Recent content by wayne1421

Okay a month on there have been some additions   First of all some clean up crew members (or the ones I have been able to take photos of)   Snails   Hermit crabs       A blurry picture of an emerald crab     This is a cleaner shrimp but it has found the underside of a rock that it like to...

After about 5 days of having the rock in I wasn't sure if anything was happening because I wasn't seeing any ammonia appearing from the die off so i put in a small amount of ammonia ( 1 ml) and this had all gone in less than 24hrs although there was still .25 of Nitrite in the water when I...

It doesn't show on the photographs but there is some purple growth on most of the individual pieces, not a massive amount but it is there.   I got  it online from liverock.co.uk I had read on a couple of forums positive reviews so I thought I would try them, In fairness they were good called me...

I contacted API asking if the Tropical test kit would work on saltwater as I am in the process of starting a marine tank and API sent me the salt water chart cards so that I can use my remaining test kit for the marine tank.   Donya is right about the ammonia, i used it this morning and couldn't...

So my Rock arrived yesterday and is now sitting in the tank with the caribsea fiji pink sand, the tank is still a little cloudy but most of the sand has now settled, mainly it would appear on the live rock.   I put in 15kg of live rock into this tank, maybe a little more than was needed but the...

Okay Im now back at this, In the end I set up a new smaller tropical tank in my home office for the remaining fish.   The Lido is has now been emptied and cleaned (this took some time, especially what was behind the filter box), the filter box has been removed and the lights changed with...

At some point in the near future I will be starting up my first saltwater tank, basically at the moment Im collecting things I need and taking time to lean as much as possible. While in a local shop I was advised to use Red Seas reef mature pro kit, which basically appears to be a set of...

Kind of at a standstill until I find homes for a few tropical fish, I guess with the stocking its a bit more difficult than with tropical where you can go by a certain cm of fish per gallon, just have to be careful with introducing fish, I would imagine I'll start with the clean up crew and a...

£3000, thats an impressive total. Okay I had a good read through some of the information on the site linked, I basically picked out what I liked the look of and then limited by the minimum tank size to reduce the options, I know I cant have them all this is just a list of possible fish more...

No kidding on the spending front, thanks for the link I'll have a read and probably come back with a long list,

Okay we have some equipment and the protein skimmer MCE 300 I looked into getting a R/O filter but decided to use the local shop to start with, that might be a Christmas present Will be a bit of time while I find the small number of tropical fish a new home. Think its a bout time I did...

Thanks, in regards to the substrate how much do you typically need is an inch deep enough or would I need more

I'm in the process of getting ready to start my first marine tank (I have a journal in the other sub-forum this is a 120 litre tank) and I think I'm getting closer to been ready having collected some of the equipment needed. I have started looking at the live rock that I'm going to need, has...

Continue to pick up bits of equipment I need for the conversion. Yesterday i got 2 Hydor Koralia 1600 powerheads, ordered these and was surprised when I got them, physically a lot smaller than I expected. For some reason I thought they would be bigger and would look a bit obtrusive in a smaller...

The lighting is two T5's with the reflectors above each light