Some More Pics From A Newbie

[Mr Flagfin]

Hey,
Your tanks look just like mine !!!!
What a strange coincidence.
By the way, dinner will be ready in five minutes !!!

 

[Matty P]

No worries Matty P - I've just had a look at you web site - you've got some pretty awesome fish/tanks. I've ended up with the more au naturale look (ok messy) cos I need loads of macro algae for the species I've got. (actually that must be an excuse because my FOWLR tank is also a bit messy. Must be the natural gardener in me!

Looks nice though

 

[Aqua Andy]

Thanks for sharing Flagfin. They are the strangest inhabitants of an aquarium I've seen yet. Very entertaining and interesting.


Andy

 

[CAC]

Really cool set-up, ive seen those eels on a TV program that was on a while back. You have some really interesting fish in there, I see the pipefish and sea horses, but what are those ones which kinda "hang" vertically in the water?

 

[RadaR]

Probably the most interesting marine tank for me Good work.

 

[Flagfin]

Thanks for the comments - the hanging ones are shrimp fish - relatives of the seahorses, pipefish etc. Need the same sort of set up loads of macro algae, as long as you can get them to take frozen food you're ok but I also supplement them with newly hatched baby brineshrimp (less than two hours old) three times a week. I'm assuming they're happy enough as they spawn now and again.

 

[CAC]

Very cool fish. What size is the tank?

 

[Flagfin]

Tanks not that big - its a 260 litre converted fresh water. The stocking may seem a little high but all parameters are fine an I always assume that if stuff is breeding/spawning then they're probably ok, even the cleaner shrimps breed regularly (then the shrimp fish go nuts!). The baby flag fin will be evicted once he's big enough to go with the big boys in the FOWLR (500 litres). Hmm look forward to trying to catch him! A car battery and some electrodes might come in handy then! (joke)

 

[Matty P]

Do you have a sump for your 26O litre?

 

[Flagfin]

Hya - nope I go completely against the grain with all my marines no sumps, no all singing all dancing everythings just plain old tanks, normal marine lights, external filters (no I don't have nitrate problems) and loads of TLC (oh yeah and probably more frequent water changes than most people, do 20% weekly). It probably limits some of the corals I can have but I have a lot of tanks all set up under budgets. I have a feeling I get away with it because of the amount of macro algae in there - if I'm on a night time stalking session there are always loads of pods in it.

 

[iSnail]

Very interesting and entertaining inhabitants you have there . Looking at that video is like watching performers in a circus