Your current Fish tank Setups!

rebel rebel · 8 Apr 2015 at 03:26

Here's a recent shot of when I rebooted mine, I've since added sand.

Siliconslave · 8 Apr 2015 at 10:29

UTmaniac said:
Loaches can be great fish, I have a group of 10 Dwarf Chains, I bought them for their comical behavior rather than solving a problem I had created by overfeeding a tank than contained pest snails.

I've got some dwarf chains as well, and they are pretty amusing little things when they are active, seem to spend allot of time hiding/sleeping under things though.

Ours have cleaned out any snails we've got from shop plants very rapidly - they can't always kill the older snails without a bit of help to get through the shells but they munch up any new borns like no-ones business.

iamtheoneneo · 8 Apr 2015 at 14:21

thepharcyde said:
Wow a month later since adding fish OMG'Z UNCYCLED ALL GOIN DIE zero cardinal casulties.

Belittling the community that offered you help in the first place which you ignored, and then asking for more help is a little crass is it not :rolleyes:

Im sure your figure it out.

-Mike- said:
Snails you say? Thanks to her indoors buying live plants from the local fish place our tank is now infested with snails. We have assassin snails, loaches but nothing is touching them.

Hand remove as many as you can twice a week, the assassins will do their job they just cant handle a massive infestation, so you do have to help them. Snails are good in moderation - I completely gutted my population and do regret it.

Brookert · 8 Apr 2015 at 16:33

Just won an aqua one nano marine tank, about 36 litres. Comes with a damselfish and live rock with a few corals. Anyone got any tips on transporting livestock? Could be up to an hour in the car, but I do have an inverter to run a heater.

Brenn · 8 Apr 2015 at 16:45

See if a LFS has a Polly box you could have, should be fine for an hour.

thepharcyde · 8 Apr 2015 at 19:31

iamtheoneneo said:
Belittling the community that offered you help in the first place which you ignored, and then asking for more help is a little crass is it not
Im sure your figure it out.

My original question was never answered re fin nipping just a load of woe omg'z die, so what help was offered? Was I to put my fish back in a plastic bag and wait!!

And it's you will, no?

Feel free to answer any of my questions however

ci_newman · 8 Apr 2015 at 22:35

Can anyone reommend any good online retailers of shrimp? I want to get hold of some red cherry and my only local stockists are a Pets At Home and they dont sell them.

King4aDay · 9 Apr 2015 at 18:00

ci_newman said:
Can anyone reommend any good online retailers of shrimp? I want to get hold of some red cherry and my only local stockists are a Pets At Home and they dont sell them.

There are 3 Maidenhead Aquatics near Reading and one west of Basingstoke if you're ever around there? Otherwise try Freshwater Shrimp, Sharnbrook Shrimp, Kesgrave Tropicals or Sweet Knowle Aquatics.

King4aDay · 9 Apr 2015 at 18:02

Did a water test on the nano reef today -

Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0.01
Nitrate - 1
Ca - 470
Mg - 1380
KH - 10.5
S.G - 1.026

And that was deemed good to go to add a little life. Bought 5 small Nassarius snails, a little button frag and I've also been entrusted with the shop's pet cowrie, who's been behaving itself in the invert system for the last 3 years. A quick google suggests its a gnawed cowrie, hopefully he doesn't get any bad ideas.

utajoker · 9 Apr 2015 at 22:00

Brookert said:
Just won an aqua one nano marine tank, about 36 litres. Comes with a damselfish and live rock with a few corals. Anyone got any tips on transporting livestock? Could be up to an hour in the car, but I do have an inverter to run a heater.

might want to leave the fish and coral at the shop and go back at a later date, get the tank set up first.

i travelled 2 hours to get my live rock so you should be fine, i transported in some polystyrene boxes.

Spook187 · 10 Apr 2015 at 06:24

You may have seen in what we bought thread but here it is my pride and joy

Over the next few weeks will be setting up, still need lighting, some flow pumps and a controller to buy.

King4aDay · 10 Apr 2015 at 09:05

Swanky

arc@css · 10 Apr 2015 at 13:16

Damn nice there, Spook. :cool:

Lovely puss btw.

V F · 10 Apr 2015 at 17:12

Love the black glass. How many gallons does that hold?

Next to a window though?

rebel rebel · 10 Apr 2015 at 17:55

The build quality on these reefers looks excellent. The dream would be to have the 450 so I could have an Archilles Tang!

Spook187 · 10 Apr 2015 at 18:25

King4aDay said:
Swanky

Cheers

arc@css said:
Damn nice there, Spook.

Lovely puss btw.

Many thanks

V F said:
Love the black glass. How many gallons does that hold?

Next to a window though?

350 litres inc sump, window not a problem really, only get a little morning sunshine early on and only in summer, the blinds will always be at tilt at that time of the morning, temps are cool in that room so heat won't be a problem.

rebel rebel said:
The build quality on these reefers looks excellent. The dream would be to have the 450 so I could have an Archilles Tang!

Honest mate the build quality is amazing, the beveled ultra clear glass is really something, well worth the money.

rebel rebel · 11 Apr 2015 at 17:47

If I had word from the landlord that I'm here for the foreseeable future I would have one. Last year I was forced to move out of my place, and moving a 30" cube was an absolute nightmare!

utajoker · 13 Apr 2015 at 10:16

if i had the cash i would love a red sea set up, the mrs would not be happy my dropping 3k on a fish tank.

Spook187 · 13 Apr 2015 at 14:51

Took me a few goes but i am fairly happy with what i have now

King4aDay · 13 Apr 2015 at 15:14

Some nice bits of rock there.

Totally jumped the gun and added a couple of montipora to my nano. Parameters have been pretty stable so far so I might get lucky. I'm normally super conservative with my stocking rates but it seems corals can do funny thing to a man.

Some shots from last night under blues -

The cowrie is yet to disgrace himself -