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[thefirethief]

I absolutely love this system, the Macros look lovely. Anywhere I can see the specs of the complete setup? Also, do you keep anything in the fuge beyond the eggcrate?

 

[yorkcoparamedic]

Great pictures and videos, thanks for sharing! Those frogfish are really cool.

 

[andywg]

I absolutely love this system, the Macros look lovely. Anywhere I can see the specs of the complete setup? Also, do you keep anything in the fuge beyond the eggcrate?

Complete set up?

Hmmm, let's see

Tanks:

Display: 60x24x18h
Fuge: 60x8x12h
Sump: 48x12x18h

Stand and hood all DIY made

Lighting:

2x 150WMH custom fitted from old shop units. Meant to be two 12,000k bulbs, but I think one is 10,000K as there is a definite difference in the colour

4x54W T5 tubes: 2 at 10,000K and 2 Actinics. These are run off a pair of Osram industrial ballasts.

2xT8 tubes over the Fuge, one is a dead actinic I haven't got around to replacing and the other is a light of some sort taken from an old FW system.

Heating:

A pair of heaters. No idea of the wattage, but the temperature seems right.

Flow:

3 x Tunze Nano Streams (6045) giving 13,500 LPH turnover
1 x Tunze Wavebox which moves all the water backwards and forwards (though this is out of action until I send it to Tunze to have the transformer repaired/replaced).
1 x Eheim 1260 (I think) return pump.

Skimmer:

1 x Tunze DOC Skimmer (9010) set to a very wet skim.

Filtration:

The tank has some live rock in it, though I have no idea how much as it has been bought over time and is supplemented by my own LR made from cement and crushed oyster shell. The sump has a DSB and the fuge grows some macro.


The Fuge houses all three frogfish. The smaller Antennarius maculatus is to the right of the eggcrate but I will move the eggcrate to split off the Lophiocharon trisignatus as that one is a greater risk to the other frogs. The L. trisignatus will eventually go in a tank which currently holds the feeder shrimp used to feed the frogfish. I am now planning to work heavily on weaning the yellow frogs onto dead and once that tank is spare I shall link a fuge up to it (it already has a sump) and put the frog in there.

 

[andywg]

Well, I have been taking a few pictures in an attempt to get a photo of a certain body part for someone, and here are some of the "extras":

And here we have a frogfish that seems to have learnt that the food comes from above, and hence sits as close to the surface as possible

I know this picture is pretty awful quality, but it's the first time I've got near to being able to get a shot of a frog "yawning" and showing off their protruding jaws

 

[thefirethief]

Thats a nice setup. Are they pretty lively? I always imagined them to be much like stonefishes or scorpionfishes, sitting perfectly still for hours in wait of the next meal. Am I right/wrong?