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Best thing is to get a refractom as it make adjusting the salinity so much easier. In the long run, if you are making your own salt water it will pay dividents and save you trips to the LFS. I have had an aqua medic for the past 3 years and its has never failed me yet :rolleyes:

No probs, looks like a nifty bit of kit, think i will have to invest in one

Any chance of letgting us know the brand and model, I'd be interested in checking it out.

Aqua Medic do a nice artinic blue T5 at 31 inches. I have 2 on one timer and 2 white on another just as previuosly posted. I know one lfs who sells more corals that way but switching on the artinics when people are browsing, crafty devil :shifty: In the end I think after you have achieved the...

Some very interesting replies and I can appreciate some of the add on costs the lfs put of livestock. I think that having tropicals for many many years I have gradually seen my local lfs move to marines and just wondered if it was due to the profit margin (and who can blame them really)...

Hi Postage in this instance was about £7.50 but a lot depends on whether that was the sole item purchased. Delivery in the UK on most goods tends to have a a min value and after a given amount you enter the free delivery situation. Thinking about it I agree about the shipping costs but I...

I went to a local marine shop as part of a well know garden centre chain near Chesterfield a few weeks ago and decided to purchase a nice looking strawberry fish. Unfortunately the assistant didnt have a ID tag showing the price of the fish so he had to look it up in the centres price guide. As...

Totally agree Lynde , I researched using them before hand and it was a fine line between getting rid of the red slime and the problem of the side effects. I decided on the half dose as a compramise but luckily over the past few years I have only used it twice. If I remember rightly, it was...

Hi Chrissaysyes If nothing else moves it you could try something like Redslime Remover. However when using these sorts of treatment my advice would be to use half dose as they are quite strong anti boiotic type treatments. Also it seems to thin the water so your skimmer will go through the roof...

Hi , How long have you had the coral? I purchased my first sun coral 3 months ago and for the first two weeks I had no joy feeding it using a bowl and mysis, brine shrimp etc. Then I found the secret was to ensure you tried to feed it at exactly the same time each night. Now I have a beautiful...

Hi, In addition to the methods listed above you can purchase copper safe to add to your filters. I used this on a trpoical tank I converted to marine and had no problems Daz

Pengy, Great site for the luxeon leds, did you see the section on replacing the T8 normal fluoresent blulbs with a LEDS strip , no need to change ballast, now if they could just do that for T5's........

Hi Temperature and source water pressure are usually the culpret, pressure being the more important one. The ROMAN manual recommends the unit I have (4 stage plus DI) as needing a minimum of 40 PSI for it to function correctly. As for temperature, hard to say direct affect but I definately...

Guys, great discussion, I may be missing some thing here but looking at the component costs of the LEDS themselves the majority must be in the material and labour in the housing manufacture in order to charge such a huge amount. I have been looking at some other LED waterproof strips and...

Hi AK77, I have a 2-part glass lid which I leave open on one side and have a 4 PC fan setup which keeps the temp in check but I was also looking at the cost element as I understand once you have got over the initial setup cost, the running costs are considerably cheaper and you dont have to...

Having just spent the summer battling with the temperature in the tank I decided to follow up on a previous thread on LEDS as they are supposed to only kick out a quarter of the normal heat from T5s. As I was searching the net I came across these shopfitting LEDS strips and would like...

Hi all, I recently purchased a new sand shifting starfish but found the animal minus one leg, then two , then half off another. After many nights watching the tank, I found a large (ish) crab of about 1.5 inches accross which I didnt know I had and suspect this is the culpret. Apart form...

Hi Littleme1969, On a slightly different subject, noticed you are from the york area. Do you have any good fish shops, always on the look out for new shops with something different, with York being about an hours drive from Rotherham its always a good excuse for afternoon in York and maybe a...

Thanks guys, looks like to reds have it, I'll just keep an eye out until they are no more then replace with Reds. Much appreciated.

Hi everyone, Could someone settle an arguement, when I first setup my tank a couple of years ago, I bought a cleanup crew of snails and blue legged hermits. The fish store said they were the less agressive than the red legs and wouldnt haress the snails for their shell. More recently when I...

