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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    fungun wrote: »
    id be interested to know the final cost of an entire marine setup.....it has been in my mind for a while as i moved from typical community to cichlids....seems like the obvious next step!


    Over 1000 euro so far on the list of stuff I have posted.Still more bits and bobs to buy for going into the sump underneath the tank.

    That doesnt even include the cost of having a tank made or the cabinet and sump made either.

    Still will have to get marine salt,live rock and alot of other stuff just to get started.

    We plan on producing our own marine water (RO water system and marine salt),so we wont have to buy it each week.


  • Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭jay28


    This is my new marine tank, I moved everything over from my smaller 94 litre tank at the weekend, a few corals, 1 clown and a pair of seahorses.
    All are doing well and love the extra room!!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    fungun wrote: »
    id be interested to know the final cost of an entire marine setup.....it has been in my mind for a while as i moved from typical community to cichlids....seems like the obvious next step!
    It's been my goal since I got into fish keeping to have a marine setup. From what I can see so far it's not even worth trying without a budget of €1500 of more...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    Sleepy wrote: »
    It's been my goal since I got into fish keeping to have a marine setup. From what I can see so far it's not even worth trying without a budget of €1500 of more...

    You would be more than wellcome to come up and view our 2 tank setups (Discuss and Marine),once the marine tank is made,delievered and its all setup and running.:)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    My new marine tank,cabinet and sump tank,as of this evening,ready to be collected from Seahorse Aquariams.:)


    300 litre tank

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    Wallnut Cabinet (double doors on both sides)

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    120 litre sump tank

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,046 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Are fish tanks heavy on electric. Would love to have a fish tank some time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    cena wrote: »
    Are fish tanks heavy on electric. Would love to have a fish tank some time.

    totally size and temp dependant....

    marine use the most juice then tropical then coldwater. Bigger the tank the bigger the pump, heater and lighting requirements.

    I ran a 90L tropical with minor minor increase it consumption, maybe a fiver a month. But you can watch the fish and leave the TV off saving power that way too :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    not my own tank (obviously), but i saw this online and thought it was a really cool idea. :)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    I'd get no work done...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭fungun


    how the hell would you clean that thing

    plus the chicks working there would spend most of the day in the loo


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Santa Clause (aka Ms Seafields) bought me a new tank for Christmas. Used to be well into it as a younger lad and had no idea I was getting one til Christmas eve.

    Just set it up today and filled it. Added a few plants. Fish next week maybe. This forum (which I didnt know existed until a few weeks back! :o) has been a great read to catch up on things.

    Like a child again :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    You'll need to leave it a bit longer before adding fish... read the "cycling a tank" sticky :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    here's another "it's not mine, but still it's pretty special" tank i found online. :)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Utterly beautiful but how on earth do you maintain a tank with a solid top?! :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    I'd imaging the lid comes off, sure it would have to. Just looking at it there, where are the lights?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    I think the top is Open

    It looks like the water flows over the back of the tank , Gets filtered and is pumped back in


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Very large tanks need very little maintenance. They are in their own eco system

    Those thanks could be hooked up to a much larger volume of water else where that cuts down on maintenance


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    if you look at the top edge, it's curved in all the way around so that the water slightly overflows the top of the tank and runs down the outside, all the way around it into a gutter, also running right round the tank at the bottom, so when you look at the tank from the side, you are effectively looking through a thin film of water.

    at least that's what it looks like to me, but i could be wrong. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    It's a 120 litre consisting of 7 Neolamprologus multifasciatus, 1 Neolamprologus leleupi, 4 Cyps, 5 Golden Apple snails and 1 Pleco.



