Marine Fish

[Jacko]

does anyone here keep marine fish???

i just purchased some equipment (3x2x2 tank) and variou other bits..

was just wondering if anyone here has marine fish??? tropical and freshies bore me now...

[apllrd]

i have 2 m8, one the same size as yours and another smaller one in the living room, you looking for some advice?

[Jacko]

well the guy i am suppose to be buying the tank, skimmer and sump off is pissin about with a day i can collect, he is waiting to transplant his stuff from my tank to his new one..

just looking at a few options etc, like where to purchase my live rock from... and what sand to get etc....

[Jacko]

you got pics of you setup???

[apllrd]

can get some, dont worry too much about the live sand and rock, as you mature your setup the sand will fill with bacteria and become 'live', same withthe rock, just blend in a few kilo's (about 5-10) of imported live rock and put in as much tofa rock as you want, the imported stuff will seed the tofa.
what kind of filtration do you plan to use? kind of fish? fish only or reef setup?
get plenty of books, and have a read of marine world magazine to get some ideas.
i've just installed a home made sump with an overflow box that i bought from the states and made a nitrate reductor, gonna use this with a graduated deep sand bed.

[apllrd]

got links to some good, cheap sites for equipment as well, will post them later when i get home.

[TheFincher]

I keep Tropical Fish

Heres some pics, Their a bit shit as their hard to get cos they move so bloody quick!!

Spoiler:

One of these is now up the duff too so im gonna be a father again!!!

[Andy Poobar]

Had tropical for a while when I was in the UK an dlooked at Marine for some time.

The only reason I didn't go marine was that all of the impored live rock can't be synthetically produced, so basically it is smashed off the side of a coral reaf.
Also, the fish are extremly hard to breed in captivity, so most are caught from the ocean and chucked into tanks.

[BOYYAKKA]

jacko i got sumit fishy in me pants for ya u big bubba nailer

[TheThingIs]

been keepin reef tanks for over 20 yrs, currently have a 240gal tank

try www.ultimatereef.com for all your marine fishy info.....v good forum

or ask your questions here m8, i'll do my best to help ya

live rock can be easily bought online....try www.acropora-house.co.uk for the best and cheapest around

aragonite sand is the best type to get as it helps keep up the ph level of the water. Don't bother getting "live sand" as it's more expensive, just get the normal stuff and then get a cup full of sand out of the tanks of your local lfs and it'll soon be brimming with all the nasties and bugs you need to be in it.

[Jacko]

sounds good, been watching over UltimateReef now for a few weeks and loads of interesting topics and piccies,

you got pics of your setups dood??

[dannoble82]

Ive got 2 tanks 1 reef and 1 fish only... looking to break down my fish only so i would have some equipment and livestock for sale if anyone is interested!

[dannoble82]

another forum which is alot more friendly is www.marinefishforum.com

[Jacko]

Ive got 2 tanks 1 reef and 1 fish only... looking to break down my fish only so i would have some equipment and livestock for sale if anyone is interested!

what you got???? PM ME Details

[Rick Sanchez]

Can you guys upload pics?

[blacksheep]

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[Rick Sanchez]

Haha

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[Mickey]

As sum muppet res this I will move it to the new section that was added over 3 years ago

[baggy13]

I used to have quite a few trop tank and bread loads of fish finally breading discus but haven't had a tank for years apart from the nominal goldfish my son had until a few month ago

[tiggerbiker]

i had a 6x2x2 & 4x2x18 sump up till last year,
i had a full aquatronica setup with deltec ap851 skimmer, tunze pumps, 4x 400w halides, 4x 250w heaters, moonlights, 100kg live rock, RO filters, kalkwasser drips, water chiller etc,etc

we had to give it up as the electricity bill alone was astronomical
it was a hobby full of highs and lows - it looked stunning but in the 10 years i kept marines i had 2 full tank crashes - one was caused by a tunze pump sucking up an anenome which then poisoned the water and everything died, the other one was caused by the macroalgae in the sump going sexual and poisoning the water
just one fish i lost in the second crash cost me £150 - i dread to think how much money marine fishkeeping cost me over the years