Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
First time marine
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OLD SETUP WITHOUT ROCKS AND FISH
GOT IT DRAINED AND REMOVED SAND AND CLEANED
WENT AND REMOVED INTERNAL FILTER TOOK AGES
FULLY CLEANED AND STUCK BLACK VYNLS BACK AND SIDES WITH BABY OIL WORKED GREAT
BLUE ARCADIA LEDS MOUNTED
SOME EQUIPMENT!! i should probably state here that this will be a sumpless system with hang on skimmer and external filter with media striped and replaced with live rock, rowaphos and filter floss, some people may disagree with my media choice others will agree
ABOUT 2 TO 3 WEEKS DOWN THE ROAD SOME MORE PROGRESS EGG CRATE SORTED (might remove it)
SOME GREAT QUALITY LIVE ROCK FROM A WELL MATURED SYSTEM GOT SORTED OUT FROM ANOTHER FISH FREEK CHEERS GER
TANK WAS ALSO FILLED BEFORE ROCK WAS ADDED AND FINALLY
Rocks were only added today so they were just thrown in hope to get some epoxy and arrange them nicely over the weekend also have all the sand but im currently washing it out over the next day or 2 with RO water!!! Well thats me all comments welcome iv a long 6 to 8 weeks to wait before any fish go in here ill keep updating this thread as i go along
Cheers Paul
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why do you ask?
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Here's a good example of one, (not mine though)
www.reefcentral.co.uk/showthread.php/118...IY-reef-flush-system
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Ah right, you're using it to spread the weight. I thought you were setting up a reef flush system. When you said you were adding sand I guessed the rock would go on the sand and you'd use that to spread the weight. I had a reef flush system before in a previous marine system, it's great for preventing dead spot and keeping detrius from builing up anywhere.
Here's a good example of one, (not mine though)
www.reefcentral.co.uk/showthread.php/118...IY-reef-flush-system
Ahh i see good idea as well!! im still not sure about it im paranoid the rock could damage my tank but than again im paranoid the sand wont be shifted enough by snails ,starfish and gobbies etc.... because loads of it will be in the squares everywere i still havent added my sand yet just for this reason!!! im going to have to make my mind up soon enough though
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Cheers mate so far the fish wish list is as followsThats a class looking tank.. any idea what u wanna stock it with yet??
usual cleaning crew Hermit crabs,snails,sand shifting starfish and shrimp
Green mandarin dragonet
Flameing prawn goby
A pair of pure black and white clown fish
Dwarf flame angel
A blennie of some sort
mayby a royal gramma not to sure ye and mayby another dwarf angel depends on how i stock it i hear if you try add them at different times the 1 who has settled into a territory first will rip the other 1 apart should be fully stocked than
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Really am back and forth with it at the moment all it takes is 1 sharp piece of coral sand under neath a large rock and the preasure of the water can make the rock act like a drill on the sharp piece of sand i think i might remove!!! to be honest if the tank was down stairs i wouldnt care id risk it no problem only its upstairs in a brand new extension we got done and if it cracked it would destroy everything up here and the roof in the kitchen , i hope to have made my mind up before the end of the week (i have to) and should have the tank scaped and filled with the sand ill keep updateing as i go alongTo be honest with you, I wouldn't put sand down on top of the egg crate for the reasons you mentioned. As long as you have a decent covering of sand there's very little risk of rocks cracking the bottom of your tank.
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finally found the time to actually do something with the rock today and add my coral sand!
This is the way it looks now but it could change ,never happy
well as i said thats the way it looks now so it could change plus i started on the 14th of this month so still a good bit of time to make any real changes before fish start to go in well there she is , it will do me
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Cheers manLooking good; nice imagination for the rockwork too
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Mick...
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Looking forward to more updates as you stock it up!
Wish I had the €€ and the patience for Marine keeping myself!
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Check out the angling section, it is fantastic
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Should more than likely be leaving stocked like that for another week or 2 to see how well the water params take to them and as you know yourself ill go from there
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Cheers mick i can see you turning to the salty sideLookin great Paul, keep up the good work and keep us posted dude.
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but you are right to wait till everything is perfect; i learnt it the hard way
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The test kit im useing at the moment is a nutrafin 1 and nitrite are o amonia 0 ,nitrate 20ppm ph is 8.2 i had it tested aswell with salifert test kits everything was fine 2 i dont have any corals yet so the nitrates are fine at that level im going to change the rowaphose this week see if that helps
Tank lookin good m8, plenty of ledges for corals to sit. Rowaphos will absorb any phosphate and not the nitrate you would need the new type pellets in a reactor to reduce nitrate but yours is not too bad. Patience is the key, leave the system to balance and mature allowing the LR to get working (1kg LR to 10 liter of water). I know reefers who have added two dwarf angels at the same time of the same size and both got on ok , they sorted there own territory out and kept to it. Remember WAIT, WAIT and to be sure WAIT a little more to ensure good results.
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