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Thanks for the info guys! ;)

Just to make you aware I bought my MH unit which consists of a 150w bulb + 2 x 39w blue actinic T5s + 2 x LED moonlights for the same price from the same seller on ebay as the above link. You just got to bid on their auctions rather than go for the buy it now option! ;)

I'm really up for the idea of having a tank of the month nominated by members. An article should be wrote by the chosen tank owner to accompany the pics and should consist of more of an interview method where each member answers a number of set questions chosen by the mods. Then at the end you...

Yea what light are you on about? Cant tell you without knowing what light! :unsure:

£85.00 is very expensive for a ordinary softy. Just this weekend gone my mate bought a finger leather almost a foot big when fully opened for £40! If your struggling for frags around your end then why dont you have a look on the internet. Ebay is normally quite good. Also why dont you google...

£85.00 is very expensive for a ordinary softy. Just this weekend gone my mate bought a finger leather almost a foot big when fully opened for £40! If your struggling for frags around your end then why dont you have a look on the internet. Ebay is normally quite good. Also why dont you google...

A little bit of the subject how big do BTA grow? And how fast growing are they? Its just I wouldn't mind getting one for my reef tank but I do not want it to grow too big and attack my corals?

Hi there, I'm gonna try to answers your questions best I can but there may be others that may/will disagree as there defo arnt no right answerrs as such and this is my opinion only. Well from what I have read the general rule is to have about 1kg of LR per gallon of water. But this dont always...

I'd say about 15mm thick glass just to be on the safe side even though 10-12mm should be sufficient! As its quite a long tank you should have a support brace all the way around the top of the tank with about 3 brace bars evenly spread out at every 45cm intervals ;) Its gonna be one big tank...

I'm feeding my sun coral once every other day with frozen foods including garic enriched brine shrimp, mysis shrimp and lobster eggs. It seems to know that I feed about 6-7pm every eveing and so opens up around that time daily! ;) P.S. Ive just seen my decorator crab for the first time just now...

Personally I'd recommend you go against the idea of getting a CCS as they are predatory and a small tank like yours may not be an ideal environment for one! If you want a starfish then how about getting a serpant star? They are hardy and much easier to look afer as they are scavengers and so...

Yea it may be cyano but as ski has already said its hard to say without pics! Also my pH is 7.8 like your friends and I do not really wish to add buffers etc as I'm not too keen on them. Ive had my tank running for a while and do not seem to have had any problems as all corals and livestock...

Thanks mate :good:

Thanks BigC, I may well treat myself to one in the near future! ;) Just to make you aware a higher SG than 1.022 should be attained if you wish to keep corals in the tank, the lower SG is preffered for fish only or FOWLR tanks! The SG for natural seawater is approx 1.026 and most reef keepers...

BINGO Chris, I know it aint the best pics due to not having a brill camera but your right, I bought myself a trumpet and bubble coral and got some sort of candy cane thrown in free!!! :nod: Cheers BigC, I looked aound for a means to attach my MH unit without drilling through the ceiling. I...

Well how about a firefish? I dont think the RG would be too bad with shrimps as I have on many occassions seen them in living in reefs together and its the first Ive heard of such a thing, but it may be a hit and miss, but IMO go for it. There are many other colourful fish, how about a banghai...

lol I also have the exact same polyps in my tank also... ;)

What is the klvin reading of the light? I think the 11w should be ok for both zoo's and shrroms, you could also get something like a few small feather dusters in. But there is anough colour variations of shrooms and zoo's you can just keep differnt colours and fill the tank up with them alone. I...

Yea get the clown with them and see what happens. Its not often you get a clown hosting a palythoa so could be fun to watch...

Yea thats fine for softies but what about LPS hard corals...?

Cant wait till the day I finally get to go see it all in real life for myself... :)

Yea I also agree, 5G is a bit small for both a clownfish and a watchman. There are other small gobies that you could look into that macy be ok in the tank. How about getting a shrimp and some small zoo'z or something instead of the fish...

Well how about give it a go as its going cheap and if it dont quite take your fancy then you can change back over to your current RC ;)

I really envy you my friend as the GBR is somewhere I have not yet been but really do wanna go. The pics are brill. PS. The second from last photo in your first set of pics, the one of which you are not sure what is is as the blue polyps kept retracting very quickly looks to me like a blue...

I say stick with the reef crystals, but then again you may get even better results using seachems as it may affect your tank differently...

That there is a very nice set-up indeed my friend. You seem to have worked hard at it. Really looking forward to see how this develops and looks in the future. Keep the pics coming... ;)

What are the dimensions of the tank? If you only plan to keep zoo's and mushrooms etc then they do not require much lighting so any of the following may be adequate: Clamp on light Arc Pod Overhead Illuminaire - may be too big but depends on size of the tank Small compact light - could ask...

Tank Update Well its been a while since my last post (last year in fact) so thought I best add a tank update as quaite a lot has been happening since last time. Firstly I finally managed to put my MH lighting unit up. This required me having to fix a punch bag bracket to the wall rather than...

Looking good BigC. By the way I would let the tank run for several hours before adding any more salt to the water as there will always be undissolved salt in the water and if you continue to add then when the whole lot had dissolved you may get a higher SG reading then you initially had... How...

Sorry to be jumping in your thread Bomber, but I'm just curious if you have hard corals do you need to dose or should frequent water changes take care of the matter?

Well my perc just swimsa around the tank like its mental, thought it had something with with him until I read this thread and noticed its not just mine doing it. However I caught him kind of asleep the other morning when I woke up really early for work, he was jus in one corner still moving but...

Mate sorry to hear about your loss. I bought a pair of coral sea percs on staurday and added them to my tank after slowly acclimatising them. Well anyways they looked a bit stressed the day after and when the lights went off they kept swimming up and down in one corner of the tank. When feeding...

Lol trust me Ive had a good look for him but still not found any sign of either him or the small zoa colony! By the way what does this little crab eat and how am I supposed to feed it if I cant find it? I hope its a scavenger like most crabs...

I'm currently using seachems reef salt but am not too happy with it as it just wont get me a high enough pH, its a constant 7.8. Both my lfs use reef crystals in all their tanks and their water is crystal clear, so I am also planning on chamhging over to reef crystals as of my next water change...

Well anyways I woke up this morning to find the polyps I had took off the back of the crabs back and glued to a piece of LR had disapeared and are nowhere to be found, nor is the crab. Do you think it went around the tank and found them and put them back on it's back?

Do they really grow that big though?? The one Ive end up with is about half inch body diameter! Iv added it back to the main tank now, they are very slow movers arnt they! gonna see how it gets on...

Yea I think you could well be spot on. So do you think it is safe enough for me to introduce it into my main tank from the fuge then?

I went to the lfs today and bought a few bits and bobs. Well anyways I noticed a small frag of green zoanthids and asked the the guy how much he wanted for it. Well anyways he decided he would just throw it in for free. Well after getting home and acclimatising the frag, I put my hand into the...

Well somebody has to... :rolleyes:

OUCH! Thats a shame and I'm sorry to hear that. I still think something startled it after you put the lights on that caused it to puff up if all the params and everything is fine. Very strange...