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    "The Crew" fish pic

    in Show Off / POTM

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    My current load looks like this:

     

    1 - Scribbled Rabbitfish - Siganus doliatus

    1 - Yellow Tang

    1 - Clown Tang

    1 - Powder Brown Tang

    1 - Six line Wrasse

    1 - CopperBand Butterfly

    1 - Black Percula Clown

    5 - blue/green chromis

    for Neptune AQIII owners

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Version 2.5 is ready

     

    Download at:

    http://www.oceanfrags.com/aqtray.htm

     

    Jan 13, 2006 v 2.5

    -Changed program so it will read and display any variable it finds instead of expecting certain variables.

    -Fixed the "Tank WWW" option which lets you goto your controller web page from the right click menu.

    -Added User specific variables for Temp, PH and ORP. Users can now set their own High and Low thresholds.

    -Added a "verbose" or "simple" configuration to the mouseover command. The simple method just displays the raw numbers. The verbose method adds titles to the data.

     

    Fixing the single click menu is next on my fix list.

    maintenance time

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I spend a good 20 minutes making a batch of food with my daughter each night. Its one of our nightly rituals and we both enjoy it. Working on the tanks is relaxing for me and it gets my mind off of work and other things.

    I just saw the coolest thing

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I was walking into the fish room a few minutes after feeding a silverside to the anenome and I saw the big female clown carrying a silverside in her mouth! She went down to the bottom and grabbed the silverside which was 1/2 her size and carried it back up to the anenome. She then gave it a big throw towards the mouth and let go. It was the coolest thing to watch. It took her 4 tries to get the silverside to stick but she did it.

     

    Next time I will have the camera ready to capture it.

    Magnesium level at 1170

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    This is what the test kit instuctions say:

     

    Instructions:

     

    1. Add with the 5 ml syringe 3 ml of water in the test vial.

    2. Add 6 drops of Mg-1 and swirl gently for 30 seconds.

    3. Add 1 spoon of Mg-2 powder (spoon inside) to test vial and swirl for 10 seconds.

    4. Place the plastic tip firmly on the 1 ml syringe and draw into this Mg-3 reagent until the lower end of the black syringe part is at the 1.00 ml mark. Ensure that during this that the plastic tip is submersed in the Mg-3 reagent to avoid that air bubbles are withdrawn instead of liquid. An air layer between the liquid and the piston is normal.

     

    This is air which was present between the end of the tip and the piston, this will not influence the result.

    5. Start adding the Mg-3 reagent with the 1 ml syringe to the testvial until the color changes to gray or blue (whichever color is observed first). Do this drop wise and swirl after each drop for a second or two.

    6. Hold the syringe with the tip facing upward and read the position of the upper end of the black scringe part. Each division corresponds to 0.01 ml. The magnesium concentration can be obtained from the table or by use of the following equation:

     

    ppm Mg = (1 - reading in step 6) x 1500

     

    Natural sea water has a magnesium concentration of approx. 1300 - 1500 ppm. The concentration varies with salinity.

     

    Too low magnesium concentration makes maintaining correct calcium and alkalinity concentration difficult. Magnesium concentration can be increased with Salifert`s magnesium.

    very cool DIY Wave box...

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    You would be surprised how much the wave moves things around. I usually feed with the wavebox off but all the pumps still turned on. After 7 minutes the wavebox will turn back on and the fish are trained to goto the center of the tank because they know it will kick up all the food that has settled to the bottom. I have very little of your typical dead spots where detritus likes to collect. It is definately not a substitute for flow but it does a great job of keeping things in suspension.

     

    "its the same water simply wiggling back and forth,"

    Thats not actually true. I'm fighting a microbubble problem in my return which makes it easy to see how the water is moving through the tank. The water actually appears to surge through the tank instead of going back and forth. Its hard to explain without seeing it in person.

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