Hi all, yes another noob on the site.
haha anyhow I have been doing freshwater for a long time now -had about 10 tanks at one point, currently only a 1000 L cichlid and a 600 L planted tank. I recently started up an old tank of mine, but as a marine tank. I have been working at a quite reputable petshop since the begining of the year and have been soaking up alotta knowledge since I had none regarding marine. The tank I started up was part of a dare from a colleague ,Its a boyu tank, running 2 liters of matrix-AWESOME STUFF- 250 g Purigen. I put in 10 kg Live Pink substrate from Redsea and about 10 kg of liverock.
Livestock :
I added 2 true perc's on the first day with stability-part of the dare.
A polkadot boxfish in the 3 rd week.
A cleaner Shrimp and a fireshrimp after a month.
2 x Blue Legged Hermit crabs after a month and 1 week.
As I am running a dual 24 light with 3 year old tubes I added xenia, zoas, plenty of mushrooms, 2 x small plate corals and a few odd pollyps.
A few days ago a friend of mines tank crashed so I helped him out a few friends of mine who had space in their tanks, as luck would have it we still ran outa space and now a few specimens have ended up in my tank.
New Additions:
1 x Banggai Cardinal
2 x Red Legged Hermit crabs
4 x snails
1 x Sixline wrasse
About 10-20 kg liverock
a few frags of zoas and other polyps.
Oh btw and also a bubble tip anemone that came with the liverock
- While transporting hes bubble tip split in 2 so he thought he gave hes to my friend but I also ended up with one. It's been 5 days now and although Its traveling around its not dead yet. I fed it some krill superba.
My actual Question is : Would you guys say this size setup can survive without a skimmer?
haha anyhow I have been doing freshwater for a long time now -had about 10 tanks at one point, currently only a 1000 L cichlid and a 600 L planted tank. I recently started up an old tank of mine, but as a marine tank. I have been working at a quite reputable petshop since the begining of the year and have been soaking up alotta knowledge since I had none regarding marine. The tank I started up was part of a dare from a colleague ,Its a boyu tank, running 2 liters of matrix-AWESOME STUFF- 250 g Purigen. I put in 10 kg Live Pink substrate from Redsea and about 10 kg of liverock. Livestock :
I added 2 true perc's on the first day with stability-part of the dare.
A polkadot boxfish in the 3 rd week.
A cleaner Shrimp and a fireshrimp after a month.
2 x Blue Legged Hermit crabs after a month and 1 week.
As I am running a dual 24 light with 3 year old tubes I added xenia, zoas, plenty of mushrooms, 2 x small plate corals and a few odd pollyps.
A few days ago a friend of mines tank crashed so I helped him out a few friends of mine who had space in their tanks, as luck would have it we still ran outa space and now a few specimens have ended up in my tank.
New Additions:
1 x Banggai Cardinal
2 x Red Legged Hermit crabs
4 x snails
1 x Sixline wrasse
About 10-20 kg liverock
a few frags of zoas and other polyps.
Oh btw and also a bubble tip anemone that came with the liverock
- While transporting hes bubble tip split in 2 so he thought he gave hes to my friend but I also ended up with one. It's been 5 days now and although Its traveling around its not dead yet. I fed it some krill superba.My actual Question is : Would you guys say this size setup can survive without a skimmer?
