Recent content by aaron

You may get out but you'll never truly leave. its good to have a break once in a while, but all it takes is seeing a nice reef tank down the track and you'll start thinking "maybe i should set up a small nano tank" and then it starts again.

If it was the air intake do you think there would be all that air in the column? Is your RO skimmer the king with a black tube that slides up and down on the outflow pipe to regulate the water level (I cant really see in the picture) I had to cut about an inch off the black pipe to allow me to...

I glue it and leave it out until the glue dries, I check that it is definitely stuck then put it back in the tank. After about four or five days it seems to release and fall off.

I have half a dozen chalice frags that I wanted to mount onto some rocks but they seem to be able to unstick themselves from the super glue. What am i doing wrong?

I had a lot of success reversing HLLE in a yellow tang by soaking quality flake food like reef formula with Kent AquaC - a vitamin C supplement, and Zoe which I think is a spirulina type additive. I also got some live red algae to feed him. He made a full recovery after a few months and now...

Hey Kathy, thanks for the update on the fish. Everything in the new tank is going pretty well, but I am having trouble keeping the colour in the few sps's I have. Not too sure what is the culprit at this stage. I normally change 10% or so - 40 litres (or 10 gals) about once a month or so...

Like almost everything in Australia, corals are quite expensive compared to the US, however the quality is maybe a little better as most things have not had to be shipped very far. I order all my corals through my friend who orders directly from the wholesaler in Cairns. They air freight it to...

a couple of shots of my seaclone fluidised bed filter, Next project now that the weather is getting hot is to fix a broken chiller that was given to me. Its a Hailea 1/2 HP chiller that is showing a "P2" error in the LED display. no mention in the book or anywhere on line what "p2" refers to. I...

Well I have had a lot of trouble lately with the tank - my friend got me a great deal on some cheap metal halide lamps from a importer company in Western Australia. Of the first two bulbs they sent, one was a mispackaged 10K lamp in a 14K box. so I sent the 10K lamp back and they sent me a new...

Here's the light unit I made - originally a 4' metal halide with 2x 150W bulbs and 2x T5's Now its a 3' unit with 2x 250's, 2x t5's and 2x 3w LED royal blue moonlights.

Cutting board (High density polyethelyne) gives the brightness / light bounce of sand and is easy to keep clean. Its a bit of a compromise but worth it in my estimation. Being able to get rid of the significant junk that comes out of the live rock is worth it, and more so If you have fish turds...

With the Aussie dollar up 45% against the greenback in the last three months, Australian corals could start to get more expensive soon.

Well I have been busy these last few weeks - the bulbs finally turned up for the lights and I was able to make the correct sized brackets and finish wiring up the light unit. I didnt think to take any photos of the work in progress, I just wanted to get it done. I also bought a couple of 3W...

I believe the colour spectrum of the bulb can shift as it ages and you may lose intensity but I am sure it varies from bulb to bulb and that the change is a gradual degradation rather than a situation where one day its fine and the next its not. I would not be surprised if manufacturers down...

Well the wind died down a little and we got a day to clean everything up - dust managed to get into every corner of the house, Its a good thing I have glass covers for the tank. Then the follow day the wind picked up and we had a second dust storm. Not as bad as the first one but pretty bad. I...