverock, also 2-3 small snails that came out of the woodwork. A couple of days ago a tiny white starfish also miraculously appeared. It looks exactly like the rock pool starfish (5 sided and not five legged if you know what I mean) you get in the local tidal pools.
  A funny thingie has attached itself to one of the rocks as well, it looks like a transparent 5 sided jelly bubble, about 5mm big?
  
  Are these hitchikers safe to keep?
  
  Thank you in advance for your help and big up to MASA being so informative!:yeahdude:
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  Total beginner needs advice.

  Posted: January 30th, 2012, 1:13pm CST by shawn5643

  Hi all.
  
  I have been bitten by this saltwater bug!
  
  I am a total newbie when it comes to marine tanks although I have been keeping tropicals off and on for the past couple of years.
  
  I have acquired a Boyu MT-50 (80l) tank at a great price and intend to use it for my marine tank. I intend to keep Live Rock, 2-3 Invertabrates and hopefully if all is well after 3 months, 2-4 fish (Goby's and Clowns).
  
  I understand that the current lighting will be totally inadequate for marine fishkeeping.
  Can I add LED lighting to supplement the standard lighting and if so what specs am I looking at, considering the environment I want to create?
  
  Is a protein skimmer a absolute necessity? I want to do this properly, and accept that it will probably be at least 3 months before I can stock any fishes so there will be no eccessive loads on the system.
  
  What is the absolute bare essentials that I will need? - Substrate, test kits, additives, etc?
  
  Kind Regards.
  
  Shawn