Recent content by peely

Ok, plants and water are in, and it's all ticking over!! Woo!! It's still a bit murky after 24 hours running, good bit of 'new tank syndrome'! Plants are as follows: Anubias nana, Anubias congensis, Cryptocorne beckettii, Microsorium pteropus, and a couple more which didn't come with...

Thanks for your comments Dave - maintaining a reef and keeping it stable (KH, Mag, Calcium, PH, temperature etc) is a fine art, made much easier with automation! Hence all the equipment I have kicking around! Fish wise I think it'll be a good shoal of tetras, a few occo's, cherry shrimp, a...

Ok, my lily pipes and DC arrived from HK today, they're the first i've ever seen so i'm not sure how to judge their quality really, but i'm pleased with them! I've added a couple more stones to the foreground, and added the Dennerle substrate - this will ultimately be covered in a thin layer of...

Here you go, what d'ya think?

Picked up some green granite rocks from Swallow Aquatics today, i'll post some pics for your scrutiny once i've had a fiddle with them in the tank! Dragon - The 2224 is after all the inline gear, so it's only pumping the weight of water above it returning to the tank. I might add something...

I hear you! - This is a concern. I've plumbed it all up to a 5ltr plastic tub in the tank for the minute, and the flow coming back is barely a dribble really - I guess i'll look at getting a bigger cannister with the same footprint. I'm trying to avoid having anything other than glassware in...

I've spent the last couple of evenings getting everything in the cabinet - it's all a bit snug!! It took a while to get all the air out of the inline DIY jobbie, and to achieve siphon, but I got there in the end and it's silent! (A waterfall in the front room would be quiter than the protein...

I'm gonna make something from stainless box for my EQI Trading T5 luminaire - watch this space! I'd be happy to make them for others too - very simple!

Absolutely - 3 stones i think, just looking around trying to find something more interesting than slate/granite!!

It's an Aqua Medic Chromis tank, usually sold as a marine system with a protien skimmer, bio filter, 150w halide and powerhead.

Hello everyone! I joined the forum a couple of weeks ago, I've been in the background doing plenty of reading up! I've been keeping fish for 12 years - amarican cichlids, african cichlids, community tanks, and more recently got bitten by the saltwater bug and had a 100 gallon SPS reef running...

So what are the better kits? Saltwater = Salifert. Freshwater = ????????