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Announcements
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Important Announcements to read.
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Special Guest Forums
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Honoured guest Sara Mavinkurve is a well known international advisor on WetWebMedia.com and creator of www.asira.org. It is our pleasure to have her here to assist you with your reefkeeping questions. If you need some beginner or specialist advice, pop in and ask Sara a question.
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Hennie Landman (Reef Maniac) has a vast amount of knowledge in all aspects of the Reefkeeping hobby from DIY to chemical additives. He has written many articles about the hobby, some of which are used on Reef Central. So if you need some beginners or specialised local advice, Hennie is here to help.
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Brenda (Anemone) is here to help with all and any anemone related questions or advice you may need. She is a member of the WetWebMedia.com crew of advisers and we are honoured and pleased to have her on our board offering her time and advice to our members. Have you got an anemone? Do you want an anemone? Need advice before or after buying? Here's the place to ask.
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Featured Tanks (TOTM) and ROTM
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A listing of tanks that have been selected as our "Featured System's". Otherwise normally known as TOTM (Tank Of The Month).
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General
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A one stop resource for information in the form of articles written by hobbyists.
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New to the forum? This is the place to start, pop in and say Hi to the crew and receive a warm MASA welcome.
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Are you new to reefkeeping and new to forums? Unsure of what to do and how to ask questions? Feeling a bit shy to have the masses descend on you? Would you like some discretion for an unusual problem, have you made a monumental mess up of something and don't want the world to know about it? Whatever your reasons, if you value discretion then this is the forum for you. Start a New Thread and we will respond. Your questions can not be seen by other members, only the forum staff can see these threads, all questions and answers will be in the strictest of confidence. We will not laugh at you, we will not ridicule you, what we will do is try our best to help you, all done in private.
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Start a thread here if you are in need of urgent help or advice or have a serious problem with your tank that needs urgent attention in order to prevent the deaths of any livestock. Please do not use this forum for random problems such as "I've got hair algae" or "My fish won't eat" etc.
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Discussions about beginning this hobby and how to setup a marine tank.
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Fill out a form with as much info as you can about your tank/problem to enable the members to offer as much advice and help as they can.
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General discussion forum about reefkeeping and marine tanks.
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How to deal with the continued power cuts in South Africa (possibly to continue until 2014)and possible solutions to ensure our tanks survive the many hours of no power.
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Finding those hidden Gems
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Find a local club in your area, join in to meet the members, see other tanks, exchange idea's and most of all, have fun.
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Marine Tank Discussions
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Talk about keeping corals and fish in a reef tank.
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Tanks with Fish Only (FO) or Fish Only With Live Rock (FOWLR).
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Lionfish, triggers, groupers, eels and all the other nasty but nice fish that are the tigers and leopards of the marine world.
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Advice for the ever popular smaller fish tank keepers. A nano tank is generally smaller than 130 litres.
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Keeping your tanks Calcium, Alkalinity, Magnesium, Salinity, Phosphate, Nitrites, Ammonia, Nitrates etc. in check and at suitable levels.
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How and what to add to your tank to keep it healthy and stable. Supplements such as Iodine, Calcium, Strontium, Epsom Salts, Baking Soda, Buffer and so on.
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Forum for idea's on how to do your aquascaping, feel free to post examples of tanks you have seen elsewhere on the net.
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Filtration
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Discuss how to successfully install and maintain a deep sand bed in your aquarium. DSB (Deep Sand Bed), DLSB (Deep Live Sand Bed), RDSB (Remote Deep Sand Bed).
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Live Rock, Sumps, Refugiums, Caulerpa and Chaetomorpha.
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Protein Skimmers, Filter floss, UV Sterilisers, Ozone reactors etc.
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Forum for those that concentrate on Low Nutrient Systems (LNS) and/or ULNS (Ultra Low Nutrient Systems), a common usage in this type of system is the Zeovit filtration methods.
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Including chemical filtration such as Granular Activated Carbon (GAC), Purigen and Phosphate remover.
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A forum dedicated to eradicating this pest. Cyanobacteria, red slime algae, hair algae, bubble algae, valonia, diatoms etc.
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Hardware
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Reviews on equipment done by members of the forum. MASA can not be held responsible for the content herein - if your tank blows up, you can't blame us.
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Scanning the net for new, cool and fancy gadgets and gizmo's for our tanks.
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Making dirty bubbles. Tunze, Reeftek, Reef Octopus, Aquamedic, Deltec, Bubble King, Bubble Master etc.
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Simulating the Ocean. SEIO pumps, Tunze streams, wavemakers, Vortech's, get the flow going.
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Metal Halide, T5 fluorescents, LED's, moonlights. Light up their life.
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Measure and control ph, calcium, alkalinity, phosphate, magnesium, nitrite, nitrate, ammonia and more. Did you pay attention in chemistry class?
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Calcium reactors, kalkwasser reactors and drips, ozone, UV, the list goes on...
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Fish and things
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Yup, fish...Dory and Nemo are in here somewhere.
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Anemone's, Clams, Shrimps, Starfish, Hermit Crabs, Urchins, Snails etc.
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How to successfully care for the various different types of anemone's such as, Entacmaea quadricolor (bubble tip anemone), Macrodactyla doreensis (long tentacle anemone), Hetereactis crispa / magnifica / ritteri, carpet anemone, tube anemone and many others. LIGHTING is a VITAL factor in keeping many of these species alive, as well as a mature system.
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Seahorses, bristle worms, nudibranchs, fan worms, tube worms etc.
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Without a doubt, one of the most difficult aspects of the hobby is trying to breed fish, only a couple of species have been successfully bred in captivity.
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Corals
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Discuss the many varied aspects of how to feed, grow, light and place your corals.
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Leathers, sinularia, ricordea, mushrooms, zoanthids, pin cushions, colt corals, kenya trees etc.
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Large Polyp Stony corals. Euphyllia, Hammers, Torch, Frogspawn, Brains, Bubble corals, Favia etc.
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Small Polyp Stony corals (Hard Coral). Acropora, millepora, stylopora, pocillopora, montipora etc.
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Slice and dice those corals, make frags and sell them to your buddies or join in frag swops.
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Member Systems
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Threads about members and their reef tanks, or fish tanks.
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D.I.Y.
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Build your own topup unit, drip kalkwasser with a coke bottle, build hoods and customize lighting, DIY is a reefers dream, well for some of us.
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Photo Gallery
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Post a photo here and get the crew to help you put a name to the 'creature'.
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For Sale Forums
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Click here to go to the For Sale, Swop, Wanted forums.
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Sponsors
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Please click here to go to our Sponsors Forums.
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