I splurged out on some more advanced gear for my tank and it’s all come at once.
I’ve wanted this German made Deltec NF509 denitrator for years and some time last week I finally hit the buy now button on it. I had to buy a tiny little pump for it so I bought the Dupla Turbo Mini water pump and amazingly everything fit together perfectly and it was all super easy to set up. I bought all this gear from Age of Aquariums. A shop I’ve been buying from since the beginning.
I also got this monstrous thing. It’s an FB150 fluid bed filter which is housing 1000ml of NP Biopellets (designed to consume nitrates and phosphates). I’m using a quality Eheim 1250 Pump and putting it all together was a nightmare. I had to find a reducer as the pump hose diameter was different to the filter hose diameter and when I finally got it all going the unit leaked all over the place. Lucky for me I had just enough head space and room to get it into the sump. A good case of paying for quality. This stuff I bought from Guppy’s Aquarium Products Online who sells a lot of cheap gear (a lot of fake/replica goods).
very nice indeed. it looks very scientific! good luck fixing up the nitrates etc. i ran fresh water tanks for a number of years and it took so much of my time up that i gave it in. we also moved a fair bit which caused some logistic issues!
Spot on Paul some reefers take the science thing waaaaaaaay too far! I’m sure they absolutely love doing so though.
Hope you get back into aquaria Paul. It’s a fun and healthy hobby! I’d love to have a fresh water tank again, thinking something super tiny. Like a 20litre cube with a very nice planted scape. Something like this:
http://www.adana-usa.com/images/gallery02/9.jpg
I’m keen to set one up when we buy a house- and that style of tank design is 100% where it’s at. Saying that- with recent events here with the Earthquake……maybe not! lol
I’ll never forget one pets hop i used to visit alot who had a massive tank and barramuni who just loved to eat GIANT GOLD FISH. Crazy!
Looking forward to the new cabinet design too :)
Cool stuff Paul and yeahhhhh I heard about that Earthquake. Damn scary! Imagine if you were out riding (on a rigid) when that happened!
Scariest thing i’ve experienced. Epic damage. Epic fear.
http://www.paulpetch.com/2010/09/04/christchurch-earth-quake/
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Done! :)