Hi there,
I originally registered on this forum in Dec 2008, having wanted a tank from even before that but circumstances have just not allowed.
Anyways, bought my house a few months ago so I have now settled down and the time has FINALLY arrived where we are settled enough in our lives to enable us to have a tank. And it has been amazing so far.
I guess this is kind of my introduction thread to the forum. So hellow my name is Luke and I didn't believe this when I read it.. but I think im addicted to marine fish tanks.
I bought a AquaH20 tank which is about 600 long, 400 wide and quite deep. It holds with the two compartment sump about 120l of water. minus the liverock.
All together up to now I have the tank and sump, about 10 kg's of liverock, aragonite and a few other bits and bobs like a sunsun wavemaker, 2 boyu 100w heaters, a reeftek ts1 skimmer, and a hailea return pump.
Im very happy with the tank and the progress we have made with it so far.
Here is a picture of the tank at the moment, i.e taken a few minutes ago.
So it is all starting to come together.
I have tested water parmaters twice in the week I have had the tank.
First time was on 30/06/2014
Tested with Red Sea Marine Care Test Kit
· Temperature = 25 degrees celcius
· Nitrates = 10
· Ammonia = 0.2
· Alkalinity(KH) = >5dKH; >5Meq/L didn't continue after I passed 14 drops in the test kit as that is where the table stops
· pH = 8.0
· Nitrite = 0
So in terms of water chemistry im seeing things happen and I believe it's quite good.
I don't plan on adding any livestock soon so we will see how it goes.
Now down to my questions, will try and supplement with pictures where I can.
First is, below there is a picture of a hitchhiker that came on one piece of the liverock, im not sure what it is.
I've done some research and I think it is a Green Porcelain Crab (Petrolisthes armatus) which from the limited info there is when I google it I have gathered is reef safe. Can anybody confirm for me if a) my findings are correct and b) it will be okay in my tank.
The next thing I have noticed is a whole bunch growing on my rock, would just like to know if it is all in order.
The circled areas are what I am referring to, I would also like to know what exactly they are.
Thank you for taking the time to read through this, I know it's long.
Last but not least for right now, I have to say thank you to all the people here on MASA who unknowingly have helped me learn and have showed me how and shared their experiences along the way, there are too many to mention but you guys like dallasg, irie_ivan, Viper357, etc.. with all your very informative threads.
Also thanks to @rickgoldwing1, @wvdheever and @KATHIE for selling me all the equipment up to this point. Appreciate it.
Thanks a lot once again.
Luke
I originally registered on this forum in Dec 2008, having wanted a tank from even before that but circumstances have just not allowed.
Anyways, bought my house a few months ago so I have now settled down and the time has FINALLY arrived where we are settled enough in our lives to enable us to have a tank. And it has been amazing so far.
I guess this is kind of my introduction thread to the forum. So hellow my name is Luke and I didn't believe this when I read it.. but I think im addicted to marine fish tanks.
I bought a AquaH20 tank which is about 600 long, 400 wide and quite deep. It holds with the two compartment sump about 120l of water. minus the liverock.
All together up to now I have the tank and sump, about 10 kg's of liverock, aragonite and a few other bits and bobs like a sunsun wavemaker, 2 boyu 100w heaters, a reeftek ts1 skimmer, and a hailea return pump.
Im very happy with the tank and the progress we have made with it so far.
Here is a picture of the tank at the moment, i.e taken a few minutes ago.
So it is all starting to come together.
I have tested water parmaters twice in the week I have had the tank.
First time was on 30/06/2014
Tested with Red Sea Marine Care Test Kit
- PH = 8.2
- Nitrate = 20
- Ammonia = 0.8
· Temperature = 25 degrees celcius
· Nitrates = 10
· Ammonia = 0.2
· Alkalinity(KH) = >5dKH; >5Meq/L didn't continue after I passed 14 drops in the test kit as that is where the table stops
· pH = 8.0
· Nitrite = 0
So in terms of water chemistry im seeing things happen and I believe it's quite good.
I don't plan on adding any livestock soon so we will see how it goes.
Now down to my questions, will try and supplement with pictures where I can.
First is, below there is a picture of a hitchhiker that came on one piece of the liverock, im not sure what it is.
I've done some research and I think it is a Green Porcelain Crab (Petrolisthes armatus) which from the limited info there is when I google it I have gathered is reef safe. Can anybody confirm for me if a) my findings are correct and b) it will be okay in my tank.
The next thing I have noticed is a whole bunch growing on my rock, would just like to know if it is all in order.
The circled areas are what I am referring to, I would also like to know what exactly they are.
Thank you for taking the time to read through this, I know it's long.
Last but not least for right now, I have to say thank you to all the people here on MASA who unknowingly have helped me learn and have showed me how and shared their experiences along the way, there are too many to mention but you guys like dallasg, irie_ivan, Viper357, etc.. with all your very informative threads.
Also thanks to @rickgoldwing1, @wvdheever and @KATHIE for selling me all the equipment up to this point. Appreciate it.
Thanks a lot once again.
Luke
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