Recent content by Daniel Stevens

Are you feeding your anemone? silly question you may think!!!! But i have 3 in my reef aquarium and i feed them small pieces of chopped prawn (raw) and also freshfish (raw) i also add a reef supplement made by Aquasonic specifically designed for a tank housing invertebrates. Anenomes have very...

Freeze bottles of water (coke 2ltrs etc) and float them in the tankor alternatively use the ice blocks you freeze to put in picnic sets.

I also recently moved house and had the privilege of having to move my reef (tank 600ltrs, sump 200ltrs) a mammoth task that took 13hrs and all this in 32' of Australian sun! I moved only to the next street but completed it all in 1 day!. Here's what i did..... Most importantly make no...

AAHHH Ok..... i am yet to purchase said items, but as you say ozone is dangerous! am i right in assuming that the instructions will give me a good indication of the amount i should be injecting into my skimmer??? Also, browsing this site i find that there are issues with the amount of water...

A quick question to you all... I am now considering further upgrading my reef system but: Do i go Ozone through my protein skimmer OR Do i go for a UV Sterilizer in my main tank feed line??????? I am unsure of the benefits and for/againsts of both these systems and would truly like some...

People seem to have me somewhat confused :blink: I know of the polyfilters you are talking about that are available in the Uk...! They are about the size of a standard envelope and from my last recollection are approx £20 Uk..! The pads i am referring to are solely for the removal of Nitrate...

Hi to you all.... I have a 600ltr marine aquarium fully stocked with a thriving reef system, i also have the added bonus of living in Queensland Australia so my corals/fish etc are considerably cheaper and more readily available than when i was living in the UK. The reason i write this is, am...

A couple of pic's of my tank, thought you may like to look...comments and suggestions please. here are a couple of pics. http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk270/D...s_photos/02.jpg http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk270/D...s_photos/01.gif

Just a small snippet of info i got from a marine biologist @ seaworld australia near to where i live and she reliably informed me that for itch and whitespot (mainly in a reef aquarium) to raise the salinity and slowly! The whitespot will die and the itch go away! Then slowly lower it again to...

mate, Is it like a small fan that grasps as though trying to catch something passing by? looks like a small fan! If it's grey in colour and on your live rock chances are that is where it has materialised from. I don't know what they are called but it's the sort of thing you find on the beach...

mmmm.... i had the same and mine was the start of cyanobacteria, but if that is not appearing then! well... how long has this been going on for? Has it just started? whats your readings? Phosphate, nitrite, nitrate, pH etc.. how long are your lights on?

Do you have a purple/red algae staring to form around the bubbles? Are the bubbles coming from under it if so???

Mate... get a sea urchin! i got one and they are awesome.

P.s........ How do i add multiple pics to show the full range and diversity of my tank in decent size pics???? bearing in mind there is a 100kb upload limit and all of my pics are approx 3.0mb???? see, more silly questions!

I have used this forum to ask many questions, some of them silly and some on a more serious level. I have always found the replies to be honest, helpful and of many different opinions. I would like to take the opportunity to say thankyou to you all who have assisted myself in combating some of...