hi everyone,i've a spare rekord 70 tank in my shed that i'd like to do something different with,at the last cfks meeting there was talks of doing a shore walk around september,i think it'd be great to bring a few species home,has anyone ever set up a tank for this and what exactly would be involved,dont know if a two foot tank would even be big enough,anyone got any ideas?

looking forward to any input as i think it'd be great if i could do it

Paul

Paul,

I think setting up a native marine tank and the steps involved in the same are to be discussed at the CFKS meeting on friday.....

If you remember Peter from Aquapaws who was at the last meeting...what he doesn't know about native marines isn't worth remembering....

KOM

Paul,

I think setting up a native marine tank and the steps involved in the same are to be discussed at the CFKS meeting on friday.....

If you remember Peter from Aquapaws who was at the last meeting...what he doesn't know about native marines isn't worth remembering....

KOM

ya,it was peter that put the idea into my head,just wanted some ideas before the meeting,so i'll have plenty of questions for him,i've got a head like a sieve so i'm probably better off if i can keep going back and reading it,looking forward to the next meeting,sounds like it should be great

Paul

It would be great to see a native marine tank. it some thing well worth a look at i have considered one myself, do i was considering something along the lines of rock pools you will see at low tide. i could spend hours watching this micro system if i could keep the dogs out of the water long enough long enough

It is something we should consider more fish from Ireland and our waters have some amazing qualities that are so under rated and should be preserved before they are lost!

Hi Guys, yep Peter is your man for this project he kept native marines for years and what he dosen't know about them is very very little, pm him his forum name is mbuna ( guess what he's into now then ) he'd be delighted to help as he loved this aspect of his fishkeeping "career"
as far as i'm aware he'll be at fridays meeting and if you cant make it then he should most definately be at the "GRAND OPENING" of the new store on Saturday
Seamus

Cheers guys,i'll be at the meeting on friday,i'll have a chat with peter if i'm not in to see him before that,probably be in during the week but i'd imagine he'll be pretty busy with the opening coming up,not really in a rush anyway

There's an article in this month's PFK about setting up a native marine tank.

I've considered it before & it seems for a lot of species you need to have a chiller on your tank to keep it cool enough.
These are seemingly expensive to buy & to run.

The rock pool dwellers are hardier though & once you can keep it at 22 degrees & lower they do fine.
Lots of cool species in rock pools too!

Very interested to see how you get on.

Paul, as part of the Galway Arts festival, there's a beach walk type-of-thing on Grattan Beach in Salthill, next Sunday afternoon. It's supposed to be an exploration of the rockpools and the like. It might give you some ideas.

I can't find any info about it on-line but I think it's mentioned in Galway First.....

Thanks for highlighting this ...

As per the article ...

It's organised by Galway City Council and Atlantaquaria for the 20th of July at 2pm.
For more information, contact Atlantaquaria @ 091 585100 or the Environment Education Officer of the Galway City Council @ 091 536 564.

Hope this helps.
Valerie