Big C, Been a while since I looked on the forum but I cant believe how identical your setup is to mine, you should have no problems there, you'll end up with one great piece of new furniture, one bit of advice whould be to empty the canister filter of media and used crushed live rock (not too...

Dont know if any of you have this at your lfs but mine has a sigle frozen pack of cubes but each row has four differnet frozen food, i.e one cube of brineshrimp, one mixed "cocktail", one seeweed and one squid. I have also seen simular but with krill. This way you just simply feed a different...

Good thread and one which I shall be watching with interest. I'm almost at the end of a bucket of Aqua Medic which I have used for the past 2 years (not the same bucket :lol: ), but my lfs advised me to move to Instant Ocean as they thought is was a better mix. Personnaly I havent got a...

As a scuba fanatic, the sea if the only place for these fish and I think any attempt at keeping them in anything than a public aquarium is criminal. Sorry for the blunt opinion but some things are best left untouched.

Hi, I have rawphos inside the baskets of my cannister filter and have had good results. Teh cannister is full of live rock and rawphos bags. I know my friend has also used a mini reactor with equally good results. I sipose it depends on how the water flows around your system and the most...

Hi, Just an alternative thought, I use the hydor heaters as they have an additional pump adding that extra flow without having to use another powerhead. They have a dial temperature setting and to date (over 18months in tank) I have had no problem with them. Well recommended. Daz

If my memory serves me correctly I purchsed some Ultra Life Red Slime Remover in the UK, i think from Wharf Aquatics.

Thinking about a small UV for my nano 30 gallon tank, does anyone know or can recommend a smallish inline one, thinking something like the hydor inline heater but UV filter instead. I dont have much space under the tank hence me thinking of the inline version :unsure:

Two quick questions, if you half dosed the red slime remover would that be enough to keep the slime in check but not harm the positive bacteria, just a thought Second if you have slime on sand what would the effect be to siphon sand out the replace with carib, would it casue a mini cyle in the...

Joes juice is great for glass anenome, they literally explode and problem over. I found that its most effective to let the smaller ones grow to a resonable size the feed them the juice. However please be careful with the stuff as despite stating its "reef safe", press too hard on the syringe and...

Great thread here, I have priced up the setup for my 30 gallon tank and with the 6 panels it would be atleast £270 for the equipment let alone shipping etc, a bit out of my price range at the moment Although the cost isnt that bad when you look at having to fork out for the cost of a cooler...

Jeffery, Cant say I can ID the crab directly. but for this sort of stuff I have always trawled through the links on the following web page http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/inverts/...abs/swcrabs.htm If you cant find a direct match, post you picture in the site and maybe someone there can...

I dont know if this will be of help, but I purchased one of these 4 fans cooling units. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FOUR-Fish-Reef-Aquar...1QQcmdZViewItem Basically they are 4 PC fans in an adjustable frame with on off switch but I found it really usefull in controlling the temperature last summer...

Skifletch, Many thanks for the answer, for the time it takes its probably worth checking each batch, just in case.

Nemo, Chances are extremely slim, even if you managed to keep the eggs in a baby fish hatchery or seperate tank, it would be difficult to feed them as they can in the ocean, best to let the others have a free lunch, hard though it seems. I tried a couple of times and failed but if you have any...

Found in my experience, keeping it at around 78-79 suits most things On colder days they heaters will keep the temperature fine but be careful and watch the temperature on warm days, this is when most damage can be done with a tank over heating and if like me, you dont have the money or space...

Allen, Usually they work directly from mains pressure, I suppose it depends mainly on your local water company and the pressure they supply at. One quick question for anyone whilst on the subject of TDS meters. At what point would you start to worry about the readings from you unit, i.e above...

SKifeltch Many thanks for the advice, will try out the addiitional white when I replace the bulbs in about 2 months time as they will be ready for changing them and I see how the colour looks then Scubadaz

I have been reading the following interesting article on marine aquariums http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2005/12/aafeature2 Basically some of my leather corals have gone a slightly golden colour, they still look very healthy and are growing fast but the article got me wondering if the 4...

Everyone, Thanks for the comments, Rhsiboy, the tank is just short of 32 UK gallons. I'm not sure what that equals in US gallons. Cheers