This month we feature an aquarium belonging to @Dazz07
I started my very first fish only tank when I started high school in 2008 and had my tank running for around 2 years, it was all trial and error but eventually got the hang of things but shut down being a youngster I was not able to give the tank what it needed. In 2017 I got my first TL550 which came along with a hammer, some mushrooms and green star polyps, that is when the coral bug really bit me, before I knew it my tank was full.
I prefer the smaller tanks they just seem to stand out more for me, maintenance is easier and cheaper to run.
In December 2019 I thought I had learnt a lot and made enough mistakes so I sold everything and decided to start fresh as I was moving to a new house and thought it was a great opportunity (using the same tank). I bought new rock and planned my scape for weeks trying to think of what corals I wanted to keep and where I would be placing them etc because my previous tank there was no plan I just dumped in and hoped the corals all got along which obviously was not the case so learning from all my mistakes I decided to put my best efforts into the tank this time around and plan it properly. My tank still has the normal standard chambers in the back, only this time I removed the lid of the tank to add a new light. I have overcome a lot with my tank already such as bryopsis as well as green cyano.
Filtration:
Chamber one the inlet I have normal black filter sponge. next chamber I have only my skimmer (Tunze 9004). My biological filtration consists of small pieces of live rock in small nylon bags that sit in the 3rd chamber of my tank and in the 4th my return pump only .
I don’t run any chemical filtration, not that I haven’t tried it before but my tank runs perfectly fine without it.
I started my very first fish only tank when I started high school in 2008 and had my tank running for around 2 years, it was all trial and error but eventually got the hang of things but shut down being a youngster I was not able to give the tank what it needed. In 2017 I got my first TL550 which came along with a hammer, some mushrooms and green star polyps, that is when the coral bug really bit me, before I knew it my tank was full.
I prefer the smaller tanks they just seem to stand out more for me, maintenance is easier and cheaper to run.
In December 2019 I thought I had learnt a lot and made enough mistakes so I sold everything and decided to start fresh as I was moving to a new house and thought it was a great opportunity (using the same tank). I bought new rock and planned my scape for weeks trying to think of what corals I wanted to keep and where I would be placing them etc because my previous tank there was no plan I just dumped in and hoped the corals all got along which obviously was not the case so learning from all my mistakes I decided to put my best efforts into the tank this time around and plan it properly. My tank still has the normal standard chambers in the back, only this time I removed the lid of the tank to add a new light. I have overcome a lot with my tank already such as bryopsis as well as green cyano.
Filtration:
Chamber one the inlet I have normal black filter sponge. next chamber I have only my skimmer (Tunze 9004). My biological filtration consists of small pieces of live rock in small nylon bags that sit in the 3rd chamber of my tank and in the 4th my return pump only .
I don’t run any chemical filtration, not that I haven’t tried it before but my tank runs perfectly fine without it.