I Have Made The Jump To The Salty Side

[xxBarneyxx]

For the sump personally I would ditch all of the foam and bio balls and have Skimmer>LR rubble>cheato>chemical filter (phosphate/nitrate remover)>return pump. Miracle mud or a deep sand bed (if it is a fairly big sump) are also good.

If you want mechanical filtration it is probably easier to get a cheap canister filter and fill it with filter floss/sponges. Then you can just take all the floss and dump it one a week (or two weeks) and it is probably a bit easier to maintain then taking the foam out of the sump.

 

[woodyofcastle]

Aquarium update....

i have added 35kg of live rock, and a koralia 3, also a resun wavemaker

pics to follow

 

[woodyofcastle]

Here are my pictures as promised, there is not much life on the rocks, boohoo i was hoping for free critters...

A picture of the blues on

A picture of the national grid

 

[nanocubeking]

Looking really good. So do you have any idea of stocking items?

 

[woodyofcastle]

Looking really good. So do you have any idea of stocking items?

Hi, not yet thought about it, i would like a yellow tang and a brisstletooth but i am not sure if the size of the aquarium is big enough,i would like a bi-colour blennie, and i would like some corals

 

[nanocubeking]

If I'm not mistaken a bristle tooth is a nother name for a tang right. And a tang would be fine in your system if its a smaller one.

 

[constantine03]

Wow! I love the way your tank is looking so far. I'll be starting one up in a few weeks. Hopefully it'll look as great as yours!

 

[woodyofcastle]

If I'm not mistaken a bristle tooth is a nother name for a tang right. And a tang would be fine in your system if its a smaller one.

Hi, yes it is a tang, they grow to about 7" but i don't know if that is wild size or captive size...

Wow! I love the way your tank is looking so far. I'll be starting one up in a few weeks. Hopefully it'll look as great as yours!

Hi, thanks for the comments, i can't wait to get it all set up and running, i have seen 3 bristle worms today, i was hoping not to have any lol
some people say they are good and some people say they are bad?
i have no idea lol

 

[woodyofcastle]

Can somebody comment on this please, i have got worried now, and don't know what to do

comment is from a user off the UR forums

"Carl"

Hiya and welcome to UR!

Sorry to put a little bit of a dampner on things...but I would really really advise removing the ocean rock from your tank and possibly topping up with some LR from the classifieds here.

I used to have an ocean rock base and to be honest it just took up valuable water volume, my tank never quite ran properly and I used to get blooms of various algaes from time to time.

Then I reworked my whole tank and removed the ocean rock and used some egg crate to open up the live rock design. The changes in my tank were remarkable....the corals looked healthier and the growth was amazing.

The way you have the rock set up in the tank looks pretty compact and I would assume that the flow struggles to get into and around it, reducing the effectiveness of the rocks filtration and allowing for dead spot where detritus can settle and rot.

I have tried to make loads of swim throughs and caves, and i have added a koralia 3 and a resun wavemaker, if it will help i can add a koralia 1 and aim it to blow behind the rocks to flush behind them, i would rather disturb the aquarium now rather than later