Recent content by krusty23

thanks a lot guys. i appreciate it.

i've been thinking about keeping a. randalli and/or a. bellulus together with their appropriate gobies (s. nematodes & a. randalli) in my new tank. What substrate type and mininum depth would you recommend for these species, so that they can display their natural behaviour? I want a sandbed...

thanks again. so you say both would be ideal? Since i don't have the cash, i'd have to buy one of the systems first, and one later, or just save up even longer and buy both to start with? do you think it would be a bad idea to get the system up and running without a skimmer and then add one...

thanks a lot. so you are basically saying, you can do fine without the refugium+algae (algae being the central thing here not the mud), but no matter what it is not recommendable to run a tank without a skimmer? the people that propagate a skimmerless system with refugium/algae are saying...

hi all, i was wondering what type of filtration system i should buy for my new tank. Berlin? i.e. mechanical filtration & skimmer (probably the tunze reefpack) or Ecosystem? sump/refugium with some kind of mudfilter (miracle, fiji or some other kind) + macroalgae w 24/7 lighting &...

thanks a lot for helping me out, i appreciate it. and cindre2000: you're absolutely right. i mean it's not that i want to have sps at the bottom (heck i don't want any of those fuzzy things in my first tank). Some clams and lps higher up, when my tank has matured, that would make me happy...

allright, thanks again. you're being a voice of reason. So basically, you're saying my lamp would be fine enough for 26x24x24 (if i keep less light craving animals at the bottom-zone i suppose)? I don't want to scrap that lamp, i want to build a system that is fitting it. If that craves...

thank you. I'm not objecting to a 18" cube, but I guess with my lighting fixture almost being 26" inch, that would look, eh, let's say less than ideal. so the length would have to be 26", i guess, maybe 24" would also be allright? About the height: My gf vetoes a too rectangular shape...

Hi all, Recently i bought this 1x150W HQI + 2X24W T5 Lamp (25.6 inches) for a reasonable price on ebay. The HQi is 10000 K and the T5 are 20000 K I want to set up a nano reef with it and have a tank custom made for this purpose that is somewhat cubical (As a european i don't have access to...