My Coldwater Setup From New Zealand

Nice. Have you been collecting any new species?

nope, not at the moment.

Ah shame. Have you experienced much growth in anemones?

Yea haven't had time at the moment. and not much growth an anemones, the jewels I think are all ready full sized. But have noticed more and more of them popping up.

Thats nice. How long has the tank been set up? You have this thread on AquariaCentral right?

4 or 5 months. and umm I don't think so. I do go to that site every now and then but I don't think i have a thread there.

Must have been someone elses thread. Anyways how long did it take you to get all of your biological filter bacteria established?

Other question. I noticed you had a wrasse. Pictures would be great but is there any relation in temperament and caring to tropical species?

Biological filter prob took 3 months or so. But I don't have a lot of stock, (3 fish) so it really wasn't a big deal.

Yup got a wrasse, called a spotty more commonly but yea its a wrasse. Pix are hard to get of it so fast lol. I'd say it is quite similar to their tropical counterpart, as they still eat snails and pods etc. But this species is quite slow growing and mine is barely 10cm long.

Very much like my 6 lined if you ask me. Never stops moving. Maybe a video? It would be great if you could collect enough information so that we could possibly create species profile.

Thats about right. Well it seems like all the information i have gathered about temperate aquariums is all right.

Yea pretty similar to a 6 line I'd say and a video could be the way to go. Just a pain uploading them. I think I've got a vid of some kahawai in my tank eating that I used to have. And I could could do up a species profile if you want, chuck it on the site somewhere.

And sweet =]

Yeah that would be great. Just check the information center species profile to get a general idea of what you need to collect.

Sweet as

lol. Yeah i would look for an octopus for your tank. Do you see much of those?

See a few octopus, but the way they can escape from even the smallest gaps, would be impractical in my tank. Would be cool though.

Yeah it would. How big do you see them? All you need is a tight fitting cover of some sort.

Wow I don't see octopus that often then again I don't go diving lol

Haha. The one time i went snorkling in la jolla i didnt see any! I have seen some at my LFS though...probably not even the same.

Oh and are they colorful?

See octopus range of sizes but the ones around here get pretty big. Smallest i seen was 50c coin, which a mate caught but escaped tank and died.

Tanks going good, found a pump to run the chiller with bit noisy but all good cause its free. Haven't needed the chiller yet with the sump outside but figured it can't hurt to get it going.

You should post a bunch of close up macro shots!

+1.

The sump is outside? It must stay pretty cold in New Zealand! I could do that in the winter but in the summer it gets to hot.

I've got a shit camera haha, hopeless for taking photos of the tank.

and yea the sumps, semi outside lol, its in like a garage, but the garage isn't enclosed. and nah it doesn't stay that cold lol.

What is the temp of your tank right now?

17 degrees.

I'm pretty sure thats freezing....how is your tank not an icecube? Haha oh but your from NZ so thats about 60 degrees? Doesn't the temperature fluctuate in the summer?