Hi AllI have been asked to give more details about my organic tank, so here goes...
I upgraded my tank on the 26th May 07 (from a 80L that was running for 6 months)
I went from 85L to 200L and I did not wait for a cycle to complete as the organic treatment makes the water safe immediatly. Fish went in within about 2 hours with NO losses.
3 ft tank about 40kg live rock
No Sump
No skimmer
Lighting:2 24watt t5's (one white and on blue)
Filtration:For mechanical filtration I use the built in container thing in the hood (dont know what else to call it). I have a powerhead that pumps tank water into it. Inside I have filter wool and a bag of tropic marin elimi phos and also sometimes I run activated carbon.
I have 2 seio's for circulation, one 620 and one 820
For other filtration I use organic products by a local company called organic aqua. There are 3 products:
Bbac (looks like moist weed)
health treatment (liquid)
general treatment (granuals)
Maintanance:
I only do about a 20% water change every 5-6 weeks.
Clean the glass twice a week.
Change filter wool every +- 10 days.
Add General treatment every 7 days.
Add health treatment after new livestock is added or after a water change
Top up with RO for evapouration.
Current Livestock:
2 False pecular clowns
1 Anemone (clowns are hosting in it)
1 yellow tang
1 Jananese tang
1 Baby regal tang
1 cleaner shrimp
1 Fireshrimp
4 chromis
1 carpenters wrasse
1 frogspawn
1 pincusion
1 moorish Idol...:blushing:
lots of mushrooms
couple of zoo's
1 other coral I cant remenber the name of..
1 sea urchin
All is running well.
Here is a pic from 8 Jan. I will take more recent ones as the tank has changed quite a bit over the last 7 weeks ***pic updated see page 2***
I upgraded my tank on the 26th May 07 (from a 80L that was running for 6 months)
I went from 85L to 200L and I did not wait for a cycle to complete as the organic treatment makes the water safe immediatly. Fish went in within about 2 hours with NO losses.
3 ft tank about 40kg live rock
No Sump
No skimmer
Lighting:2 24watt t5's (one white and on blue)
Filtration:For mechanical filtration I use the built in container thing in the hood (dont know what else to call it). I have a powerhead that pumps tank water into it. Inside I have filter wool and a bag of tropic marin elimi phos and also sometimes I run activated carbon.
I have 2 seio's for circulation, one 620 and one 820
For other filtration I use organic products by a local company called organic aqua. There are 3 products:
Bbac (looks like moist weed)
health treatment (liquid)
general treatment (granuals)
Maintanance:
I only do about a 20% water change every 5-6 weeks.
Clean the glass twice a week.
Change filter wool every +- 10 days.
Add General treatment every 7 days.
Add health treatment after new livestock is added or after a water change
Top up with RO for evapouration.
Current Livestock:
2 False pecular clowns
1 Anemone (clowns are hosting in it)
1 yellow tang
1 Jananese tang
1 Baby regal tang
1 cleaner shrimp
1 Fireshrimp
4 chromis
1 carpenters wrasse
1 frogspawn
1 pincusion
1 moorish Idol...:blushing:
lots of mushrooms
couple of zoo's
1 other coral I cant remenber the name of..
1 sea urchin
All is running well.
Here is a pic from 8 Jan. I will take more recent ones as the tank has changed quite a bit over the last 7 weeks ***pic updated see page 2***
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