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You'll have to excuse the terrible picture and the dirty water, I just cleaned the glass and chucked a bunch of rotifers in Basically I've tested my water thoroughly for 2 days and I'm sitting with good water, my alkalinity is on the higher side at 12 but from what I've read that's fine...

Amazing, thanks guys!

I feel like I'm always in here asking for IDs but coming from the tropical side of the hobby it's still all very new to me! Could one of you wonderful people ID this for me?

Cheers guys :)

Could one of you lovely folk I'd these worms I found this morning. nothing new in the tank, just curious what they are. I've tried googling be it it's not helping!

This weekend saw the addition of a flame hawkfish and a high fin goby, I also have a cleaner fish that has moved in. Just waiting on the gobys bff pistol shrimp to arrive in the lfs and ill be giving my wallet a break for a little while!

With my lfs having what can only be described as a drought Ive decided, and invested in a phytoplankton culture. I've set it up with a grow light from Amazon. Just wondering if any of you guys can recommend wether the grow light will be fine or I'm better off giving it a CFL bulb? I'm 1 week...

I have 2 different zoa's 1 quite large colony on a rock I bough and 1 on a frag plug (I really hate frag plugs :) ) and a mushroom which is decent sized. I'd add pictures but my orange filter has t turned up yet and I cant get the best pictures at the minute

Good morning saltwater friends! Been learning lots and lots the last month. Saltwater is an entirely different challenge compared to fresh!! Firstly. Evaporation is a problem I did not see coming! I've added an auto top off to the tank in order to help relieve some of the annoyance of manually...

Thank you very much :)

Found this little guy on my new coral before giving it a dip bath. Nice freebie or for the great porcelain sacrifice?

Quick update on this, yesterday seen the addition of the first fish to the tank, 2 clownfish that were bred locally to me. The tank now has sad on the bottom, is cycled and running great. I also added 2 corals and just as soon as I can figure out how to photograph the tank I will! Couple...

Nope, just my lfs had no sand in and I had to get the water barrels back to a pal!

Afternoon. Just a little update on the tank. I visited the lfs this week and picked up some rocks, though they never had the Fiji pink sand I've decided on in and tried to sell me some live sand. I have no desire to use live sand after my research I've also managed to fill the tank with...

Just a little update while I'm on lunch from work. The tank and sump are now clean. All salt deposits have been scrubbed off and removed and I'm now just waiting on a new bulkhead. Unfortunately the aquatics shop had a delivery go missing and I'm unwilling to order online as this is my first...

Because I couldn't get a new rubber grommet for the bulkhead today I went to screwfix and just bouggt a regular 32mm coupler. Used the grommet for that for testing purposes. Iva had the tank running all night with zero issues. A good clean today and I'll be looking at rocks and substrate...

Doing so as we speak :)

I'm just filling it with tap water to start buddy, for cleaning and testing. TDs and refractometer are on order :)

I found today when starting to put pipes into the bulkheads that I'm missing 1 32mm gasket. So after a day driving round fish shops, plumbing merchants, Screwfix, tool station and anywhere else that I've given up and I'm ordering online. My next move is to fill the tank with water to make sure...

Nope!

Tank is all drilled and has connections (x3) the guy that's had it before me has kept it all super basic though so I'm off to the shop today to buy a. Bunch of pipe and fittings. Everything works though long term I'll be replacing the return pump and probably adding another Edit: editing in...

I'll get the actual measurements when I get home :) I'm hoping for full reef and the setup came with a temperature controller :)

Hello new salt water friends.. Some of the forum may know that I've kept fish now since I was 16, and salt water has always terrified the life out of me. I kept threatening to get a marine tank and honestly have had it in my head now for a little over a year. T'other day I was perusing...

Brilliant, thanks guys :) was the only thing I could think of, bit of a surprise!

As the title says. I have some mystery baby fish in my tank. They haven't been easy to get picture off but I've attached what i have. I can only assume they're cherry barbs but would love a confirmation if anybody can Id them.

The hair grass is so far the only grass I've actually been able to grow, and its growing really quickly to be fair. Everything else hasn't ever sent out runners, I have root tabs and I fertilise they just don't like me!

I dont especially like floating plants. Last time I had them i couldn't keep them maintained enough, they never stopped reproducing. Worse than guppies!!

Just wanted to add some before and afters of my tank and see if anyone had some tips on prettying it up a bit, I like how it is now I just wanna refine it a lil bit