Salt water fish tank thread

milk in your water shouldnt have done anything really other then make it couldy... but oh well. nothing a little carbon couldnt have taken care off.
 
my reallly old nano set up

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my 58 this isnt the way it ended up looking but its a pic

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my bellus angel... he was my boy... very rare and when he died after having him for a while i really lost intrest in my tank and it ended up in me tearing it down

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i got a brackish tank that im growing a bonsai mangrove, shit is taking forever tho....
 
mangroves grow like fucking weeds your not doing something right. they like very high nurtient water aka not as many water changes. i had a set up that i didnt take pics of that had a 20gl refuge with a mangrove growing out of it. shit was sick but they do get large.

RED ST said:
nice tanks you had. get another one
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thanks i do fear that i may have to set up another tank... i have been having the itch to do it for a while now. i have a 75gl tank that is just calling my name.


i also have a 55gl that i may set back up with some koi again. i had tore it down when i thought that i was gonna move.. i miss my Koi :(
 
lol i have 8 tanks sitting in my house right now i can afford to get rid of one, and yes i use a 55 gal as a hospital tank
 
Devil Man said:
mangroves grow like fucking weeds your not doing something right. they like very high nurtient water aka not as many water changes. i had a set up that i didnt take pics of that had a 20gl refuge with a mangrove growing out of it. shit was sick but they do get large.


it depends on the type guy, im growing a red mangrove which grows very very slowly, im trying to get a white one cause those are suppossed to grow really fast, as far as nutriants they dont really need any, they need magnesium which hard water has plenty of and thats about it, i have never done a water change in any of my setups ever(once they are established of course), the idea is to establish a self sustaining eco system, the only water i add is the one that evaporates
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secrets2k said:
lol i have 8 tanks sitting in my house right now i can afford to get rid of one, and yes i use a 55 gal as a hospital tank
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im not talking about using the 55 as a QT tank.... im talking about a refugium. mmm do you know of reefcentral.com ? you should go there and see what they are to get an idea. basialy what it acts like is a tank that you keep macro algea aka sea weeds of the sorts and they can grow and fill out the tank as it does this you clip the algea back every so often... maybe 2 weeks or so just depends on your growth rate and when you clip the plants back and throw them out you just removed waste such as phosphates and nitrates and whatnot. the plants thrive on this stuff so they grow back and this basicaly acts like a small eco system. not to say that you shouldnt keep up with your bi weekly 20% water changes but it helps out. it also serves as a place for anthropods and other criters such as cocopods(spell) to thrive and when they sucked into the tank they act as natural tasty food for fishies and corals. i could keep going on forever about this shit really.

ronchmeister said:
Devil Man said:
mangroves grow like fucking weeds your not doing something right. they like very high nurtient water aka not as many water changes. i had a set up that i didnt take pics of that had a 20gl refuge with a mangrove growing out of it. shit was sick but they do get large.


it depends on the type guy, im growing a red mangrove which grows very very slowly, im trying to get a white one cause those are suppossed to grow really fast, as far as nutriants they dont really need any, they need magnesium which hard water has plenty of and thats about it, i have never done a water change in any of my setups ever(once they are established of course), the idea is to establish a self sustaining eco system, the only water i add is the one that evaporates
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you will always need to do partial water changes(20% water volume every 2weeks) there is no way around that. unless you dont have any fish in your tanks thats about the only way you can get around that. the fish and the food feed to the fish generate to much waste. sure you might be able to keep them but the fish will be stressed out and you will always have a battle with algea growing on your glass and rocks and what not.
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well i had a freshwater setup for 4 yrs with absolutly no water changes and all the fish were fine, i had 10 neon tetras, 4 glassfish, 2 hatchet fish, one pleco, a zebra loach, pencilfish and several live plants,and that doesnt include the fish i had to get rid of cause they would bully the other fish and whatnot, i also had a 12gal nano reef tank and that one got no water changes as well with no adverse affects
 
ronchmeister said:
well i had a freshwater setup for 4 yrs with absolutly no water changes and all the fish were fine, i had 10 neon tetras, 4 glassfish, 2 hatchet fish, one pleco, a zebra loach, pencilfish and several live plants,and that doesnt include the fish i had to get rid of cause they would bully the other fish and whatnot, i also had a 12gal nano reef tank and that one got no water changes as well with no adverse affects
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the plants in your case saved your butt. but tell me that you didnt have algea growning all over the place. that green stuff that covers everything. also what size tank we talking? and how long have you had that 12gl nano set up for? any fish in it?

RED ST said:
i want a tank lol
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get one they are fun. and look whats his face has a 55gl set up it sounds like... decent size tank to start off with in salt water.
 
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Devil Man said:
the plants in your case saved your butt. but tell me that you didnt have algea growning all over the place. that green stuff that covers everything. also what size tank we talking? and how long have you had that 12gl nano set up for? any fish in it?


the freshwater was a 20long and i never had any algae thanks to the pleco:bigthumbu
the nano reef had all kinds of shit in it, polyps, shrooms, feather dusters, crabs, shrimp, live coral, anemones, watchman goby, firefish, sea slugs, sea cucumber, the list goes on and on, its no longer around cause it got way to expensive to maintain
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