My New Marine Tank From Week 1

hammie wrote:

Looking forward to seeing the results of your labours....
You know ive read thru all your experiences again and again and again and again.
Trying to learn enough that when I start my marine tank (coral only in the start i recon) I may actually have a chance of getting something right!

now for the questions:
I like the idea of a bb tank, but whats protecting the glass from the rock work?
Im going to setup with Dry Rock, would it be a good idea to add 2 or 3 pieces of cured live rock to seed the rest? or is there an alternative?
Has anyone tried to grow or keep their own muscles?
Does going with a Coral only tank in the beginning cause any issues? do i need certain livestock to help out the corals?
last and not least, Can you just lift your entire setup and move it to my house to save me the hard work and you can start again..... after all with all your expreience, It would be easy for you

Think it's very hard to get it right with no issues as every tank is different
Bb tanks can be prone to falling rocks from crabs turbo's and even big fish it is Deffo a recommendation to have a solid structure, my method was solid structure then use dd epoxy to add extra weld around the corners joints ect. The stuff is like play dough it's very easy to use and drys like a brick, i had to change the scape a bit to makes sure the puzzle was solid and for in my eyes to look nice cause it ain't moving again
If u where using dry rock use all dry rock it defeats the purpose of using lr with it
Mussels can Deffo grow huge, but you have to train very hard in the gym and it takes time lol

carlowchris wrote:

Jesus so much crap out of that gravel...and only in a few months....makes me wonder whats sitting at the bottom of my tank...

i suppose it would be easier to see the detrius in a bb tank and there fore easier just to remove..but will it be as easy to see once its covered in coraline algea????would it not be better to keep it totally clean??

Have the pelletts seeded yet???any drop in nitates yet???

My idea is ti have so much flow on the bottom that nothing gets a chance to sit their, and once i get that 100% I shouldn't have to worry about it again and the water changes a breeze
Reactors only running about 3wks so I'd say by week 5 it will be starting ro really kick in

Forgot to add above (chris you seen it with ur own eyes) the brown crap cyano or dinos or whatever it was use to stay mostly on sand but would spread in different spots horrible places on the rocks, thus was a nightmare especially when it was so close to some corals

So far all thus has gone after I cleaned it,
Before when I use to clean it
It would always come back in 2-4 days (always)
All is looking normal again nitrates are down to 2-5 will be getting these even lower with my new bio pellet reactor

Im too fat and lazy to be bothered with the gym lol

Tank is stunning Jeff, must be a pleasure to watch, with a tank like yours who needs TV?

hammie wrote:

Im too fat and lazy to be bothered with the gym lol

Their go's the mussels so lol

Aroshni wrote:

Tank is stunning Jeff, must be a pleasure to watch, with a tank like yours who needs TV?

Thank you
Only thing on TV that's worth watching is seeing how it all grows in the sea in a good documentary
These tanks can be soul destroying if things don't go the way you think their going but once its on track it's one of the best things in life to enjoy in your own home

Two weeks now and all is good no sign of the cyano on the rocks anymore and cleaning the tank is a breeze,
I give all the rocks a blow with a powerhead and turkey baster the syphon out the amount if water hands free, top up and done, Very easy
Few pics of the tank with no sand and a few adjustments to the rock work as i had to stick most if it together, so this is the way it will stay apart from the corals growing (no more moving rocks which i use to do every few mts trying to get that desired look) but im happy with it now not really much of a difference to most people but a big difference to me as i know every rock in the tank by now)

And a few close ups of new corals

love that green one jeff its amazing its glowing mate

All absolutly stunning...is that the pink coral in pic 3??..love that coral..what is the name of that one????
is that the same hammer or did you get a new one???
Are those milkas in the last pic????flipping lovely coral.

tank looks absolutly fantasic.are you happy with the bare bottom look???it must take of used to when everyones so used to looking at sand.

Amazing big lad
I love it! I cant wait to get mine going now

Thanks lads

Alan that's a metallic green wall hammer, you wana see it with just the actinic blue lights on its crazy

Chris yeah that's the pink one you seen its a alveopora and the green and yellow one above it is also a alveopora (savage corals)
Same hammer decided to see how good my tank was and bring it back to life so far so good looks allot healthier now
And the milkas are the last one theirs 3 of them git them very cheap so said il try them see how I get on and so far so good always open just waiting to see if they will grow

Theirs that many corals in the tank and on the Base that yeh kinda forget about the sand and it gives a very clean feel to it, I actually really like it now, would not put sand in their again

