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Rules and Announcements
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Announcements
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Competition Zone
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Competitions
48 1,500
POTM
Photo Of The Month competition.
15 258
*OTM
Our various "___ Of The Month" themes.
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Aquarium Expo
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Aquarium Expo Information
South Africa's only Aquarium Expo, brought to you by MASA and TASA.
Expo 2013 (2/65) Expo 2012 (32/1236)
Expo Expo
by astonc
4 Weeks Ago Go to last post
34 1,301

Ask The Experts
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Reefing with Sara (sihaya)
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.
28-03-2013 Go to last post
74 1,709
Hennie's Corner
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.
by waynet
2 Weeks Ago Go to last post
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Specialist Anemone advice
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 advisors 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.
by crispin
3 Weeks Ago Go to last post
134 2,494

General
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New Members
New to the forum? This is the place to start, pop in and say Hi to the crew and receive a warm MASA welcome.
by Zandy
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Beginner Discussions
Discussions about beginning this hobby and how to setup a marine tank.
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General Discussions
General discussion forum about reefkeeping and marine tanks.
by ccwilke
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4,180 68,026
Urgent Help Needed
Start a thread here if you are in need of urgent help 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 algae".
Urgent help needed: Load Shedding
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Detailed help requests
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.
36 547
Articles
A one stop resource for information in the form of articles written by hobbyists.
Beginners (8/99) Fish (3/57)
Corals (2/63) Equipment (3/24)
Equipment/Product Reviews (11/317) Filtration (2/106)
Foods/Feeding (1/18) General
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►►► Private Forum for new members and advice
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 and advisors can see these threads, all questions and answers will be in the strictest of confidence.
Private 166 1,530
Power cuts
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.
5 Days Ago Go to last post
130 2,725
Reef Hunters
Finding those hidden Gems
130 2,671
Environmental Discussions
194 2,683
Photography
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214 4,210
Diving and Collecting
Scuba and snorkelling, specimen collecting, photography, outings, trips, shark dives and anything else photographed or videoed from under the waves.
by Zandy
3 Days Ago Go to last post
159 4,378
Local Reefing Clubs
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.
264 11,955

ID Database
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ID Needed
Post a photo here and get the crew to help you put a name to the 'creature'.
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ID Index
Photo's, general information and advice on just about every living thing that we encounter in our marine aquarium hobby.
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Featured Tanks (TOTM)
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Featured Tanks (TOTM)
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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Member Systems
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Members Systems and Setups
Threads about members and their reef tanks, or fish tanks.
Pico Tanks (25/902) Nano Tanks (188/11354)
Medium Tanks (311/24040) Large Tanks (186/30588)
Supersized Tanks (98/18998) Frag Tanks (14/476)
uncategorised (255/25666) 
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Marine Tank Discussions
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Foods and Feeding
Discuss what foods to feed and how to feed your fish and corals.
82 1,334
Reef Tank advice
Talk about keeping corals and fish in a reef tank.
by Zandy
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310 9,075
Fish Only Tanks
Tanks with Fish Only (FO) or Fish Only With Live Rock (FOWLR).
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86 1,899
Predator Tanks
Lionfish, triggers, groupers, eels and all the other nasty but nice fish that are the tigers and leopards of the marine world.
by Dorry
1 Week Ago Go to last post
19 384
Boyu TL450 and TL550 advice
Sub-Forum dedicated to the ever popular range of Boyu TL450 and TL550 nano tanks.
120 2,344
Nano Tank advice
Advice for the ever popular smaller fish tank keepers. A nano tank is generally smaller than 130 litres.
220 7,151
Water Parameters and Additives
Keeping your tanks Calcium, Alkalinity, Magnesium, Salinity, Phosphate, Nitrites, Nitrates, Ammonia etc. in check and at suitable levels. How and what to add to your tank to keep it healthy and stable. Supplements such as Iodine, Strontium, Epsom Salts, Baking Soda, Buffer and so on.
629 12,155
Aquascaping
Forum for idea's on how to do your aquascaping, feel free to post examples of tanks you have seen elsewhere on the net.
47 718

