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Smashed said:
Any marine keepers out there? I'm currently in the process of trying to set up a pico reef I think it's around 12/13 litres so pretty small for a marine will post a pic if it works :P
Did you have success? A couple of pics of our tank. It is a 2.5year (136L) mature marine set-up which did have a house move in October 2010.....no casualties - which was a relief. We saved as much of the original water as possible which definitely helped.
....an overall view.....once I worked out how to post larger pics.
Edited by Bunni8 on Monday 14th February 11:51
Edited by Bunni8 on Monday 14th February 11:52
Jasandjules said:
Bunni8 said:
A couple of pics of our tank. It is a 2.5year (136L) mature marine set-up
Sorry fella, but a Wimple and Regal are not suitable for such a small tank.OP have you had any problems ? do they fight etc ?
Rugbyman said:
May I ask what you base that statement on ? after all its over 130L and been running for 2 1/2 years .....
OP have you had any problems ? do they fight etc ?
130l is 30 odd gallons, which is less than half the size of my smallest tank. Frankly, 130G is not really enough for a Regal.OP have you had any problems ? do they fight etc ?
Knowledge of marine fishkeeping based on many years experience and general information, and rather a lot of reading on the subject give me an indication, and allow me to do a random google search which results in:
http://www.fishkeeping.co.uk/modules/caresheets/ca...
I am also very aware of a large number of peiople who have had major problems with Regals, they are well known whitespot magnets, and almost invariably the reason is that they are stressed out in such tiny tanks as they are kept in. I have two of them, one was a whitepsot magnet which wiped out two tanks, yet I have had no problems with him at all, even though he is in with a porky puffer, two eels (one 3ft) and a lion, but then he's in a 400G tank - oh, he's about 7" long as well. The other tang had constant whitespot before I took him, and you'd never see him. Now he's out and about all the time and has never had whitespot in my tank, but it's 300G.
The Wimple also gets quite large
http://www.fishkeeping.co.uk/modules/caresheets/ca...
Edited by Jasandjules on Monday 14th February 19:45
We have a small 60 litre frameless cube I originally bought as a hospital tank but which I've been meaning to rebuild as a planted tank for a while. Finally got round to it last week - got hold of a very small pressurised CO2 system and a 24W compact t5 luminaire.
I've planted with java fern and crypt trimmings from the other planted tank, and will probably leave it at that. Current inhabitants are amano shrimp and kuhli loach. Next additions will be Asian glass catfish and then finally something a bit more active and mid-water orientated.
I've planted with java fern and crypt trimmings from the other planted tank, and will probably leave it at that. Current inhabitants are amano shrimp and kuhli loach. Next additions will be Asian glass catfish and then finally something a bit more active and mid-water orientated.
This is mine, a roma 200. It's been running for 18 months and is home to 3 corys, 6 cardinal tetra, 2 leopard danio, 6 balloon mollies and a couple of shrimps.
I've got an external heater and a fluval 405 filter.
I did have a massive snail problem so I bought a couple of assassin snails and they have bread quite well. So much so I was making a few quid selling them on eBay. But there's quite a few selling them now.
This is my 1st attempt at a tank and the planting has gone a bit wild and lacks structure, I've got some bogwood in there but it's not very interesting. I used aquatic soil under the gravel but I don't think it was enough I've got patches where plants went mad initially but now nothing will grow.
Numbers hold pretty steady but when I'm down to 10 or so I'll put them in my 30l quarantine tank temporarily and rescape.
As you can see from the pictures... My golden barbs like to pull the valice out of the gravel!
I also have a 'grow out' tank for my guppy fry, as well as a medication tank, that I use for if the fish are ill.
You can see some of the fish in there but from what I can remember, I have 11 cardinal tetras, 4 golden barbs, 5 cherry barbs, 4 zebra danios, 2 rainbow fish, 4 corys, 2 gibbys, 1 molly and a large number of guppies.
I also have a chinese algae eater in my grow out tank with my 40+ guppy fry.
Edited by Hysteria1983 on Wednesday 23 February 16:04
otolith said:
We've got a couple of Siamese algae eaters in the other planted tank, a Juwel Trigon 190. When they were small, they did a great job of nomming algae off the plants. They are now massive, fat, lazy buggers, and I seldom see them eating anything at all.
I just have the one now. He is EVIL!He is in the tank with the fry because he is a horrible creature!
He was originally 1 of 4, but he killed the others off
so now I keep him in a tank where he doesn't feel threatened.otolith said:
Our third tank is a big bow fronted Juwel crammed full of rift valley cichlids (I mean crammed, they won't stop shagging) and the big planted tank has a few rams in it, so our overall fish temperament index is currently pretty evil!
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