cuticom
Fish Addict
Figured I'd start up a thread for my tank, so I can keep all my questions in one place LOL. So a little over two weeks ago I got a great deal on a second hand marine tank complete with cured LR and crushed coral, though looks more like crushed shells to me. So I've finally got it set up now and stats are- s.g. 1.024, temperature 26 degrees celsius, 0 ammonia, o nitrite, 5-10 nitrate and a pH of 8.1
The basic plan is to get the tank stable and redo the cycle with a shrimp from the supermarket just to make sure everythings good, and add a few more kg of LR in (theres 20kg as is, but I'm sure more won't hurt) then a few months down the track begin adding livestock. I'm going to start out as FOWLR but am interested in trying a hardy coral such as a hammer further down the track. The fish will be small colourful fish such as things like the royal gramma, the clownfish, pajama cardinal etc
The tank has an inbuilt sump in the back, and a wet dry filter. The water runs first through the wet dry where it trickles into the sump, then is pumped through the protein skimmer and back out into the tank. The pump in the sump runs about 1200l/ph and then theres a 200l/ph powerhead in the tank making turn over a little more then 21 x per hour. The tank itself is 76 cm (30") x 35 cm (14") x 60 cm (24") holds about 160l/42.5g and the sump at full capacity holds 27l/7.2g.
The lighting is a combination of flourescents and MH, with a 150w MH fixture and then a 20w bright white flourescent and a 20w actinic, so should be enough for some types of corals.
This is what I have so far, and apart from a few bits here and there there's virtually nothing on the rock, which is kinda disappointing but oh well, I know the tank was set up and running up until the minute I picked it up, so the rock should be live.
and if anyone could ID these two things I'd be very grateful.
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The basic plan is to get the tank stable and redo the cycle with a shrimp from the supermarket just to make sure everythings good, and add a few more kg of LR in (theres 20kg as is, but I'm sure more won't hurt) then a few months down the track begin adding livestock. I'm going to start out as FOWLR but am interested in trying a hardy coral such as a hammer further down the track. The fish will be small colourful fish such as things like the royal gramma, the clownfish, pajama cardinal etc
The tank has an inbuilt sump in the back, and a wet dry filter. The water runs first through the wet dry where it trickles into the sump, then is pumped through the protein skimmer and back out into the tank. The pump in the sump runs about 1200l/ph and then theres a 200l/ph powerhead in the tank making turn over a little more then 21 x per hour. The tank itself is 76 cm (30") x 35 cm (14") x 60 cm (24") holds about 160l/42.5g and the sump at full capacity holds 27l/7.2g.
The lighting is a combination of flourescents and MH, with a 150w MH fixture and then a 20w bright white flourescent and a 20w actinic, so should be enough for some types of corals.
This is what I have so far, and apart from a few bits here and there there's virtually nothing on the rock, which is kinda disappointing but oh well, I know the tank was set up and running up until the minute I picked it up, so the rock should be live.
and if anyone could ID these two things I'd be very grateful.
1.
2.
. Good luck aquascaping that tank. Gonna be a little tricky with it taller than it is wide. Consider getting some marine epoxy to assist you if needed
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