Filtration
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Deep Sand Beds - DSB's
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).
by RiaanP
09-03-2013 Go to last post
131 2,455
Biological/Natural Filtration
Live Rock, Sumps, Refugiums, Caulerpa and Chaetomorpha.
by RiaanP
1 Day Ago Go to last post
374 6,390
Mechanical Filtration
Protein Skimmers, Filter floss, UV Sterilisers, Ozone reactors etc.
157 2,735
Chemical Filtration
Includes filtration such as Granular Activated Carbon (GAC), Purigen, Phosphate remover, pellets etc.
126 2,476
Low Nutrient Systems - LNS / ULNS
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.
48 1,613
Nuisance Algae
A forum dedicated to eradicating this pest. Cyanobacteria, red slime algae, hair algae, bubble algae, valonia, diatoms etc.
177 4,114

Hardware
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MASA Scanner
Scanning the net for new, cool and fancy gadgets and gizmo's for our tanks.
39 615
Protein Skimmers
Making dirty bubbles. Tunze, Reeftek, Reef Octopus, Aquamedic, Deltec, Bubble King, Bubble Master etc.
389 8,885
Pumps and Waterflow
Simulating the Ocean. SEIO pumps, Tunze streams, wavemakers, Vortech's, get the flow going.
377 6,138
Lighting
Metal Halide, T5 fluorescents, LED's, moonlights. Light up their life.
by RiaanP
16 Hours Ago Go to last post
728 12,826
Measuring Equipment
Measure and control ph, calcium, alkalinity, phosphate, magnesium, nitrite, nitrate, ammonia and more. Did you pay attention in chemistry class?
116 1,879
All Other Hardware
Calcium reactors, kalkwasser reactors and drips, ozone, UV, the list goes on...
339 6,055

Fish and things
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Quarantine
Something not many of us do, but something that certainly needs to be done to all new fish additions. There are a few horror stories around of complete tank wipeouts from failing to Quarantine new fish. It is also a good idea to QT corals for inspection of unwanted hitch-hikers.
14 253
Fish
Discuss anything and everything about your favourite fish or ask what fish are suitable for your aquarium.
986 16,892
Sick Fish
Forum for help to identify fish diseases, sick fish and injuries to your fish and how to treat them with methods such as medications, quarantine, hyposaline treatment and other methods.
98 1,688
Invertebrates
Anemone's, Clams, Shrimps, Starfish, Hermit Crabs, Urchins, Snails etc.
by ccwilke
16 Hours Ago Go to last post
490 6,627
Anemone's
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.
by crispin
3 Weeks Ago Go to last post
139 2,644
Other Livestock
Seahorses, bristle worms, nudibranchs, fan worms, tube worms etc.
111 2,085
Breeding fish
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.
by Dre
3 Weeks Ago Go to last post
83 2,164

Corals
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General Coral Care
Discuss the many varied aspects of how to feed, grow, light and place your corals.
115 1,654
Soft Corals
Leathers, sinularia, ricordea, mushrooms, zoanthids, pin cushions, colt corals, kenya trees etc.
294 4,889
LPS Corals
Large Polyp Stony corals. Euphyllia, Hammers, Torch, Frogspawn, Brains, Bubble corals, Favia etc.
by Seabass
2 Weeks Ago Go to last post
175 2,396
SPS Corals
Small Polyp Stony corals (Hard Coral). Acropora, millepora, stylopora, pocillopora, montipora etc.
157 3,196
Fragging Corals
Slice and dice those corals, make frags and sell them to your buddies or join in frag swops.
116 3,232

D.I.Y.
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Anything DIY Related
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.
4 Minutes Ago Go to last post
824 15,423

Photo Gallery
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Full Tank Photo's
74 3,379
Fish Pics
78 2,399
Coral Pics
49 921
General Images
123 2,355
Video Threads
Reefkeeping video's.
36 294

Sponsors
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Sponsors Forums
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For Sale Forums
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FOR SALE Forums
Click here to go to the For Sale, Swop, Wanted forums.
Livestock For Sale/Swop (1079/16339) Hardware For Sale/Swop (1556/20632)
General Marine Sales (580/15023) Wanted (2058/12624)
Junk Yard (358/2724) 
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