'foot In The Front Door'

[fozone]

Hello all!!

ive been mainly coming on here..and lookin at what everyone has wrote...ive never really wrote anythin

so im 'gettin myself in the front door' lol

well im very new to marines...its somethin i wanted to do for a while and when i had the opportunity came up

i thought id give it ago.. i got the tank from my friend adam (mutantbigman2000) he's bin answerin all my questions and got me this far

i have a 30g tank...its bin runnin for about 8 weeks...the waters bin solid stable for 4 weeks touchwood it stays that way

The cuc's have been introduced and ive recently just added a pair of clowns....

thats my journey so far...hope for suggestions from anyone...from where to go to next

plus it'l give adam a break from my constant questions....

rob

 

[mutantbigman2000]

Welcome to the salty side and welcome to the forum rob.

Just so you guys know, Rob is running an Aquamedic Chromis 30 gallon cube.

He has the 150w halide lamp on arcadia 4 pendant legs. Think the bulb is 20000k.

Also fitted with a 36 watt actinic t5.

Running 2 Koralia 1's and a fluval 305 external filter.

Approximately 15kg of live rock and a crushed coral sand base.

Think thats right isn't it rob?

What are you running in your external filter?

 

[fozone]

Yeah thats pretty much what i meant lol...

Im just running tha carbon in the porous bags at present...do you recommend adding anything??

Also what do u reccomend as good sand critters...any particular star fish or something...just to get the sand moving?

 

[mutantbigman2000]

sand sifting starfish will do the trick but i would wait for your tank to mature more before you add it.

How many crabs and snails do you have?

 

[seffieuk]

Welcome to the salty side Fozone

Lets have some pictures to see your progress so far, we love watching tanks develop

Seffie x

:watch:

 

[fozone]

These are some of my latest pics sorry for the bad quality

adam i have 3 hermit crabs, 3 snails and a cleaner shrimp in there at the mo

 

[mutantbigman2000]

i would be tempted to re jig the rock a bit. make it a bit more exciting and less a pile of rocks.

I've moved my rocks loads of times. everytime i get new coral now i move something to help it all come together.

I will pop round soon and have a butchers. i know that photos rarely do tanks any justice.

 

[mutantbigman2000]

any more updates rob?

 

[fozone]

To be honest i was pleased with the layout..as it took me ages...ive spent the last hour trying to re-shape it..

Ive made it not so tall,but it still looks like rocks on top of each other,as its cube shaped,its kinda hard to make it look more natural

I think my tank wasnt mature enough for coral yet..as its not opened up much,ive left it in their...all the readings are fine etc..so we'l see

Thats the latest just a re-shape and the clowns Chelsea and K-o are alive and well

 

[mutantbigman2000]

think my clowns are called Walker and Texas Ranger ( or TR for short ).

give the polyps a few more days. if they don't open up try moving them higher on the rock work.

The large colony of button polyps i had took about 2 weeks to open.

This was due to them being in a minging bag of water and away from light for a few days before i got hold of them.

Patience my child. Think i might try and upload some pics from the new mobile.

 

[Crazy fishes]

Sorry to ask but why a 20000K bulb?? That is incredibly blue, why not the 14000K? It generally gives better growth and still has a blue tinge

Regards

 

[ben1987]

Yeah my 14K bulb looks incredibly blue without my white LEDs so that must not be bringing out the full colours

 

[mutantbigman2000]

its what came with the halide when i got it. I swapped tanks before i had chance to swap it over and i think rob (fozone) is in the same boat.