Recent content by gazpep

150 litres of Seawater from the LFS to do a water change, well actually it was the weekend before now that I think about it.

I've had the same experience with the pink cucumber in my tank. He spent the best part of the first couple of months on the rocks, only venturing down to the sand on the odd occasion. Lately he's been dividing his time almost equally between the rocks and sand, but is not very active, almost...

They are very enticing and cute looking when young and you'll often see them at LFS when about 3 inches long when they are a bright white colour with black polkadots. I've found them to be fast growing and pretty easy to tame...the last one I had would come up to my fingers and snatch pieces of...

I have the mini Atlas, but to be honest it is very dated now. More a relic of the late '80's in terms of the general advice content. The fish section isn't too bad but pretty superficial.

I'm trying to get a better understanding of this whole Muslim / Islam issue. One thing that seems to give it such a bad rap is the zealotry and intolerance pursued by countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and now Afghanistan with the Talibans running the country. These seem, at least by our...

As an Australian I'd like to let you all know that we are 100% behind the USA on this. That pledge has come from our PM, and the leader of the Opposition political party has said the same...whatever support the US needs from us will be given. I for one will not forget that if it weren't for the...

I agree with Brown Trout, its hard to think about fish under the cicumstances. I'll feed mine and thats about all today...

I woke to the news this morning in Sydney...it is absolutely unbelievable that your country could be attacked in this way. The headline said "America Under Attack" and the scenes from New York at first made me think it couldn't be real..a hoax or from a film shoot or something. The Australian...

A Cataphylia coral, a smallish specimen from an LFS in Sydney for A$32.

To illustrate my point, I've taken the odd fish back from time to time, perfectly healthy but grew too big, not reef friendly or something like that..... I just phoned the LFS and asked would you take the fish off my hands. Yes, no problem. Now when I go in and say I'll have that coral and that...

And those prices are the wholesale prices at the point of shipment. The collector probably got less than half of that for actually netting the fish in the first place. When all is said and done this is not something unique to the aquarium fish trade. In any supply chain the original grower/...

Randy O is correct, Australia prohibits the export of all marine inverts. Also prohibits the import of all marine inverts, and if Senator Hill ( Environment Minister in the Federal Government ) has his way there will be a total ban on the collection of corals and live rock from the GBR.

Whilst I don't target feed any of my hairies, they are in situations where the water flows past/through them and when the fish are being fed a certain amount of food winds up on them. The fish seem to avoid any small bits which land on the shrooms..almost like they perceive danger in diving in...

I had the same thing happen recently. I bought a signal goby, saw him the first 2 days in my 120 and haven't sighted him since despite looking in and around the tank (thinking he may have jumped out)there has been no trace of him...that was 2 months or more back. I wasn't overly worried about...

Before I converted my tank from FO to reef I would use a Diatom filter ( same brand as yours) straight after monthly water change and clean up. They work brilliantly in removing very fine particulate matter from the water column, leaving the water crystal clear after a day, I mean it looked like...