My new tank diary

[bikerboy]

Hi ive been doing a lot of reading of peoples new tanks and a lot of other stuff on here and thought i better sign up and try and keep a diary lol see how it goes. Also There are some very nice tanks out there to hope mine ends up half as good. Only time will tell i guess. I started of in saltwater with only a 75 lts or 19 gallon tank just to give it a try and to see how it went. Only had a Percula clown (not sure if its a true clown or not havent been able to count the number of spines on the dorsal fin any other way of telling?) and sailfin tang. I went all went good and i have finaly got i bit bigger new tank. The biggest i can fit in my house lol. Running out of room. Freshwater one taking up the only other room i had,need bigger house. The tank is a Aqua one ufo 880 about 304 lts or 76 gallons. Have got about 30 kg or 66 pounds of live rock in it and going through cycling at the moment. Not sure if i should get some more live rock or not more is ment to be better right? anyway here is a pic of my new tank and a pic from my small one that will being getting torn down when the new one if up and going Sorry about no pics trying to get file size down any good ideas anyway i will keep trying

 

[bikerboy]

also does anyone know about red sea skimmers i have got mine going and have set the flow twice and it keeps going back to a lot less bubbles just wondering if it is because of the amount craps thats in the water from cycling or not any help will be good thanks

 

[sign guy]

welcome to swf.com
great looking tank btw
Imo add 15 more lbs of lr are going to do a reef or fo?

 

[bikerboy]

i was wanting to go reef

 

[bikerboy]

i dont know how i well go with hard corals but

 

[sign guy]

well I dont know any thing about the skimmer
Im a coralife fan myself
tell us more about your tank's equip.
and sorry but gotta ask ......what time is it over there?

 

[bikerboy]

its 3:33 pm here and ur time ? the tank is a all in one sort of thing over head wet and dry bio filter with carbon and noodles in it

 

[bikerboy]

the skimmer has a lot of bubbles comming out the top so looks like its working ok but its just not staying the way i have set it just wondering if the cycling load would do this

 

[sign guy]

Originally Posted by Bikerboy
its 3:33 pm here and ur time ? the tank is a all in one sort of thing over head wet and dry bio filter with carbon and noodles in it
nice! I always wanted a combo like that
Its 1:40 am here

 

[sign guy]

Originally Posted by Bikerboy
the skimmer has a lot of bubbles comming out the top so looks like its working ok but its just not staying the way i have set it just wondering if the cycling load would do this
some people recomend you wait a cupple weeks before you start up your skimmer but I don't know why

 

[bikerboy]

the only thing that is prob not that good is the lighting fluros its got 2 30w one 10 000k and one 15 000k and a 20w 10 000k not sure how coral will go with this lighting. I have also bought a 20w actinic blue light to to go in (to replace the 10 000k one) but it was the wrong one i need a 23 and a half inch one and the one i got is 24 inch think they make this odd size just to piss u off i think lol

 

[sign guy]

23.5 yeah thats just to piss us off
That light seems low for coral

 

[bikerboy]

Originally Posted by sign guy
some people recomend you wait a cupple weeks before you start up your skimmer but I don't know why
the only reason i could think for this is to get a bigger spike for more bacteria i guess but i dont really want this because i got a heap of critters with the live rock and dont want to kill them off heaps of starfish (bristle i think) crabs shrimp and unchin and pollips and other bits of coral

 

[sign guy]

sounds like good rock did it come from the other tank?

 

[bikerboy]

Originally Posted by sign guy
23.5 yeah thats just to piss us off
That light seems low for coral

yeah i thought so might have to try and up date it one day but if u do i will have to get rid of the cover but i think. or just try and get low light corals i think i dont know yet

 

[bikerboy]

Originally Posted by sign guy
sounds like good rock did it come from the other tank?
no it came fome a fish shop about 2 hours away. still got the other rock in the small tank for the clown and sailfin tang going to move it over when it has finished cycling

 

[sign guy]

im going to buy the coralife pro series for my 180g
3 250 mh hqi but its like 1500$ I can buy a car for that much

 

[sign guy]

wow was the rock cured

 

[bikerboy]

i guess thats the price that we pay for loving fish hey lol what lighting u running now

 

[sign guy]

65 watt ps's on my 46 bow it's still not enough light the 180 will not be up untill next summer when I buy a house
my corals do great but they dont grow fast enough