Recent content by aliaird

I live down the road from you in Reigate. emal me at [email protected] & tell me more about your tank. BTW do you use ultimatereef? Great UK BB!

Thanks. Built the arch with three bits of rock and a bunch of milliput! Nothing clever really!

After enough mucking around, I've launched my own little website with piccys and details of my mixed reef tank. Any comments, criticisms, corrections etc most welcome. Click here to go to my website Enjoy

I feel the need to change my skimmer from a Berlin Turbo. Possibly not the hardest decision I have ever made. Due to the nature of my sump and cabinet (cabinet is too short for a AP600, water in the sump too deep for a turbo) I have turned my attention to other skimmers, and would...

Drill a hole in a toothbrush and push some tubing through it, so when you scub algae off your rock you can syphon it out immediately

Well, if it's your average US "beer" I wouldn't worry too much on missing out! Now a nice pint of English Bitter and you're talking (not that any decent bitter comes in bottle of course, but that's splitting hair I feel!)

I have my actinics on for 14 hours, overlapping my mh's by an hour each end (ie the mh's are on for 10 hours - 8.30am til 8.30pm) I might try to adjust things so that it goes darker earlier so that when i go to bed at approx 11pm the tank has been fully dark for a couple of hours so i can see...

I've got a new tank, approx 3 months old and have an outbreak of hair algae, which websites say is sometimes normal in new tanks. However I'm not sure why really. I use RO water, instant ocean salt, have a skimmer, MH lighting, and have only two clowns in there (only just gone in). I also...

Try Debs Hatchford at rec.aquaria.marine.reef She's in Calgary I think I hope it isn't too sacriligous to plug other sources!

I've had my semi-cured live fiji rock in my tank for coming up for 2 weeks now and I think it has cycled. Certainly the tests suggest so, although apart from a bit of an ammonia spike I didn't really see much, although I was told that this rock was largely cured when I got it this didn't...

I've got my semi-cured rock in now and will leave the system running for a few weeks whilst the tank cycles. I've got the rock mostly propped up on pvc pipe and eggcrate so that when i put sand in it will not leave too many deadspots and hopefully make cleaning easier. I plan on putting about...

I'm hoping to be mixing salt for my new tank tonight and I have a couple of questions that I hope someone can answer before I start... I have 3/4 filled my tank with RO water and heated it to 78 degrees. I now want to mix the salt in so that I can get my live rock ordered and in over the...