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    MULTIS

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    Leleupi

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    Cyps

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    Looks Great


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Draupnir


    The Leleupi is beautiful. Must post some pics of my own tank over the weekend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    I've gone up in the world
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    :)
    218L, 120cm x 38 x 48; custom built with cabinet and hood
    Hydor Prime 20 external filter
    300W heater
    Airpump and lines
    Full set of test kits
    20+ fake plants and a giant bell

    only the equiv of 180 euro :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I've gone up in the world

    :)
    218L, 120cm x 38 x 48; custom built with cabinet and hood
    Hydor Prime 20 external filter
    300W heater
    Airpump and lines
    Full set of test kits
    20+ fake plants and a giant bell

    only the equiv of 180 euro :D
    I am insanely jealous. Can't wait to see it all stocked up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    kylith wrote: »
    I am insanely jealous. Can't wait to see it all stocked up.

    no idea what's going in it yet (or even where in the house it's going)

    But it'll be a sand base, probably black since that's the colour of the sand here and people seem perfectly happy to take beach sand, clean it and use it.

    Lots of plants in this one, the fake plants will not be used, or may just fill some gaps in the early stages. so some form of under layer will be needed for proper root growth and stability.

    I'm torn between getting a large shoal of tetras / corys or fewer larger fish. Decisions, decisions...

    I found out that although the shops around here are great stockwise, one of the larger wholesale suppliers are based here so I should be able to get the shops to custom order for me without too much trouble *crosses fingers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    At 218l you can easily have a large shoal of tetras as well as a few larger fish. My community tank originally had 14 neon tetra a couple of clown loach, 4 dwarf gouramis, 4 guppies and a pleco.

    I'd certainly recommend the dwarf gourami, they're beautiful fish and while they don't seem to take any guff from the other fish, I've not had any problems with fin-nipping / bullying.

    Would it be big enough for discus? Kinsealy here have a beautiful display tank with discus and neon tetras.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Sleepy wrote: »
    At 218l you can easily have a large shoal of tetras as well as a few larger fish. My community tank originally had 14 neon tetra a couple of clown loach, 4 dwarf gouramis, 4 guppies and a pleco.

    I'd certainly recommend the dwarf gourami, they're beautiful fish and while they don't seem to take any guff from the other fish, I've not had any problems with fin-nipping / bullying.

    I had honey gouramis before which I really liked, dwarf was just a little big for my previous tank. Was thinking of them too though.
    I would be talking 20-25 tetras as a nice shoal, 10 or so cory, an apple snail or two.
    Plenty of time to decide though, at least 8 weeks before I can stock between cycling and other stuff I need to do before I can look at it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭buzz


    Just put this together over the last few weeks.

    Jewel 120L tank, 2 air stones and box filter.

    Just goldfish in it at the moment (from a smaller tank)
    They are going into the pond in May / June.

    Have plans on moving these fish into my dad's tank in a few weeks while I research a tropical tank :D

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    no idea what's going in it yet (or even where in the house it's going)

    But it'll be a sand base, probably black since that's the colour of the sand here and people seem perfectly happy to take beach sand, clean it and use it.

    Lots of plants in this one, the fake plants will not be used, or may just fill some gaps in the early stages. so some form of under layer will be needed for proper root growth and stability.

    I'm torn between getting a large shoal of tetras / corys or fewer larger fish. Decisions, decisions...

    I found out that although the shops around here are great stockwise, one of the larger wholesale suppliers are based here so I should be able to get the shops to custom order for me without too much trouble *crosses fingers


    Some Discuss,amd a small shoal of cardinal tetras or chain loaches.

    The above would make for lovely and gracefull fish and they would make perfect use of that tank.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    buzz wrote: »
    Just put this together over the last few weeks.

    Jewel 120L tank, 2 air stones and box filter.

    Just goldfish in it at the moment (from a smaller tank)
    They are going into the pond in May / June.

    Have plans on moving these fish into my dad's tank in a few weeks while I research a tropical tank :D

    Yarrrrr!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭fungun


    My tanks:

    Cichlid tank:
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    Planted tank:
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    My Melanochromis auratus babies!!!
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    My convict babies!!!
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    ah, seems like was an imageshack problem, is fine with photobucket


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    put [ img ] [ / img ] either side of the link to the jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    here's a little video of the cleaner shrimp in the small marine tank now that I have everyone in it.



    i just changed the ROM on my phone and didn't realise that by default it wasn't recording in HD, so the quality isn't great, but you get the idea.

    the heavy breathing is due to me having just tried to wrestle some 25L drums of water almmost above my head to pour them into my freshwater tank for a water change. :D

    i've named the shrimp Ozzie (as in aussie) as he spends almost as much time upside down as he does the right way up. :pac:

    i also only just found out (by RTFM'ing) that i can turn down the flow rate on my external filter to better suit the tank and that i need to position it lower to get rid of the bubbles (which are bad for the ponies), so that'll keep me busy this evening.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Draupnir


    fungun wrote: »
    My Melanochromis auratus babies!!!

