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Congrats m8, nice to see you got your priorities right, keep us informed...
I have a cannister, but i would agree on the wet & dry, would have one myself if i had the room...
just give the sponge a good clean out every week then change every month, really depends on how that particular tank is coping... It can be pricey...
You can start skimming as soon as the tank has finished cycleing, you will start to see some brown gunk build up after the skimmer as been broke in...
so what do you do boil the water?
Just plain ro water as evaporation does not include the salt it stays in the tank...
I was thinking if you put a heater into your water change mix, if you take the heater out to put the water in the tank would this not break the...
The tank is 8 weeks old, various inverts 10 in total, 1 midas blenny, 1 chalk goby, 1yellow tail blue damsel, 1 neon damsel,& about 18 watermelon...
Getting alot of reddy purple algae stuff on my rocks, the stuff on this piece of ocean rock is the worse, cyano or coral algae?, its very hard to...
Heres a pic after 5 days in the tank & 4 hours of light today so far... [IMG]
i must be scorching mune then the ones on the side of the rock tend to open up for most of the light throughout the day but then when they have had...
Could not find expirey dates on my api test kit either, thank you luna saved me a job karma to ya...
If you have direct sunlight hitting the tank, this will have a major impact on the algae in your tank, 3 hours a day is bad, if you can't move the...
The white filter floss should be changed once a month...
Ziggy how deep is your tank m8? and how do you know the lighting is to much for your mushrooms i have 240watt shining on mine but i'm a newbie to...
its ok my luminaire bulbs is covered with a piece of 3mm perspex that slides in tight nothing can get into the bulbs/ballasts,
Very nice will make one my centre piece one day...
Beautifull fish i would love one in my tank or a flame angel are they hard to look after?
yes m8 only using 6 at the moment, all i have is a mushroom coral & few fish and inverts and was thinking this was more then enough for now, would...
Cheers, i put the actinics\blues on at 12.00 noon then a hourb after i turn on the whites, their on till 9.00pm then go off and the...
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