Bi-orb Converted To Marine

[omen666]

I have had my Bi-orb for a few years and it was a brilliant little system for my tropicals. I went into my LFS before christmas and noticed they now have a marine conversion kit available for them so I snatched one up.

I have never had a marine tank and thought this would be my little experiment in learning how to maintain and keep one going.

So far so good but what do I put in without overcrowding? I also just bought 190 litre Marine Setup to put up on a later date. I want to learn a bit more before I venture out that big.

Would it be possible to house a pair of Sea Horses in this Bi-orb setup? Be nice as I said I am new to marine tanks lol

 

[connorsbala]

IF its the 30 litre one or 60 litre, then you cuold try dwarf seahorses but it will be rather hard keeping them in such a odd shaped tank.
They need plenty of things to hitch onto, like the fake plants available from biorb etc
If you google them and go over to seahorse.org, you'll find loadsa info on the dwarves
IMO not pratical for H.Kuda, H.Erectus etc....sorry. Theyre too large and its not the right shape for them

 

[Miss Wiggle]

to be brutally honest (i hope you don't mind, as i mean it in the best interests of you and your fish) i wouldn't bother trying the bi orb marine conversion kit for seahorses as a first venture into marines. there's a number of reason's really

1 - marine fishkeeping needs a very stable environment, the larger the body of water the more stable it is, therefore small marine tanks are much harder to keep than larger ones, i'd recommend as a first tank at least 30/40 gallons as it provides a good level of stability and therefore a margin for error
2 - seahorses are delicate little things, they need the water quality to be spot on, so in a larger tank there is more margin for error, in a small tank if even something small goes wrong you've a fair chance of killing them. and lets be honest, when you move into a new area of fishkeeping you're bound to make the odd mistake, nothing to be ashamed of we all do it, but you should factor it into your set up
3 - bio orb's are not very well designed tanks for filtration and stability, so a bi orb as a marine tank isn't just a small unstable tank, it's a badly designed small unstable tank.

while in theory it's perfectly possible to do this sort of set up I'd think long and hard before doing it, because it will by no means be easy, and I personally would not recommend it as a good set up for your first foray into marines.

 

[connorsbala]

Sorry...miss read! Thoguht you said you already had a 190 litre setup! Yeah woudlnt try it as your first tiem into the saltwater section, far too delicate and as Miss Wiggle has said, the filtration and that ont he tank arent the best, and its hard to provide any adaptations

 

[rt456]

You can get some small seahorses in the UK, Hippocampus Breviceps. these would be better for the biorb, maybe you could put a an external filter on it as well to keep it more stable. But a large tank is obviously the best option, i use my orb to raise Kuda fry in and grow on small juvaniles.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

You can get some small seahorses in the UK, Hippocampus Breviceps. these would be better for the biorb, maybe you could put a an external filter on it as well to keep it more stable. But a large tank is obviously the best option, i use my orb to raise Kuda fry in and grow on small juvaniles.

Old topic from January

 

[rt456]

lol im slow just noticed the date but hey they may still be thinking of it

 

[Miss Wiggle]

lol im slow just noticed the date but hey they may still be thinking of it

lol you never know!

 

[rt456]

lol im slow just noticed the date but hey they may still be thinking of it

lol you never know!

the Biorbs work well for rearing fry you get ood circular flow

 

[@ombomb]

i believe a tank around 10g is recommended as the ideal for dwarf seahorses on the basis that you have much less chance of food going uneaten and contaminating the water

either way, completely agree about the bio-orb... not good

oooops suckered into replying to an old topic

 

[SkiFletch]

And we'll make this one go away