Your current Fish tank Setups!

Your tank is WAAAAYYY too small for goldfish :)

Oh, ignore online calculators, and things like that. Read up on caresheets for each particular fish you want to keep. (From many different sources)

It is standard practise to do this before buying any fish.
 
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VinceB1 said:
general rule of thumb says 1" of fish per 4 imperial gallons. Anything over this is apparant overstocking.

This is the reason I only have 7 fish in my 260litre aquarium :(

Take a look at this site, it should help :)

http://www.howmanyfish.com/

Mind you... judging by that you could then only have 1 fish. I would say with regular water changes to keep water levels good you should be fine. Wouldn't put any more in there though.
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Edit - Yeah we have been cleaning everything and doing warer changes very regularly.

Thanks for that :)

Shame that I listened to the first pet shop I went to in the beginning :/ they clearly know nothing about fish. I noticed while I was there as well that they had 4 bigger gold fish in a slightly bigger 30L! Crazy!

I will look to get a much bigger tank soon :)

Thanks again - Liam
 
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LEK-89 said:
Thanks for that :)

Shame that I listened to the first pet shop I went to in the beginning :/ they clearly know nothing about fish. I noticed while I was there as well that they had 4 bigger gold fish in a slightly bigger 30L! Crazy!

I will look to get a much bigger tank soon :)

Thanks again - Liam
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Its a shame, I can only keep 7 because I opted for a few biggies like a Foxface and Yellow Tang. The fish shop in general will be able to keep huge amounts of fish in the most cramped conditions and sucessfully due to the vast amount of water in their systems. A pound to a penny all their trop tanks are hoked up to a huge central filtration system... The same as their central filtration for marine.

Your talking huge quantites of water and we all know the more water, the easier it is to get the water quality right.
 
the stingray filter you bought is a bit poor tbh because it has so much space inside thats not doing anything, look on ebay for a fluval U1/U2 or buy extra filter media and stuff it full of the stuff.
 
utajoker said:
the stingray filter you bought is a bit poor tbh because it has so much space inside thats not doing anything, look on ebay for a fluval U1/U2 or buy extra filter media and stuff it full of the stuff.
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Yep. I've got one in a spare 24L tank I use for fry or quarantine. Removed the pointless zeolite/carbon and stuffed it full of cutdown old sponge out of my external filter.

U1 or U2 is a far better choice if you've got the room.
 
Bennie-Mac said:
It will cost you a small fortune im afraid. Probably around £500 for the tank glass, £500 for a strong cabinet, £200 for a decent sized sump, £800 for the live rock, £500 for decent lights (probably more), £600-£1500 for a decent skimmer, £200-400 for powerheads etc, £200 for pipework and connectors, £200-600 for return pump, £200 for a decent RO unit. Then theres the stock, substrate, any other filtration methods you may want, heater, chiller, and other items you may want to consider such as calcium reactors, UV sterilisers, phosphate reactors etc etc etc...

Also consumables and running costs such as salt, filter media, food, additives, DI resin, replacement bulbs/tubes, test kits and the big one electricity.

That is all based on brand new equipment, obviously you can get some stuff second hand. If you join a forum such as ultimate reef, you could have a look at some of the large/supersized tank threads and ask the tank owner for a breakdown of costs. Im just estimating, but id say its pretty close to actual costs.

Edit - I hope its a ground floor flat btw! If not you need to check with a structural engineer as to whether your floor will hold the weight (may want to do this anyway even on a ground floor flat) you might end up having to re-enforce the floor.

Edit 2 - If you can afford it though, definately go for it. You wont regret it :)
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Thanks for that,

we want to put it inside a supporting wall so we will get a structural engineer to have a look first.I has assumed it would be around 3 to 5k.
 
Dr House said:
Thanks for that,

we want to put it inside a supporting wall so we will get a structural engineer to have a look first.I has assumed it would be around 3 to 5k.
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dont no if prices have gone up much but i bought a custom made 5ft tank for £200 and a skimmer for £90 of ebay (2nd hand), a halide 5ft lamp of ebay for £150(new), £100 for RO unit(new).

so maybe them prices are a bit exaggerated.

i also build a table for it myself which cost about £65 in wood.
(this was all about 3 years ago).
 
utajoker said:
the stingray filter you bought is a bit poor tbh because it has so much space inside thats not doing anything, look on ebay for a fluval U1/U2 or buy extra filter media and stuff it full of the stuff.
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I got the smallest Stingray filter that they did which was the up to 25L one, I did look at the Fluval ones but the smallest one they had was up to 44L only and did not have antoher one in that was any smaller unfortunately.

Liam
 
utajoker said:
my tank is also clearing of algae, i bought a fish that eats it :p

here he is

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not sre of the name of them though.

i got some food which is green pelet type thing for 'sucker-mouth catfish' but he doesnt seem to have touched it.
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Looks like a Butterfly Hillstream Loach, they are neat fish.

As for the pellets, give it a bit of time. I've tried numerous algae tablet food for with sucker- mouth fish without issues, most fish aren't that fussy.
 
Had nothing to do this evening so decided to take a few more shots of the tank.


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For anybody thats interested the tank is a 4x2x1.5 holding roughly 270 - 300 litres including the two cannister filters, one cannister powers a 25w vectron UV on the return and is full of live rock the other holds filter floss, phosphate media and carbon media. Lighting is provided by two metal halide lamps at 250watt 14k and two T5 Actinics.

The tank is running the berlin method using two seio powerheads at 3200lph for water movement over roughly 35-40kg of live rock and the skimmer is a v2 400.

As for the stock:

2 x ocellaris clownfish hosting what was one but is now 2x Rose bubble tip anemone's
1 x Nasty little damsel
1 x Yellow Tang
1 x Badgerfish (Rabbitfish - foxface lo)
1 x Banghii Cardinal
1 x lime green wrasse

Various corals, crabs, starfish, hermits, urchins and other inverts.

Couldn't find any rules on image sizes, if ive broken any please delete or let me know. Cheers.
 
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Had nothing to do this evening so decided to take a few more shots of the tank.


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For anybody thats interested the tank is a 4x2x1.5 holding roughly 270 - 300 litres including the two cannister filters, one cannister powers a 25w vectron UV on the return and is full of live rock the other holds filter floss, phosphate media and carbon media. Lighting is provided by two metal halide lamps at 250watt 14k and two T5 Actinics.

The tank is running the berlin method using two seio powerheads at 3200lph for water movement over roughly 35-40kg of live rock and the skimmer is a v2 400.

As for the stock:

2 x ocellaris clownfish hosting what was one but is now 2x Rose bubble tip anemone's
1 x Nasty little damsel
1 x Yellow Tang
1 x Badgerfish (Rabbitfish - foxface lo)
1 x Banghii Cardinal
1 x lime green wrasse

Various corals, crabs, starfish, hermits, urchins and other inverts.

Couldn't find any rules on image sizes, if ive broken any please delete or let me know. Cheers.[/QUOTE]

more pics please :)
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utajoker said:
more pics please :)
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Ill take a few more tonight. :) also if there are any marine keepers out there with a big tank and halide lighting one of my anenome's needs a new home, it split about a year ago and they are once again getting pretty large. If anybody wants one and can pick up from essex then pm me :)
 
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Few more pics starting with my favourite picture taken when the clowns started hosting the anenome, about a year back.

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