Your current Fish tank Setups!

apatia77 said:
EDIT: Also utajoker - having 400L marine tank is impressive but this will cost you a fortune and this is not only for live rock, you need protein skimmers and other equipment in a tank this size but this all depends if you want fish only tank or reef tank which is even more expensive. You can get a lot of information from lets say ultimatereef.net which is a dedicated marine tank forum (probably the biggest in UK).
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i have all the equipment, spent ages researching all about it spent a small fortune on ebay then came to setting up and buying live rock but ran out of cash.
 
MagicBoy said:
T5s are brighter for the same length. However you'd need to replace the entire lighting unit. Other than that you'd need Metal halide I believe, but they pull some serious wattage.
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T8s are fine for tropical, T5s are ok for shallow marine tanks but if you have anything reasonably deep that you want to keep corals in then you could really do with some halides.
 
MagicBoy said:
My bigger tropical tank came with T5's and they're bright. The older fish that got moved from the other tank keep hiding when the lights are on...
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They are super super bright aren't they. There are 4 x 3ft in our tank, 2 blue and 2 white and when that is on we don't need any of the lounge lights on. :D
 
These pics are about 4 years old now and it looks very different but these are the only ones I have. I've had the Clownfish around 13 years now.

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Ronnie, Reggie and Mr Grumpy :D
 
apatia77 said:
Good luck with your tank m8. Sounds like you need £400-500 worth of LR. How many KG are you getting?
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this was a year or so ago so i forget how much but it was something around £300 worth, we even had an RO system installed under the sink :P


the halide light cost around £200 aswell, not sure were i got the money from :p
 
Gishee said:
Please tell me you names HIM nemo! :)
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Was watching an intresting program on TV recently which covered the behaviour of Clown fish. How the female watches over her mate and how ke keeps and gaurds the coral. If she's impressed he stays otherwise he's out. Not too much like my household!


Refering back to my GDA problem, reading the blurb is sounds like i've just got to live with it and do nothing and that it will clear itself but i need to introduce for CO2.
 
Could someone give me an idea how much it will cost to setup a 8ftx2ftx2 tropical marine tank?

I had a 6ftx2ftxz2ft tropical tank in the past but was thinking of going to a proper marine setup in the new flat.
 
No worries mate. No as i said, it appears that I just have to let the algae sort itself out:

Description Forms on the glass creating a dusty appearance across the glass. Sometimes so bad you can't see into the tank.
Cause Low CO2. Low nutrients. Quite common on new setups.
Removal Easily removed with a magnetic glass scraper or similar. Often reappears very quickly. Allow the algae to run its full cycle by leaving it well alone for 3 weeks. It may become unsightly but just bear with it. Then scrape it all off and do a large water change. Sometimes requires a second treatment to fully clear and leaving it for 4 weeks. Recommended to slightly reduce dosing during treatment.
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I have turned the thermostat down one notch.. see if that makes any difference. Not sure how I can gert extra nutrients into the tank?
 
I didn't know there were "tropical marine tanks" :P

One thing for sure is a big marine tank = high maintenance costs (especially when it comes to reef tanks), I have seen people spending from £500-1000 a month (yes a MONTH) maintaining there very beautiful big tanks.

Some people also lose £££ worth of corals and fish when something goes wrong with their tanks, and things can go wrong really fast in a marine tank.

I have a 24g marine tank and it all cost me about £600-£700 including everything inside I bought everything brand new though.

My maintenance costs come probably only to around £20 p/m due to the small size of the tank. Most of it goes towards marine salt and RO water which I buy (I only change 8L every week so I cannot justify getting RO unit).

Do your research before getting into marine world, its a great hobby but it can get out of control really fast, you probably will want a bigger tank just after having your first tank for few weeks only.
 
Gutted that people have posted their marine tanks up, as I'm not the most patient man alive :(

I've got a 94 ltr tank upstairs that I'm saving money to set up as a seahorse species tank.

Figuring 12kg live rock, 10 for the tank, 2 to smash up for rubble for the filtration chamber.
Sand.
Couple of soft corals plus a couple of small brain corals
Macro algae.
Clean up crew.
Pair of Seahorses.
A Pipefish.
 
wordy said:
Gutted that people have posted their marine tanks up, as I'm not the most patient man alive :(

I've got a 94 ltr tank upstairs that I'm saving money to set up as a seahorse species tank.

Figuring 12kg live rock, 10 for the tank, 2 to smash up for rubble for the filtration chamber.
Sand.
Couple of soft corals plus a couple of small brain corals
Macro algae.
Clean up crew.
Pair of Seahorses.
A Pipefish.
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Sounds like a good plan to me. Sea horses are cool but probably best to be kept by an experienced marine keeper (I think they require more attention than lets say clownfish which are a good starter fish).
 
Quite a small tank, had it about 9 months. It was given to me by the father in law. The fish have been breeding like mad and the rate of survival is very high. I've already had to give away 30 fish! You can't really see the babies in the image because they are swimming around at the top of the tank, so I uploaded a video.

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And the Video.

http://www.vimeo.com/8813976
 
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