Your current Fish tank Setups!

b0rn2sk8 said:
That is a bit of a myth in my opinion, in reality if you stock sensibly and keep up you water changes small tanks are fine.


If your putting it on your desk, I suggest you get something that looks nice and doesnt have a nasty plastic hood like a Fluval Edge.


Stocking wise as others have said, I would get one type of fish and just be sensible with the numbers/size.
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Without wishing to sound big headed, I'm a fairly experienced keeper of fish, but thanks anyway, I'll bear in mind your note about the Fluval Edge. Hope that doesn't come across rude. :)
 
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Some of my marine nano inhabitants;

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Nice photos :)

I've said before, but I would love to have a marine tank.. one day I will get one, need a bigger house first and somewhere elegant to place it. So calming and relaxing watching fish and subtle lights.
 
rebel rebel said:
Lovely pictures mate, what are you feeding the pipefish?
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She forages a lot for herself on copepods etc, and I feed quite a lot of live pods, plus she seems to take the odd frozen fish egg and other frozen food.

The clingfish was the hardest to get eating; he's a male and in the wild they breed in empty bivalve shells which are in such short supply that the males almost never leave them. Instead the male eats a small percentage of the eggs the female lays. I hadn't seen him eat anything for the first week after I got him, so I found an old freshwater mussel shell in the local pond place, popped it in the tank and he immediately moved in. Then I started pipetting in small amounts of frozen fish and lobster eggs which he started eating. Now he'll take them from the water column and is often out and about foraging for himself.

I've got nearly 30kg of live rock with a total system volume of only 175l so the microfauna populations are pretty good.
 
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I've always wanted to get a marine aquarium.
I've done tropical and ponds. This would be the next step.

Except now that I have the money I don't think I have the time! How much time do you guys spend on maintenance?

What about initially starting off?
 
Buddy said:
I've always wanted to get a marine aquarium.
I've done tropical and ponds. This would be the next step.

Except now that I have the money I don't think I have the time! How much time do you guys spend on maintenance?

What about initially starting off?
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It's not too bad maintenance wise to be honest, just more things to keep an eye on. I still just do a weekly water change, but you have to mix your salt a couple of hours in advance and you'll want to top up evaporation with RO daily if possible. If you go with well cured live rock then things cycle through very fast at the start so its probably less faff than cycling a tropical tank initially.

You will want to test now and again for a raft of different things (some LFS will do this for you) and there's not tonnes of leeway for error if you've got trickier corals.

If you run a skimmer then you'll probably need to clean the cup every few days but that's not a major job with modern designs.

I don't find I spend much more time on the marine tank than I do on the trops, but it is right next to my desk so I can easily keep an eye on things and tweak stuff as needed.

One of the biggest issues is avoiding whitespot, it's very hard to treat in a tank with corals or inverts. Buy fish very carefully and ideally quarantine them for 2-3 months. If that isn't possible then a decent UV filter should be a good investment.
 
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King4aDay said:
She forages a lot for herself on copepods etc, and I feed quite a lot of live pods, plus she seems to take the odd frozen fish egg and other frozen food.

The clingfish was the hardest to get eating; he's a male and in the wild they breed in empty bivalve shells which are in such short supply that the males almost never leave them. Instead the male eats a small percentage of the eggs the female lays. I hadn't seen him eat anything for the first week after I got him, so I found an old freshwater mussel shell in the local pond place, popped it in the tank and he immediately moved in. Then I started pipetting in small amounts of frozen fish and lobster eggs which he started eating. Now he'll take them from the water column and is often out and about foraging for himself.

I've got nearly 30kg of live rock with a total system volume of only 175l so the microfauna populations are pretty good.
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I'd heard pipefish needed a lot of live copepods, my local fish shop keep theirs in the sps tank as they're good at keeping pests at bay. It's really cool watching them pick at them when I go in. I had a scooter blenny that I used to add copepods for, eventually he got a taste for other stuff so I didn't need to culture my own.

I'm moving soon so I'll be able to get a bigger tank, I can move my Flame Hawkfish and Skunk Clownfish into the new one and buy some Tangs. And then keep the nano as a frag tank with some pipefish in. The Clingfish sounds facinating, I'm going to read up on them.
 
The bluestripes are generally considered the easiest pipefish to get onto frozen, I don't think they're super fussy although they do prefer live. Mine was taking quite a lot of frozen in the smaller tank, now that I've upsized she pretty much exclusively just eats pods because they're available.

That said they are still quite delicate... I've lost 2 males consecutively. Going to try one more time I think.
 
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