Marine Fish

[chrisobrien54]

Any marine fish tank keeping petrol heads on here?

I bought a tank a year ago with the intention of keeping Cichlids. Kept them before, as a kid, found it interesting enough but something changed my mind at the last minute and I figured I'd give Marine a go...

Jesus wept... The damn thing has consumed me! Not that it has been hard work, probably as much work (I.e. not a lot) as the fresh water stuff, but the life forms you find in there... Absolutely fascinating stuff.

Anyone else got the bug?

[Jasandjules]

Maybe

[chrisobrien54]

Jasandjules said:

Maybe

Pictures!

[Jasandjules]

chrisobrien54 said:

Pictures!

I've none on this laptop but will see what I can do - I've got the build shots somewhere.

[Jasandjules]

Here are the bases being built. The one on the back wall is 10ft and the one on the side wall (right) is 9ft. Both are 3ft front to back and 2.5ft deep.



Then the tank is built, the sockets are added (36 sockets which auto reset in the event of a power failure, each tank being on a separate circuit on the MCB as well)



The sump is 6*2*2

[Jasandjules]

Then, when we kept hippos



He gave birth but I was totally unprepared to raise the fry past 4 weeks.



The reef tank.

[chrisobrien54]

Dear God!

Mate that is stunning.

I'm not posting pictures of mine, feeling very inadequate all of a sudden! : )

You had any disasters on the way? Touch wood mines been fine so far, but never ventured as far as keeping corals.

[steviejasp]

They certainly are fascinating aren't they?
Here's a pic of my last one, a 30" cube full of Acropora corals mostly..

[Jasandjules]

chrisobrien54 said:

I'm not posting pictures of mine, feeling very inadequate all of a sudden! : )

You had any disasters on the way? Touch wood mines been fine so far, but never ventured as far as keeping corals.

Post away, no-one cares, we all love our tanks (and the inmates) no matter what and I love to see them!

I had one disaster when I kept leaffish - they require live food - they just refuse no matter how much I tried to get them onto frozen - and I got a bad batch - I lost all four fish and I nearly cried, especially knowing it was because of the river shrimp.

Steve - Lovely.

[Who me ?]

Jasandjules said:

Then, when we kept hippos



He gave birth but I was totally unprepared to raise the fry past 4 weeks.



The reef tank.

RE the sea horses ( as I think they are ) - there's a thing on "ZOO VET AT LARGE" about them swimming upside down and how to combat it .Very interesting . It's some drug that's put in water .

[Jasandjules]

[quote=Who me ?]
RE the sea horses ( as I think they are ) - there's a thing on "ZOO VET AT LARGE" about them swimming upside down and how to combat it .Very interesting . It's some drug that's put in water .
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Yes that was a seahorse. Ours never swam upside down, but they are seriously stupid animals, they would quite literally watch the food go past them for ages, then suddenly decide hmm, perhaps I should eat after all, then go after some.......