some new arrivals

this is my geophagus jurapari with the malabar leaf fish.

this is my freshwater ray.

this is my reef tank.

very nice tanks and fish!!!

awsome tank....welldone

Your tank is absolutely amazing Very very nice. Is it much more difficult to keep a marine tank rather than a fresh water one?

hi, its not any harder to keep marines if you do it properly. tiney things can have a massive effect in a reef tank and there are alot more possable problems. If you have the correct equipment and the know how (eg hours of reading MODERN books) then you should have few problems. the reason I say modern books is that the ways that we keep marine fish and inverts these days is much diferent than five years ago. back then people were using things like undergravel filters and internal filters and internal air driven protein skimmers. nowerdays people have sumps or custome built filtration systems which rely a lot on natural filtration such as live rock, mirical mud, deep sand beds etc.

If you buy the top of the range equipment first time you will save yourself a lot of money. also you can get alot of equipment second hand which works out much cheaper.

my 100 gallon would have cors me well over £1000 to setup if I hadn't bought some of the equipment second hand.

my system is extreemly overated for the tank size and the water is turned over through the filter 21 times an hour. this means that i can super feed my corals and not worry about water quality. heres some of the pics.

that was the sump tank. heres some of the equipment.

in this photo you can see the deltec ap600 skimmer with the deltec rowaphos reactor in front. just behind the support is the live phyto-plankton drip feed.

last pic showsthe top off the tank in hot wether. I will soon have a heat plate exchanger to keep the temperature down.

now to answer your question, keeping marines is not harder if you get the right equipment. it is alittle more time consuming (ie more equipment to clean). of coarse, you don't need a big filter system, a lot of people use a couple of external filters live rock and a few powerheads in the tank for water movement which is relativly inexpensive.

the reason that my filter is so overated is because it I keep some of the more demanding corals such as SPS (short polyped stoney corals).

if your willing to put time , effort and money into it, then I say givi it ago but start with easyer species or even a fish only tank.

Very nice m8!









Graeme.

Wow! amazing set up!! I esp like the scared looking fish in ur 1st piccy!