Yf Can Taste The Salt..

[ben1987]

my mcckoskers flasher wrasse was £22.


yeah still doing the runs. Although not had such a good couple of weeks. Been working a few nights and my mums bin on holiday. So lots of beers and take aways with the lads.

 

[youngfisher]

Ah thats fair enough then.
Im up your way soon - got some business to attend to.
I will let you know when im coming

YF

 

[seffieuk]

Welcome home YF

Marine Mummy

 

[youngfisher]

Thanks marine mummy.
Sorry to hear about your fish - Its sad that these things happen.


YF

 

[Morri]

YF have you looked at the blennys the flymo`s have a good character ?

 

[youngfisher]

Im debating about a goby or a blenny tbh. I always think gobys are blennys lol.
I think im going to nip down to the LFS tommorow, wright down all the gobys and blennys they have got, and see what you all think to them, and which you think would suit the tank/tankmates the best.

YF

 

[Morri]

I went with a flymo in mine will put a picture up once my batteries are charged had a chat with the LFS and I was slightly put of gobies because they can be a pain to feed and I already have a Mandarin in that catagory

 

[youngfisher]

Oooh, Thats for that advice morri!

YF

 

[AdAndrews]

Hi young fisher.. can you be so kind to run me through your maintanance however regularly you do it, whats involved and how much it costs once set up, as i am considering marine

 

[youngfisher]

No problems Adam (im sure thats your name from when i was over at tropicals alot)

Daily maintenance:

- Check all live stock, make sure there fine.
- Check all corals, make sure there fine.
- Check the powerhead, protein skimmer etc is working fine.
- Give the front and sides a clean with the algea magnet.
- Move a few things (Im sure everyone does this!)
- Sit there watching the rock! (Im sure everyone does that one aswell!)
- Check water stats every other day)
(Some of them are not compulsery, I just choose to do it)

I will be totally honest with you now, I dont see why so many people have in there minds that marine costs so much money. Im not going to lie, when I started off looking at marines I was thinking its to much money. But its actually not! It costs me £6.50 a week to maintain, and thats because I buy already salted water from a good seller who I can trust, and I have my salt higher than the LFS do it, so they bump my price up abit because ovbiously there is more salt needed. I think the only thing involved is research IMO. If you research enough, you can do marines as you do tropicals. The only difference is, when you wake up in the morning theres somthing new in a new spot that wasnt there the night before. I think so far I have spent around £300, for a complete set up minus fish and corals (Although I have some frags, and a fair bit of CUC).

Prices so far:

- Tank with stand, Marine Book, Lots of other marine gadjets, PH (Powerhead), 10kg LR, CUC and frags = £200 (From Seffieuk)
- 10kg LR, 120ltrs of salted water, couple of frags = £70 (From a guy near me)
- x5 25l water containers = £2.50 (Bargain from the dentist!)
- Small r.o unit = £0.00 (From Trod, seffies sister)
- Powerhead, Korilla two (spelling is properly wrong) = £0.00 (From ben1987)

Just to prove a point that its not only for the "people in the know", my dad is currently looking at getting a marine tank and hes not the brighest when it comes to fishkeeping, but im here to help - I still have loads to learn but I have people on here to help.

Btw people I have made my dad watch this tank: [URL="http/cgi.ebay.co.uk/fish-tank-Full-Marin...id=p3286.c0.m14"]http/cgi.ebay.co.uk/fish-tank-Full-Marin...id=p3286.c0.m14[/URL]

YF

 

[AdAndrews]

lol, yes, you have my name right

exactly what tests do you do, and apart from nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, p.h, what do you do if somethings not up to scratch?

what it is is, i really want a green spotted puffer (brackish) and the plan is to start him off in low end brackish and then inscrease sg by 0.002(i think) a week, and then when he is an adult go into full marine, switch to live rock, and by this time i will have enough money to do it as it wont be in all one go.. and then maybe get a pair of clowns and a damselfish, and some critters if space alows. and if im feeling extra confident upgrade lighting and look into corals..

cheers

 

[youngfisher]

At the moment im testing Ammonia and Nitrite (fixing my nitrate test ASAP) then soon I will start checking for Phosphate & Calcium.
A few others, but carnt think of them off the top of my head.
Adam, why not go for it mate? At the end of the day, if it all goes wrong atleast you can say "Been there, done that".
If you dont try, you will never know.
Seriously, you dont need to be overly smart to run a marine tank, I know im only just starting so touch wood everything will go ok for me. But there is plenty of people here that will help you non stop, I mean by the looks of it my journal has the most pages on and thats basically because I opened this journal with a few photos of fish I like - And worked my way up from there all I from the start that marine was a place for rich people, and was very cool and colorful. But im very wrong, its not just for rich people, but it is very cool and colorful.

I hope I see you on the salty side!, why not by a tank 2nd hand, that has nice reef lights already, then you can increase the sg with the GSP then when you decide to go full marine you can use that tank he is already settled in? However, if you plan to use LR, you would need to take him out from a day to up to 2 weeks or so, hopefully you can get fully cured LR in your tank but ovbiously if not there will be some ammonia and nitrite readings, so they could harm him. Just start up a thread on exactually what you just told me in the "Marine & Reef Chit Chat" and take it from there bud.

I will shut up now, as I think im waffling on to you about stuff you dont care

YF

 

[AdAndrews]

At the moment im testing Ammonia and Nitrite (fixing my nitrate test ASAP) then soon I will start checking for Phosphate & Calcium.
A few others, but carnt think of them off the top of my head.
Adam, why not go for it mate? At the end of the day, if it all goes wrong atleast you can say "Been there, done that".
If you dont try, you will never know.
Seriously, you dont need to be overly smart to run a marine tank, I know im only just starting so touch wood everything will go ok for me. But there is plenty of people here that will help you non stop, I mean by the looks of it my journal has the most pages on and thats basically because I opened this journal with a few photos of fish I like - And worked my way up from there all I from the start that marine was a place for rich people, and was very cool and colorful. But im very wrong, its not just for rich people, but it is very cool and colorful.

I hope I see you on the salty side!, why not by a tank 2nd hand, that has nice reef lights already, then you can increase the sg with the GSP then when you decide to go full marine you can use that tank he is already settled in? However, if you plan to use LR, you would need to take him out from a day to up to 2 weeks or so, hopefully you can get fully cured LR in your tank but ovbiously if not there will be some ammonia and nitrite readings, so they could harm him. Just start up a thread on exactually what you just told me in the "Marine & Reef Chit Chat" and take it from there bud.

I will shut up now, as I think im waffling on to you about stuff you dont care

YF

ok mate, i will look into it, i have always gazed at the marine life at my lfs and thought they were out of my league, hopefully some heavy research will work. not keen on second hand tank, as its going upstairs, dont want any disasters!

thanks for your help

 

[youngfisher]

My tank is second hand, and its in my room.
Seffie doesnt know this, but she agreed that if I had any disasters, she would take the blame for me, and clean it up for me.
She said it...honest

YF

 

[AdAndrews]

My tank is second hand, and its in my room.
Seffie doesnt know this, but she agreed that if I had any disasters, she would take the blame for me, and clean it up for me.
She said it...honest

YF

lol, its not exactly "clearing up" though is it, getting up floorboards, removing damp, checking walls, beams, replacing some= ££££

the tank i would use is a fluval roma 125 with tetratec ex1200(until the live rock) so its not a hugely expensive tank--

one last Q- Do you need a sump, im afraid of having one in my room, i hear it isnt safe entirely