Recent content by Scholesy

Coldwater / temperate species.... that's another story! I'm a volunteer at a Marine Education Centre here in Wellington and have ready access to snapper, octopus, seahorses, conger eels, carpet sharks, lobsters, anenomes, starfish, etc etc.... :-) Any visitors from the US or Canada coming to...

Hi Orecto, Ophi asked me to have a chat to you about this as I'm a long-suffering aquarist in New Zealand. The marine scene here is actually pretty sad. You can count the number of shops in the country on 2 hands that sell marine fish, which arrive infrequently and the selection is modest is the...

Live in a country where you can't even buy Selcon, let alone afford it? Stick a small amount of carrot, corn, broccoli, peas, crabmeat, shrimp, mussel, tubifex worms and spirulina flakes in a small blender; give it 20 seconds and a few teaspoons of RO or tankwater. It'll come out very close to...

I think Salifert kits are reliable, quite accurate, well-priced... and easy to use. It takes me about 10-15 mins once per 2 weeks to measure Ca, kH, pH, ammon, nitrite, nitrate, PO4, o2. No trouble at all. My Ca is 290 up from 270; I'm adding supplement gradually to get it up to around 350...

43g tank 1x baby yellow tang 1x coral beauty angel 1x percula clown 1x cleaner shrimp 2x mushrooms 2x blue cushion star 1x leather coral 1x feather duster 2x unidentified coral frags ~5 species Caulerpa etc not much LR 1x Apistasia (on the way out) Equipment: 1x modified SeaClone skimmer 1x...