Niel I'm hoping to see you starting something very soon and I'd definitely recommend a bb tank as i said before call in and have a look at this in person cause these pics are really shite if honest

Picking up test kit, additional rock and a reactor this week and going to make a start at killing the phosphates in the rock

Im gettin there slowly lol

Good man that's good news

To speed up the process get some red sea nopox also
Cause with just roaphos in the reactor you will go threw loads of it as it absorbs it very quickly so you need to change it allot when readings are high, and it ain't cheap, but nopox is cheap enough so using both will save a bit of cash

Cheers Jeff
Ill try call down this week too ya! Was going to give ya a call last week but was in work by 3am every day last week and wasn't in any fit state by mid - late afternoon haha.
Dyin to get a look at your "bare bottom"

(Dont use the dirty.part of your mind when ya read that btw)

Just wondering if neil would be better off using po4x4...if you've nothing but rock in the tank..would it be better to strip out all the phosphates now

hammie wrote:

Cheers Jeff
Ill try call down this week too ya! Was going to give ya a call last week but was in work by 3am every day last week and wasn't in any fit state by mid - late afternoon haha.
Dyin to get a look at your "bare bottom"

(Dont use the dirty.part of your mind when ya read that btw)

thats not safe to be working that late

im home most evenings but just gis a text to make sure im here if im out i wont be to far away

carlowchris wrote:

Just wondering if neil would be better off using po4x4...if you've nothing but rock in the tank..would it be better to strip out all the phosphates now

yeah chris the po4x4 would be perfect, but i would also use the nopox


i spoke to soon bud about the hammer was having a good look at it today and not good not good at all pretty much the same and maybe a little worse than when i got it, this one already had its cards marked before i bought it which is bad crack, i rang keelan about this two days after i got it home and explained its condition,and ive now sent an email to keelan about it as he knows it was like this when i bought it, so hopefully he does the right thing, will keep yeh posted

Bit of a problem

Was changing the filter floss twice a day to stopping over flowing (filter box)

Started using the socks again to see if it would help, but their only lasting a day not even a day and their over flowing

So water is not getting polished, and don't know what to do now

Theres no way your feeding enough to clog the socks in a day....i think its a result from the biopellets and all the crap is now getting sucked out of your system

ive heard stories of people suddenly getting hair algea problems after using biopellets when they never had yhat problem before....and evenually all the nutriance gets sucked out of the tank and it goes away...i think your experiecing something simalar and your pelletts are kicking in

if you keep on top of the socks it cant keep on forever its got to clear at some point

Thanks chris your spot on was reading up on it thei
It's mad cause when I take the socks out they look clean but feel nasty
And I did notice today that the outlet from the reactor had moved and wasn't online with the skimmer so that wouldn't have helped
Gona just stick with the floss for now until it gets a bit better

Tanks looking fantastic Jeff...I honestly thought being bare bottom would take something away from the tank but it really doesn't and looks great.

Thanks chris, I hope this helps others from running into the problems I've encountered from using sand the tank is running the way it's supposed to and I now know it will get stronger with a healthier eco system

Woke up this morning to find my favourite fish had gone to the fish gods, water is perfect and all others are fine



So no better way to cheer myself up off i went to sh to get another one, but the ones the had were to small and would have been beaten up by my other tangs, but i was determined to go home happy so opted for the blond one as he was a good size and healthy

So far so good settling in perfect will leave the lights off until tomorrow

Hi ya lad... how's the naso settling in??? How the tank doing????

Hey Jeff!

Will you be around this weekend? I am about to order my new aquarium and wanted to have a look at your cabinet design etc.. just to see the constructions, frame etc as yours will be of similar weight to mine

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Dam you photo bucket!!!!!!

Can't see that pic Jeff.......pleaseeeeee tell me I'm not the only one having problems??????

You're not alone mate

Alex explained it grand to me but the bit I get stuck on is the, left click on the IMG

I'm using an ipad and their ain't a left click haha
So when I tap it i can copy it
And then when I paste it the text is all I get

I tried a few of my own options that I thought would paste it and just kept getting, basically (text)

Soooooo I gave up and had a beer

haha

Ok so maybe this will help

One you select a photo you have to places where you can copy the img link, either top right or all the way to the right

Top left will bring up another pop up where you will have the same options again,

You now need to left click on the IMG field box (like select it) and it will automatically copy it to your clipboard (so there is no need to right click and copy), see below

The go into your post and paste it the usual way (ctrl + v or right click - paste)

The code should look like the below (I put 1 space after the first and last bracket so it wouldnt paste the image.

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Hope this helps!