My Native Marine aquarium

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thats excellent the tank looks big give us some more details were very nosy here haha

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Its 200 x 60 x60

Thats fantastic Crusty! Its great to see someone doing such a brilliant job on this concept. Thats a beautiful pipefish, can you put up a list of your fish and prehap a little background on them? I've done a small bit of diving off our shores and would love to know a little more on our native species, there seems to be very few books on the subject. Infact if you know of any ya could let me know? From your earlier thread on doing a collection for the National Aquarium ya sound as if your well versed. Hope ya dont mind all the questions!

Rolly

Hi Rolly,
One of the best books for general use is the Hamlyn Guide to Seashores and Shallow Seas of Britain and Europe. Amazon have a copies.
This Tank is only a month old so am keeping the stocking levels down.
Fish
Greater pipefish - Syngnathus acus
Ballan wrasse - Labrus bergylta
Rock Cook - Centrolabrus exoletus
Corkwing Wrasse - Symphodus melops
Three-spined Stickleback - Gasterosteus aculeatus
Fifteen-spined stickleback - Spinachia spinachia
Grey Mullet - Chelon labrosus
Invertebrates
Hermit Crab - Pagurus bernhardus
Squat lobster - Galathea squamifera
Painted Top Shell - Calliostoma zizyphinum
Common periwinkle - Littorina littorea
Netted Dog Whelk - Nassarius reticulatus
also
Common Prawn - Palaemon serratus
Queen Scallop - Aequipecten opercularis

Brilliant, what is the critter that looks like a toadstool coral?

Cheers,
Patrick

2poc wrote:

Brilliant, what is the critter that looks like a toadstool coral?

Cheers,
Patrick

Hi Patrick,
Its a Plumose anemone - Metridium senile

Cool. Are you using a chiller on the tank? How are you filtering it?

I would love to keep some dogfish in a native tank, there are some great native species - you got any others on the wishlist?

2poc wrote:

Cool. Are you using a chiller on the tank? How are you filtering it?

I would love to keep some dogfish in a native tank, there are some great native species - you got any others on the wishlist?

I don't have a chiller, but I loop the feed pipe for an external filter a couple of times through my pond, that keeps the temp down.
I hatched dogfish a few times, releasing them at about 30 cm. I have an dogfish egg at the moment in the tank.
I have some shrimp pots out, a great way of getting deeper water species. I am hoping for some cuckoo wrasse, and a trigger( had both before, but in a smaller tank), bream, and a cuttlefish or two.
Its running on two Eheim 2080s, I will add two stream pumps in a week or two.

That's impressive and well taught out.
You just brought a big smile to my face.

Can i ask were you picked up the Fifteen-spined sticklebacks?
I wouldn't mind having a look at them in there natural habitat.

what food do you offer in to the tank?

if you come to their cfks beach walk he just might show you

Looks amazing Pete! Great work! Must call down to see it soon

VERY NICE !!!!!

Awesome job crusty

platty252 wrote:

That's impressive and well taught out.
You just brought a big smile to my face.

Can i ask were you picked up the Fifteen-spined sticklebacks?
I wouldn't mind having a look at them in there natural habitat.

what food do you offer in to the tank?

I found the sticklebacks on Ross Beach, Ballinakill bay Near Letterfrack, in Co Galway.
As to feeding, Marine Flake, Chopped Mussels and live mysis shrimp, and small prawns

CrustyCrab wrote:

2poc wrote:

Cool. Are you using a chiller on the tank? How are you filtering it?

I would love to keep some dogfish in a native tank, there are some great native species - you got any others on the wishlist?

I don't have a chiller, but I loop the feed pipe for an external filter a couple of times through my pond, that keeps the temp down.
I hatched dogfish a few times, releasing them at about 30 cm. I have an dogfish egg at the moment in the tank.
I have some shrimp pots out, a great way of getting deeper water species. I am hoping for some cuckoo wrasse, and a trigger( had both before, but in a smaller tank), bream, and a cuttlefish or two.
Its running on two Eheim 2080s, I will add two stream pumps in a week or two.

Excellent stuff, what is in the external filters? I.e. what is taking care of biological filtration?

Great re: dogfish, must be great hatching them out. Blackmouth dogfish are starting to appear more frequently in catches up North, they'd be a lovely aquarium species.

Cuckoo wrasse are lovely, especially when they change into males.

I'm surprised you have kept triggers before, I would have thought only adult fish made the trip to our shores. I've kept tropical trigger species before, great character fish.

I have Eheim sub Pro, JBL Micromec, and Matrix Carbon in the filters.

Grey triggers have been breeding here for as long as I can remember, If you dive you can see them in the Salt Lake, just outside Clifden, on the Roundstone road, and in Streamstown Bay just north of Clifden. The young come up in shrimp pots all the time. Yes great character fish. Not many shrimp or crabs left after them..........

You learn something new every day.. Lots of the adults die and are washed ashore each year, I assumed due to seasonal changes, maybe these are ones that have migrated rather than natives though.

Very nice project and well executed! I was hoping that someone would be doing a native setup. Just shows how much life and colour we have outside our doorstep.

Melander

Melander wrote:

Very nice project and well executed! I was hoping that someone would be doing a native setup. Just shows how much life and colour we have outside our doorstep.

Melander

Thanks Melander

very interesting,great setup

Some photographs of new additions, after my recent trip to the Beara to go collecting in the rock-pools with Joukeder.
Shows the Cement/Rock Background after it has "aged" a little bit

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