15 Gallon Tank Journal

[ColdwaterJosh]

Hello there folks! I decided to keep a little journal on here about my progress with my 15 Gallon Marine aquarium. It's not a huge tank, but fits well into my room and provides that sea side smell, which I love

So far I have mixed up all my water and added it to my tank yesterday, and left it overnight with a heater and pump ,and also sneakily stole some of my brothers waste water for an Ammonia boost to get the ball rolling.

So today I woke up to my mail man almost taking my door off it's hinges, but I let him off as he was delivering my Live Rock

I ordered the rock on Saturday night, to give me time to prepare for it's arrival All together it cost me £36.00 including delivery, for 5 kilo of live rock. And you may think, 5kg pffft, nothing. But, these are big very light and porous pieces of live rock, covered in Coraline

Here are some photo's:

Tank from an Isometric view for you all

Lots of lovely coraline

Front view

Some more rock

And lastly, my lovely little blue hermit crab

My next steps after this will be to get some Argonite sand to keep the Ph levels stable, and after I have left that for a couple weeks and all my water chemistry is correct i'll proceed to add some Fishies.

I'm considering getting a Yellow Watchman Gobie and a Pistol Shrimp, and maybe two black clowns.

Please comment away folks!

Josh.

 

[seffieuk]

to the salty side of the forum, looking forward to seeing your tank develop.

One point, you will need to have surface agitation

But looking really nice so far

Seffie x

 

[ColdwaterJosh]

to the salty side of the forum, looking forward to seeing your tank develop.

One point, you will need to have surface agitation

But looking really nice so far

Seffie x

Thank you Seffie!

 

[ColdwaterJosh]

Can anybody identify these little anemones on my rock?

Thank you

 

[milkton]

welcome to the salty side!!

the pictures imo look like freshly budded mushrooms . If i'm correct then they are nothing to worry about, however they could be pest anemones (lets just hope they arent).

 

[ColdwaterJosh]

Thank you Milkton I hope they aren't pests, otherwise.... BLOWTORCH TIME

My argonite sand arrived today, it is Samosa Pink, and I really love it, but I cannot place it in my tank just yet, as my Amonia is reading at 0.5 and my nitrates at 10. I need for them to be at 0 before I place anything in the tank so i'm told by my brother

Will just have to wait, anyway here is a picture of the sand which arrived this morning:

 

[Harry1996]

you can put sand in before your stats r fine why did your bro say that?

 

[ColdwaterJosh]

I can't remember why, but he generally is very clued up about why. He is on this forum alot "AK77"

 

[ColdwaterJosh]

MAJOR PROBLEM, I just checked my pump which is ment to be giving circulation, and it was clogged and hasn't been putting out anything My tank smells of Egg (sulphur) where lots has died, i'm so pee'd off right now, just hope everything isn't dead. I checked it all yesterday and it was running, so it's been about a day without circulation

I've just inserted a Haliea 3000LPH pump to get things going again, the impeller in it is VERY noisey but I don't want my tank to die so i'll sleep with the noise, it's just really powerful and I need to get circulation going again! Fingers crossed not all my rock is dead as i'll be very upset

 

[ColdwaterJosh]

Ok so after nearly all my rock dieing, I managed to gain all my bacteria back, and my Ammonia levels are now at 0.

Found this little thing on my rock and have no clue what it is:

and the tank right now, with the sand settling: