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Thanks for the pointers there kurt. I was ordering the wavemaker with it because on the website it said it was "Perfect" for the koralia evo power heads. Heres a link Ocean Pulse Duo Wavemaker perfect for use with koralia evo pumps - £24.99 : Tropical and Marine aquariums, Aquarium Lighting...

Basically im sat here looking at a shopping basket ready to order a marine setup, i just want to make sure i have all the equipment that ill need. Firstly the aquarium is a betta lifespace 680 and that comes with the cabinet, sectioned sump, pipe work kit and a return pump. For the Lighting i...

I didn't know whether to put this on the nano section because it said tanks less than 20g. Basically ive decided to take my first plunge in to marine aquaria with a small nano reef. Ive been looking through at different brands and seeing what would be best both tanks are 28g in size. Ive...

Ok so i went down to me LFS today to get a quote on a tank for the mantis apparently im going to need a tank thats practically bullet proof and its going to be quite costly :S. I wont be getting the mantis from this LFS as they don't know anybody who supplys them i will be getting it from a...

I think it may be the danios because now i think about it they started acting like this a week or so after i bought them. Cant be the betta because i got him 3 days ago and hes a shy little bugger hiding in the plants alot staying out of the way of most fish. Thanks for that vic very helpful i...

Ok a couple of weeks back (about 6) I noticed that all my mollies in my main 60g had some sort of swim bladder infection (i think) as all of my black and silver mollies would start swimming verticle and doing little shudders randomly, I treated the whole tank as some of the other fish like a...

Nobody else have anymore advice?

This is also my first time setting up a marine aquarium.

Ok so ive decided i want to add another filter to my 60g tropical. I want to get another external filter as internal filters take up abit of room and look abit unsightly in the tank. However my tank came pre-drilled with an inlet and outlet tube for the external filter to attach to underneath...

Just done abit of research on Octopus skimmers As the tank will only contain the mantis shrimp as an inhabitant meaning not as much DOC will the Octopus NS80 Nano Skimmer do the trick? http://www.swallowaquatics.co.uk/414/products/Reef_Octopus_NS_80_NANO_Hang_OnSkimmer.aspxOr would i be better...

Thanks for the info, ill have alook into some different powerheads and an octopus skimmer. i read about birhgt lights being damging on this article. Peacock Mantis Shrimp – Odontodactylus scyallarus | Aquariums Life Its the last sentence on the 5th paragraph in the additional information...

Hi guys, i just joined this forum as it seems pretty solid for information and people seem to know what their talking about on here so i thought id start here for some good advice. I have never set up a marine aquarium before but i have done a lot of reading in these last few weeks and i have a...