What I've been up to...

I know a few of you wanted to see this, and a few of you have indeed seen this in person, but I thought I would share my marine tank with you guys...


Full Tank:


From the side: (Roughly what I see from the couch)


Some Zoa type polyps:


And my little blue mushroom, which has evidently multiplied!


Zoanthids:



And the only semi nice pic of one of the clowns!


So this is what I have been up to in my absence. I will always pop back in here every now and again, I just wanted you guys to see this too....

Damn... This should probably be in the Members Setups forum...

 

Wow! That's a really good looking tank! Well done!

What else are you planning on stocking it with?

 

I would really like a yellow Tang, Powder Brown Tang, Mandarin, maybe some Goldies, Cleaner Shrimp, Peppermint Shrimp, Blue legged Hermits, Possibly Firefish...

Man there is so much to choose from. Still want to get some more Corals too... We shall see.

 

Done!

 

Why thank you sir!!!

 

Slagter thats a nice tank, whats the size?

and there is no reason to leave us behind lol, just cause you moved to the marine thing... infact maybe the mods could ad a marine section... just a thought...

 

Nice tank. I see the wife got the Nemo
Where is a pic of your blenny?
Really like the blennies and gobies.

 

It'd be a nice idea, but the truth is that we're a sister site to a marine-only forum, Marine Aquariums South Africa (MASA), so most marine users are sent that way.

On the other hand, we could really do with a brackish forum :blink1:

PS: Slagster, how's about some info on the tank? Type of lights, tank dimensions filtration etc. :idea:

 

Ok...

The tank is 1.2m x 0.6 x 0.6, it has a 200L sump which houses a Deltec APH 525 skimmer, a DSB, which has about 20 kilos of Aragamax sugar fine sand. The return is a Eheim 3000 compact. I have roughly 30kg's of live rock in the tank and a couple of smaller bits in the sump. I am running an extra filter with carbon and purigen.

The lighting is a Real inc light unit, with 2 x 150watt metal Halides, 2 x 54watt T5's and 2 x Blue LED moonlights.

I have 3 x Seio's in the tank which provide an extra 10 000 liters per hour of flow onto the live rock and around it.

 

nice one
i saw my friends 600liter marine tank ,it looks great ,but you kinda need a lot of money for these tanks ,soo he says ..
how much [roughly ]is the tank maintainance permonth??

 

Tank maintenance isn't much. It's the initial setup that costs a fortune. But, I haven't been paying for this setup out of my own pocket. I've been selling off my freshwater stuff, and buying the pieces over a long, slow period. So it hasn't really cost me too much.

But, that being said, it's bloody expensive to set one of these baby's up. The skimmer alone, brand new is R5500.

 

ya ,i figuired the initial was a penny load ,but now
when i have kept discus long enough, then i will take the road less travelled[marine]

you could have made a skimmer ,
lots of people made their marine equipment ,like i say a DIY skimmer ,calcium reactor etc ,
i had a non diy skimmer lying around somewere in my house ! got it with my 1.2m

 

You have an unused skimmer lying around? Do you have a model name or something?