FishAreFriendsNotFood10
Fish Herder
Over the last two years i have run two very sucessfull tropical tanks. I now want a bigger challenge and have opted for marine. After alot of research and a medium budget i have got the aquamarine 900 for £450, I instantly loved the look of this tank and the size at 3ft was a perfect fit for my bedroom. I know people always say go big or go home especially with marine but since this is my 1st dip into the salty side of fishkeeping i thought id play it safe and go sit in the middle 
This tank came with the marisys 240 series 2 filter and have had a few minor problems with it 1 being the extreme amount of gurging the hang on back overflow makes, so im going to change it as id rather a quieter canister filter and hang on back skimmer, however thats about the only con i personally could find with this tank the cabinet has alot of space and the timed t5 lighting unit is perfect for the Mixed reef tank i am dreaming of
Im already 5 days into my setup now though and i thought id write this journal for advice and just because id like to keep a log of the changes of my tank over the coming months/years.
so day 1: it took 2 hatchback with the back seats folded down to pickup my tank and 185 litres of RO water... i had the water in my car and i gotta say it was the scariest and funniest 15mile drive home ive ever had!
i loved the look of my car with its £15 RO water lowering kit but i hated the fact that every time i turned i thought my car was leaking water lol and then there was the fact i couldnt keep my eyes on the road because my tank was in the car behind and my rear view seen more action in 15 miles than it has since i bought my bloody car lol. Took us a few hours to asemble and fill the tank with water and throw some salt in.
day 2: nothing special here apart from me staring at a tank of water for hours on end lol also putting my refractometer to use salt measured 1.015 time to add some more!
day 3: more salt!!!
day 4: salt measured at 1.025
day 5: LIVE ROCK DAY
so i go down to my LFS and hook myself up with some and heres the results
(have no idea why this pic is massive)
and thats the story so far
Ryan
This tank came with the marisys 240 series 2 filter and have had a few minor problems with it 1 being the extreme amount of gurging the hang on back overflow makes, so im going to change it as id rather a quieter canister filter and hang on back skimmer, however thats about the only con i personally could find with this tank the cabinet has alot of space and the timed t5 lighting unit is perfect for the Mixed reef tank i am dreaming of
Im already 5 days into my setup now though and i thought id write this journal for advice and just because id like to keep a log of the changes of my tank over the coming months/years.
so day 1: it took 2 hatchback with the back seats folded down to pickup my tank and 185 litres of RO water... i had the water in my car and i gotta say it was the scariest and funniest 15mile drive home ive ever had!
i loved the look of my car with its £15 RO water lowering kit but i hated the fact that every time i turned i thought my car was leaking water lol and then there was the fact i couldnt keep my eyes on the road because my tank was in the car behind and my rear view seen more action in 15 miles than it has since i bought my bloody car lol. Took us a few hours to asemble and fill the tank with water and throw some salt in.
day 2: nothing special here apart from me staring at a tank of water for hours on end lol also putting my refractometer to use salt measured 1.015 time to add some more!
day 3: more salt!!!
day 4: salt measured at 1.025
day 5: LIVE ROCK DAY
so i go down to my LFS and hook myself up with some and heres the results
(have no idea why this pic is massive)
and thats the story so far
Ryan
on a more cycle related note my live rock is starting to go green which means my cycle is kicking in?
