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tank's been running for months now, it's an Interpet River Reef 50, 78W T5 lights, 94l, about 20kg LR want to get some centrepiece coral and a centrepiece fish for the tank. current livestock is: pair clowns, royal gramma, 3x red legged hermits, 2x turbo snails lots of mushrooms: -green...

thanx colin, i use a load of different frozen foods for my fish anyways, from cyclps, to brine to mysis, plus mussel, mixes etc, so should be good. and i reckon the new gamma nutraplus stuff will be great for them, seems to work with most things thanx for the advice

dwarf lionfish? i have one of those wrasses in my tank, but if i didn't hjave shrimps i'd add a dendrochirus species to my 24g tank, great little things :)

Hiya, been keeping softies for a while and want to try some hard corals, i really like the look of the open brains, but struggling to find out much about them, mainly what to feed them and how often/when etc, also, would they be ok on a rock ledge? how much do they move? what supplements do...

ye, im lucky to live within 5 mins of a massive maidenhead, and they'll get me anything i want from TMC chorleywood, but lookin around elsewhere, they all seem to be miles from any major settlement

does anyone else notice just how much more expensive things are in the UK? its like swapping $ signs for £ signs, and in the case of some fish, most notably flame angels, the UK price is almost twice as high! and even with shipping costs etc, it doesn't cost much more to fly from a pacific...

hiya, i'v got one of thes on a 94l tank, been going for about 2 months it is noisy when it starts, and u do get micro bubbles, normally for 2-3 days or so BUT, the biggest differnec i'v found with my one is that if u adjust the flow rate so that its quite high, ie the outlet is open, then u...

2x occelaris clowns, 1 or 2 azure demoiselles 1 royal gramma 1 firefish in a 24gallon nano, i wasn't going to get all the fish obviously, was thinking pair of clowns and then either damsels, or the gramma and/or firefish any comments? i'v heard mixed reports about the clowns and damsel...

ye, senseless owners annoy me greatly, but i can normally convinve them not to buy anything stupid. Having owrked part-time in the trade for over two years now, in a huge specialist store with about 450 tanks (do you know how long it takes to feed them all lol). I have to say, although you...

having kept and bred rams previosuly(unsuccessfully), i've found thm really finicky creatures that need a specialist, soft water acidic tank, ofen with peat substrate etc, and i've finally given up on them, as, ven afer setting up a special breeding tank for them, i could only raise the fry for...

Ok, my one remaining clown seems to have taken to swimming outside the bristleworm's burrow, but it doesn't seem to be a problem, so the bristleworm stays, for the moment at least. Its so bold that it comes out all the time now, only going into its burrow when the tank is disturbed, such as when...

hiya, i have a massive bristleworm, about 12"+ when extended, and three days ago i had one of my juvnile clowns (about 1inch), go missing. It defo didn't jump out, and i couldn't find any trace of it anywhere, but while searchin i found a nig (2" across shell) crab, which i thought'd eaten it...

hiya, caught the crab, it was about 2 inches across he carapiece. Just took it back to my LFS, but none of us could work out what it is, it wasn't in Michael's incertebrate guide, nor in any other of their publications. It looks like a convential crab, just very rough shell, and filaments on its...

hiya, set up my tank just under a month ago, 24g nano, interpet river reef 50, and got 2 clowns (occelaris) about 1 inch long. Tank was initially set up with about 7/8kg (18lb) of LR, but last week i added about 2-3kg of rubble into the filter to replace the ceramics, as well as about another...

hiya, v2 is working well, had to cut the front corner off've the hood, but so far strong tea skim as i set it up 2 weeks after set-up. other than that, its a good compact design, once it beds in its quiet, much quieter than the fans in the hood. it costs £49.99 from maidenhead aquatics@st albans

hiya, i got an interpet river reef 50 and set it up last weekend, and just wondering if anyone else has one? trying to find a protein skimmer for it, atm i'v bought a TMC v2 nano, spec to 120 litres, so fine for the 94 litre (unfilled) tank however, my current problem is that the water...

thanx guys, i think i'll go with the 2 clowns, a firefish and a goby then and thanx for the advise on the shrimps, lynden, i hadn't thought about that before now. the tank is basically a new version of the classic 24 gallon cube, such as done by D&D/JBL, etc it has 4 compartments at the...