    Those are very nice!

    Every time I see a species of African cichlid I think they are gorgeous, I think a second tank is coming to my place sooner rather than later!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭fungun


    i have a couple spare if interested....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    fungun wrote: »
    i have a couple spare if interested....


    All mine survived and are getting bigger by the day :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Draupnir


    fungun wrote: »
    i have a couple spare if interested....

    Thanks very much, I'll have a look at the finances over the weekend and see what kind of mood the other half is in before coming back to you!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭Peteemax








    Pete


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    Great tanks pete. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭fungun


    WIZE wrote: »
    All mine survived and are getting bigger by the day :)

    great, good to hear they are doing ok! :pac:


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    What size thank are the bemba in?

    How big are they?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Took some more pics today after doing a bit more planting with plants supplied by the lovely Fungun. I'm thinking of going for some more vals at some point, but I'm really loving the new dwarf hairgrass, I think it gives it a much more natural look than just gravel.

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭Silverfish


    If your fish is anything like my fish, those plants don't stand a chance. Goldfish imagine themselves great at 'helping' with the 'gardening'.

    Looks great though, hope he behaves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    The swords and the cabomba tend to get uprooted after a couple of days, but I can't bring myself to get fake ones.


  • Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭czrewor


    I realise the tank isnt the best setup but kind of did what I could with the money I had. I'll try to get clearer picture at another stage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Escargantua, the golden apple snail.

    I'm on your anubias, eating your algae
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    Omnomnomnom
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    well, the poor seahorses both died within a couple of weeks. :(

    everything else in the marine tank is thriving so i've no idea what happened to them, unless there is still something in there that i can't see (even after clearing out the two aiptasia anemone's that i found) that might have stung them.

    in slightly happier news, i seem to be finding new things popping up in the tank almost daily at the moment.

    here's some of what i've had appear in the marine tank that i didn't (knowingly) put there. :)

    here's a red mushroomy thing that seems to be doing quite well.

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    some kind of centipede type thing that turned up the other day.

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    and what i assume is a sea cucumber, or possibly a radioactive cornish pasty. :pac:

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    here he is on the front glass, giving it stacks but not really getting anywhere! :D

    you'll have to excuse the audio, i had to change it due to my wife's habit of constantly talking whenever i'm trying to make a video of something. :o


    can anyone else see this vid? it's not displaying for me at all. :(
    here's the link just in case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eyXBmTiDWs

    here's a black slug of some kind.



    and a green/yellow slug/snail thing, that i seem to have two of.



    and a pretty amazing video of my starfish asexually reproducing a clone of itself! :)



    yes, it was news to me too! :D

    incidentally, starfish are excellent at keeping the sand clean in the bottom of the tank as they are great burrowers. :)

    it's pretty cool when they burrow into the sand, so i'm going to get a time lapse of him/her/it doing that and post that up the next time i catch him doing it. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭Bebo stunnah


    3 on the left are my Golden White cloud and the 2 on the right are half of my regular White clouds, lost one the day after I got him, got stuck in the filter outlet frown.gif
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    Here's one of the 2 weather loaches, the other one seems a bit held back recently, he (not sure of the sex of either of them) jumped across the back wall into one of the filter chambers, one with the pump in it, didnt realise he was gone until I noticed there was only one showing up for feeding. he seems to have a slightly crooked back now confused.gif
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Nice to see another white cloud keeper :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Got some new driftwood. There's two bits there, wedged in.
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    And got some sterbei corys. They're my first corys, and I'm all excited about them.
    I got 6, but only two wanted their picture taken
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Draupnir


    Will that gravel be a bit harsh on the Sterbai?


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