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  • Posted on: 23/4/2009 22:24
Re: 5ftx2ftx2ft tank and sump arrived at last....... #11
Thanks for your comment guys. Carl the timbers are the same way as the tank but to overcome this and bear the weight of roughly almost 120 stones I just put a huge piece of hardwood 8ft x 4ft which help to spread the weight across the beam of timbers. Your is half the size so should be ok.
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  • Posted on: 23/4/2009 19:37
Re: 5ftx2ftx2ft tank and sump arrived at last....... #12
hi, it been quite a while since I've been on here. The tank has been running for 7 months now and is going great and there have been some colourful corals and fish added since then. Here are some pics.

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Just recently bought a yellow belly regal tang/

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Feather duster

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Close-up of feather duster

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Acans Frag

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Snowflake moray eel, and shrimp walking all over it face cleaning. Most people think it will eat them but not this one.

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More colour and life.

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Finally the emperor angelfish has grown double the size in a year.

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  • Posted on: 25/1/2009 17:38
Re: Feeding Marine Fish #13
I would cut the frozen food to twice a week only not every night. Look at the bottom of the chambers, you'll be surprise how much left over of frozen food hang down underneath the skimmer etc. Use a tube to get at the back of the chambers and sypon out any debris etc. I only feed twice a day, morning marine flake, evening spirula algae. once a week bit of frozen food or live brineshrimp as a treat.. But also algae can come back even in a healthy tank but not often. Check that the phosphate remover is not exhausted otherwise replaced it with new fresh one and give it a few days for it to get back to normal.HTH
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  • Posted on: 20/12/2008 19:30
Re: RO water.. #14
Check all the tubing are in the correct fitting. Look like you've got tap water coming in the bucket not pure water.
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  • Posted on: 12/12/2008 20:44
Re: stocking a tl-550 #15
Hi Anthony, that is fine. You could even have a pair of clownfish instead of one.

Tony
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  • Posted on: 10/12/2008 20:01
Re: Custom Marine Tanks #16
Better still there is always someone closing their tank, or downgrade. I was lucky to get mate the 5ft tank with sump,pipe and cabinet for ?250 and was 6 months old and it was seabray company, they do custome make tank and sump.

http://www.fishkeeping.co.uk/modules/ ... hp?topic_id=18339&forum=5
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  • Posted on: 10/12/2008 19:53
Re: Experience needed #17
Hi Jason and welcome to fk.
And welcome to marine. First and importantly is that you use RO water and not tap water. You can get them from lfs(local fish shop) 25 litres for around ?3.00. However they are that reliable to be nitrate free if they don't keep their ro unit up to date with maintenance. So it best to invest in your own ro unit which is simply plumb under the kitchen sink. Any way that out of the way.

1-fill the tank with ro water. Put on the heater(if it come with the tank or get one). The heater should be on for 25 degree celcuis which is the average. Also put the pump on etc. the whole tank equipement on. Leave it for around 2 day so the water is the right temp.

2- The water temp is stable, you can put the salt in and follow the instruction of how much to put in so you can get nearer to the sg you want. Average sg is 1.025.(need a refractometer to help getting the reading for sg) Again leave it for more than a day and test the sg. If it is less then add more, but too much then take a bit of water out and replace with just ro water only to dilute it a bit to get down to the right sg.

3- Once the temp and sg is stable Which you have a week to do that then you can add the live rocks and live sand in. Depend how cured the live rocks is and quickly put into the tank you may be lucky not to get any spike of ammonia, nitrite etc but leave it for 3 weeks to let it cycle or may not but patient is rewarding to have a good successful tank so leave it for 3 weeks wether it cycle or not as letting the tank mature will give you the advantage of thing going right. Important that the ammonia,nitrite is 0 and the nitrate could be anything from 5-50or more but that can be take care of when the cycle is done.

4-Cycle is done (expect to have algae which is norm in the cycling) then you do at least 20% water change and you can start stocking cuc (clean up crews) to help to eat up the algaes that is left.

5- After the cuc at least a week later and all the parameter of the water is fine then you can add your first fish. Next fish should be at least 1 month later so the tank can catch up on the bio-load. Also corals can be add in soft corals are hardy and easy to look after. Hope this help and get used to your marine tank the in and out of all the equipement and take your time.

Tony
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  • Posted on: 29/11/2008 13:48
Re: 5ftx2ftx2ft tank and sump arrived at last....... #18
Thanks for the comment guys, and Eaglec, the one behind nemo is the yellow toadstool which is smaller than the brown common ones that grows big and behind the b/w clown is fingers leather corals, sometime known as spagetti fingers coral. There are plain fingers leather but this ones has tiny polyps all over.HTH.
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  • Posted on: 18/11/2008 22:07
Re: Firefish #19
Yes it is normal. Most of the time they hide behind live rocks and come out at feeding time. It can take weeks or month for it to build it confident to stay out longer than usual. It a very placid fish, like calm etc not fish full of energy flying all over the place.
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  • Posted on: 18/11/2008 21:00
Re: flame angel help.. #20
keep and eye on it for a few days. sometime it could be sand partical and is mistaken for whitespot. My b/w clownfish use to have them and next day nothing. flame could have graze down the bottom of the rock and pick up some sand on the way. But keep an eye to make sure.
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