Fish Tanks :)

Rhaos said:
With regards to cycling tanks guys, my advice is to go onto some professional fishkeeping forums and ask there. A lot of information people are mentioning is wrong. The proper way to cycle a tank 'properly' is to use ammonia and water test kits for ammonia, nitrates, nitrites. Ideally you need to build up a colony of bacteria that can fight off ammonia produced by fish. So adding a little fish food every day or so for a period of 3 days is no way long enough. A proper cycled tank can take up to 4-6 weeks
before you even consider adding fish. Alternatively if you wish to be barbaric, you could just stick some cheapie fish in to cycle the tank for you, but will take a long while before you can add additional fish. Its always best to understock than to overstock.
And should you want to go the way that 'avrc' has with his lovely planted tank, you're looking at including a full blown CO2 system which for amateurs can look quite daunting but tbh its not that bad.

Soon as I can I'll post some pics of my first planted tank. And if anyone wants a good link to a fishkeeping forum let me know, theres one I regularly use and its one of the most friendliest forums I've ever belonged to.
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I'm not actually using a CO2 system, the water isn't even aerated. ;)
 
i needed to use the extension cable yesterday unplugged it forgot too plug it back in and now ma siamese fighter and chiclid have died

ah well prob get another angel instead
 
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thats what mine used to look like, been a while since i took some phots of it. anyway now its got some bog wood and less plants and a different filter too. will have to get some photos
 
Some nice looking tanks on here. I kept tropical fish for years, since I was about 4. Had 4 tanks at one point but went to uni etc and had to shut them down. Recently got back into it but have gone the marine route, with a small 22G nano reef with 11kg of live rock. I would post pictures but its at the cycle of hair algae at the moment and doesnt look too nice :( ive got 2 common (tank bred) clowns in there along with 4 astrea snails and 4 halloween hermits. Added some soft corals too including some zooanthids and mushrooms. Had some really weird stuff come out of/attached to the rock including starfish, brittlestars, mussels, feather dusters etc.
 
Marine is more demanding than trops, especially if you're keeping coral, LPS/ SPS etc, you need the correct lighting (i've gone metal halide and T5 actinics on my tank, your water has to be pretty much perfect too, more than nitrates to watch, phosphates, calcium, magnesium all have to be right, you need loads of flow in your tank (25x the capacity of your tank per hour (i.e if you have a 100l tank, you need to have a flow of 2500lph)). It really is an interesting hobby.
 
so.... re did my tank over the weekend.

All planted now with a couple of rocks.

I will take pics when i get home and show you guys. Let me know what you think :D
 
Siliconslave said:
Is a marine tank an order of magnitude harder than a freshwater tropical or is it just down to maintaining the saline content at a decent level?
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In my 15 years of keeping fish I believe Marine / reef / live rock systems are far more easier than freshwater systems, there's no problematic filters to deal with, all you have to do is keep the water flowing. Once you get used to the uptake requirements of the tank you hardly have to run any tests, just let nature do its thing.
 
Here's some older images of my tank, I don't have any up to date images.
Its an incredibly simple system requiring little if any maintenance.



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webmonkeyuk said:
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thats what mine used to look like, been a while since i took some phots of it. anyway now its got some bog wood and less plants and a different filter too. will have to get some photos
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lol, my dad saw your tank and said "why does he have a PS3 in there?".

Apart from that.... great tank
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My tank.


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However i got 4 Bala sharks, and im sure they've eaten all the small guppies and dalmation fish. Either the Sharks on the Angel fish.
 
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