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paul26982 said:
might go and ask a few questions tomorow, just to see what thwy have to say, also anyone with any links to sites for a tank and running gear, cheapest possibly, for a 4ft tank think pes at home was wanting £40 and another £45 for the hood
Marine? Or Freshwater?I think www.aquaristclassifieds.com (something close to that if I've got it a touch wrong) does both, other than that I can give you links to marine websites though.
Heres my old sps tank with 2x400's and 1x 250 10k's over a 4.5x2x2.
I was well into it, even importing sps from fiji and lombok, when i get my own place i,ll do another.
At one stage i had 30 different acros in there.
Tbh though it was a major job keeping it, not in terms of water changes or things like that (i only ever really did a change every 6mths or so) but in terms of if the co2 ran out and you left it for a couple of days it would degrade straight away and take maybe 2mths to get back, topping up with kalk every night was aggro, any new corals which fall were aggro, sometimes sps will basically lose their tissue which i found could spread even after treatment so in the end would chuck any with necrosis out to avoid future problems.
It was beautiful though, bloody noisy mind you.
This is the only pic i have after my hard drive crashed, i had some real strong coloured acros in there.
I was well into it, even importing sps from fiji and lombok, when i get my own place i,ll do another.
At one stage i had 30 different acros in there.
Tbh though it was a major job keeping it, not in terms of water changes or things like that (i only ever really did a change every 6mths or so) but in terms of if the co2 ran out and you left it for a couple of days it would degrade straight away and take maybe 2mths to get back, topping up with kalk every night was aggro, any new corals which fall were aggro, sometimes sps will basically lose their tissue which i found could spread even after treatment so in the end would chuck any with necrosis out to avoid future problems.
It was beautiful though, bloody noisy mind you.
This is the only pic i have after my hard drive crashed, i had some real strong coloured acros in there.
looks like a real sea-bed
paul26982 said:
a mermaid would look fantastic in that thing, just out of intrest what did you do with it' sell it on etc. How much did it stand you and how much did you sell it on for!
Long story mate, basically i set up a buisness importing coral, it went from a hobby i loved to a buisness which failed after i put all of my money in it (bad decision but you live and learn) i was too young and lacked buisness knowledge and basically didnt have enough money to keep going.At that stage i,ll be honest i lost interest and started to not look after the tank so much,so i sold the vast majority of it all and all my import equipment.
That tank stood me in at about 5k but could be done a lot lot cheaper. The import system was a fair bit more
I,d definately have another tank though but i would not import corals again due to there being no real money in it unless you were to invest huge sums and also the vast majority of the shops out there being very hard to sell to- thery moan they cant get decent coral and then wont buy the stuff when you have it.
(oh and before the tree huggers start, most imported corals now including any i had were all captive bred/grown so no damage to the enviroment so its actually very good for the reefs as established sps corals which actuually build the reefs are not really taken nowadays).
I think I recognise those tanks from some big aquascaping competition. Maybe something in Practical Fishkeeping magazine.
Have a look at these:
http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2007.cgi?&am...
Have a look at these:
http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2007.cgi?&am...
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