Feb Update

The tank is now 3 months old-time does fly-and so far going very well.The tank is now stocked with the following :-

Fish

1 Royal Gramma-doing really well so far
1 Aiptasia eating file fish-had it for 2 weeks-nice fish but not eating the three aiptasia anenomes

Shrimps

1 Cleaner
1 Boxer
2 Fire shrimps-never really saw the original one so bought a larger older one-this one is great especially at feeding times and the smaller one is now being seen more

Corals-soft

1 Mushroom coral-this seems to be thriving
1 Star polyp-purple structure turns bright green when lights come on

I added a Pulse coral-thrived for 2 weeks but now not looking good

Water Tests Dec 18th 2006

Initially I will be adding 2 Shrimps and some turbo snails and hermits.
Before I do this I will undertake the various water tests. Salinity and Ph will be ok as I am buying the water from the same place I am buying my live stock
Ph is 8.2, Alkalinity normal and salinity 1.022
All other tests were ok on the 14th and 18th December
I cut down lighting to 10 hours a day as I had alot of brown algae but am told this is natural

Hello world!

Welcome to MarineFishTank.WordPress.com. After two years of keeping tropical fish I decided to take a huge step and change to a combined invertabrate and marine fish tank. As always seems to be the case this step is bigger and more expensive than I first thought but I am told that it will be worth it in the end.

After weeks of consultation with the staff at my local fish centre ‘Tropica’ in Starbeck Harrogate ( I cannot reccomend them too highly), I decided to exchange my Rio Juwel tank for a larger more modern looking tank.

December 5th 2006
I purchased an ‘Ocean Reef ‘glass tank, 90cm wide,55cm high and 45cm deep.Total size 50 gallon (225 litres approx )
I have put in 10 kilo live sand and approx 25 kilo Indonesian cured live rock
Lighting consists of 4 extra high output bulbs-2 Marine blue 420 actinic and 2 14000k marine white, 39w 34″
I decided not to make my own salt water and purchased it direct from Tropica – approx 170 litres
I have since added a further 5 kilo of cured rock
Cured live rock is more expensive but I think safer and definitely quicker