Before I start my journal, a few notes, if you enjoy technical stats, I will disappoint you, the hardware side of fish keeping escapes me completely, so I get nice people to help me 
I was very disappointed yesterday as I found a perfect little 90ltr nano tank on ebay, set up with everything, live rock, fish, inverts, even the RO water & containers etc, all for £99, I emailed the seller & when I got back, had a nice reply, went to buy it & it had gone
I bet someone on here got it................... I got very annoyed with myself.
I spent the rest of the day with a notebook, pricing up different tanks & comparing a plug & play nano with upgrading a standard tank & suddenly everything fell into place.
My 120 litre betta tank was emptied yesterday & I had been browing the LFS for ideas to stock it, nothing really caught my attention, I have been totally converted to the salty side & nothing else would do. We went to Maidenheads at Peterborough & I normally spend ages watching the different cory's & rasbora, the only thing I was vaguely tempted by was a gorgeous bichir.
I kept gazing at the corals, the sweet clown in an anenome & the beautiful nano set up they have there, I could have stayed for hours I think, the staff there were brilliant, instead of talking me into buying their nano set up, which I was all set to do, they have advised me how to upgrade my 120ltr. I came away with a list of all the things I needed to get & spent last night sourcing it all & adding up the costs.
My tank will start off with the minimum equipment, but I will be adding to it & upgrading as I go along, it will be a steep learning curve I am sure & if you see something I am doing wrong, please tell me.
It will be a slow moving project, I hope to have everything here & set up & the liverock in within 2wks, but then things will go very slowly, lots of research & adding corals & livestock a little at a time & only when I know exactly what their needs are, I want this to be a project which last for years.
So, wish me luck!
p.s i'm prone to ramble...................
I was very disappointed yesterday as I found a perfect little 90ltr nano tank on ebay, set up with everything, live rock, fish, inverts, even the RO water & containers etc, all for £99, I emailed the seller & when I got back, had a nice reply, went to buy it & it had gone
I bet someone on here got it................... I got very annoyed with myself.I spent the rest of the day with a notebook, pricing up different tanks & comparing a plug & play nano with upgrading a standard tank & suddenly everything fell into place.
My 120 litre betta tank was emptied yesterday & I had been browing the LFS for ideas to stock it, nothing really caught my attention, I have been totally converted to the salty side & nothing else would do. We went to Maidenheads at Peterborough & I normally spend ages watching the different cory's & rasbora, the only thing I was vaguely tempted by was a gorgeous bichir.
I kept gazing at the corals, the sweet clown in an anenome & the beautiful nano set up they have there, I could have stayed for hours I think, the staff there were brilliant, instead of talking me into buying their nano set up, which I was all set to do, they have advised me how to upgrade my 120ltr. I came away with a list of all the things I needed to get & spent last night sourcing it all & adding up the costs.
My tank will start off with the minimum equipment, but I will be adding to it & upgrading as I go along, it will be a steep learning curve I am sure & if you see something I am doing wrong, please tell me.
It will be a slow moving project, I hope to have everything here & set up & the liverock in within 2wks, but then things will go very slowly, lots of research & adding corals & livestock a little at a time & only when I know exactly what their needs are, I want this to be a project which last for years.
So, wish me luck!
p.s i'm prone to ramble...................
and She's off 
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