My 90L marine setup

Hi!

Read and asked some questions here long time and now ready to introduce my 90L \"Jewel Record\" marine tank.

Tank is 7 month old and is running on natural Atlantic Ocean water + tap water as top ups (will be installing RO unit soon)

First list of equipment used:

- \"Jewel Record 90\" tank
- \"Hagen Fluval 105\" external filter (I remove all media and placed there some Live Rock leftovers and Fluval phosphate remover and \"ROWA\" carbon)
- \"TMC V2 Skim 120 Nano\" skimmer (is placed in filter chamber - just need to pushed it there really hard )
- 2 \"Koralia 1\" (I didn't install flow heads to get more soft flow)
- small pump from \"Resun SK-05\" skimmer which I don't use.
- I changed original 18W light to 1 25W \"Arcadia Blue Actinic\" and install 2x36W \"Interpet White Blue 50/50 Compact T8 Lights\" which give me 97W of light. I put them on timers so, blue actinic starts/stops 2 hours before/after main lights to imitate sunrise/sunset. Also, I have blue LEDs installed to imitate moonlight.
- The light give me temperature problems, so I have to install 5 computer fans into lid to reduce temperature. At the moment they work on timer, but soon it will be temperature controller to start them if temperature will be too high (27).


The Live Rocks and animals list:

- 22 kg of Live Rock
- 1 large red leg anemone
- 2 Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) - 1 large 1 small and looks like they made up a pair
- 1 Labroides dimidiatus (Cleaner wrasse)
- 2 Green Chromis (Chromis viridis)
- 1 Lawnmower blenny (Salarius fasciatus)
- 1 Sand starfish (Astropecten sp.)
- 1 Ophiotrichids starfish
- 1 black sea urchin (???)
- 1 doctor shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis), 1 fire shrimp (Lysmata debelius), 3 atlantic shrimps (???)
- 1 filter crab (Porcelain crab)
- 2 tubeworms (fanworms)
- 2 strombius snails (Strombus luhuanus)
- cleaners (blue legged hermit crabs, snails)


- 3 rocks with blue and red mushrooms...

Here is some pics of my tank... Start Up:



First life:




first fish:



rocks:



top of hood:



clownfish & anemone:




mushrooms:



tubeworm:



blennie:



starfishes:




fish:



shripms:





urchin:



WBRs
Sergei

MC,

Looking good. Well Done!
Any further details on how you wired up the computer fans and retrofitted them into the hood. Looks the Biz!

Seany

Mc.
That tank looks brillant. Stunning pictures also,what is the first fish pic ? Funny looking creature! Love the clowns,really vibrant colours,they look healthy.
Much effort involved in it? Im hoping one day to get into marine but need to master the basics firstly in Tropical fresh before even daring to go to the salty side!
Gavin

Thanks!

I'm sorry, can't give you better pics, but may be that's will help you:





I connected fans to 12V adaptor from Maplin and then to timer, LEDs are connected to 12V cheap adapter from ebay. Soon I will get rid of some leads, as I getting multicontroller to operate Lights, Fans, heater and pumps, but at the moment there is 10 sokets used

Here is some hood pics - there is 2 electronic ballasts fitted and wires to fans (red cables), LED and lights




Also I have to cut hood to fit skimmer cup into it.




side fan to make air flow under hood to increase air conditioning



I drilled it first to make some holes, then cut plastic with blade knive and finished with sime metall polishing tools (sorry don't know english name for it, but you can get them from B&Q).




I know it's getting corrosion, but I will change them soon anyway, `couse fans quite noisy and I will replase grills with black anticorrosion ones too

Fishowner, thanks! I spend a lot of time to research and to organize my tank. My next tank will be bigger and fully DIY made (exept pumps and other equipment). Now I can tell it's not so hard and scarry as it looks from the start All you need to do is 3 simple things (IMHO):

- get yourself pure water (RO with DI, specially if you want hard corals)
- get yourself GOOD skimmer within good-sized sump!
- TO BE PATIENT and wait untill tank mature and you can put first fish in it

Once you've done that everything else is simpe and brings you a lot of fun

My tank not in best condition at the moment, I have green algae all over the place!!! I'm waiting on RO unit to try and see will it help me to get rid of it...

I lost 2 fishes at the moment - one clownfish died becouse of me (I tried to treat bacterial but only did worse) and second died one night after I bought it (it came in poor condition from shop so I replece it with another fish).


First fish is Lawnmower blennie or Salarius fasciatus

very very nice.
and just in time for the photo competition.
beautiful pics

Thanks! There is all pics, so maybe you'll find even better one

photofile.name/users/mctarakan/95034933/

Wow - nice tank ! Well done. Setting up a marine tank does sound scary to me all right ... a bit like Fishowner... I'll keep at the freshwater for now, and maybe one day...

Thank you for the full 'guided' tour of your tank !

Indeed, why don't you enter the photo competition (with pictures you haven't published on the internet yet) ? You have until Sunday !

Valerie

Thanks, Valerie! Can you tell me how to enter that competition?

nice setup mate well done

Sergei,

To enter the photo competition, you just need to send your entries to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. This month, you can enter 2 pictures and you can win a EUR100 voucher from Fish Antics.
See our home page for more details.

Looking forward to your entries.

Valerie

Thanks! I put 2 photos and hope you'll like them

Nice setup GLWS

Very nice set up, well done:)

Thanks! This tank is for sale now!

Here all details: www.irishfishkeepers.com/cms/component/o...w/catid,34/id,41250/