Hi From The Central Coast, Australia

[Reeferbro]

Hi everyone!
I just moved to the Central Coast,NSW, Australia a week ago from the UK.
So far I have kept freshwater tropical community fish, freshwater dwarf shrimp in a species tank and a nano reef with mostly lps and some sps. But have nothing at the moment so all I can do is plan
My old marine tank:

Cheers

 

[killerwhale786]

Hello Welcome mate.... its goodto see people joining all over the world

 

[Reeferbro]

Thanks killerwhale786

 

[Reeferbro]

I'm thinking of doing a small heavily planted tank (5-20 gallons) with cherry shrimp or yellow shrimp or CRS or CBS and then a middle size reef- probably 40-100 gallons with mostly LPS and SPS with LED lighting. Does anyone know of any shrimp breeders on the central coast on in sydney?

 

[TallTree01]

Welcome aboard reefer bro.

 

[Blondielovesfish]

Hi to the forum

 

[Reeferbro]

Thanks everyone!

 

[Lexizdanov]

Lovely tank  

 

[Baccus]

Welcome to Australia and the forum

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If you decide to go with CRS or CBS in NSW, just be aware that it will/ can still get very hot there in summer and you will most likely need a chiller to keep these expensive shrimp alive. Cherry shrimp and a lot of their morphs are fairly readily available here in Aust and pretty affordable if your not after some of the rarer types.

 

[Reeferbro]

Lovely tank

Thanks Lexizdanov!

Welcome to Australia and the forum  .
 
If you decide to go with CRS or CBS in NSW, just be aware that it will/ can still get very hot there in summer and you will most likely need a chiller to keep these expensive shrimp alive. Cherry shrimp and a lot of their morphs are fairly readily available here in Aust and pretty affordable if your not after some of the rarer types.

Thanks for the advice baccus! Is there a chiller small enough for tank around 5 gallons?

 

[Baccus]

I did a bit of research into chillers and found that for my sized tanks (and general weather conditions) that I needed a chiller that had a 3-4x turn over just to keep my tank hopefully around 25 degrees in summer. And for that level of water through put I was looking at some very expensive systems.
I would check out marine setups for nano tanks as many of these have chillers for the corals and may suit your needs.

 

[AquaticCameron]

Neat old reef aquarium, I hoppe you can get another aquarium setup soon. I hope you enjoy your stay. I thinking about setting up a 10 gallon nano-reef myself.