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Hey Mitch Nice work with the clam. What lights are you running? I was wondering what your gravel/sand is? Diameter? It looks terrific, yet at the same time suspiciously clean. I want some. And i want to keep it that clean. cheers Todd :wink:

Hey there, I'm sure everyone has thought of this...... A dominace hierarchy amongst corals. My current champion is a elephant nose (came on invert rock) that really likes his space. He excludes torch, elegence, duncans, coralimorphs, mini fanworms and has even killed? an aptisasia. Wow thats...

Hey there, My Green BTA does most of his cruising when he is hungry. He happily stays put if fed weekly on a whole prawn. I have to fight off the flame hawk to make sure he gets a feed. After a feed he may hide down in the LR for a while and then when he comes out he is looking good...

Mine use Duncanopsamia as a host. I'm not sure how much the coral enjoys this though as the polyps withdraw after too much "nestling". Doesn't appear to have any long term effects. Todd javascript:emoticon(':D')

Hey there, I have a 125 reef with - 6 Black axil Damsels - sixline wrasse - sailfin tang - flame hawkfish - pair of coral banded shrimp Is it...

Garry, How global is this thing? I,m here in Aus and did my early reading in Practical Fishkeeping. One hell of a magazine. I'm pretty new to this hobby find that out here it is really difficult to get latest and greatest gear(not that it is really necessary at a basic level) yet we have such an...

Hey there, I have finally set up my 125 with DSB and live rock from the Arafura Sea. The sand is "uninhabited" and i am hoping things will crawl off the rock into the sand (corals sand lightly washed) or i might seed it. I can't get live sand over here. The live rock contains several corals and...

Hi there tpro, I've done just that with the water. I filled the bare 125 tank and have run the powerheads and skimmer for a few days prior to setting up. The water tested fine and the skimmer didn't collect anything(boring). It is working a treat now that the tank is set up. Waiting for the in...

Do many people collect their own seawater? I collect mine from the mouth of a large river ( Gold Coast seaway) where commercial water suppliers get their water to service LFS. Many other fishkeepers collect their water from here too, so i assume pollution levels are v low. I have collected water...

Thanks for steering me to the FAQs.....looks like plenty of good stuff here for me. I'm going to get hold of these books Aquarium Corals (Borneman) Marine Fishes (Michael) I figured this book on fish id would be useful. I also see there is a pretty new Coral referenece book by Sprung. I read in...

Hey there, I'm pretty new to the whole reef thing and i need to get hold of some good books. I've got plenty of freshwater books and think it is time to balance the bookshelf. I have done most of my reading from this site and some US and UK magazines. I've done a search of this site and have...

Looks like i was thinking about the wrong eel. Ooops. Well i wasn't even close as they even have a different genus name. More research needed. I'd better go check out some eel pics. They all sound rather difficult to feed. I was impressed to see the Blue Ribbons at the LFS but i think i would...

I've been watching 2 ribbon eels in the LFS for the last couple of months. They are just amazing. They have both changed colour from black to blue and are constantly intertwined in some sort of knot. They have assorted tangs for company and appear to have survived a bout of whitespot. Still too...

I have a large backpack style skimmer/ filter combo for my 90 gal soon to be set up tank. I know i should discard the bioballs from the filter compartment as these will eventually become a nitrate factory. The filter compartment is 250mm by 120mm wide and 350 mm high. The skimmer is powered with...

Thanks all, The epoxy i was checking out was in a stick and was in two part form so that sounds a goer. I'll check out the mail order.To be honest i think i'll probably use the cable tie idea. I guess anything visible will get cover by nice things that grow on live rock. Using foam to build...