OK, 2moro im setting up my marine nano tank, its an interpet river-reef 50, capcity 94 litres, or 25 US gallons. its going to be set up with a mix of fresh argonite and very well matured (2 year plus) substrate from my LFS, along with around 10kg of well matured live rock. basically, once its...

ok, my LFS gets lots of really porous fijian rock in, so maybe about 15kg of it as it is really bulky for the weight, that ok? and i take note about the angel, it was always on the very grey list for size, compatability etc, and given the outlay, which at my LFS has now risen to £65 for a...

cheers for the help everyone, i got the tank yesterday, will hopefully set it up this week or next, just waiting to see if i'm going to uni or not this year, cos if i am i deffo won't get the fu manchu, cos its not fair on my parents, but we'll see thanx for the help :good:

cheers everyone for your advice, i decided to get the V2 nano, os TMC is rally nearby and i get on well with my LFS, providin them with good kribs etc, that i got it at trade price :) so all good lol thanks again

basically, just got my nano tank, and not really decided what to put in it yet, so if anyone has any ideas, suggestions etc, as well as what's worked well for them, i'd really appreciate the help :-) basically, im going to set it up in the next week or two with a bed of aragonite, and probably...

ok, got a new tank, an interpet river-reef 50 on sunday, and hopefully looking to set it up in the next week or 2. basically, i'm looking for a rough, simple guide to setting the tank up, and then possible stocking options. its a 94 litre (24US gallons) tank, to which i have already got a new...

hi, i'v just ordered a brand new interpet river/reef 50 tank, which i got for a fraction of its retail price. I just found out this is becuase the protein skimmer doesn't fit into the tank :@ its 94litres (25US gallons or 21UK ones) and is a really good set up, with two very effective...

cheers, i was under the impression that crabs would get munched, and i was never to keen on the snails, as everyone at my LFS has had far better long term results with mithrax/green emerald crabs, which may be a stockist thing, and i wasn't sure how effective hermits would be also, would the...

can someone please tell me if a small (2-3") fu manchu lionfish would be ok with a pair of perc clowns? i know that most lionfish would eat them, but the fu manchu is, or so im told, primarily interested in inverts, not fish also, if the clowns aren't suitable, what would go well with the fu...

heya, thanx for the adivce i have easy access to an abundant supply of ghost shrimp from my LFS, they always have some and i can probs gutpack them on either marine flake or other frozen food if possible, as well as trying to wean the fu manchu onto frozen while it is still at the shop, as i...

hiya, i'm looking to set up a nano tank for a fu manchu lionfish (max length 4 inches) the tank i'm thinking of getting is a brand new range, around 120 litres/26 UK gallons, high tech skimmer, flow jets and the like, basically all self contained, i think it has T5 lights as well can someone...

they grow to 5" anyone got any info on feeding, tank size/mates etc? i'm thinking of setting up a tank just for it, maybe a reef tank if it's reef safe. any info would be good cheers

ok thanx everyone do u have any advice on how best to keep the corals? current flow, food etc? any advice would be appreciated

i'm looking for some colourful but low maintenance corals for my 200l tank, 20-30kg LR and T5 lights it's 24" tall with no coral-eating fish. anyone got any suggestions about what to put into it? any advice would be appreciated cheers

I've lost 3 male rams in the past two months, two german blue and one gold, all were apparently healthy and all about 1-1.5" long. they all spawned with the same female, one after the other over the course of about two months. i have a specially prepared 63l tank for my ram pairs that has been...

sorry, he's just died. there were no marks on him at all, he still seems to be in perfect condition, apart from being dead. i've had this problem before with rams, particularly males, all of which have died within a week of spawning. does anyone know what is causing this, any feedback would be...

it's RO water, so very soft Ammonia: 0ppm Nitrite: 0ppm Nitrate; 0ppm pH: 7.0 temperature: 27-28C the tank is well planted with sword plants and cabomba, the filter is working fine and the substrate is limopo black, a very fine, natural substrate. there is a cave, a rock and a piece of...

my sub-adult male german blue ram is just lying on the substrate by the bogwood in his tank. he's not showing any signs of illness or stress and still looks exactly the same, except he's not doing anything. gills seem to be functioning as normal, and the the female of the pair appears fine. they...

looks female to me, dorsal fin is not prominent enough, but ur not likely 2 no for sure until breeding season when females have pink stomaches. ive had female rams with high dorsal fins and males with short ones, so wait and c.