Aquamarine 900 Journal - My First Marine Tank

[SaltNoob]

This looks great! I really like the red coral. Those are kenya trees right?


-Tyler

 

[FishAreFriendsNotFood10]

So many more plans it's unreal a lot more softies!

Yeh I recommend Aquarays so easy to install and will definitly increase soft coral growth. What are your coral plans? ... If I had the cash is probably make metal halide fixture though so I could keep hard corals.

It's linked above my last update I can't really type it though as the English name will be language filtered

 

[guppy_man]

It's always money with this hobby hahaa.... It's ok though, im due a lottery win anytime now.

I think i'd probably just go soft at the moment, there's still plenty of variety you can get with softies, no real need for hards?

I really like the 'tree' types, and think they give the tank depth, together with polyps and mushies i think thats all ill get for now. I'll try and get a variety of colours though.

I have also decided not to add any more fish for a month or so, but add corals instead.

Keep the updates coming

Gethin

 

[FishAreFriendsNotFood10]

It's always money with this hobby hahaa.... It's ok though, im due a lottery win anytime now.

I think i'd probably just go soft at the moment, there's still plenty of variety you can get with softies, no real need for hards?

I really like the 'tree' types, and think they give the tank depth, together with polyps and mushies i think thats all ill get for now. I'll try and get a variety of colours though.

I have also decided not to add any more fish for a month or so, but add corals instead.

Keep the updates coming

Gethin

All I have in my tank in softs, but the tree types are really hard to keep i have a mini fridge and a freezer full of different coral foods

You can get some beautiful soft corals for your tank so plan those pennies wisely



Good luck with the lottery im due my jackpot too! Lol

 

[sleeky]

Tank's looking great!! Well done hon!! I did actually get my 900 set up at the end of April like I said I was going to, and thanks to you and your fab thread, everything's doing really well and coming on nicely. What a money pit though! Eeeek!!!

 

[FishAreFriendsNotFood10]

Tank's looking great!! Well done hon!! I did actually get my 900 set up at the end of April like I said I was going to, and thanks to you and your fab thread, everything's doing really well and coming on nicely. What a money pit though! Eeeek!!!

You should start a journal so I can follow your progress too

Glad some1s learning from my mistakes lol im a lot more confident now thanks to some people here so I'm glad I can hand what I've learnt so far back to those just starting out


Oh boy don't I know about money pit smashed through £200 this month on what seems like nothing lol

 

[sleeky]

Tank's looking great!! Well done hon!! I did actually get my 900 set up at the end of April like I said I was going to, and thanks to you and your fab thread, everything's doing really well and coming on nicely. What a money pit though! Eeeek!!!

You should start a journal so I can follow your progress too

Glad some1s learning from my mistakes lol im a lot more confident now thanks to some people here so I'm glad I can hand what I've learnt so far back to those just starting out


Oh boy don't I know about money pit smashed through £200 this month on what seems like nothing lol

Hahaaaa. Im a really bad girl coz I've spent LOTS!!!

I'm thinking of doing a journal. Problem is I've been bad and not kept records - just got on with it. Naughty really.

Do you want to see a piccie if I can figure out how to upload one?

 

[FishAreFriendsNotFood10]

Don't really have to keep a strict record like me always nice to see a shot now and again of coral growth or new additions etc

Yeh id love to see how your 900 looks
What setup you runnin on it?

 

[sleeky]

I'm still running on the MariSys thing but I've got a sump on order which should arrive sometime next week. Bought a great big secondhand oak 'sideboard' which the tank's now on, that's got plenty of room for a sump so had to do it! Still gotta figure out how I'm gonna get the water down there yet. Don't really want pipes coming out the top of the tank so was thinking along the lines of a syphoned overflow box but they're not cheap. Will probably try and pick a few brains on the forum to see what's the best way.

Lights are still the originals - everything's doing well under them so will leave them for now.

Here's a pic - hope you like it

 

[FishAreFriendsNotFood10]

oh wow tank looks stunning do you dose your tank with anything? suppliments, coral food etc?

id like to see how your sump system goes sooooo start a journal! lol

you have quite a few corals that are on my list is that a sun coral under your skunk cleaners?

 

[guppy_man]

I'm still running on the MariSys thing but I've got a sump on order which should arrive sometime next week. Bought a great big secondhand oak 'sideboard' which the tank's now on, that's got plenty of room for a sump so had to do it! Still gotta figure out how I'm gonna get the water down there yet. Don't really want pipes coming out the top of the tank so was thinking along the lines of a syphoned overflow box but they're not cheap. Will probably try and pick a few brains on the forum to see what's the best way.

Lights are still the originals - everything's doing well under them so will leave them for now.

Here's a pic - hope you like it

Looks really good... i like it



FishAreFriendsNotFood, fancy doing a trade with mushies in the future?, not the whole thing, cuttings. Had alook on youtube and it looks pretty simple - Saves us both money too

 

[FishAreFriendsNotFood10]

Not sure on cultivating yet , seems simple tho plus my reds are multiplying day by day.
You have red knobbly shrooms don't you?

 

[sleeky]

Thanks for the compliment.

Yes it is a sun coral. The only thing I do is two or three times a week I give the sun coral some Gamma NutraPlus. I turn the power heads off and just squirt a little bit over the top of the polyps when they open up after the white lights go out. I don't do anything else except feed the fish and obviously the other corals get some of that as it floats about. I've got a really brill LFS and I just follow their advise as I learn the ropes. So far everything's just amazing. Water params are all spot on.

I've got 2 x Percula Clowns, 2 x Green Reef Chromis, 1 x yellow Clown (Coral) Goby, a Steinitz Goby and Pistol Shrimp pair, 5 x Turbos, 2 x Nassarius and the 2 cleaner shrimps. Next fish is going to be a Coral Beauty but I'll wait another couple of weeks for that.

So pleased you like it. I wouldn't have done it if you hadn't started this thread coz I couldn't pluck up the courage before. So Thankyou

 

[guppy_man]

Yeh, mine are slowly covering the rock underneath. I was thinking of cutting one off and re-placing it on another rock to see how long it would take to re-grow. I think its something like 2 weeks.

thats them ^

 

[sleeky]

I'm still running on the MariSys thing but I've got a sump on order which should arrive sometime next week. Bought a great big secondhand oak 'sideboard' which the tank's now on, that's got plenty of room for a sump so had to do it! Still gotta figure out how I'm gonna get the water down there yet. Don't really want pipes coming out the top of the tank so was thinking along the lines of a syphoned overflow box but they're not cheap. Will probably try and pick a few brains on the forum to see what's the best way.

Lights are still the originals - everything's doing well under them so will leave them for now.

Here's a pic - hope you like it

Looks really good... i like it



FishAreFriendsNotFood, fancy doing a trade with mushies in the future?, not the whole thing, cuttings. Had alook on youtube and it looks pretty simple - Saves us both money too

Thanks very much x