Dan
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Ive just been and purhased my self some nice new corals, ill get pics in next few days as there still closed up atm, due to moving to there new home.
I got myself a Sarcophyton ehrenbergi (toadstool)
similar to this:
A coloney of pink centered zoos (polyps): similar to these...
While there i also got a new powerhead, some more test kits, have 10 in total now lol.
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Robbo
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LOVE the polyps
Im going to be going for my first aquarium once ive moved into my flat... probs just go for some tetras at first as im blatently going to kill them all 
[Edited on 02-01-2008 by Robbo]
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Dan
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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
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marine is the way forward. although, for a 12g tank like i have, set aside about 1k
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Robbo
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Umm no it wont be that big lol!
I want one for the wall in my bedroom too but the onyl suitable one doesnt look especially fair on the fishies :S
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Dan
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12g is tiny, its like 1-1/2 ft cubed, 58Ltrs
Yes them hang on wall things are stupid to keep fish in. very unfair
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Robbo
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Unfortunately so, looks very cool though!
Trident do/did some very cool ones but they just arent thick enough for anyhting to be comfortable 
Coffee table ones are good though!
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Robbo
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quote:
Originally posted by Dan
12g is tiny, its like 1-1/2 ft cubed, 58Ltrs
bugger
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Gg_mf
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I have some Marine fish. We just bought a valentini pufferfish, he is great. Although he ate my boxer shrimp!! My clown fish has popeye at the moment, he doesnt look good,poor thing.
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Robbo
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Oh dear! The puffers seem to like eating shrimp lol
My friend has a few (well had, 2 died ) dwarf puffers... they look very  She loves em lol
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Robbo
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Awesome... I love it
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baza31
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i have no clue on fish but love seeing tanks , when i build my own place i am going to build a large tank into wall as a feature. are they effected by music?
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Dean_W
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I would be impressed if they were fish.....
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sand-eel
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we used to have salt water tropical fish but was £££ to keep going it was nice though
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Robbo
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quote:
Originally posted by baza31
i have no clue on fish but love seeing tanks , when i build my own place i am going to build a large tank into wall as a feature. are they effected by music?
Loud noises can stress them IIRC
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Dean_W
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quote:
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Loud noises can stress them IIRC
My pirahnas scatter when you walk into the room.
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Dan
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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
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For those who are interested..
My tank spec/stock:
Orca tl-450 nano
This has a rear built in sump, it has 4 chambers, chamber 1 being the right most chamber with the inlet.
In chamber 1 i have filter wool, this is washed weekly with ro water and replaced quaterly. Also a uv steriliser and maxi jet pump to Chamber 2. this has the protein skimmer in. chamber 3 has the heater and more filter wool. chamber 4 has a step 1 pump surrounded in filter wool (prevents micro bubbles and blocking of the pumos inlet) acting as a powerhead out to the display area. Also in this chamber i have purigen (nitrite/nitrate remover) and phosguard (phosphate remover).
Then in the front of the tank i have 9kgs of living rock. A hydor koralia powerhead for more flow.
The stock is:
5 x red legged hermit crabs
6 x turbo snails
odds snails from the living rock (about 2)
1 x strawberry fish
1 x true perc clown (nemo)
1 x scooter blenny
1 x orange centered zoo coloney
1 x green striped mushroom coloney (about 6 of them)
1 x umberella toadstool (as 1st post)
1 x pink centered zoo colonet (as 1st post)
1 x feather duster
I carry out 10% water changes each week (just over a gallon)
My parameters are all excellent, 0ppm of ammonia/nitrite/phosphate and 0.25ppm nitrate... just the basic ones, all my calcium/magnesium/iodine readings are spot on.
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Dan
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o and my flow is roughly 2500lph, which is roughly 50 x my tank volume.
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Superlite Ltd.
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Brilliant
Going to re-stock my 100 litre tropical tank this week. Had a white spot attack before Xmas leaving only a few tiger barbs
[Edited on 02-01-2008 by Superlite Ltd.]
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Dean_W
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quote:
Originally posted by Dan
1 x feather duster
Dropped it and not picked it out yet Dan??
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Dan
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quote:
Originally posted by Superlite Ltd.
Brilliant
Going to re-stock my 100 litre tropical tank this week. Had a white spot attack before Xmas leaving only a few tiger barbs
[Edited on 02-01-2008 by Superlite Ltd.]
convert it to marine 
then stock it slowly, ull much more enjoy it
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Dan
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quote:
Originally posted by Dean_W
quote:
Originally posted by Dan
1 x feather duster
Dropped it and not picked it out yet Dan??
yes, i was cleaning the front glass, when i dropped it, i darent put my hand in to remove it
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Robbo
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Awesome spec there Dan Only some of it makes sense atm but still sounds very good
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Dan
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what doesnt make sense ill try explain it. ive had it running nearly a year now.
tbh i dont really know that much yet, i learn more everyweek, some really good fourms out there to learn from.
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Robbo
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Well Im still only reading up on it all so stuff about ppm's etc. is new to me
yeah i browse fishforums occasionally, quite good stuff on there 
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Dan
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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
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Pics (not mine) of the fish/corals i have:
scooter blenny
true percula clown
strawberry fish
these are blue legged hermits, mine the same but red
Turbo snails
green mushrooms
feather duster
and i forgot i have a cleaner shrimp
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