Recent content by Prawn-Head

Tank is lookin fantastic,sorry i cant show you guys because the camer has stoped working. My R.O.system arrived today so busy making water, ant now to huntfor some good salt.

Ok am ow the proud owner of 3 troccus snails, 3 hermits and 2 peppermint shrimp, at the same time i purchased 2 large snails that look like cone shells but seem to hang around in the sand and do a fantastic job sifting it grain by grain, will try get some pics so someone can tell me what they...

Cheers for that, have done a 15l water change just to sort out the alge and added some food after cleaning glass blowing off rock with a turkey baster and vacking sand bed oh and the water change was done after cleaning. The worm might be a bristle worm but will try get a better look at the...

Ewww phosphates are .25 ammonia0 nitrites 0 nitrates 20 and loads of algi happening oh ph 8.1 starting to look yukky, have had lighting on 8 hours per day, oh and last night found a wicked looking fireworm but dont know if its a good thing or not. Also have some more aptasia to cull but might...

I have found if the water levels are too high or too low it gets noisy, also i have cut 3/8" from the water inlet hight adjuster in the overflow box so i could get some extra adjustment

Yes i have on in my tank, it seems to work ok i havevremoved half of the bioballs and added seachem matrix and waiting to see if this helps remove the high nitrate levels i keep getting(20ppm) but it keeps the water nice and clean and is a fairly quiet system.i would like to try other media in...

I cant seem to make it happen on my android phone,i have a htc desire android phone and only seem to be able to view posts and threads but cant find away to reply. Is this right? And if it is will it be upgraded in the future so i can post from my phone?

I have also heard that when putting a starfish back into water you should enter tham in the water upsidedown as if they get a air bubble in there mouth they cant get rid of it and may die.

Cheers, am thinking bout some more rock but will prob transfer some from my 4 footer and re seed some more in that one if I can get the nitrates to settle

Here is my 4 footer

Looks fantastic, will have to sus if i can find that setup in australia

Just using the standard filtering with one powerhead pointed at the surface and one pointed down.

Hi been looking at your thread and wondering if you are using the standard red sea max filter as in the foam, carbon, ceramic and skimmer and pumps? I have just set up and doing a cycle on a max 130 . Your tank looks great.

When i can pair my phone to this ****ed ipad or can get my htc phone to be able to reply to these updates i will upload photos so please bear with me. Ok, got themax full of water onpick up day, let the water mix and settle till monday then wacked in 10 kilos of substrate, and 15 kilos of some...

The filter system seems to skim ok but i have been worried about the slow raise in nitrate levels in my tank ,i have just removed half of the bioballs and replaced with seachem matrix and hoping this will help. Any other ideas would be fantastic as the idea looks great just think the media in...