Thinking of Starting a salt water???

[pgtips]

Hello all

I have 2 Tropical tanks that i am very happy with. I have wanted a Marine tank for a long time now and am thinking of getting one.

Been doing some research for a while now (reading the stickys and forums) and feel it might be time to start looking at getting one.

Would i be able to fit a live coral tank with one anenomi(sp?) and 2 clown fish.

was looking at putting it in a Juwel Rekord 120 and wouldnt want many more fish than that?

Cheers

Paul

PS are they as hard to keep as people tell me?

 

[Ed4567]

Hi
If the tank is 120 litres then you could quite easily have a pair of common clowns as well as probably a couple of other small fish. However the anenome may be a bit more of a problem due to it's potential size, lighting requirements and tedancy to wander- I have a similar sized tank and while I would like an anenome I don't want to to risk losing all of my other corals if it grows too large or decides to move.
HTH
Ed

 

[pgtips]

Cool

And in addition to the tank would i need anything extra. Can you use the Juwel Rekord Filter system for Marine? if so would it still benifit from buying anything extra?

 

[Navarre]

This is my sons tank. Its only a small Juwel and runs with live rock, the internal filter and a prizm skimmer. (The skimmer is only used a couple of times a week)

 

[Ed4567]

I would go for a similar setup to Navarre's son's tank- a reasonable amount of live rock, the internal filter and a cheap hang on the tank skimmer (while this isnt essential it is useful backup). If you are interested in corals I would go for T5 lighting (a thinner type of fluresant tube that gives off more light) or a single 150 watt halide- if you want to keep the tanks hood I would go for a retrofit T5 setup.
HTH
Ed

 

[pgtips]

This is my sons tank. Its only a small Juwel and runs with live rock, the internal filter and a prizm skimmer. (The skimmer is only used a couple of times a week)

thats the exact look i want

your sons tank looks lovely

thats for the advice, think i'll go along that route.

how do you retrofit the juwels hood? as i would want to keep that.

Cheers

Paul

 

[Navarre]

My sons hood was simply cut where the skimmer needed to fit in. The rest ofthe hood was not altered. HE uses the same lights the tank came with with 1 exception. ON the front of the hood hehas fixed an actinic tube. make opening the hood up a little fiddly but far better than changing the entire hood.